{"id":45131,"date":"2016-04-21T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/?p=45131"},"modified":"2022-05-04T20:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:20:43","slug":"look-colortopia-epcots-innoventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/look-colortopia-epcots-innoventions\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at Colortopia at Epcot’s Innoventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Innoventions, one of Epcot\u2019s mainstays\u00a0has been going through a lot of\u00a0changes recently, all of which seem restricting.\u00a0There are only a handful of exhibits left, much of the usable space is for character meet and greets, and it sometimes feels like a storage space to house odds and ends. But\u00a0just because Innoventions seems to be withering doesn’t mean it’s down for the count.<\/p>\n

\"Colortopia<\/p>\n

Enter Colortopia presented by Glidden, one of the largest paint manufactures in North America. It’s the newest exhibit at Innoventions with a focus on, you guessed it, color! But instead of just showing guests a bunch of cool colors, the exhibit focuses on some of the psychological aspects of color like\u00a0how color\u00a0can make us feel.<\/p>\n

Launched in late\u00a02015, Colortopia is broken out into three sections: theater, play area, and high tech coloring room. The play area is visible as guests walk up, but the rest is hidden from view.\u00a0Hiding most of the exhibit from passers-by adds an air of mystery to\u00a0the booth and draws guests in, that’s how they got me.\u00a0But the thing you’ll\u00a0notice before anything else is the color, or colors, of the booth.\u00a0It’s bright, it’s loud, and it’s constantly changing color palette draws your attention immediately. The outer walls turn red then green\u00a0then\u00a0blue and everything in between thanks to the exhibits lighting rig.\u00a0The burst of color is so different and unique when compared to the typically muted colors presented in other Innoventions exhibits that you can’t help but investigate.<\/p>\n

The line to the attraction starts outside The Power of Color Theater, a cylindrical theater reminiscent of the O Canada! theater at the World Showcase, only smaller. Once inside\u00a0you’re greeted by the narrator\u00a0(Bill Hader?) who walks you through a\u00a0quick color changing presentation. As he talks the theater\u00a0changes color to show how different colors can correlate to a mood or feeling such as sad, happy, or\u00a0creative. It’s a short presentation, but a great primer on how we interact with colors and the profound effect they can have even if we’re not paying attention.<\/p>\n

\"2nd<\/p>\n

After the theater presentation\u00a0you’re let out into the Color Lab, the area that’s visible from outside the exhibit.\u00a0In this area you can play a color matching game called Color Mix n\u2019 Match where guests are pitted against each other to match a specific color using red, green, and blue sliders. The machines are finicky and the few times I\u2019ve played they seemed occasionally unresponsive, but they’re forgiving enough to make everyone\u00a0feel like a color master.<\/p>\n

If competition’s not your style, the back wall has patterned wheels of varying sizes in a section called Spinning Spectrums.\u00a0Each wheel has two colors arranged in a pattern and a corresponding button on a large console below the wheels. When\u00a0a button is pressed a wheel spins, melding the two colors into a\u00a0new color.\u00a0The Color Lab is a great diversion while you wait to enter the final, most magical, area of the entire exhibit.<\/p>\n

\"Paintbrush<\/p>\n

Color Our World is the final area of Colortopia\u00a0and is split into two rooms. The first introduces you to the magical paintbrush you’ll be using in the second. This magical paintbrush is supposed to be able to sense the color you’re thinking about. Okay, it can’t really tell what color you’re thinking about, but it does change colors when prompted. You’re also given time to play with your shadow. Depending on your distance to the back wall, your shadow will change colors thanks to a special array of lights in the room. It’s a neat effect, one that you’re encouraged to take pictures of.<\/p>\n

\"Coloring<\/p>\n

Once everyone is done\u00a0making\u00a0shadow puppets and has their magical paintbrushes you’ll enter the final room of the exhibit which house several screens with differing scenes, all of which are devoid of color. Your job is to bring the scenes to life using color. How? In the center of the room is a bank of colored paint cans, your color pallet. Simply dip your brush into a can, and your paintbrush lights up with that color and you’re ready to paint. Using your paintbrush you can paint almost anything: buildings, scenery, people, and animals on any of the screens.\u00a0As you fill the world with color things will start to come alive. You can even change the color of certain items to\u00a0change them completely. Color a cat blue and he\u2019ll sleep, color him orange and he\u2019ll become a courageous lion. There are a limited number of screens so chances are you’ll have to share, but that’s part of the fun.<\/p>\n

After you’ve got everything filled in you’re given a code which allows you to download your colored pictures via a smartphone app<\/a>. There’s even a website<\/a> attached to Colortopia that offers additional information and a color personality quiz.<\/p>\n

Colortopia is fun for the whole family and is a welcomed\u00a0departure from the typical exhibits at Innoventions that focus on practical applications like creating a savings account, preventing fires, or staying safe in a windstorm. Instead Colortopia\u00a0dives into the emotional side of things and shows how colors can affect your mood and your ideas.<\/p>\n

Have you ever done Colortopia? What were your thoughts?<\/em><\/p>\n

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