A day after Disney announced a new, permanent lighting package for Spaceship Earth, Imagineer Zach Riddley has shared more about the project.
EPCOT is a park about the best of us – what is possible when we embrace the power of imagination and humanity’s ability to make impossible things reality when we work together. We are all connected. That is the theme and the expression at the heart of our work across EPCOT and at the heart of this stellar new visual experience coming soon to Spaceship Earth.
Spaceship Earth is a unique structure recognized around the world. To honor this idea, our Imagineers have created custom lighting features that literally emerge from her unique architecture. These features will shine across Spaceship Earth’s silver panels and “connect” with one another, resembling shimmering stars in a nighttime sky.
Spaceship Earth has maintained her classic multi-color lighting design for nearly 40 years – a legacy the team working on this project are keen to preserve. Her classic look will be maintained and accentuated through new colors and intensity in programmed expressions that extend into the new main entrance fountain and the entire World Celebration area that continues to take shape before our eyes.
We can’t wait to reveal more of the technical innovative and artistry going into this new experience and the team behind the scenes turning imagination into reality.
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So exciting! I wish I could be there for the anniversary. I was there for the 25th–eons ago–when they changed Cinderella’s castle into a giant pink birthday cake. Way to ruin the castle Disney. But this looks far more spectacular. I can’t wait to see the pictures. If it weren’t for this stupid virus, I’d be going for sure. But this hyperactive, over-sensitive, germaphobic Coloradan just won’t be able to go. Sob! Does anyone know how long the celebrations will last? Maybe I can go later in the season.
It’ll last 18 months!
https://blogmickey.com/2021/02/disney-world-50th-anniversary-to-last-18-months-kicks-off-october-1-2021/