Updated version of EPCOT Forever now showing at Walt Disney World

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EPCOT Forever 2.0 preview show

Posted: Friday July 2, 2021 10:53pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

EPCOT Forever 2.0 made its official debut tonight at a very rainy EPCOT as Walt Disney World sees a return of nightly firework spectaculars.

EPCOT has been without a nightly firework show since the park reopened from the COVID shutdown in July 2020.

EPCOT Forever 2.0 preview show

Tonight's first public performance gives us a look at the new firework design that updates the show to replace the original kite sequence.

EPCOT Forever 2.0 preview show

Although the new Harmonious hardware is very much on display in the center of the lagoon, it is not used in EPCOT Forever. EPCOT Forever does make use of the ten firework barge platforms that will also be used for the upcoming Harmonious show.

For July, EPCOT Forever takes place at 10pm nightly alongside park close.

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Chef idea Mickey`=3 hours ago

Aside from those the Beauty and the Beast/Out There, Music is my Language - Coco, Someday and Hercules/Go the distance. An After Hours presentation with only pyro may change audiences thoughts since the barges aren't there.. But if they were to pop in Epcot Forever for after hours like they do Enchantment then I'd be happy with that!

Chef idea Mickey`=3 hours ago

No one would ever buy into any such reason why they would want to replace Illumination's or get rid for this!

Starship8244 hours ago

As someone who didn't get to see the special, how much of it was spent on luminous and it was the section actually good unlike the behind the attraction nighttime spectaculars episode. The thing about the behind the attraction episode that annoyed me so much was that they spent 10 minutes on harmonious and didn't even mention reflections of Earth at all.

danlb_20005 hours ago

I just watched EPCOT Becoming: Inside the Transformation and they have a whole segment about Luminous being a part of the transformation but zero mention of Harmonious. As you say they clearly want people forget about it.

SoFloMagic12 hours ago

Harmonious was a clip show designed to show diverse voices. It was a product of the moment and ended up kind of backfiring and playing into stereotypes instead. Luminous is significantly better and would downgraded by allowing any of that garbage within 500 feet of it

MisterPenguin17 hours ago

The song from Aladdin was... problematic. The song from PatF was way overcooked.

Chef idea Mickey`=17 hours ago

Harmonious will forever be considered just a 50th Anniversary showcase highlight but why must some or all of the music pieces from this show need to be forgotten. If you took the music it's no more different than Luminious just fuller than just a snippet. Imagine highlighting some of Harmonious using existing pyro Luminous barges it could give a bit of power and action to improve Luminous perhaps....

Chef idea Mickey`=17 hours ago

Literally people complained about Illumination's ROE for it's dead time, then came Epcot Forever and Harmonious with none and now you get Luminous with it! Which is why enjoy because any ask for change doesn't mean it's going to be changed just saying.

Chef idea Mickey`=17 hours ago

Easy. The Love Letter was from Walt's Vision

Squishy24 days ago

That show/tag was for DVC not after hours

trainplane324 days ago

Very doubtful. I think they want everyone to forget about Harmonious. This shows already had more effort put in it for after hours events with it having anniversary tag ran as its' own show. With all lighting and fountains too.