EPCOT's 2024 Festival of the Holidays Adds New Festive Experiences to CommuniCore Hall and Plaza

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Posted: Friday November 1, 2024 1:20pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

This year's EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays will bring seven new experiences to World Celebration from November 29 through December 30, 2024.

Spotlights over CommuniCore Plaza

With new additions to CommuniCore Hall and CommuniCore Plaza, Disney has stepped up efforts to make better use of these spaces for the upcoming holiday festival. Here's what's in store to elevate your holiday experience:

1. A Grand and Miraculous Gingerbread Display

CommuniCore Hall will host an 8-foot-tall gingerbread Spaceship Earth created by the EPCOT Pastry Team and Walt Disney Imagineering. With hundreds of carefully crafted gingerbread triangles, the display will light up and play music periodically, thanks to the Celebration Countdown presented by CITIZEN.

2024 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays Spaceship Earth Gingerbread House preview

The sphere itself is made up of almost a thousand handcrafted gingerbread triangles to mirror the iconic attraction. There are 240 pounds of honey dough, 100 eggs, 100 ounces lebkuchen spice, 55 pounds dark chocolate, and 100 pounds royal icing. For a final Disney touch, there are 11 hidden Mickeys to represent the 11 countries of the World Showcase.

2024 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays Spaceship Earth Gingerbread House preview

2. Deck the CommuniCore Hall

The holiday décor extends throughout CommuniCore Hall, including the Glittering Grove by Balsam Hill—a seasonal forest featuring shimmering trees. Guests will also find exclusive festival merchandise inside the hall.

3. Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow

This new Holiday Kitchen inside CommuniCore Hall serves up decorated cookies, including a gingerbread triangle decorating kit inspired by the Spaceship Earth gingerbread display.

4. Favorites of Festivals Past

Right outside CommuniCore Hall, this Holiday Kitchen celebrates beloved dishes from past festivals. Guests can look forward to a nostalgic taste of their favorite festival bites.

5. Snowflake Decorating in CommuniCore Plaza

Kids and adults alike can get creative with complimentary snowflake decorating in CommuniCore Plaza.

6. JOYFUL! A Celebration of the Season

The spirited JOYFUL! performance has a new home at CommuniCore Plaza.

7. Festive Fragrances by Scentsy

A new "snow globe garden" along the walkway between the Imagination! pavilion and World Showcase will feature Scentsy's holiday scents.

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peter114351 hour ago

This entire forum is trivial. Everything we talk about here is insignificant in the grand scheme of the things. Just because something isn’t important to you doesn’t mean it’s not important to others. I’m sure there are things you place importance in that others don’t care about.

ToTBellHop4 hours ago

Glad we booked Biergarten!

spectromagic044 hours ago

Diamond Horseshoe and Biergarten have full decor. And La Hacienda de San Angel has minimal decor but has at least wreaths. There might be more but there’s at least still some table service restaurants that decorate.

ToTBellHop4 hours ago

Could this be the last yeah I have to hear John Legends awful, woke “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”? I’m pretty woke but…cringe.

ToTBellHop4 hours ago

Same style just new. Negative on WC.

TP20009 hours ago

You know, looking back on it, Disney always had a sort of certain charm in the 70's and early 80's with its notable C List celebrities they'd get to appear in TV specials like this. And with the odd exception of Elton John, that is definitely a C List. But somehow, when it's actually happening, the C Listers of today aren't as charming at the time as they'll be 20 years from now. Also, I'm pretty sure a couple names on that guest list are going to be mentioned in the upcoming Sean Combs trial.

Tony the Tigger9 hours ago

I looked at the 17th; but when I compare the cost for two of us to attend vs. the price of a Pixie Pass, it gives me pause. It’s just a few dollars less. We are going 12/16-12/18 and 12/24-12/26. The price of single day tickets to go on Christmas are also almost as much as a Pixie Pass, and you can’t buy tickets for Christmas and then apply them to an AP upgrade that would black out Christmas. So it’s looking like a Disney Springs or resort holiday unless I break down at the last minute.

Tony the Tigger9 hours ago

What’s baffling to me is this bothering you. You act like it’s important. It’s trivial. Now you’re getting it.

MagicHappens197110 hours ago

It doesn't seem like Disney is decorating any F&B locations anymore. I have noticed that all decor has returned to Merchandise locations though.

aladdin200714 hours ago

is it good or noticeable changes? still nothing in whispering canyon?

Cmdr_Crimson20 hours ago

It's funny that after Disney left to create their own cruise line Warner Bros took over the Big Red Boat..

JohnD20 hours ago

The first "Disney Cruise Line", Premier Cruise Line. I did a high school senior cruise with them from Port Canaveral to Nassau and back.

ToTBellHop21 hours ago

I guess Xtina is busy?

Comped22 hours ago

Seth still gets paid by Disney for Family Guy (and American Dad too - since Disney produces both). And technically The Orville isn'r dead 100% either... It is a sad guest list though, that I agree.