Epcot's Gateway Gifts closing for short refurbishment next week

Jan 08, 2020 in "Gateway Gifts"

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Posted: Wednesday January 8, 2020 2:44pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Epcot's Gateway Gifts will be closing for a brief refurbishment next week.

The gift shop located underneath Spaceship Earth on the eastern side will close from January 13 through to January 18, reopening to guests on January 19 2020.

This will complete the remodel of the stores by Spaceship earth, with the Camera Center on the western side already back in operation after its refurbishment.

In other gift shop news, the Gift Stop store, located outside of the main entrance near to the bus stops will have its final day of operation on January 18 2020.

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Andrew C3 hours ago

Or fixing Communicore Hall...

DreamfinderGuy4 hours ago

I would assume so

tparris5 hours ago

Do you think these fixes will include the floor lighting outside of Communicore Hall?

Jambo Dad5 hours ago

Including disco yeti!

Disstevefan16 hours ago

YaY?

DreamfinderGuy7 hours ago

In the interest of transparency what I'm told and what I expect are two very different things, I think "by the time the holiday lighting starts" will quickly turn into "before the holiday lighting ends". But that's just my inner cynic, it looks like work is well underway and there's still time to get it done by the end of the month.

MisterPenguin7 hours ago

You have 15 days. Don't make us bring out the meanie emojis!!!

trainplane37 hours ago

2 weeks

DreamfinderGuy7 hours ago

Truthfully, I have no idea. That sounds like a good guess. Current target is to have them on for when they start doing the holiday stuff on SSE. So I'm assuming when Festival of the Holidays starts? That's a few weeks away.

Disstevefan17 hours ago

The holidays are in progress. Are they shooting for NYE?

Jayspency7 hours ago

We’ll see

tparris9 hours ago

Is that why they haven’t fixed the light towers or the fountain lights in months? Maybe they want to fix everything in one fell swoop?

Andrew C9 hours ago

Lighting is hard....

Disstevefan19 hours ago

I didn't even know the pylons were also broken. I cant keep up with all the failures. Since the holiday season is currently underway, whatever they plan to do, they are already too late. At this point, who cares. This whole area is substandard garbage - in my opinion.