EPCOT's CommuniCore Plaza and Hall: All Construction Walls Down for Grand Opening

Jun 09, 2024 in "CommuniCore Hall"

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Walls Down at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza - June 9 2024

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Posted: Sunday June 9, 2024 9:22am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

All construction walls around EPCOT's new CommuniCore Hall, CommuniCore Plaza, and Mickey & Friends are now down ahead of tomorrow's official opening.

Walls Down at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza - June 9 2024

Mickey & Friends is home to an all-new meet and greet space for Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Goofy.

Walls Down at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza - June 9 2024

CommuniCore Plaza is an open-air event space that will be used for live entertainment, starting with a new sing-along featuring the songs and story of "Encanto." The limited-time show, "¡Celebración Encanto!" runs several times throughout the day and officially opens June 10.

Encanto Stage Show at Communicore Plaza

Construction walls down at CommuniCore Plaza - June 5 2024

CommuniCore Hall is an indoor flex space that will also host various events during EPCOT's festivals.

Construction walls down at CommuniCore Plaza - June 5 2024

Walls Down at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza - June 9 2024

Festival Favorites, located in CommuniCore Plaza is a quick-service eatery that serves up favorite dishes from EPCOT's seasonal festivals.

Walls Down at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza - June 9 2024

CommuniCore Hall, CommuniCore Plaza, and Mickey & Friends open to guests on June 10, 2024.

Walls Down at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza - June 9 2024

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MrPromey2 days ago

You're right. It was something much more important to current TDO: RETAIL SPACE

James Alucobond3 days ago

IMO, for the ground lights, just make the covers opaque with translucent pinholes. You could just wipe through colors and on/off states randomly to achieve a shimmer effect similar to the old fiber optics. I imagine that would better obfuscate the persistent malfunctions and abnormally bright or dim sections. Regardless, it continues to seem really odd to me that this is an issue at all. Was there just some massive error with the wiring and/or controls?

tparris3 days ago

Current state of the entrance plaza lights. 2 out of the 3 fountain pylons are not working, not to mention how horrible the inside of the fountain looks during the day since the paint has all been worn off for years at this point. I’m genuinely done caring about this park at this point840609

tparris3 days ago

The thing is, I’ve seen them on “solid white” and they are ANYTHING BUT solid white

ToTBellHop3 days ago

Same. Just go solid white and call it a day.

ZachPL3 days ago

At this point I would be happy if the lights were separate from spaceship earth if that meant they were all one color. It just looks so bad when it's obvious everything is broken.

Cmdr_Crimson3 days ago

If they kept the upper part where Epcot Character Spot, Fountainview and the Hallway It would have been fine and kept the Journey of water where it is..Change all lighting in the area to LED's and Sync to the SSE shows along with a new light package that was inside the Fountain of Nations for brighter visuals.. I'm still disappointed they haven't used this segment from Splashtacular for the Beacon of Magic show on SSE during The Arts Festival and a good nod to the former show..

DarkMetroid5677 days ago

imo even if the epcot core had been kept in pristine condition it would have still looked very dated

Agent H7 days ago

I’m sorry I was writing that out before the above was posted but regardless I stand by what I said both Eisners and igers middle were not what Epcot needed with the exception of club cool it was going to need to be fixed anyway also who’s Elizabeth diller?

lazyboy97o7 days ago

You clearly missed what was just explained to you. The area was allowed to deteriorate as a pretext nor was the plan ever actually going to fix anything. Iger wanted to tell people he hired Elizabeth Diller to design a building, not that he solved some guest experience problem.

Agent H7 days ago

Oh no I’m not defending how it turned out I’m just saying if I was Disney in 2016 or so and I had chose between redoing the spine or fixing figment i would choose fix the middle hot take maybe but I think figment as it is isn’t that bad not as good the original looked online ( I’ve never experienced it myself) but still better then the decaying thing that was there before

DreamfinderGuy7 days ago

This is always such an insane argument to me because the few facilities that were closed prior to the plaza rehab were only closed in preparation for the plaza rehab. They took Innoventions West down because that was the building that was going to need the most work, then their plans were put on ice after the building was closed. Innoventions East was allowed to wither away because they knew work to close the entire complex would be happening imminently. All in all it was three years of Innoventions operating maybe half the exhibits it used to. I don't think there was anything in the plaza at any point in its last decade of operation that felt worse off than Figment. Maybe Pin Central and Electric Umbrella.

lazyboy97o7 days ago

Figment hasn’t had a problem with not aging well because it was never well to begin with. They spent millions of dollars on a project that was never intended to meet the actual needs of the space. It was a half baked vanity project that naturally turned into a boondoggle.