EPCOT Epcot Forever to debut as interim show before full Reflections of Earth replacement

[Horizons '83]

Please don't flog me for saying this, but I am excited to see any fireworks over the lagoon when I go in August, more so because its the next step forward in gaining normalcy at the parks. I never did see Epcot Forever, but realize I'm not really missing much there based on the reviews here.

 

[montydysquith-navarro]

Now, for the next question: will they use those parked barges in WSL for EPCOT Forever to plus the show and showcase the Harmonious tech before it premieres, or will it sit in the darkness unused as the show plays overhead?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Back July 1st -

"At Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, July 1 marks the start of nightly fireworks performances at Magic Kingdom Park and EPCOT. “Happily Ever After” will transform Cinderella Castle with lights, projections and pyrotechnics, as moments from favorite Disney stories encourage you to grab hold of your dreams and make them come true. And as part of the ongoing transformation of EPCOT, “EPCOT Forever” will produce a spectacle of fireworks, music and lighting effects over World Showcase Lagoon, highlighting the themes of innovation, exploration, imagination and celebration at the core of the park’s past, present and future."

Fireworks Spectaculars Are Back at Disney Parks This Summer

Beginning in July, just in time for the nation’s Independence Day celebrations, our incredibly popular nighttime fireworks spectaculars are returning to Disney parks!

disneyparks.disney.go.com

Is Epcot Forever going to have a special Fourth of July fireworks with the Thunderbirds flying through the stargate?

 

[EeyoreFan#24]

Is Epcot Forever going to have a special Fourth of July fireworks with the Thunderbirds flying through the stargate?

I thought it was those X-Wing drones they are using.

 

[TTA94]

Now, for the next question: will they use those parked barges in WSL for EPCOT Forever to plus the show and showcase the Harmonious tech before it premieres, or will it sit in the darkness unused as the show plays overhead?

Yea apparently there will be modifications but not enough to give Disney a reason to mention them.

 

[DCBaker]

And as @marni1971 and @peter11435 mentioned in the Harmonious thread, the kites have just been scrubbed from the description -

Before -

"Witness the wonder as the story of Epcot and its next incredible chapter come to life in this new nighttime spectacular. Behold the single “spark of imagination” that started it all. Watch it grow, evolve and transform into an epic nighttime extravaganza that stirs the senses and captures all you love about Epcot—and all that’s to come—with dazzling fireworks, stunning laser effects and choreographed kites set to tunes that have become theme park favorites."

After -

"Witness the wonder as the story of Epcot and its next incredible chapter come to life in this new nighttime spectacular. Behold the single “spark of imagination” that started it all. Watch it grow, evolve and transform into an epic nighttime extravaganza that stirs the senses and captures all you love about Epcot—and all that’s to come—with dazzling fireworks, stunning laser effects set to tunes that have become theme park favorites."

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/en_CA/entertainment/epcot/epcot-forever/

 

[wdwmagic]

Yea apparently there will be modifications but not enough to give Disney a reason to mention them.

Surprise and delight

 

[HauntedPirate]

Yea apparently there will be modifications but not enough to give Disney a reason to mention them.

Not sure why you're under the impression that Disney makes an announcement for every single change that happens.

 

[gerarar]

Probably given, but in place of kites will be more pyro.
From Reddit:

 

[UNCgolf]

And as @marni1971 and @peter11435 mentioned in the Harmonious thread, the kites have just been scrubbed from the description -

Before -

"Witness the wonder as the story of Epcot and its next incredible chapter come to life in this new nighttime spectacular. Behold the single “spark of imagination” that started it all. Watch it grow, evolve and transform into an epic nighttime extravaganza that stirs the senses and captures all you love about Epcot—and all that’s to come—with dazzling fireworks, stunning laser effects and choreographed kites set to tunes that have become theme park favorites."

After -

"Witness the wonder as the story of Epcot and its next incredible chapter come to life in this new nighttime spectacular. Behold the single “spark of imagination” that started it all. Watch it grow, evolve and transform into an epic nighttime extravaganza that stirs the senses and captures all you love about Epcot—and all that’s to come—with dazzling fireworks, stunning laser effects set to tunes that have become theme park favorites."

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/en_CA/entertainment/epcot/epcot-forever/

What a lazy edit. They just deleted those three words without fixing the rest of the sentence. The comma should be replaced with and so that it would read, "with dazzling fireworks and stunning laser effects".

 

[Movielover]

the kites have just been scrubbed

Can we keep the jet skis? Maybe light that giant hoop in the center of the lagoon on fire and build a ramp?

 

[Amused to Death]

Can we keep the jet skis? Maybe light that giant hoop in the center of the lagoon on fire and build a ramp?

I'd take a daring ski jump show eight days a week over a six-story fuzzy image of Pocahontas!

 

[EeyoreFan#24]

I'd take a daring ski jump show eight days a week over a six-story fuzzy image of Pocahontas!

Brilliance incoming....combine ideas, play the movie, forget the fire and have Pocahontas burst through the water screen on a jet powered wooden canoe for the grand finale!

 

[HauntedPirate]

There could even be a movie IP tie-in!

I hear Chapek is big on those.

 

[James Alucobond]

Brilliance incoming....combine ideas, play the movie, forget the fire and have Pocahontas burst through the water screen on a jet powered wooden canoe for the grand finale!

I mean, I'd pay to see it. Maybe not for the reason they intend.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Let me know when Illuminations is coming back.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Let me know when Illuminations is coming back.

 

[EvilChameleon]

Happy to hear they are adding some pyro to this show in place of the kites. Hopefully that'll give it the kick it needs to make the show serviceable until Harmonious debuts.

 

[junglecruise93]

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Hey - Maybe Doc and Marty could reappear from time travel through the Stargate and land on the water to refill Mr. Fusion at the end of the show....to the tune of....no wait...

 

[ToTBellHop]

Apparently the Soarin kite sequence will be replaced with Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” set to fireworks.