Center barge arrives in World Showcase Lagoon, completing the new hardware for Luminous

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Luminous the Symphony of Us center barge - December 4 2023

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Posted: Monday December 4, 2023 4:!5pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The team working on EPCOT's new nighttime spectacular Luminous reached another milestone recently as the final piece of hardware for the new show made it out to World Showcase Lagoon.

Luminous the Symphony of Us center barge - December 4 2023

The center barge fits in the center of the hexagon, surrounded by the six large barges we have seen over the last few months. It contains more lighting and pyro technic platforms and will be featured in the show's finale.

Luminous the Symphony of Us center barge - December 4 2023

The center barge construction began very late in the process and has only been part of rehearsals for a handful of test runs.

Luminous the Symphony of Us center barge - December 4 2023

This morning, crews were still working on the center barge ahead of a final run-through after-hours this evening, ahead of tomorrow's, December 5, debut of Luminous - The Symphony of Us.

Luminous the Symphony of Us center barge - December 4 2023

Unlike Harmonious, all of the Luminous barges will be taken backstage each night and brought back into the lagoon in the late afternoon for the evening performance.

Luminous the Symphony of Us center barge - December 4 2023

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TheMaxRebo11 hours ago

As someone who didn't care for Luminous it brought down that whole special to me 😂

Bocabear11 hours ago

That filming was gorgeous...and the show looks amazing! Wow!!

Epcot82Guy12 hours ago

The little details in this show are really great. Not quite I:ROE symbolism, but absolutely cut from a similar cloth. Watching the color swaps and combos in You'll be in my Heart. The fountain motion and shapes in many scenes. The luminary fountains in Remember Me. There's a lot to really like here if you pay attention to it.

osian12 hours ago

Wonderful, thank you for posting that. Still stunned as to how clever Beating of our Hearts is. So many tricks, completly synchronised to the music and the lyrics, the pyro etc are a visual interpretation of the song. Love the syncopation in the two choruses where it goes "feel it in the beat ".

Chef idea Mickey`=22 hours ago

Awesome! Thank You Great timing haha .. Aside from Cliffix this is stellar I'm hooked!

Sthebest23 hours ago

Someone is doing a premiere of a video edit of the show in a min if anyone is interested. He films a lot of the nighttime shows really well.

gerarar1 day ago

There was a complete failure of the center barge a couple months ago. First time and only recorded one I have seen thus far. But it is rare. The tech crews absolutely deserve everything for how they work hard everyday to put on the show come nighttime.

Vinnie Mac1 day ago

Given how impressive and new that effect in the center barge is im shocked at how long it took to not function for a show. Maintenance crews must work really hard

Epcot82Guy2 days ago

It was in B mode (no perimeter launches) tonight and felt a little sparse. But mostly what is expected in that mode. So I hope that was a one-off.

Starship8243 days ago

That's unfortunate, hopefully it was just a one off and doesn't become common.

Brian3 days ago

Shameful. The show should not have gone on in that condition.

gerarar3 days ago

Luminous had some major technical issues the other night. Besides the planned B-mode for the lagoon perimeters, only 2 of the 6 big barges were working. Majority of the pyro was missing/cut either due to tech issues during the show A lot of the big shells shoot off from the 6 big barges, so if some of them are offline, it's easy to notice the gaps in the various pyro sequences. The center barge was also only partially working too, which made for a weird effect as seen here: Hard to track down when this happened, but my best guess is this past Sunday night (7/21).

GhostHost10003 days ago

well I guess they couldn't exactly showcase Commicore Hall as an epic transformation

Starship8243 days ago

The Epcot transformation special should have been called "The making of 'Luminous: The Symphony of Us' ft. all the other stuff" cause that's basically what it was. I'm not complaining though, I thought it was really cool and I loved the Luminous stuff.