New films coming to Epcot's Mission SPACE and China Pavilion

Posted: Sunday July 16, 2017 8:13pm EDT by WDWMAGIC Staff

Mission: Space and the China Pavilion at Epcot will see new films as the first part of a major overhaul of Epcot.

A new Green Mission at Mission: SPACE will take guests on a stunning tour around the Earth, and an updated Orange Mission will make the trip to Mars even more spectacular with new display systems.

Misson SPACE overview

The new Green Mission is part of a desire to make Epcot "more timeless, relevent, more family, and more Disney."

Mission: SPACE is currently closed for the refurbishment, and is expected to reopen to guests on August 1 2017.

Over at the China Pavilion in World Showcase, a brand new digital seamless display system will overhaul the existing Circlevision 360 with a new film.

An opening date for the new China film has not yet been announced.

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RSoxNo1Dec 08, 2017

THE Monorail LimeDec 08, 2017

Epic poster=epic ride

peter11435Nov 30, 2017

They always post Orange higher than green regardless of what the actual wait time might be.

Biff215Nov 29, 2017

Might have been a simulator down, but I’ve also found wait times for MS to be very unreliable. Not sure if they inflate them to make it seem more popular or maybe to push some from orange to green. We were there at the end of August and it was a walk on both times, felt bad wasting a FP although tier 2 is mostly pointless anyway. My 5 year old loved green and he would have been otherwise unable to ride, but I kind of missed the old less extreme version. Just seemed very boring to me when compared to the Mars mission.

Kevin_WNov 29, 2017

Last month we used a FP for orange and they were only operating 1 simulator, but it looked like they still had given out the same # of FP. So the standby line, while not physically long, had a big wait.

Brer OswaldNov 29, 2017

I went the day prior to the official opening. Ride was a walk on.

Horizons '83Nov 29, 2017

Well, i'm not sure if it had everything to do with the long lines, but the attraction had just re-opened on August 13th after a lengthy refurb.

FrizzballNov 29, 2017

I don't know whether I just went at a weird time (which I doubt because I was there in the relatively quiet last week of August) but the queue time for both missions was incredibly long. Orange was at 120 minutes and Green at 40 which led to us choosing the latter.

sedatiNov 28, 2017

I had the chance for a second ride and was planning on trying green, but went with orange a second time (even after imbibing.) Hopefully I can check this out eventually- some complain that it doesn't look like much, but I love the idea of a simple sightseeing orbit with hurricane finale.

Tom MorrowNov 28, 2017

Finally got to do the new green mission and as someone who was very familiar with both versions of the old version, I believe they definitely compensated for lack of spinning with more tilting than the old green version. A definite improvement in my opinion.