The EPCOT Experience, which offered a preview of upcoming EPCOT Pavilions and attractions, is now closed permanently, as announced a few days ago. The Odyssey Events Pavilion is closed while the EPCOT Experience is removed. On the Test Track side of the pavilion, a rope blocks the doors. A sign hanging from the rope reads … Read more
Walt Disney Imagineering Presents the EPCOT Experience will be closing permanently on March 14, 2022. Walt Disney Imagineer Zach Riddley announced the closure on Instagram, nothing that the reimagining of EPCOT is well underway so the EPCOT Experience is no longer needed as a preview. Read his full caption below. Since its 2019 debut, Walt … Read more
Just as the Epcot Experience Center tracks the transformation of Epcot, the center itself, which opened just last Tuesday, is constantly updating and adding to their series of exhibits. Just recently, we noticed the arrival of two new attraction ride vehicle models––one for Guardians of the Galaxy and one for Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure––inside the displays … Read more
If you kept a close eye out during the opening of the all-new “Walt Disney Imagineering Presents The Epcot Experience” Exhibit at The Odyssey Pavilion in Epcot, then you took in the display projections show in all its glory, but there was one goosebumps-inducing part of the projection show that focused on Spaceship Earth… and its upcoming … Read more
Announced at this year’s D23 was a lot of exciting updates coming to Epcot. From more information on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind to announcing a Mary Poppins-themed “Cherry Tree Lane” Neighborhood coming to the United Kingdom pavilion, we had a lot of information to process for this theme park. However, the most exciting … Read more
Walt Disney Imagineering presents the Epcot Experience opened at the park this morning in the Odyssey Events Pavilion (located between Test Track and the Mexico pavilion). We’ve been eagerly awaiting this offering since its announcement at this year’s D23 Expo, and this engaging and immersive new space is the first in-depth look at the historic … Read more
Hello again from Epcot! We stopped by today to check up on The Odyssey Pavilion and the progress being made on its exterior. Let’s take a closer look. In our last Odyssey update, we looked at the logo mural being painted on the side of the building near Test Track. You can see what this looked … Read more
Greetings from the ever-changing future of Epcot! There’s far more going on at The Odyssey than meets the eye… and behind that towering wall of scrim that’s been up throughout the blue and pink section painting, there’s a far more interesting piece of artwork. It’s the new Epcot Experience Center logo. The logo cuts off … Read more
When we first noticed the repainting project on The Odyssey building at Epcot, we assumed they were going for a more neutral scheme. Well, recent work on and around the pavilion is definitely hinting at a bright, colorful new future for the building. Except for the planters. They’ve all been painted white, a departure from … Read more
When we first noticed the repainting project on The Odyssey building at Epcot, we assumed they were going for a more neutral scheme. Well, today we got the first glimpse of a bright, colorful new future for the building. This is the first wall to receive any color so far. A bright blue section of … Read more
Disney Parks, Experiences and Products has shared exciting news from Anaheim tonight as a preview of what’s to come this weekend! At Walt Disney World Resort, there are big plans for the multi-year transformation of Epcot, with new experiences that will make the park “more Disney, more family, more timeless and more relevant” to the … Read more
The Odyssey building has been experiencing updates since early last year, but they have all been more interior updates. When it reopened on New Year’s Eve in 2018, we saw a clean and crisp modern look, but it had ultimately lost the touch of eighties nostalgia. As of today, it seems like the exterior of … Read more
Many a childhood was shaped by Epcot’s Imagination pavilion. While most regard the original Journey Into Imagination attraction as quite possibly the greatest theme park ride ever built, there was certainly a lot of memorable things to see and do upstairs, above the ride, in the ImageWorks play area. The one thing from the now-defunct … Read more