One of the last remaining pieces of legacy signage removed from EPCOT

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Updated EPCOT Guest Relations sign and exterior - May 16 2022

Posted: Monday May 16, 2022 11:04am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The EPCOT Guest Relations sign has been removed and replaced with the new style as work continues in this area of the park.

Updated EPCOT Guest Relations sign and exterior - May 16 2022

The Guest Relations sign over the entrance was one of the last remaining legacy signs in the former Future World. Guest Relations has been temporarily relocated to the front of the park during the work.

The former Guest Relations sign which has now been removed

Elsewhere in this area work is wrapping up on the newly extended column between Guest Relations and Connections Cafe. This addition conceals a stairway for rooftop access. The tall lighting poles seen elsewhere in World Celebration and World Discovery have also been installed.

Updated EPCOT Guest Relations sign and exterior - May 16 2022

Paintwork is also nearing completion in this area, with only a small section remaining in the former blue color.

Updated EPCOT Guest Relations sign and exterior - May 16 2022

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Disstevefan11 day ago

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

James Alucobond1 day ago

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.

UNCgolf1 day 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.

KeithVH1 day ago

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

MisterPenguin1 day ago

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

UNCgolf1 day 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