PHOTOS - The last of the original EPCOT Center signs replaced under Spaceship Earth at Gateway Gifts

Aug 26, 2020 in "Gateway Gifts"

New signage at Gateway Gifts

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New signage at Gateway Gifts

New signage at Gateway Gifts

New signage at Gateway Gifts

New signage at Gateway Gifts

New signage at Gateway Gifts

Posted: Wednesday August 26, 2020 11:04am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

One of the last surviving EPCOT Center signs has been removed and replaced under Spaceship Earth at Gateway Gifts.

The new style sign at Gateway Gifts

The new style sign at Gateway Gifts

The original sign lasted through several refurbishments, including the most recent earlier in the year.

The original Gateway Gifts sign

The original Gateway Gifts sign

The new style sign is part of the park's makeover, and matches the other new signage that is being installed throughout what is currently Future World.

New signage at Gateway Gifts

New signage at Gateway Gifts

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muddyrivers12 hours ago

I wish we knew who these people were and what has happened to them. Are they all actors? Truly random people (doubt it)? What became of the young child? How old did the old woman live to be?

lazyboy97o1 day ago

It was a programmatic, operational and experimental nightmare. But Iger wanted something to make the park look different designed by a starchitect like Mike had done.

JD801 day ago

The festival center in the concept art looked pretty but in actuality it would have obstructed views except those with corporate expense accounts and would have created traffic in that area.

Andrew C1 day ago

That’s what she said?

Mike S1 day ago

If it’s Andrew Wilson we might as well all turn in whatever’s left of our Disney Fan Cards. It will be an end no one here that doesn’t follow news about Electronic Arts can imagine.

lazyboy97o1 day ago

“They” would be DS+R… Even in concept design Disney requires at least a narrative report from a structural engineer. Concrete can be used to achieve slender structures. Post-tensioning in particular allows for thinner slabs.

MisterPenguin1 day ago

Need bigger screws.

HMF1 day ago

I am referring to the proposed "Festival Center" my sources tell me that the way they designed it was structurally impossible to build.

HMF1 day ago

I agree. The next CEO should be an outsider or we will just see more of the same.

lazyboy97o2 days ago

There was nothing physically impossible about the DS+R building. The whole purpose of building it was that it was an expensive showpiece.

Brian2 days ago

Stanchions are back.

Disgruntled Walt2 days ago

But Josh is part of the problem, too. So let's not delude ourselves...none of the possible CEO candidates fill me with hope for the future of the parks.

HMF2 days ago

Chapek was CEO at the time so he had to sign off on it.

Tha Realest2 days ago

Josh was WDW president in 18/19 when these plans were first developed, and Parks chairman in mid-2020 when they were adjusted to what we have now.

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