Just when you thought Epcot had already stripped their holiday offerings to the bone, they have managed to cut even more for 2013. The Holidays Around the World for 2013 are from November 29 to December 30. This is compared to November 23 to December 30 for 2012. This of course means less special edition Reflections of Earth, less Candlelight Processional, and less Holiday Storytellers.
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Epcot's Holidays Around the World shortened for 2013
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nepalostparks
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While it's showing less days, can you really call it a cut? It ran from Black Friday to Dec 30th last year; it is running from Black Friday to December 30th this year as well. It's just that Thanksgiving is a week later this year.
Seems to make no sense connecting Holidays Around the World to thanksgiving in the USA. The other parks will have started up all their offerings as normal, and Epcot itself will be fully decorated way before Thanksgiving. But you are right, Epcot is waiting until after Thanksgiving to start.
CTXRover
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I believe this has more to do with the timing of Thanksgiving this year than cutting their offerings. I know it's easy to be cynical, but I believe Holidays around the World has always started the day after Thanksgiving and run through December 30th. Since Thanksgiving falls very late this year (November 28th), thus the later start.
For reference, you can go back to 2008 and see when Thanksgiving was late in November that Epcot's holiday offerings didn't start until November 28th that year.
For reference, you can go back to 2008 and see when Thanksgiving was late in November that Epcot's holiday offerings didn't start until November 28th that year.
asianway
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http://www.wdwmagic.com/events/holi...ed-dates-for-2008-holiday-events-at-epcot.htm
I better watch it - theyre gonna start calling me a pixie duster on the Twitter.
Yep it is all over the place depending on Thanksgiving.
Here is a summary of all the dates from the past several years.
http://www.wdwmagic.com/events/holidays-around-the-world-at-epcot.htm
aladdin2007
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They barely decorate Epcot anymore anyway, so very little left no matter the amount of days in the schedule.
asianway
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That starts as soon as they can get the Halloween decor down.
nytimez
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yes... but it's because they sell tickets, is what I was getting at. Since they can't monetize the Epcot decorations, they'll link it to Thanksgiving and let the chips fall where they may.
But it'll snow in Florida before they let the calendar stand in the way of selling MVMCP tickets.
Goofnut1980
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Where would I find pictures of what it used to look like decorated???
dreamfinder
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Google "Lights of Winter Epcot" or something similar. Take that as a starting point of one of the major decorations they got rid of a few years ago and haven't done nearly anything equivalent to replace it. (Despite them still sitting in the parking lot in shrink wrap as of Jan.)
ToTBellHop
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Maybe it's a time capsule in the parking lot. You can't bury anything in FL b/c of the water table. Come 2028, the Lights of Winter will be unwrapped and magically reappear b/t Future World and World Showcase.
asianway
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Spectro held up pretty good. What could go wrong?
disney4life2008
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Why exactly did Lights of Winter stop? Also, is it true that Osborne lights at HS are leaving soon?
This is all fine and dandy, but the more important cut is... Fewer days of the Christmas shopping season!!! 