For years, EPCOT guests have shared a running joke that almost every Disney fan understands immediately: the trash cans around World Showcase double as tables. Need a place to set down a festival snack? Trash can. Looking for somewhere to balance a drink while checking the My Disney Experience app? Trash can. Trying to split a food item with friends ...

EPCOT has been through more changes over the past several years than most Disney parks see in a decade. New rides, new pavilions, new entertainment, a full reimagining of what the park is supposed to be. A lot of it has been genuinely exciting. Some of it has been complicated. And one piece of it, a project announced in 2019 ...

Disney World fans have watched many familiar attractions disappear over the past several years. Entire lands have changed themes, classic rides have vanished, and longtime EPCOT fans especially have seen the park move further away from its original identity in favor of movie franchises and recognizable characters. Now, one attraction keeps popping up in conversations about what Disney could target ...

Walt Disney World opened Connections Eatery in April 2022 as a modern, global-inspired dining space that fit seamlessly into EPCOT’s reimagined central hub. Years later, the result has become one of the park’s most divisive experiences—and fans are calling for change. The quick-service restaurant was introduced as part of Disney’s ongoing transformation of EPCOT, a project that’s seen excitement turn ...

A British TikToker has called out Walt Disney World for the inaccuracies (and accuracies) in EPCOT’s United Kingdom Pavilion. For decades, parkgoers from across the globe have used EPCOT as a way to see the world without ever leaving Florida. The park’s World Showcase is home to eleven different pavilions, each themed after a different nation: Canada, Japan, China, Norway, ...

Walt Disney World has entered one of the busiest periods of transformation the resort has seen in years. No matter where guests look, there are construction walls, refurbishment projects, and major expansion plans changing the future of the parks and hotels. Magic Kingdom is preparing for massive new additions, Disney’s Hollywood Studios continues evolving, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom is quickly ...

France at EPCOT used to feel almost secondary compared to the rest of World Showcase. Guests would casually wander through the pavilion, maybe stop for a pastry at Les Halles or grab dinner at Chefs de France, and then continue toward the next country without giving it much more thought. That version of France barely exists anymore. Credit: Erica Lauren, ...

Some music is so deeply tied to a specific place and moment that hearing it anywhere else stops you cold. For a generation of EPCOT guests, Gavin Greenaway’s score for IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth is exactly that kind of music. It played over the World Showcase Lagoon for 20 years. It soundtracked thousands of final nights at the park, thousands ...

Disney World vacations have become expensive enough that even longtime fans now spend months searching for the best possible hotel deal before they book a trip. Between rising ticket prices, Lightning Lane costs, dining, transportation, and resort rates, families are looking everywhere for ways to save money without completely giving up the Disney bubble experience. That is exactly why many ...

The Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros at EPCOT’s Mexico Pavilion occupies a specific and contested space in the Walt Disney World conversation. It is not the most technically advanced ride on the property. It is not the longest. It is not the one that generates the kind of social media buzz that a new attraction opening tends to ...