Disney Files New Permit with Projection Dome Supplier for EPCOT's Test Track 3.0

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Wednesday July 31, 2024 3:15pm ET · "Test Track"
Disney Files New Permit with Projection Dome Supplier for EPCOT's Test Track 3.0

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Walt Disney Imagineering has filed another new construction permit for the Test Track 3.0 project at Walt Disney World's EPCOT.

This latest permit filing is with Spitz, a Disney vendor that previously worked with WDI on EPCOT's Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind project in World Discovery.

Although the permit does not specify the scope of the work beyond "Install set elements," Pennsylvania-based Spitz specializes in providing projection dome screens for planetariums and giant-screen cinemas.

As with previous permits for Test Track, the default 12-month expiration period has not been extended, suggesting that the reimagining project may be completed within a year.

We expect to hear more about the latest version of Test Track at the upcoming D23 event in California.

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↩ replying to Horizons '83
I totally get what you’re saying and all but this is a funny quote considering we’re talking about Test Track, the sponsored attraction that was delayed by two years originally
↩ replying to MisterPenguin
Counterpoint: the canopy is objectively ugly. Even if you don’t care for the base building, at worst it’s still fine looking.
↩ replying to wdwmagic
Ok, you have my attention.
↩ replying to wdwmagic
SPEED TUNNEL!!!!
↩ replying to Moth
Test & Trackious!
↩ replying to wdwmagic
The secondary marquee on the building itself has been removed.

Really want them to have a section where you watch clips from Tron surround your vehicle again, if anything just to make people who hated TT 2.0 mad
On the canopy.
Yes, it doesn't harm Test Track to the same extent a similar canopy would harm Haunted Mansion.
But that doesn't mean it doesn't generally hurt the aesthetics of Test Track.
The building is just generally better without it.
It's just clutter.
↩ replying to DreamfinderGuy
Please take Chevy with it.
↩ replying to wdwmagic
1440 AVENUE OF THE STARS(GM TEST TRACK) - Spitz Inc - Install Set Elements
↩ replying to Moth
Yeah if only Speed Tunnel meant enclosing the outdoor track. But I know it was said that’s not the plan.
↩ replying to TTA94
Close the outdoor portion of the track?
That's the best part.
An option to only enclose it during bad weather would be ideal. But we all know WDW won’t spend the money on that.
↩ replying to Incomudro
I don’t mind going outdoors at all, but I dislike the unobstructed backstage views. If they can mitigate that, I’m fine with whatever.