Latest look at construction of the new food and beverage area at the center of EPCOT in World Celebration

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World Celebration food and beverage area construction - October 13 2021

Posted: Wednesday October 13, 2021 1:24pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

With Creations Shop and Club Cool now open at EPCOT, construction efforts are focused on completing the new food and beverage areas in World Celebration.

World Celebration food and beverage area construction - October 13 2021

The temporary Mouse Gear location is now being gutted to be combined with the space from the former Innoventions area.

World Celebration food and beverage area construction - October 13 2021

The view from the other side shows work progressing on the exterior of the Innoventions and Electric Umbrella building.

World Celebration food and beverage area construction - October 13 2021

We don't yet have specifics on names for the new food and beverage offerings or where they will be located within the building.

World Celebration food and beverage area construction - October 13 2021

New additions will include a quick-service restaurant to replace Electric Umbrella, a new Starbucks, and some other specialty offerings.

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Disstevefan11 day ago

Does that mean no Water filtration plant behind the scenes tour?

Looks like they’re finally adding plantings behind the Journey of Water pump facility to conceal it from the monorail. Hopefully that means they’ll reconfigure the meet and greet queue soon, but we shall see.

UNCgolf2 days ago

I'm just curious. I think it would be nice if there was some separation but I haven't been there since the new hub was opened so I don't have a good sense of where everything is in relation to everything else. It also depends on what the entertainment actually is. The Encanto sing-along they're opening with, e.g., has the potential to be pretty annoying for people elsewhere in the hub if it's really loud (that's the kind of thing that works better in a theater or something similar IMO), but other things might not be.

KeithVH2 days ago

Well, that definitely looks like local city park quality level work . . .

MisterPenguin2 days ago

I thought we were criticizing Disney for the lack of live entertainment...

UNCgolf2 days ago

I wonder how loud it will be. I think they could potentially overdo it and kind of ruin the whole area with noise pollution; I'm sure not everyone in the garden area is going to want to have to listen to whatever is happening on the stage.

tparris2 days ago

Large speakers/sound system being installed on the ceiling above the stage in CommuniCore Plaza.

tparris2 days ago

Gotcha. I’m no expert in that field, so that’s good to know.

James Alucobond2 days ago

Pretty sure they can at least stain and treat it the same way the surrounding concrete is treated in order to better conceal it.

CntrlFlPete2 days ago

cool!! I plan on telling folks that the strange floating rectangle of triangles is an abstract titled 'The Borg ship that assimilated Heihei'.

tparris2 days ago

It’s concrete, they can’t exactly just paint it. What they should have done is cut out the immediate surrounding area and replace it in sections. I would think the intentional cracks all over the ground would make it relatively easy to blend in new sections with the existing ones.

Andrew252 days ago

Hoping they paint it soon... but I'll take this over the ugly wooden boxes

HauntedPirate2 days ago

tparris2 days ago

The temporary boxes around the bases of the circular light fixtures just outside Connections Cafe have been removed, revealing the new bases. They look fine, however the obvious imperfections and different color where they shaved off the “mounds” really bothers me. That part doesn’t look good at all imo