New EPCOT directional signage includes CommuniCore Hall and Mickey Mouse meet-and-greet

Nov 21, 2023 in "EPCOT"

EPCOT World celebration directional signage
Posted: Tuesday November 21, 2023 11:34am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

A new directional sign has popped up recently in EPCOT's World Celebration, which includes two soon-to-open new venues.

The new sign follows the updated EPCOT style, colored light blue, and can be found on the main walkway between Guest Relations and Connections Cafe.

In addition to directing guests to Connections Cafe, Creations Shop, World Nature, World Discovery, and World Showcase, the signage includes blacked-out entries for CommuniCore Hall and Mickey & Friends meet-and-greet.


Journey of Water- Inspired by Moana, is also included on the sign and blacked out. Although the attraction is open, there is no direct route from the signage to Journey of Water; this will change when World Celebration is fully available to guests later this year.

CommuniCore Hall will provide space for additional festival offerings that won't depend on Florida weather, which is also subdividable into two distinct sections.



CommuniCore Hall will also be home to an indoor Mickey and Friends character meet and greet.

The surrounding CommuniCore Plaza will feature a garden with space to view entertainment from a covered performance stage and seating for nearby festival food and drink kiosks.

World Celebration will open to guests in late 2023, but it remains unclear if CommuniCore Hall will be ready at the same time.

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    Chef idea Mickey`=6 hours 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.

    HauntedPirate7 hours ago

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

    WorldExplorer18 hours 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.

    DreamfinderGuy18 hours ago

    In other words not too different from the park today

    RSoxNo119 hours 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.

    Agent H19 hours ago

    I was referencing the joke I made above but yes I hated the walls. They made navigating the park a nightmare and were really really ugly.

    HauntedPirate1 day ago

    All of those bad memories of 2022? Yeah, that would be so rough... :rolleyes:

    Chef idea Mickey`=2 days ago

    Now Epcot has the Disney Spring's Board President.

    Stripes6 days ago

    Can’t be much worse than the fiasco that’s there now.

    Agent H6 days ago

    I sincerely hope not. It would dig up a lot of bad memories for me.

    Stripes6 days ago

    What are the odds construction walls go up in this area within the next year?

    Disneydad10126 days ago

    Just fill them in with concrete already. So dumb

    SoFloMagic6 days ago

    Seriously. They put all this nice soft lighting and music loop in the new hub, but then put a dj playing 2000s club hits with harsh lights next to it. I blame the morons who spend their time watching the dj instead of exploring world showcase. Paying all that money for an experience they could get for free at Disney springs. Or a local bowling alley

    mysto6 days ago

    "Lighting Lane". Genius!

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