A Look at the New Lighting Design at EPCOT's CommuniCore Hall and Plaza

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Posted: Tuesday June 11, 2024 9:30am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

EPCOT officially opened its new CommuniCore Hall and Plaza on June 10, and last night, we got a first look at the area's completed lighting package.

CommuniCore Plaza Lighting

Entrance to CommuniCore Hall

Mickey and Friends with Luminous Fireworks

The new lighting design at CommuniCore Hall and Plaza features a dynamic array of colors and patterns that change throughout the evening. The buildings are wrapped in 200 LED color-changing triangles, which take on different designs throughout the evening.

Mickey and Friends at night

World Celebration Lighting

Above CommuniCore Plaza, moving spotlights now create sweeping beams of light illuminating the sky, which are visible from various points around EPCOT.

Lighting at CommuniCore Plaza

Take a look at our collection of photos and video below to see the new lighting in action. (4K YouTube)

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HauntedPirate5 hours ago

… Mulva? 😝

Jayspency7 hours ago

Regarding my actual thoughts on this, I'm glad Soarin got some TLC, but I don't like the new Eiffel tower scene where you just kinda look at it from a distance. There was just a unique feeling you had scaling the tower from the bottom. At least the bendy tower is no more lol.

aladdin20078 hours ago

looks like one too

Skibum197012 hours ago

Sadly, that was the first thing I thought when I saw the pictures of the new ending.

Jayspency16 hours ago

Dare I say anything?

flynnibus16 hours ago

Immortalizing the redo and design that didn’t last. How fitting

jrhwdw16 hours ago

Soarin has an Updated Epcot Finale!

Jayspency16 hours ago

That excuse really only applies to innoventions, communicore and a couple scenes in attractions since their purpose was to showcase the future and what it could bring. Even so these scenes and exhibits could be updated to showcase updated tech. Most attractions in future world avoided this problem by either focusing on the history of a subject and not the future (SSE, WOM, and some of UOE and horizons) or primarily focus on the content of the subject itself (LWTL, MS, TT 1.0 and JII)

Squishy16 hours ago

Not sure if anyone said this here but the new white channels they put it a few weeks ago is not a LED diffuser so I guess those ground lights are going away unless its a temporary cover cause the previous one got damaged. It doesn't look temporary the way they glued them in though.

Bocabear18 hours ago

It totally feels like a boardroom-designed overhaul...

Epcot82Guy19 hours ago

I didn't love that idea originally, but I've come around. I think that would have been simplest, using the colors to add some thematic change from one area to the other. If they wanted the neighborhoods, I still think Epcot Center (SSE, Spine, TT and IMAG - focused on classic Epcot inspiration and innovation), World Discovery (M:S, Guardians and something planetary for WoL - tied around space exploration, real and fantasy) and World Nature (Land, Seas, JoW - natural world) would have made more sense. But, they need more separation between the areas so it's a clearer distinction. As it was done, it feels separated on paper in a conference room, not reality of a physical space.

Cmdr_Crimson22 hours ago

Community = Neighborhood?

Cmdr_Crimson22 hours ago

Project Gemini's Discoveryland name would have been better..IMO.

Gusey1 day ago

Future World as a name had to go because it was the Tomorrowland problem all over again. The future kept becoming the present and the tech showcased in Future World was becoming the norm. Still think World Discovery could have worked for the whole of Future World