Inside the Reopening of CommuniCore Hall at EPCOT
After three years of construction, EPCOT's central pavilion welcomes its first guests. We tour every inch with the lead Imagineer.
There's a moment, walking into the new CommuniCore Hall for the first time, where the scale of the room simply doesn't compute. The ceiling is too tall. The light is wrong. The reflections off the new terrazzo floors create the unsettling illusion that the pavilion is somehow larger on the inside.
That, lead Imagineer Zach Riddley explains, is the point.
Marcus has covered the Disney Parks industry for over a decade, with a focus on Imagineering and capital projects.
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