More details released on new Spaceship Earth lighting at EPCOT

Soon after Walt Disney World announced its 50th anniversary plans, including how each of the four theme park’s icon will transform into “Beacons of Magic” at night, Walt Disney World Site Portfolio Executive  Zach Riddley released some additional information on Instagram.

“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,” Riddley wrote.

The new lights will shine across the reflective panels of Spaceship Earth. The EPCOT icon is a unique structure, according to Riddley, 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.”

At the heart of the new visual experience focuses on “when we embrace the power of imagination and humanity’s ability to make impossible things reality when we work together. We are all connected,” Riddley said. “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.”