Epcot Experience: Peek into a Bright Future

[Stu]

At Walt Disney World Resort, Epcot continues the biggest transformation of any Disney theme park in history, developing groundbreaking attractions, magnificent new landscapes and unforgettable entertainment spectaculars.

Guests are now invited to see an enticing glimpse into this bright future when they visit Walt Disney Imagineering presents the Epcot Experience, an engaging and immersive new showcase of exciting changes on the way for this beloved theme park.

The Epcot Experience provides the first in-depth look at the park’s transformation, blending cutting-edge technology and fun with personal moments to create an environment that honors everything guests love about Epcot.

Located inside the Odyssey Events Pavilion – between Test Track and the Mexico pavilion – the Epcot Experience invites guests into a multi-faceted celebration of the past, present and future of the park:

360-Degree Film Presentation

• Guests enter a large, circular, darkened room where they are surrounded by a seamless, 360-degree, floor-to-ceiling screen showing a continuous 12-minute film celebrating the past, present and future of Epcot.
• The immersive presentation displays archival footage going back well before Epcot opened in 1982, taking guests on a journey to present day and beyond. It showcases new pavilion icons that will integrate into the park, and previews experiences in development with vignettes featuring:

• The PLAY! pavilion
• A new vision for Spaceship Earth
• Sensational new attractions based on popular films
• The park’s forthcoming nighttime spectacular, "HarmonioUS"
• In the center of the room, a three-dimensional artfully designed model of Epcot appears to continuously change in time with the film, as projection-mapping technology highlights different areas of the park in special ways.
• Altogether, the space uses 30 projectors to bring the experience to life and take guests along on the journey of this ambitious next chapter in Epcot’s legacy.

Dimensional Photo Opportunities

Guests can have their pictures taken inside four dimensional photo locations specially designed for the Epcot Experience. Perfect for sharing on social media, these photo ops make it seem as if guests are standing atop the iconic Spaceship Earth geosphere or shrunk to the size of Remy from Disney and Pixar’s “Ratatouille,” among others.

Display Cases Showcasing Special Items

Throughout the Epcot Experience, display cases feature artifacts, memorabilia and other fascinating items showcasing the past, present and future of Epcot. Pieces include:

• An Epcot park map and medallion from opening day, Oct. 1, 1982, plus a commemorative opening day park ticket
• Epcot pin sets from 1982 and present day
• Models and concept art for future Epcot experiences

The Epcot Experience also features attraction posters from throughout the park’s history, plus experiences still on the horizon. Grab-and-go food and drinks are available inside, as well, along with tables and seating.

New Epcot Merchandise

The new Epcot logo unveiled at D23 Expo in August adorns a wide array of new merchandise available inside the park beginning Oct. 1, 2019, including:

• Short and long sleeve shirts
• Baseball cap
• Hoodie
• Tote bag
• Journal
• Water bottle
• Mickey Mouse ear hat

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[pinkspideruk]

Will be interesting to go in and see this this week. So far all 4 parks appear more and more like building sites at the moment with construction going on everywhere.

[blusteryday]

[Nimbus]

I've seen a video of this, including the 360-deg film presentation and projection mapping on the artistic model of Epcot. It was very impressive! I suppose as it's basically a sales pitch it's supposed to be impressive. But still, Disney could've just slapped a few artist's drawings of New Epcot on a wall and called it a day. The presentation is almost like an attraction in itself. I mean, if selling guests a couple of brightly-coloured grossly-overpriced drinks in a themed bar can be called an attraction then this definitely also counts as one. Admittedly, the attraction primarily consists of things happening on screens around the room, but that seems to work for Universal.

And not content with showing us what it's spending a tiny fraction of its $12billion profits on, I see Disney never misses a chance to flog us some more merch. Good old Disney, you never let me down.

I look forward to all these changes coming to my favourite Disney park.

[Trueblue88]

Our Fav park

[Floridatilly]

Does anyone know when all the new construction etc will be finished? Sorry if I have missed this.

[BucksBugsy]

Originally Posted by Nimbus

I've seen a video of this, including the 360-deg film presentation and projection mapping on the artistic model of Epcot. It was very impressive! I suppose as it's basically a sales pitch it's supposed to be impressive. But still, Disney could've just slapped a few artist's drawings of New Epcot on a wall and called it a day. The presentation is almost like an attraction in itself. I mean, if selling guests a couple of brightly-coloured grossly-overpriced drinks in a themed bar can be called an attraction then this definitely also counts as one. Admittedly, the attraction primarily consists of things happening on screens around the room, but that seems to work for Universal.

And not content with showing us what it's spending a tiny fraction of its $12billion profits on, I see Disney never misses a chance to flog us some more merch. Good old Disney, you never let me down.

I look forward to all these changes coming to my favourite Disney park.

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Tim Tracker showed exhibition on his blog recently and I would love to see this

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by Floridatilly

Does anyone know when all the new construction etc will be finished? Sorry if I have missed this.

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Bob Iger said something about *some* of the work being completed by the 50th anniversary (Oct 2021). He didn’t say it was all going to be done by then and he didn’t clarify which parts would be complete by then. So, erm, we don’t really know.

As we all know, Disney isn’t quick when it comes to constructing these things. So don’t expect it to be done for at least 2 years.

[Katie C]

Am I the only one looking at the Mexico model with all the Coco stuff round it and thinking there must be another update announcement coming in the future?

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by Katie C

Am I the only one looking at the Mexico model with all the Coco stuff round it and thinking there must be another update announcement coming in the future?

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They added a Coco show and exhibits to the Mexico pavilion earlier this year. I assumed it referred to those changes? Although ever since Coco was released in 2017 there have been rumours that the boat ride in the Mexico pavilion might be rethemed.

I'm still surprised there was no announcement regarding changes to the Imagination pavilion.