{"id":2894,"date":"2011-05-25T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2011-05-26T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T12:15:50","slug":"cars-2-topiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2894","title":{"rendered":"Cars 2 Topiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already raved about the Minnie and Mickey Picnic topiary&#8230; The Cars 2 topiary had the potential to steal the show. \u00a0Unfortunately for half the festival Mater was not on display. \u00a0I happened to be at Epcot two days in a row and was there the day he appeared (April 21st). \u00a0The delay was rumored to be because the flowers did not grow in time&#8230; After seeing the display &#8211; IMO it was just poor planning and execution. \u00a0For this I cannot give highest kudos although the display was incredible once complete. \u00a0I&#8217;m already wondering where they may reuse this topiary next year???<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-28.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-28\" width=\"837\" height=\"368\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-29.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-29\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-30.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-30\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-31.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-31\" width=\"709\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behind the primary display were country flags and descriptions of the &#8220;cars&#8221; that Lightning McQueen will be racing when Cars 2 is released. \u00a0This was a nice touch that took up quite a bit of space with minimal effort for the designers and imagineers. \u00a0WDW continues to pinch pennies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-32.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-32\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-33.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-33\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-34.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-34\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-35.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-35\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-36.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-36\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-37.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-37\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-38.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-38\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/cars2-topiary\/2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-39.jpg\" alt=\"2011-epcot-flower-garden-festival-39\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t see Mater or Lightning this year, seek them out next year as I assume they&#8217;ll be reused (saves money). \u00a0They are nicely done and the detail is best experienced in person.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already raved about the Minnie and Mickey Picnic topiary&#8230; The Cars 2 topiary had the potential to steal the show. Unfortunately for half the festival Mater was not on display. I happened to be at Epcot two days in a row and was there the day he appeared (April 21st). The delay was rumored <\/p>\n<p>continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2894\">Cars 2 Topiary<\/a> &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epcot-flower-garden-festival","tag-epcot-theme-park","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}