News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[trainplane3]

I thought those were finally removed when they put the bypass in?

Yep they've been gone for a short bit.

 

[MisterPenguin]

The prophecies are being fulfilled.

New MouseGear is full steam ahead. Starbucks is rumored to find a home in the northeast quadrant. Rumors placed MouseGear opening in Spring, so potentially.

It's West we have no clue about, other than presumably Moana still happening.

Originally, Starbucks was going to get its own building before the Tiered Festival Building was nixed.

Club Cool is also supposed to be in the new Gears or new EU.

So maybe Cool and Bucks will wind up next to each other again?

Starbucks was originally in north east. Then a salvaged south west. Now possibly north east again.

For a time it was not coming back with just space reserved for a possible return.

Did we have concrete info on that? Beyond Starbucks and Club Cool expanding further into West in the scrapped plan that kept the building, I didn't think we had specifics. The site that shall not be named seems to think Club Cool is going into the Southeast. Northeast makes the most sense for Starbucks, since it's supposedly fully Food and Beverage.

 

[dreday3]

I just had a thought...if Spaceship Earth goes down for a refurb, does that mean the light shows will have to stop?

 

[trainplane3]

I just had a thought...if Spaceship Earth goes down for a refurb, does that mean the light shows will have to stop?

I've thought about this too. I feel like the lighting system is separate from SSE itself. Back when they were working on the entrance plaza, they had the mirror base of SSE dug up for electrical infrastructure work. It would make sense to have them be two different systems that can work without each other.

 

[Bocabear]

I m certain the light show on the exterior is completely separate from the attraction within the sphere and would continue working.

 

[wdwmagic]

New walkway through World Celebration opens at EPCOT ahead of Connections Cafe's upcoming opening​

New walkway through World Celebration opens at EPCOT ahead of Connections Cafe's upcoming opening

Guests can once again walk through the center of EPCOT.

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[ToTBellHop]

I m certain the light show on the exterior is completely separate from the attraction within the spere and would continue working.

Right. It has stayed lit up during previous refurbishments, so this should be no different. This lighting package was planned for the 50th awhile ago, and SSE would currently be closed if not for the pandemic, so they definitely planned to light up a closed icon for the 50th.

 

[wdwmagic]

New guide map for EPCOT includes changes to walkways, closure of the EPCOT Experience, and upcoming World Celebration dining​

New guide map for EPCOT includes changes to walkways, closure of the EPCOT Experience, and upcoming World Celebration dining

Recent and upcoming changes are now shown on the new in-park paper guide map for EPCOT.

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[jrhwdw]

New guide map for EPCOT includes changes to walkways, closure of the EPCOT Experience, and upcoming World Celebration dining​

New guide map for EPCOT includes changes to walkways, closure of the EPCOT Experience, and upcoming World Celebration dining

Recent and upcoming changes are now shown on the new in-park paper guide map for EPCOT.

www.wdwmagic.com

Thank You Steve!!!!

 

[dreday3]

New guide map for EPCOT includes changes to walkways, closure of the EPCOT Experience, and upcoming World Celebration dining​

New guide map for EPCOT includes changes to walkways, closure of the EPCOT Experience, and upcoming World Celebration dining

Recent and upcoming changes are now shown on the new in-park paper guide map for EPCOT.

www.wdwmagic.com

So Connections Cafe and Connections Eatery are two separate dining areas within the building? Cafe would have Starbucks - which would allow the lines for people waiting just for Starbucks and the people ordering lunch, etc. to be separate.

I didn't know that, but that's good.

 

[Texas84]

Was hoping the 'temporary' walkway would be permanent.

 

[Rob562]

Was hoping the 'temporary' walkway would be permanent.

For crowd flow, I don't think any park would want to give that sort of immediate access from the entrance gate to the brand new headliner attraction.

-Rob

 

[sedati]

Was hoping the 'temporary' walkway would be permanent.

For a park so big its layout only adds to the amount of walking required to reach any given destination.

 

[castlecake2.0]

I really wish they would organize the map by pavilion

 

[DCBaker]

 

[TheEPCOTHistorian]

Say what you want about the overhaul, but it's incredible to have the '82 CommuniCore roofline back

 

[Mickeynerd17]

Say what you want about the overhaul, but it's incredible to have the '82 CommuniCore roofline back
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[po1998]

What was the date when the center spine got walled off? It is so embarrassing.

 

[MisterPenguin]

What was the date when the center spine got walled off? It is so embarrassing.

You mean before the construction was interrupted by a world wide pandemic?

 

[TikibirdLand]

You mean before the construction was interrupted by a world wide pandemic?

At what point does Disney hand in their Get Out of Jail Free pandemic card? The walls at epcot have been up for over a year now since the parks have been open. It's incredibly lame that when guests arrive to this critical central area, they're greeted with walls everywhere they turn. Had they simply picked certain areas to work on at-a-time, this could have been all avoided. And, they could have walked back some of the bad decisions made too.

It's a lot like the freeway work they do on the interstate where they close 10's of miles of lanes and can only work on a small section. Riding the Walls stinks. Just like walking the walls at epcot does. It doesn't have to be this way.