Next round of Cast Member previews pushes Journey of Water Inspired by Moana opening towards October

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Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Imagineering test and adjust

Posted: Monday August 21, 2023 2:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced to Cast Members that Journey of Water Inspired by Moana will be available for Cast Member previews from September 1 through September 22, 2023.

This latest round of Cast Member previews means that any guest sot-openings will likely not happen until at least September 23 at the earliest.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Imagineering test and adjust

Disney has not yet confirmed if there will be any guest previews for Journey of Water. Still, with other recent openings, we have seen pre-opening opportunities for Annual Passholders, Disney Vacation Club members, Club 33 members, and D23 members.

Disney's most recent official line on an opening date is, " Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana, is scheduled to open in late 2023 within World Nature—the EPCOT neighborhood dedicated to understanding and preserving the beauty and balance of the natural world."

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Imagineering test and adjust

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Virtual Toad2 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.

monothingie2 hours ago

eddie1042 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.

tparris2 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

monothingie3 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.

mysto3 hours ago

Private parts.

Cmdr_Crimson3 hours ago

We can call it a FAILnale!

lightningtap3473 hours ago

It was working yesterday 😕

Disstevefan13 hours ago

Let's look on the bright side, its job security for the maintenance workers......... Until Disney decides its costing too much to keep going ;)

MisterPenguin3 hours ago

Indeed. Other things which stopped working are already fixed. It's easy to hear about things when they break, but getting fixed rarely gets the same attention. Then people think everything about it is broken.

eddie1043 hours ago

They are fixing it and that is all that matters. 🙄

monothingie4 hours ago

I don't think this should distract from the fact that it is broken...already. I believe there are other parts that are also already broken and disabled. It's not the first thing in the new Epcot that has quickly broken. But why would it be ok for complexity and reliability to mutually exclusive? Has WDI gotten so bad that they can't produce anything complicated that won't fail after only a couple of months of routine use?