Benches arrive in the EPCOT World Discovery breezeway outside Connections Cafe and Creations Shop

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New benches and Umbrellas in World Discovery

Posted: Thursday May 26, 2022 10:06am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Just ahead of tomorrow's opening of EPCOT's Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind, seating has been added to the breezeway between World Celebration and World Discovery.

New benches and Umbrellas in World Discovery

The 7 benches are positioned in the space between Connections Cafe and Creations Shop.

New benches and Umbrellas in World Discovery

The benches in the center are double-sided, with single-sided benches positioned against the walls.

New benches and Umbrellas in World Discovery

New colored umbrellas have also been installed near to Mission: SPACE and Test Track.

New benches and Umbrellas in World Discovery

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Bocabear28 minutes ago

Dolores!!!!!

HauntedPirate9 hours ago

… Mulva? 😝

Jayspency12 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.

aladdin200713 hours ago

looks like one too

Skibum197017 hours ago

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

Jayspency20 hours ago

Dare I say anything?

flynnibus20 hours ago

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

jrhwdw20 hours ago

Soarin has an Updated Epcot Finale!

Jayspency20 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)

Squishy21 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.

Bocabear23 hours ago

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

Epcot82Guy1 day 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.