New steel structure emerges on the roof of Connections Cafe and Guest Relations in EPCOT's World Celebration

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New steel structure on the roof of Connections Cafe in World Celebration

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Posted: Thursday February 24, 2022 10:40am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The roof line above the Connections Cafe and Guest Relations is going to look a little different when finished as a new steel structure emerges.

New steel structure on the roof of Connections Cafe in World Celebration

The new steel isn't yet complete, but adds some significant height to the former Innoventions East area, with it being visible from the EPCOT parking lot.

New steel structure on the roof of Connections Cafe in World Celebration

The area is expected to become home to a new Starbucks, Guest Relations, and the previously announced Connections Cafe - which is expected to open by this summer.

Connections Café and Eatery concept art

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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.

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...

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