New Disney Rewards email offers a slightly more useful opening timeframe for EPCOT's Journey of Water Inspired by Moana

Jan 19, 2023 in "Journey of Water Inspired by Moana"

Views of Te Fiti in position at Journey of Water Inspired by Moana
Posted: Thursday January 19, 2023 4:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Despite a lot of recent progress at EPCOT's Journey of Water Inspired by Moana, we still don't have an opening date beyond late 2023.

 

However, a new email sent out today to Disney Rewards members offers a slightly more useful timeline.

Under a section titled "Autumn," Journey of Water is listed as opening in fall 2023.

This fall, you won't want to miss the debut of Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana at EPCOT®! This new exploration trail will connect guests to
the story of our planet's water.
When: Fall 2023.

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Chef idea Mickey`=7 hours ago

Perhaps this is just Epcot crying out I don't want this transformation that none of us asked aside minor enhancements or upgrades like Creation Shop and Connections made well better for Epcot how it was.

DisCOT_979 hours ago

Did I ever suggest that? I simply stated that these things should not be happening within months of opening such things. Especially when you’ve made the consumer wait so long and had the park under walls for half a decade. It’s just bad show.

eddie10410 hours ago

Listen I get the complaints but I will never attack Disney for fixing or repairing their mistakes. It’s unfortunate that things are already breaking in a newly constructed area. Maybe they need better oversight on these projects or a different contractor.

Incomudro10 hours ago

They shouldn't break this fast. It's embarassing. And we're not talking about complicated AA's. We're talking about lights and a water feature. And those lights failed after one night.

eddie10410 hours ago

Things break…would you rather them ignore it?

tparris10 hours ago

All of this.

DisCOT_9711 hours ago

The problem isn’t that they’re trying to solve the issue, it’s that this park went through a multimillion multiyear “transformation” and some of the things promised don’t even fully function. That middle area has been behind walls for how long? And those new “lights” stopped working after night one…Moana isn’t even a year old yet and it’s already proving to be a maintenance workload.

KeithVH11 hours ago

Yeah! And I bet as soon as they get the Yeti fixed, they'll straighten this brand new problem ASAP . . .

Virtual Toad14 hours ago

I can't speak for others, but to me the fact that the state of "show" at Epcot is so poor now, especially when compared to what it used to be, that lack of reliability among newer effects becomes a more glaring issue when so many other effects, new and old, remain broken or in b-mode months or even years after failing. Ironic that a park systematically stripped of complex effects and moving parts over the past 25 years remains in relatively poor condition, and definitely below the baseline WDW show standards of the past, especially when there are fewer things to maintain.

monothingie14 hours ago

eddie10414 hours ago

Why do you guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs? They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

tparris14 hours ago

Especially because many new things at EPCOT are breaking and have been broken for some time now, with absolutely no clear intention to fix

monothingie15 hours ago

The problem is Disney has a HORRIBLE track record on this. If they didn't no one would really care that it was down for maintenance.

mysto15 hours ago

Private parts.