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Posted: Friday October 25, 2019 11:57am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Demolition is well underway on Epcot's Fountain of Nations, with much of the structure now removed.

Fountain of Nations demolition

Demolition crews have been onsite for much of the month preparing the site, which will eventually see the removal of the closed Club Cool, Character Spot and the former Innoventions.

Fountain of Nations demolition

The site is being cleared ahead of work on the redevelopment of the center of Epcot.

Fountain of Nations demolition

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Skibum197014 hours ago

While not trying to be snippy, it was a weird comment. Roy Disney died in 2009 (17 years ago) and I cannot think of any other relevant deaths (relevant to this conversation). Oh well, yay Epcot and it's big redo.

HauntedPirate1 day ago

Even in 1982, Walt had died 16 years prior.

Skibum19701 day ago

I was in the same camp. Who died 12 years ago?

HauntedPirate1 day ago

I'm just wondering who has been dead for 12 years and who has been dead for 55 years. Walt didn't fit the former in 1982 and only fit the latter in 2021, before this was done.

MisterPenguin1 day ago

Would that be 43 years?

Fido Chuckwagon1 day ago

Eh, there’s a difference between a statue of a guy who’s been dead for 12 years and a guy who’s been dead for 55 years.

HMF1 day ago

I have very mixed feelings about the fact that there is a Walt Disney statue considering they could have easily put one there in 1982 and decided not to. The deification of Walt as some sort of corporate mascot and the implication that he would automatically approve of what his namesake company does these days just rubs me the wrong way, never mind the fact that EPCOT is supposed to be about the achievements of mankind not just one man.

Bocabear1 day ago

Agreed!! and the stream would truly be poetic

Skibum19701 day ago

I wish that they would have incorporated a stream that started at the Walt Disney statue and that would flow with occasional small falls until it ran into a new fountain area like FoN. Nothing about this redo makes any sense to me.

ChrisFL1 day ago

yes, but they could rebuild it. If they're not worried about being super original with the style they could even 3D print it....assuming they still have the plans somewhere.

HMF2 days ago

Wasn't the rest of the model scrapped when it left Disneyland?

ChrisFL2 days ago

They could even make this model complete again like it was when it was in Disneyland.

MickeyMania262 days ago

years ago even before the Millenium Village they toyed with the idea of a "black box" pavilion where the countries would change out from time to time.

Nickm20222 days ago

my pitch would be add a small fountain to the middle area (as this was the original plan before the covid cuts) and put in normal lake fountains near odyssey and imagination in addition just arm chair imaginnerring ive always felt the EPCOT model in peoplemover should be moved to the odyssey an that become a history of epcot kinda space where we can actually have more then 5 seconds to look at the model, or even a temporary country pavillion that rotates themes