Epcot's Gateway Gifts closing for short refurbishment next week

Jan 08, 2020 in "Gateway Gifts"

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Posted: Wednesday January 8, 2020 2:44pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Epcot's Gateway Gifts will be closing for a brief refurbishment next week.

The gift shop located underneath Spaceship Earth on the eastern side will close from January 13 through to January 18, reopening to guests on January 19 2020.

Gateway Gifts overview

This will complete the remodel of the stores by Spaceship earth, with the Camera Center on the western side already back in operation after its refurbishment.

In other gift shop news, the Gift Stop store, located outside of the main entrance near to the bus stops will have its final day of operation on January 18 2020.

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MrPromey3 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_Crimson4 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..

DarkMetroid5678 days ago

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

Agent H8 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?

lazyboy97o8 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 H8 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

DreamfinderGuy8 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.

lazyboy97o8 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.