News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[JenniferS]

My MDE map is not updated to show this. Is yours? I do not have a MDE app update waiting, either.

Mine is not updated either.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

What is the time line for spine project ( each project ) ? Or is it in @MisterPenguin ’s rumor track thread??

 

[tparris]

What is the time line for spine project ( each project ) ? Or is it in @MisterPenguin ’s rumor track thread??

2023

 

[BromBones]

The Walliest Place on Earth

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

2023

It will take three years up build the festival center?? Yes, I know it takes Disney three years to build a roller coaster.

 

[Josh Hendy]

2023 seems astonishingly long especially when I hear 2023 as the tentative opening for Universal's 3rd gate (barely started drainage and earth moving whereas Epcot is 100% serviced).

I'm hazy on the new plan ... but of everything in WDW, gutting and rebuilding the center of FW is the last thing I would have guessed would be on anybody's to-do list.

 

[danlb_2000]

The Walliest Place on Earth

… but ironically, it has no Wall-E.

 

[lazyboy97o]

It will take the ears up build the festival center?? Yes, I know it takes Disney three years to build a roller coaster.

The Festival Center should actually be a technically complex structure that will require skill and precision.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

… but ironically, it has no Wall-E.

The playground

 

[techgeek]

The Festival Center should actually be a technically complex structure that will require skill and precision.

It *should* be, yes, but it’s only a table with some trees on top...

 

[danlb_2000]

The playground
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I stand corrected!

 

[Magic Feather]

I would be shocked to see the Center still completely Walled off by the end of the new year. Construction would still be (very) ongoing, but there is a desire to get these main pathways back up ASAP.

 

[Clyde Birdbrain]

The Walliest Place on Earth

The International Festival of Walls ... it’s Epcot’s longest festival.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

I would be shocked to see the Center still completely Walled off by the end of the new year. Construction would still be (very) ongoing, but there is a desire to get these main pathways back up ASAP.

@Magic Feather - Will they start to work on the area where the Fountain of Nations were located at? Or is the spine project complex?

 

[BromBones]

The International Festival of Walls ... it’s Epcot’s longest festival.

At this point they should just make WALL-E their forever mascot.

 

[BromBones]

The playground
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"At this point they should just make WALL-E their forever mascot."

- I guess they are on their way.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I would be shocked to see the Center still completely Walled off by the end of the new year. Construction would still be (very) ongoing, but there is a desire to get these main pathways back up ASAP.

Any idea of the expected completion time of the Mouse Gears and Electric Umbrella refurbs? I would imagine once they're done with those, they'd have an open central walkway past them (stores to the left, wall to the right as you go down the spine).

 

[Magic Feather]

Any idea of the expected completion time of the Mouse Gears and Electric Umbrella refurbs? I would imagine once they're done with those, they'd have an open central walkway past them (stores to the left, wall to the right as you go down the spine).

MG should be up by the end of summer at the very latest. I’d be surprised if EU’s replacement was up before the end of the year. And, make “wall to the right” into “wall with gap to the right.”

 

[wdwmagic]

I imagine there will be a high priority on getting MG back. The loss of revenue while it is down must be significant.

 

[OvertheHorizon]

Looking at the concept art, it appears they plan to remove the covered passageway from Innoventions East. They will likely want to have that accomplished before Mouse Gears reopens.