Imagineer Zach Riddley Shares Awesome Insights About NEW Spaceship Earth Projections
If you’ve been following along with MickeyBlog you’ll know that yesterday Disney World revealed the exciting details of their 50th Anniversary Celebration on Good Morning America! The fantastic festivities paying tribute to a half a century of Disney magic will officially kick off on October 1, 2021 and will run for an impressive 18 months!
We were so excited to hear that the celebration will span the length and breadth of Walt Disney World including all four theme parks. One of the highlights that has us pretty excited is that Spaceship Earth will be getting a brand new evening light display and that it will remain a permanent fixture at the theme parks.
Though Disney did release a few artists concepts showing the form this nighttime illuminations might take, they didn’t reveal too many details! However, Imagineer Zach Riddley took to Instagram (and if you aren’t following his Instagram account you definitely should) to share a few additional insights. Let’s take a look:
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In his post Riddley confirmed. that the dazzling, permanent new programmable lighting system will continue to live on as a defining feature at EPCOT.
“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,” Riddley wrote. ” 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.”
Riddley shared a few images of Spaceship Earth in his post providing us with insights into what the finished display will look like. It incorporates the hues in Disney World’s 50th Anniversary Earidescent colorway including jewel tones of teal, purple, and shimmery blue. Imagineers created special lighting features that actually emerge from Spaceship Earth’s unique architecture. This allows the colors to shine across Spaceship Earth’s silver panels and connect with one another. This gives the effect of shimmering stars in the nighttime sky.
This is such a massive change as Spaceship Earth has kept her classic lighting design for almost 40 years. But Riddley also wrote that the legacy team is keen to preserve the lighting and the feeling of the original. Riddley informs us, that the 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.”
That sounds absolutely exquisite and we here at MickeyBlog are counting down the days until we get to experience this stunning new element of EPCOT as it continues to be reimagined for future visitors!
This is a story that we’ll continue to follow along with here at MickeyBlog. Readers are encouraged to keep checking back with us for further news and updates as well as other ways Disney World will be celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary!
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