As construction continues on transforming the last of the former Innoventions into the Connections Café and Eatery, we popped over to take a look at the latest progress on the upcoming dining venue at EPCOT. As we noted last month, a door frame is now visible in the breezeway between Connections Café and Creations Shop. … Read more
We bring you a lot of stories every single day. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. So in case you missed anything from our feed, we have rounded up all our stories in one place to get the news at a glance. Here is your Daily Recap for Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Walt Disney World … Read more
Good morning from a foggy Magic Kingdom! It’s the day before New Year’s Eve so we’re checking out all the preparations! Uptown Jewelers has a new Minnie Mouse bow jewelry set available in the case. Tinkerbell is sparkling on a set of Disney Parks collection jewelry clip earrings in the Emporium. Full details including pricing … Read more
Good morning from Magic Kingdom! A new Grogu headband has crawled its way into The Emporium. More Alice in Wonderland Mary Blair housewares are in the home section of the shop. Full details and pricing for all of the items we found are in our daily merchandise roundup! TRON is making quick progress on the … Read more
We bring you a lot of stories every single day. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. So in case you missed anything from our feed, we have rounded up all our stories in one place to get the news at a glance. Here is your Daily Recap for Tuesday, December 21, 2021. Walt Disney World … Read more
The new quick-service restaurant replacing Electric Umbrella in World Celebration at EPCOT will be Connections Café and Eatery. While we don’t know when Connections will open, construction has been moving steadily. Scaffolding is up in front of the windows at the back of the building. Some paneling is missing from the roof overhang. Some temporary … Read more
There has been significantly more visible construction at Journey of Water in EPCOT in recent weeks. The new walkthrough attraction is inspired by “Moana” and will be part of the World Nature neighborhood. A new structure is taking shape in one of the excavated areas, with a concrete base and wood supports. More concrete supports … Read more
Even during the holiday season, World Celebration continues to be a site of massive transformation at EPCOT. From a distance, Connections Café and Eatery may appear mostly finished from the outside, but as we’ve seen recently, it’s become a hotbed of activity on the inside. Closer to Spaceship Earth, excavators have pulled up quite a … Read more
At this afternoon’s Destination D23 “Musical Attractions of Walt Disney World” panel discussion, Imagineer John Dennis mentioned that the EPCOT expansion will be complete in 2023. That deadline coincides with the completion of the EPCOT theme song that is being composed by Pinar Toprak. The new theme song was previewed at the last D23 Expo.
It is a beautiful fall day in Florida, and we are spending it at EPCOT. We are ready for a relaxing stroll around the world. Grab your passport, and let’s head out! Excavation continues for “Moana” Journey of Water continues at EPCOT. We can see a new structure being built since our last update. New … Read more
There’s always some construction to look at in EPCOT these days, whether it’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind or Journey of Water. Let’s take a look at what was once Innoventions East and will eventually be a new quick-service restaurant and Starbucks. The area that temporarily housed Mouse Gear was full of construction vehicles … Read more
Last month, major excavation began for the Journey of Water walkthrough attraction inspired by “Moana,” coming soon to EPCOT. Let’s take a look at how construction has progressed in the last few weeks. Journey of Water will be in the World Nature neighborhood, across from Creations Shop. There are now large piles of dirt next … Read more
More Communicore-style “skylight” tubes are being installed at the temporary Mouse Gear location now that the interior has been completely demolished. The walls were removed from the location soon after it closed. We have mostly seen crew members working on the ceiling. This section of what was once Innoventions, and Communicore before that, will be … Read more
The center of EPCOT still remains a construction site as work continues on the new quick-service restaurant, Starbucks, and festival area that will make up the bulk of World Celebration. The construction site fills the space between Spaceship Earth and Creations Shop. It also encompasses Journey of Water in World Nature. Most of the old … Read more
One of the new attractions coming soon to EPCOT is Journey of Water, a walkthrough experience inspired by “Moana.” Though construction has sometimes seemed stagnant from our Monorail view of the worksite, significant digging has been done this week. Journey of Water will be across from Creations Shop, as part of the new World Nature … Read more
With Creations Shop and Club Cool now open, construction in the World Celebration neighborhood of EPCOT is now focused on the new quick-service restaurant and Starbucks bakery. Construction is visible where the temporary Mouse Gear was housed. Walls were removed from around it earlier this month. Crew members in several cherry-picker vehicles were working on … Read more
