If you're counting Guardians in this (which really was proper project start for the overhaul, albeit a sectioned off area that nobody really visited being closed) the whole project will have taken just over six years. It sure doesn't show.
I'd like to see large memorial stones erected to honor the loss of the monoliths.
And in memory of the sectioned-off parts of Innoventions you couldn’t visit, half of Communicore Hall and half of Moana will be behind construction walls for the rest of their existence. Although that won’t be too hard for Disney.
If you want to count from the start of closures, Ellen's Energy Adventure closed on August 13, 2017.
Of course, I initially just thought of the hub closures. Remy and the skyliner station can be lumped in too.
The update to Mission: SPACE was considered the first part of Evolving Epcot. The attraction closed for its update in June 2017 and reopened on August 13.
Pretty sure their original thought process included Poppins, PLAY!, Spaceship Earth, perhaps something at Imagination, and probably a completely different schedule in general. It is what it is at this point.
But even Martin said pre-Covid that the plan was to finish the center pit after Guardians. The order of things seems largely unchanged.
The fact that it is called Fountain Plaza and there’s no fountain anymore makes me want to scream.
Was just there today, I can corroborate this. What was left of the old EPCOT Center logo in the pavement there is now completely behind the walls.
Like “Epcot” for no apparent reason.
Still think they should come up with a new acronym that makes sense of it. Like, redo the meaning of the five rings in the logo or something. And while they're at it, they could merge former Future World into a unified World Discovery and subsequently assign each of the five zones indicated by the gardens a theme—something along the lines of:
