New parking lot names, signage, and auto plaza marquee coming to EPCOT

Jan 20, 2023 in "EPCOT"

Posted: Friday January 20, 2023 8:34am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

EPCOT will have new parking lot names beginning this week, divided into "Earth" and "Space."


On the Space side, the sections will be Wall-E, Eve, Rocket and Gamora. On the Earth side, Moana, Heihei, Crush and Dory. The new names, based on Disney movies, are quite the departure from the classic EPCOT themes of "Discover," "Wonder," and "Imagine."

In addition to the new parking lot names, a new auto-plaza marquee will be installed in the coming weeks.

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UNCgolf3 hours ago

Sounds like Disney handled things Augusta National style. Wish they'd do that more often!

marni19714 hours ago

There may not have been much to see when the park opened 👋

Andrew255 hours ago

Unless the damage was minor, surprised nobody noticed it. The protective guardrail at the DHS parking entrance is still not repaired from the incident a year ago lol

marni19716 hours ago

The new member is not wrong. That’s all I can say.

HauntedPirate6 hours ago

Lying around like what? I didn't think they kept those in stock anymore. :cautious:

Brian1 day ago

I can't speak to the validity of that member's claim, but I suspect it would be difficult to procure a parking booth in a matter of days, and it's not like they just have them lying around like lightbulbs.

SplashJacket1 day ago

Florida man: 1 Epcot: 0

wdwmagic1 day ago

Wow no I didn’t know that. Expected this was the first in a complete replacement.

ren 34681 day ago

You perhaps don't know this has nothing to do with a refurb. That kiosk was taken out a couple nights ago by a car.

Andrew251 day ago

Issue with Epcot is that they tend to close off a decent amount of parking for the RunDisney events, so they are forced to park people there. Considering that Disability parking is at capacity any given day, surprised to see they haven't converted that grass lot until additional parking space for Disability.

Cmdr_Crimson1 day ago

Has it ever come to a point where they park in grass at MK, AK or DHS? I've seen it happen several times at Epcot by the bus dropoff area but, hardly there or are those lots much bigger?

Biff2151 day ago

Just about to say the same thing. Disney doesn’t need a parking garage to pack them into Epcot, they’ll even use the grass when there’s demand for it.

Horizonsfan2 days ago

That’s….not how any of that works.

John park hopper2 days ago

Increased parking fees will be the next upgrade