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

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CommuniCore Hall and Plaza After Dark

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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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Bocabear2 days ago

Take That Epic Universe! lol

MisterPenguin2 days ago

I believe that was sarcasm. They did not indeed put a dance party *in* the building in which the advertising shown it to be in the building (I think, I don't remember seeing such an ad). However, this Summer's dance party will indeed be inside Communicore.

Jayspency2 days ago

tparris3 days ago

? They didn’t?

Jayspency3 days ago

Thank god they moved them inside the building right?

MisterPenguin5 days ago

That's just the Enterprise Green Team trying to horn in on the action.

JD805 days ago

They just sunk money into EPCOT, and test track is being funded by GM.

dmc4935 days ago

Where to put this idk, but in addition to Epcot’s lighting woes, Tron has multiple broken lighting effects too. Sections of blue showing as green randomly in the big load room. And the first glass fin(?) in the launch area on the left is red when it should be blue. Maybe we’ll have cool reliable lighting systems again someday

Chef idea Mickey`=6 days ago

To me going to World Showcase was basically walking down Creation's Shop with a wall on the right. If you had to say go from East side or West side of Future World yeah you'd have to go to one end or the other. To leave the park in front you had a short cut exit on one side.

HauntedPirate6 days ago

Zach Riddley and Charita Carter have been assigned "other duties"? 🤷‍♂️

WorldExplorer6 days ago

They just "fixed" it, remember? They had a whole campaign that went on for years about how they were revamping the entire place. It resulted in a confusing mishmash with no clear goal and a ton of things that still desperately need work sitting there in plain sight, but from their perspective they just improved everything.

DreamfinderGuy6 days ago

In other words not too different from the park today

RSoxNo16 days ago

MK currently has one major attraction down in Thunder Mountain, another C/D ticket is closing in August in Buzz Lightyear, and a moderate capacity play (Rivers of America / Tom Sawyer Island / Riverboat) are also expecting to close before the end of the year. This begs the question, why is Test Track the only overhaul / replacement / refurbishment currently going on at EPCOT? Spaceship Earth, Nemo and Imagination all needed to be refurbished 10 years ago.