We’re Getting Worried About This Practically ABANDONED Building in EPCOT

We have a serious fascination with abandoned areas at Disney World, and another spot has caught our attention!

Spaceship Earth at EPCOT

When you think about it, Disney World is full of abandoned things from restaurants, to attractions, to hotels. With that list growing larger, it’s hard not to worry about a once popular spot turned practically vacant.

Walking around the Disney World parks and hotels every day will get you very acquainted with everything… and we mean everything… there is to see around you. We’re trained to look at it all from the big picture to the smallest details and any change in between. When we started noticing a decline in one particular area of EPCOT, we have to say it started to raise a few alarms for us.

Imagination Pavilion

If you’ve ever ventured past The Land and up the walkway by the jumping fountains, you’ve probably taken notice of the Disney & Pixar Short Films Festival that plays intermittently just inside the building on the hill. If you’re still scratching your head at where we’re talking about, you can find it just up the stairs as you’re exiting ImageWorks from Journey Into Imagination with Figment.

Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival

This show is made up of various Pixar shorts that typically play before the feature film they accompany and have grown in popularity to even have their own titles to stream on Disney+. During the show, you’ll sit in a theater to view a handful of shorts that have been crafted together while the theater seats move along to various parts of the film on the screen. This is also the same theater where Captain EO staring Michael Jackson once played in the park.

All the shorts

During Disney’s 100 Years of Wonder celebration, visitors may have gotten a surprise as they entered the building because both Mickey and Minnie were using the front waiting area as a meet and greet location decked out in their platinum anniversary outfits. While that celebration ran for just a little over a year, the meet and greet with the dynamic duo continued on for several more months while we all waited for their next permanent spot to be completed at the Mickey & Friends area of CommuniCore Hall.

Mickey and Minnie meeting in the Imagination Pavilion

Since the characters have moved over, the meet and greet spot has sat mostly abandoned, however, we did spot Donald and Daisy meeting there recently just to try it out.

Hey, you two!

But… other than a chance meet and greet with another great pair of characters and the enjoyable Disney & Pixar shorts, there’s just not much up there in the huge building. Sure, the Pixar shorts to see on the big screen, and we realize not everyone has a subscription to Disney+, but admittedly we could see Disney phasing this version of the attraction out soon thanks to the stream-ability of the same films.

To further our argument, we’re even turning our attention to the ImageWorks area of the Imagination pavilion. This serves as the exit for an attraction but with the former character meet and greets with Joy and Vanellope dwindling down to just a meet and greet with Figment…

Figment

…an almost ghost-town of an area to super impose yourself into Disney themed photos, and a gift shop (it’s a Disney World ride, duh)!

ImageWorks gift shop

There’s just not a whole lot going on in this area either. We could totally see the upstairs member lounge of Disney Vacation Club look to expand their area into one of these previously mentioned spaces should Disney World decide to do something more immediate with minimal work.

DVC Lounge in EPCOT

It seems though only time (and possibly attendance) will tell. Who knows — we could get some big news at the upcoming D23 The Ultimate Disney Fan Event that could very well hint at more EPCOT changes in the future.

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