Rumor: "Mystery Attraction" for Epcot in 2016?

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

I checked the date on this one to make sure it wasn't posted yesterday, but it's from today. 

 

From WDW News Today...

 

 

RUMOR: “Next-Gen Larger-Than-Life Mystery Attraction” Opening at Epcot in 2016?

Something BIG is coming to Epcot, and it will be here sooner than you think. Former Imagineer and now Disney consultant Jerry Rees recently updated his website bio to the following:
 

 

Jerry has Directed a record-setting 16 trans-media Disney Theme Park attractions in Anaheim, California; Orlando, Florida, Hong Kong and Paris, France. His projects span multiple formats, such as Showscan, Hi-Res Digital and in-theater illusions, and include the show “Cinemagique”which won a THEA Award for Best Attraction. His recent creation, “Animation Magic” which plays aboard Disney’s new cruise ships, won a THEA Award for “most innovative use of technology”. His 17th attraction is slated to open at EPCOT in 2016.

 

Meanwhile, on his resume…

 

"Mystery Attraction” / EPCOT -Next-gen larger-than-life interactive spectacle. Premiere planned for late 2015 or early 2016.

 

And then there’s these…

 

[http://www.jerryrees.com/page19/page19.html]

When I spoke to Jerry in late-2013 for a book project, he was actually just a few days away from leaving for Florida to work on the project. While he wouldn’t say too much about it, he claimed it was “very ambitious” and that he “couldn’t believe Disney is willing to invest in something like this”, leading us to believe the project is something the likes of which we have never seen before.

 

Nothing links this story to the Frozen attraction opening next spring (so you can rule that out and deem that this is a separate project), but there are two possible scenarios for what this attraction might be:

1. With Innoventions West closing at the end of the month, this could be the replacement for that attraction space; or Innoventions West could become the new Festival Center so Disney could put a new attraction in the Wonders of Life pavilion building.
2. Rees could be working on a brand new nighttime show for the park to replace IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.

Based on Rees description of the attraction as a “Next-gen larger-than-life interactive spectacle”, this sounds more like a nighttime show than an attraction, but it really could still be an attraction as opposed to entertainment. We just don’t know enough at this time and there aren’t any very strong rumors out there for what Disney might be up to.

 

Regardless, it is nice to see that Epcot will not be forgotten in all of the expansions of the other three WDW theme parks, with now a Frozen ride, Frozen meet and greet pavilion, and this “larger-than-life” mystery attraction” on the way by next year. Now if Disney would only tell us what it is…

 

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2015/04/rumor-next-gen-larger-than-life-mystery-attraction-opening-at-epcot-in-2016/

 

For more on the rumor on the closing of Innoventions West, check out this thread...

http://www.fortfiends.net/forum/topic/15183-rumor-innoventions-west-to-close/

[DaveInTN 3,247]

It could just be the updated Soarin' without specks on the film.  Technically, the orange scent makes it interactive.  

[Tri-Circle-D 2,059]

That's a pretty vague rumor.

 

I wonder if it's the new Norway ride- that's opening in 2016, isn't it?

 

TCD

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

It could just be the updated Soarin' without specks on the film.  Technically, the orange scent makes it interactive.  

 

I'm still waiting to be able to kick my feet in the water during the river scene.

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

That's a pretty vague rumor.

 

I wonder if it's the new Norway ride- that's opening in 2016, isn't it?

 

TCD

 

Maybe we're going to actually get to "Build a Snowman"

[AC in A2......Aaron 693]

Hogwash.