Spaceship Earth at EPCOT closing for brief refurbishment in July

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Friday July 14, 2023 6:38pm ET · "Spaceship Earth"

According to the Walt Disney World operating calendar, Spaceship Earth at EPCOT will be closed Wednesday July 19, reopening to guests on July 20, 2023.

Disney has not provided any details on the closure, but the short notice and brief downtime suggests some type of urgent maintenance.

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Anyone know what a quick refurb like this entails?
A day? This ride needs a complete year long update and modernisation overhaul. It's a dusty dated mess.
Look, it takes a day to oil the track with this thing, ok?
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Finally the long awaited refurbishment! Cant wait for the new scenes they promised, will be there July 20th to check it out 👍
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Hope this means we'll finally get to see the paper boy's face! /s
SSE is gonna be closed……thank the Phoenicians.
↩ replying to AndyS2992
Added something - (spend the money/take the hit) Josh it will be OK
No complaints. This sounds like way too short of a time to ruin anything.
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Yeah, it's kind of amazing that despite everything they've done to the ride (or haven't done, in terms of maintenance), it's still the best attraction at EPCOT and one of the best at WDW overall.
I wonder how much longer they can put off the big refurb. The track is clunky and noisy.
Let's all hope it isn't to fix the AC at the top. That's where I go to do my hot yoga during my WDW vacations.
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Dust off the cobwebs
General maint that cant be put off due to safety and semi reliability. They have no interest in doing anything else until they decide what to do with it going forward.
You know, honestly I'm glad they don't do anything with it.
I'll take it in all it's dusty dated glory.
Because, the alternative... far worse if the stick with the normal playbook.
So, do we know if anything changed or why the ride was closed?