July 16, 2023 Update: Spaceship Earth finally has a refurbishment scheduled after its multi-year refurbishment was delayed for multiple years! Hooray for this overdue announcement!!! According to Walt Disney World, Spaceship Earth will close on July 19, 2023 and will reopen… one day later, on July 20, 2023.
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All of the Harmonious barges in the World Showcase lagoon at EPCOT have finally been removed, and the beautiful views are back!! Here is a multi angle video around the World Showcase during the day and evening timeframe. All the footage is from May 17th & 18th 2023 Thanks for watching!
2023 marks the end of its transformation with Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana, opening Oct. 16. World Celebration will also be completed in December with a new statue of Walt Disney in an area called Dreamers Point and a new exhibition space called CommuniCore Hall.
After years of EPCOT changes, the construction walls will come down by the end of 2023! Over the past couple of years, we've seen major progress with EPCOT's evolution. France expanded with the addition of Remy's Ratatouille Adventure and Le Crêperie de Paris in October 2021.
Aerial look at the demolition of the “stargate” or center ring of the former Harmonious show. With Harmonious gone, Disney World Guests have been enjoying EPCOT Forever.
The Moana water ride is an exciting addition to EPCOT. By replacing The Seas pavilion and weaving Moana's narrative into its fabric, Disney is ensuring that the park continues to capture the essence of exploration and imagination.
The final two “taco” barges have been removed from World Showcase Lagoon, signaling the end of Harmonious at EPCOT. Harmonious was originally designed to be a long-term replacement for Illuminations, but the unsightly hardware for the show proved to be its downfall.
In a post from Disney Imagineer Zach Riddley, he writes that “with the transformation now well under way” they have decided to close the EPCOT Experience and “make way for exciting new activities of the Odyssey pavilion to create a great experience for our guests.”
Jul 14, 2023 in Spaceship Earth According to the Walt Disney World operating calendar, Spaceship Earth at EPCOT will be closed Wednesday July 19, reopening to guests on July 20, 2023.
So far, their rethemes have been a bust at EPCOT, however, Disney is trying again with the new Star Wars ride replacing Spaceship Earth. Most guests find Spaceship Earth boring and Disney knows that. They will close Spaceship Earth to make way for a more fun and much-needed update, with Star Wars as the theme.
The decision was made to postpone development of the Mary Poppins-inspired attraction and Spaceship Earth at this time.” While the Walt Disney World spokesperson used the term “postpone” in the statement, that typically means a project is cancelled or shelved indefinitely.
Let's get one thing out of the way: there has never been a country that was removed from Epcot. All the countries that were originally there opening day — or added later on — remain in the park. The closest we get to a “removal” is perhaps Israel and Africa.
Epcot Forever has returned to World Showcase Lagoon at EPCOT. This temporary show is a treat for Disney fans. Epcot Forever was a previous Epcot fireworks show that returned on April 4th, 2023, and is running in the interim while Harmonious barges and equipment is being slowly transformed out of the Lagoon.
Disney intended EPCOT to be a real city, and it was planned to feature commercial, residential, industrial and recreational centers, connected by a mass multimodal transportation system, that would, he said, Never cease to be a living blueprint of the future.