EPCOT's Dreamers Point and World Celebration Gardens will open to guests December 5 at Walt Disney World

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Walt the Dreamer statue at Dreamers Point in World Celebration at EPCOT

Posted: Tuesday November 28, 2023 4:44pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced that in celebration of Walt Disney’s birthday on December 5, guests visiting EPCOT will be able to visit Dreamers Point in the World Celebration neighborhood.

Walt the Dreamer statue at Dreamers Point in World Celebration at EPCOT

The "Walt the Dreamer" statue represents Walt later in his life when he was dreaming up the overall Florida Project and the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. He sits with a sense of fulfillment, enjoying the beauty of his realized dream: a park that represents pure optimism and truly celebrates the magic of possibility.

Walt the Dreamer statue at Dreamers Point in World Celebration at EPCOT

This new statue of Walt is part of World Celebration Gardens where Disney says "guests will be able to relax, unwind, and connect – to EPCOT, to nature and to each other." Each of the gardens found in the center of World Celebration, including Dreamers Point, will connect back to the areas surrounding them, drawing on the architectural legacy of EPCOT, modern lighting elements and a variety of natural textures.

World Celebration concept art

December 5 will also see the debut of the new EPCOT nighttime spectacular 'Luminous.'

Watch the video below to see Walt Disney Imagineers install the Walt the Dreamer statue in World Celebration Gardens.

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Chef idea Mickey`=8 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.

HauntedPirate8 hours ago

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

WorldExplorer19 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.

DreamfinderGuy19 hours ago

In other words not too different from the park today

RSoxNo120 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 H21 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