New walkway through World Celebration opens at EPCOT ahead of Connections Cafe's upcoming opening

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Thursday March 24, 2022 8:21am ET · "EPCOT"
New walkway through World Celebration opens at EPCOT ahead of Connections Cafe's upcoming opening
Guests can once again walk through the center of EPCOT.

A new walkway opened earlier this week at EPCOT, allowing guests to once again walk through the center of the park from the main entrance.



 

Watch the video below to take a POV walk along the new pathway. (4K YouTube).

The new walkway passes alongside Spaceship Earth, past guest relations, and in front of the upcoming Connections Cafe and new Creations Shop.

Taking this new path allows guests to get up close to one of the five entrances to Connections Cafe, which opens this spring.

The temporary backstage bypass behind guest relations and along the side of Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind is now closed.



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↩ replying to Bocabear
Right. It has stayed lit up during previous refurbishments, so this should be no different. This lighting package was planned for the 50th awhile ago, and SSE would currently be closed if not for the pandemic, so they definitely planned to light up a closed icon for the 50th.
New guide map for EPCOT includes changes to walkways, closure of the EPCOT Experience, and upcoming World Celebration dining
https://www.wdwmagic.com/other/maps/news/24mar2022-new-guide-map-for-epcot-includes-changes-to-walkways,-closure-of-the-epcot-experience,-and-upcoming-world-celebration-dining-.htm
↩ replying to wdwmagic
Thank You Steve!!!!
↩ replying to wdwmagic
So Connections Cafe and Connections Eatery are two separate dining areas within the building? Cafe would have Starbucks - which would allow the lines for people waiting just for Starbucks and the people ordering lunch, etc. to be separate.

I didn't know that, but that's good.
Was hoping the 'temporary' walkway would be permanent.
↩ replying to Texas84
For crowd flow, I don't think any park would want to give that sort of immediate access from the entrance gate to the brand new headliner attraction.

-Rob
↩ replying to Texas84
For a park so big its layout only adds to the amount of walking required to reach any given destination.
I really wish they would organize the map by pavilion
Say what you want about the overhaul, but it's incredible to have the '82 CommuniCore roofline back 🥲
↩ replying to DisneywithNick
This thread:
What was the date when the center spine got walled off? It is so embarrassing.
↩ replying to po1998
You mean before the construction was interrupted by a world wide pandemic?
↩ replying to MisterPenguin
At what point does Disney hand in their Get Out of Jail Free pandemic card? The walls at epcot have been up for over a year now since the parks have been open. It's incredibly lame that when guests arrive to this critical central area, they're greeted with walls everywhere they turn. Had they simply picked certain areas to work on at-a-time, this could have been all avoided. And, they could have walked back some of the bad decisions made too.

It's a lot like the freeway work they do on the interstate where they close 10's of miles of lanes and can only work on a small section. Riding the Walls stinks. Just like walking the walls at epcot does. It doesn't have to be this way.