Video: Making the model for Walt Disney statue at new Dreamers Point

When Dreamers Point opens next year in EPCOT it will have a new statue of Walt Disney.

Here’s a video of Imagineer Scott Goddard sculpting what would later bed the model for this full-size bronze sculpture. The new statue will be part of the new World Celebration Neighborhood in EPCOT. In addition to the statue, there will be lush gardens, a wishing tree, a new interactive fountain.

Disney Imagineer Zach Riddley shared on his Instagram account the video.

“The statue of Walt Disney shows him at the time of his life when he was dreaming up EPCOT and the overall Florida Project. He’s older, positioned as one of us, sitting at Dreamers Point off axis, looking out at the park he never saw in person but created in spirit,” Riddley wrote.

“Walt founded WED Enterprises – later known as Walt Disney Imagineering – to create reality from dreams. We continue his legacy through work like the EPCOT transformation and in commitment to craft from artists like Scott,” he wrote.