News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[uncle jimmy]

There was a meet and greet in nearly this same spot.

Wasn't the blue print plans leaked and shared in this thread, somewhere in the 600 pages.

 

[J4546]

Maybe when this is built they can get rid of massive world pavilion building and build a new country pavilion?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Communicore Hall HAS to be home to something we aren't aware of.View attachment 681929
This building is massive, both in person and in concept art. A Mickey and Friends meet and greet seems unlikely to take up an entire gargantuan two story building. Something has to be going inside.


Considering the fact that SMRT-1 was considered for Creations, I think there's a high chance we see the little bot here in some capacity.

The point of view is skewed. This is better:

It has approximately the same floor space as Creations. As mentioned above, it has the Mickey & Friends M&G; festival space (like the old SW quadrant of Communicore had); back of house for access to the utilidors, backstage for performers, and controls for the plaza performers.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Maybe when this is built they can get rid of massive world pavilion building and build a new country pavilion?

When there are other empty plots available, why would they do that? The building works well currently as a festival location, providing plenty of covered, indoor space for food/bev booths and seating, plus the restroom facilities are huge. It's also been used for runDisney events.

 

[vikescaper]

Communicore Hall HAS to be home to something we aren't aware of.View attachment 681929
This building is massive, both in person and in concept art. A Mickey and Friends meet and greet seems unlikely to take up an entire gargantuan two story building. Something has to be going inside.


Considering the fact that SMRT-1 was considered for Creations, I think there's a high chance we see the little bot here in some capacity.

Maybe we will finally get the Tron Arcade that was supposed to got into CommuniCore back in the day…

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Maybe when this is built they can get rid of massive world pavilion building and build a new country pavilion?

There's a PLAY pavilion that isn't being used. Perhaps, putting it back as a festival pavilion would be a better option.

 

[Casper Gutman]

The point of view is skewed. This is better:

View attachment 681954

It has approximately the same floor space as Creations. As mentioned above, it has the Mickey & Friends M&G; festival space (like the old SW quadrant of Communicore had); back of house for access to the utilidors, backstage for performers, and controls for the plaza performers.

Am I nuts, or does Communicore Plaza seem to be facing the wrong way? Shouldn’t it open onto the hub?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Am I nuts, or does Communicore Plaza seem to be facing the wrong way? Shouldn’t it open onto the hub?

The stage is open on both sides, so that in theory people can watch from both sides. We’ll see how often that happens. Either way, a good ¾ of the CommuniCore West area will now have no connection to the central plaza.

 

[montyz81]

Am I nuts, or does Communicore Plaza seem to be facing the wrong way? Shouldn’t it open onto the hub?

I am betting that because of the shape of the original Communicore buildings, putting in a theater building that was turned the other way would go against the curve of the plaza and look awkwardly out of place (not that it already doesn't look awkwardly out of place).

 

[HauntedPirate]

The stage is open on both sides, so that in theory people can watch from both sides. We’ll see how often that happens. Either way, a good ¾ of the CommuniCore West area will now have no connection to the central plaza.

Now that's symmetry we can believe in...

 

[Bocabear]

That event tent prevents them f

When there are other empty plots available, why would they do that? The building works well currently as a festival location, providing plenty of covered, indoor space for food/bev booths and seating, plus the restroom facilities are huge. It's also been used for runDisney events.

That event "tent" keeps them from developing a meaningful attraction in that space. I would rather have a real complete Mary Poppins attraction in that space complete with a proper High Tea restaurant and shops , than an event space... Move all the Festival things into the "World Celebration" Hub where they make sense. I just hope that Communicore Hall will be large enough to house what the tent did.

 

[Kramerica]

I haven’t really watched the Epcot overhaul very closely, it’s just not that exciting to me. So I think I need confirmation, isn’t the new communicore essentially the same thing as was there before, the innoventions building?

 

[lazyboy97o]

That event "tent" keeps them from developing a meaningful attraction in that space. I would rather have a real complete Mary Poppins attraction in that space complete with a proper High Tea restaurant and shops , than an event space... Move all the Festival things into the "World Celebration" Hub where they make sense. I just hope that Communicore Hall will be large enough to house what the tent did.

But it doesn't prevent them from developing other spaces that do not contribute capacity. The parks need to focus on adding capacity, and places that offer temporary capacity have value.

 

[HauntedPirate]

That event tent prevents them f

That event "tent" keeps them from developing a meaningful attraction in that space. I would rather have a real complete Mary Poppins attraction in that space complete with a proper High Tea restaurant and shops , than an event space... Move all the Festival things into the "World Celebration" Hub where they make sense. I just hope that Communicore Hall will be large enough to house what the tent did.

World Showcase is the focus of the food/bev offerings during the multiple festivals. Would it not make sense to use that facility as a focal point for festival content? I’d rather they focus efforts and dollars on undeveloped plots and planning/moving backstage resources to accommodate expansion plot usage. And there’s always that unused building at Japan they could start with…

 

[Bocabear]

World Showcase is the focus of the food/bev offerings during the multiple festivals. Would it not make sense to use that facility as a focal point for festival content? I’d rather they focus efforts and dollars on undeveloped plots and planning/moving backstage resources to accommodate expansion plot usage. And there’s always that unused building at Japan they could start with…

don't forget the unused building in Germany as well. I just feel like the UK pavilion could really use an honest to goodness attraction that is not a pub or gift shop...Of the pavilions built it really has always bad the least to offer ...and there is space for something epic...and it is blocked by The Tent....

 

[J4546]

if they build a new attraction at a pav, id want it to be in the german/italy area cause the se quadrant of the park doesnt have any rides

 

[lazyboy97o]

don't forget the unused building in Germany as well. I just feel like the UK pavilion could really use an honest to goodness attraction that is not a pub or gift shop...Of the pavilions built it really has always bad the least to offer ...and there is space for something epic...and it is blocked by The Tent....

The show building for the Rhine River Adventure was not built.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[IMDREW]

Anyone know why that part between Guardians and SSE, next to Connections, is still not getting finished? It’s only landscaping right? And it’s been like that since last summer.

 

[James Alucobond]

Anyone know why that part between Guardians and SSE, next to Connections, is still not getting finished? It’s only landscaping right? And it’s been like that since last summer.

I can't quite figure it out either. My only guess is that perhaps they want to landscape it at the same time as the opposite area around the Journey of Water pump and filtration building so that they are at a similar level of establishment and maturity.