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Mission Space at Epcot Closing This Summer for Refurbishment

Mission: SPACE at Epcot will be closed for two months in the Summer of 2017 for a refurbishment.

Mission: SPACE will be closed June 5th through July 31st, 2017. No exact reasoning was given for the closure.

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Tom Corless
Tom has been regularly visiting the Walt Disney World® Resort from the time he was 4 months old. While he has made countless visits in the last 28 years, he did not become a truly active member in the Disney fan community until the summer of 2007, when he decided to launch the WDW News Today website and podcast. Tom has since become an Orlando-local and is a published author on Walt Disney World. Contact Tom at [email protected]
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Jesse
Jesse
3 years ago

Mission: BREAKOUT????

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jackson
jackson
3 years ago

Funny, i just read a rumor saying that mission: SPACE was getting updated!!!

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Enuff
Enuff
3 years ago

Sounds like they should’ve used the word “repair”.
I thought refurbishments were done in the “off season”.
Taking down one of three thrill rides during the busy summer doesn’t make sense.
Now the waits for Test Track and Soarin’ are going double or even triple. Yikes!

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Jesse
Jesse
3 years ago
Reply to  Enuff

A while ago, Disney made the decision to revamp World of Motion into Test Track and Universe of Energy into Ellen’s Energy Adventure WHILE Horizons was closed. This left only Wonders of Life open on Future World East and caused the immediate reopening of Horizons. This is not as bad as that.

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Enuff
Enuff
3 years ago
Reply to  Jesse

Not the same. None of those are the popular “thrill rides”.

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Lick NoCicero
Lick NoCicero
3 years ago
Reply to  Enuff

Neither is Mission: SPACE. Test Track and Soarin’ regularly run 60-90+ minute waits, while M:S is less than half that (and is typically closer to walk-on territory). M:S had the budget and initial marketing campaign of an E-ticket, but the anecdotes about the experience and fear that followed killed it.

This will have a very minimal effect on Test Track and/or Soarin’.

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Enuff
Enuff
3 years ago
Reply to  Lick NoCicero

Yeah, ok, we’ll see.

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dreamitdoit
dreamitdoit
3 years ago

More the same than you give it credit. At that time, there weren’t any thrill rides in the entire park (unless you call going backwards down a two story waterfall a thrill). Universe of Energy, World of Motion, and Horizons sucked up a LOT of capacity, so it would had a big impact on the remaining attractions.

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EpcotFan
EpcotFan
3 years ago
Reply to  dreamitdoit

“Horizons sucked up a LOT of capacity” What the heck good does capacity do if nobody is riding it? I adored Horizons, along with many of us “hardcore” Epcot fans did. Unfortunately, nobody else did. Near the end, Horizons was not just a walk on, but it was a ghost town. You’d regularly see gaps of 10 to 20 empty vehicles. It was a classic, but only to “us”. Same goes for World of Motion, literally the very first Disney World attraction I ever rode. I loved it, but it was a perpetual walk on, and it was not just… Read more »

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Disney Pete
Disney Pete
3 years ago

Good. Time to really clean all the puke.

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Redo Epcot
Redo Epcot
3 years ago

Maybe they should retheme this during the refurb. All of future world is gonna need done anyway and this doesn’t get the attention and waits that it used to.

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Tom's An Idiot
Tom's An Idiot
3 years ago

So, is “refurbishment” not “exact reasoning”?

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