Spectacular nighttime views of EPCOT's World Celebration Gardens

Dec 05, 2023 in "EPCOT"

World Celebration Gardens after dark
Posted: Tuesday December 5, 2023 6:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

EPCOT's brand-new World Celebration Gardens is now open, and guests got a first look this evening at the area's impressive new lighting package.




 


The area features thousands of light fixtures that are fully programmable, allowing designers to synchronize the lighting effects in World Celebration Gardens to the front of the park and Spaceship Earth's points of light. The lighting design even allows for interior lighting at Connections Cafe to be synchronized with what is happening outside.





Watch the video below for a look at the World Celebration Gardens nighttime lighting effects.

 

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tparris1 hour ago

Yes, they are also hard and sturdy, as opposed to floppy like the old ones. They’re also very reflective.

wbostic122 hours ago

Do they look any higher quality than the old ones? I’m curious if they will be testing it tonight.

tparris3 hours ago

Here’s some photos I got a few days ago. These were taken the first day they were being installed, so there are much more installed now.

Squishy3 hours ago

Seems like blogmickey caught it. https://blogmickey.com/2024/11/epcot-in-ground-lighting-fix-world-celebration/

wbostic124 hours ago

You able to get any shots of that?

Squishy5 hours ago

New Translucent LED diffusers seem be replacing the newly installed white covers in the broken ground lighting, maybe they are fixing it after all.

HauntedPirate6 hours ago

If only they had a master of flooring working on this project…

gerarar8 hours ago

New dedication plaque has been installed at the park entrance. Source and more pics:

DreamfinderGuy23 hours ago

In better news, the perimeter fountain lights were recently repaired. The big beam into the sky should be working again soon as well

James Alucobond1 day ago

I am generally understanding, but this can't be that hard.

tparris1 day ago

Half of the central light pillars are still stuck on a bright white on the sides, and one of them is still completely off on the sides…

tparris1 day ago

None of the ribbon lighting around the entrance plaza is working correctly at this point, it’s not animating and several sections are completely broken/ incorrect colors/ delayed. Literally dozens of the points of light on SSE are constantly on when they shouldn’t be, and are blinking and flashing different colors like plane beacons. I will say that they finally fixed the fountain lights, (although the spotlight in the middle hasn’t turned on in over two years) but everything else is an utter disaster maintenance-wise at the moment. So many lighting effects broken in the main gardens too…

tparris1 day ago

The amount of cracks and chips in the brand new pavement is crazy.

trainplane31 day ago

Not the lights but: