News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[jmuboy]

Ok - I don’t get it?

 

[osian]

Ok - I don’t get it?

What are you referring to?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Where is this wall?
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Enhance!...

 

[CJR]

Shade Structure Added to New EPCOT World Celebration Flex Space​

Shade Structure Added to New EPCOT World Celebration Flex Space

Shade Structure Added to New EPCOT World Celebration Flex Space

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That path behind it looks a bit small. I wonder if it'll be for guests?

 

[James Alucobond]

That path behind it looks a bit small. I wonder if it'll be for guests?

Almost certainly not. There will likely be gates next to Refreshment Port and the new festival booth for backstage access.

 

[lazyboy97o]

The imagineers figured out pretty quickly to build a city with residents would remove the E, P and T from it. As one imagineers said "You can't experiment with peoples lives". Imagine if they had built the city - and then the trash system frequently broke down (as it often does in the MK/Contemporary setup) backing garbage into everyones house. Or the PeopleMover going down for a year or so for repairs (like what happened in the MK) or failed entirely (as in Houston). You can't put prototypes or experimental stuff into people's houses and hope they work.

Apartment buildings and transit oriented urban development already existed and still exist to this day. Simple things like garbage chutes break. Transit lines do have to go down for repairs. Commercially available appliances do break and they even get upgraded when the landlord decides to upgrade them.

 

[JustInTime]

Did they ever get the color changing LED’s in the ground working again?

 

[Nunu]

Did they ever get the color changing LED’s in the ground working again?

Not yet, unfortunately.
@tparris reported on this, last Monday:

Starting to see some signs of life in very small sections of the ground lighting…
(They also need to worry about fixing the lights on SSE that have been out long before World Celebration even opened…)View attachment 786666View attachment 786667

Unfortunately I feel like that’s not the case. I saw someone messing with the plastic(?) strip covering the lights earlier today and I could see another layer with the actual lights underneath that. There was a ton of water and condensation inside the layer with the lights so I believe they genuinely need to be completely replaced to ever fully work again

 

[JustInTime]

Not yet, unfortunately.
@tparris reported on this, last Monday:

Unreal. Thank you!!!

 

[Jambo Dad]

but what IP is going to be featured in the new Dedication Plaque? Perhaps this can be sponsored by Disney Jr Characters? Fancy Nancy perhaps? there has to be something for the children!!

My God won’t someone think of the children!

 

[JordanBach_95]

I see they are going back to the rusty/ grunge aesthetic of 1998 Tomorrowland. I wonder if they will also plant some lettuce or maybe some orange trees so it can be a callback to Horizons!

 

[JordanBach_95]

The new wall looks like some kind of war memorial you would find in Washington DC.

Maybe this is to commemorate all the attractions we have lost over the years? I will bring some flowers on my next visit.

With the removal of Leave a Legacy it made sense to add a new war memorial I guess

 

[wdwmagic]

Video Screen Installed at CommuniCore Plaza for New Encanto Show​

Video Screen Installed at CommuniCore Plaza for New Encanto Show

Video Screen Installed at CommuniCore Plaza for New Encanto Show

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[John park hopper]

Shad structure-----used to call them trees with benches until Disney ripped them all out

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

Shad structure-----used to call them trees with benches until Disney ripped them all out

What? There's so many more trees now than before. You remember the giant concrete abyss with the triangles above it? That's trees now. You remember Innoventions? That's Journey Of Water (with tons of trees) now

 

[J4546]

foreal, theres way more trees now than ever, i am curious as to what the shade structure is for, more food? or just a giant seating area? Meet n Greets?

 

[James Alucobond]

I mean, it would be a welcome seating area considering everyone complains about eating on trash cans during festivals. That area is typically jammed up with booths. In Festival of the Arts alone, the area just north houses Deco Delights, Pop Eats, Deconstructed Dish, and whatever resides in Refreshment Port, plus they just added a new kiosk next door and potentially three more in CommuniCore.

 

[Brian]

The new wall looks like some kind of war memorial you would find in Washington DC.

Maybe this is to commemorate all the attractions we have lost over the years? I will bring some flowers on my next visit.

Epic username and comment.

 

[DCBaker]

Photos from today. It appears the dying palm tree near the Mickey & Friends entrance was replaced and lighting tests were happening at the CommuniCore Plaza stage.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

What? There's so many more trees now than before. You remember the giant concrete abyss with the triangles above it? That's trees now. You remember Innoventions? That's Journey Of Water (with tons of trees) now

Yeah, I think someone may have forgotten that is the complaint for the MK threads. The complaint for this thread is that there are too many trees and benches.