Land Changelog // updated 2025.07.22
EPCOT · Walt Disney World
Reopened as Test Track presented by General Motors (3.0), a World of Motion-inspired retheme; added new scenes including a House of the Future, a forest drive, and a futuristic projection dome with an all-new musical score, while the SimCar design-your-own-vehicle concept was removed. The building and outdoor high-speed loop were retained.
Retired its virtual-queue requirement and opened a conventional standby line for the first time, ending the longest-running virtual queue in Walt Disney World history (~1,005 days); Lightning Lane Single Pass remained available.
Closed for an extended roughly 13-month reimagining (announced at D23 in September 2023), retiring the Chevrolet-sponsored 2.0 design-studio version after more than eleven years.
Disney announced that EPCOT's multi-year reimagining was complete following the opening of CommuniCore Hall, without building the PLAY! Pavilion it had announced in 2019 for the former Wonders of Life building.
Disney said it was reevaluating the PLAY! Pavilion concept and removed all mention of it from Epcot park maps, leaving the former Wonders of Life building standing but closed to guests.
Disney removed all mention of the PLAY! pavilion from EPCOT park maps and said the concept was being reevaluated, leaving the former Sensory Funhouse building with no announced future.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind opened on the pavilion site on May 27, 2022, reusing the Universe of Energy show building for its queue and pre-show while the coaster itself runs in a new building constructed behind it.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind opened at EPCOT as EPCOT's first roller coaster and Disney's first reverse-launch coaster, anchoring the Wonders of Xandar pavilion in the former Universe of Energy building.
Disney announced the Play! Pavilion for the former Wonders of Life building, but construction halted in 2020, Play! was removed from EPCOT guide maps in January 2023, and the building still stands unused with no announced successor.
Disney announced a new interactive pavilion, later called PLAY!, for the dome that had housed Sensory Funhouse, described as an interactive city of games and hands-on activities.
Disney announced a new PLAY! pavilion for the former Wonders of Life building, a project later dropped, leaving the theater site with no announced successor.
Disney announced a PLAY! Pavilion for the vacant Wonders of Life building; the project was later delayed indefinitely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disney announced a Play! pavilion for the vacant Wonders of Life dome, but the project was delayed and later dropped from park maps, leaving no successor attraction on the site.
A site report found the Cranium Command theater still largely intact eleven years after closing, with the Buzzy figure in place under a lit spotlight.
Reopened from refurbishment with the Green mission re-themed from Mars to a new Earth-orbit film, the Orange mission's Mars film updated to HD, and a new pre-show in which Gina Torres replaced Gary Sinise as CAPCOM; the Green side's minimum height was lowered to 40 inches via booster seats.
Ellen's Energy Adventure ran its last day of operation on August 13, 2017 and the Universe of Energy pavilion closed permanently after nearly 35 years.
Disney announced at D23 Expo 2017 on July 15, 2017 that a Guardians of the Galaxy attraction would replace Ellen's Energy Adventure in Future World, and confirmed the existing attraction would close on August 13, 2017.
The four Body Wars simulators were dismantled and removed from the shuttered ride building, which by then served as Epcot's seasonal Festival Center.
Reopened as Test Track 2.0 presented by Chevrolet after an April 2012 closure; the retheme added a Chevrolet Design Center pre-show where guests design a virtual SimCar, replaced the show scenes with a neon TRON-style 'SimTrack' and a new score, and restructured the experience around four tests (capability, efficiency, responsiveness, power). The track layout and ride vehicles were retained.
The pavilion reopened on March 28, 2009 after a refurbishment that refreshed numerous scenes in the dinosaur diorama, upgraded the audio systems and updated the computer systems that operated the attraction.
Most of the exhibits still standing inside the former pavilion were removed, along with the 'Celebrate the Joy of Life' sign at the entrance.
Most of the pavilion's remaining exhibits were removed during the year, along with the "Celebrate the Joy of Life" sign, and the interior was repainted in muted whites and light greens.
The former Making of Me theater screened Seasons of the Vine during the International Food & Wine Festival from 2008 through 2018 and ran as The Garden Theatre during the Flower & Garden Festival, while the pavilion served as Epcot's Festival Center from 2007 to 2018.
Cranium Command closed permanently when the Wonders of Life pavilion locked its doors at the end of the holiday run.
Goofy About Health closed permanently along with the rest of the Wonders of Life pavilion, ending a run of just over seventeen years.
The Making of Me screened for the last time and closed permanently when the Wonders of Life pavilion locked its doors on New Year's Day 2007.
Wonders of Life operated the last day of its holiday run and never reopened, permanently retiring Body Wars, Cranium Command, The Making of Me, Goofy About Health and the Fitness Fairgrounds.
Body Wars ran for the last time on January 1, 2007, when the Wonders of Life pavilion closed at the end of its holiday-season run and never reopened.
Coach's Corner closed permanently when the Wonders of Life pavilion locked its doors on New Year's Day 2007 and never reopened to guests.
The Fitness Fairgrounds closed permanently on New Year's Day 2007 when the Wonders of Life pavilion locked its doors for the last time.
Frontiers of Medicine closed permanently when the Wonders of Life pavilion shut its doors for the last time, with no official reason given by Disney.
Sensory Funhouse closed permanently when the Wonders of Life pavilion ended its final seasonal run on January 1, 2007 and never reopened.
The Wonders of Life pavilion, on seasonal-only operation since January 2004, closed permanently on January 1, 2007, retiring the building that had housed the AnaComical Players Theater.
Wonder Cycles closed permanently when the Wonders of Life pavilion locked its doors on New Year's Day 2007 and never reopened as an attraction.
The vacated pavilion was repurposed as EPCOT's seasonal festival center for the Flower and Garden and Food & Wine festivals, while the Cranium Command theater stayed shut behind it.
Disney repurposed the empty dome as EPCOT's Festival Center, hosting Flower and Garden Festival and Food and Wine Festival seminars, films and merchandise instead of a standing attraction.
The vacated dome was reused as Epcot's seasonal Festival Center for the Flower & Garden and Food & Wine festivals from 2007 to 2018.
The golden dome was repurposed as EPCOT's Festival Center for the Flower & Garden and Food & Wine festivals, and no new attraction took over the Fitness Fairgrounds floor.
The golden dome began a new role as EPCOT's Festival Center for the Flower and Garden and Food & Wine festivals, with temporary walls placed around the shuttered attractions including Sensory Funhouse.
Cranium Command reopened with the Wonders of Life pavilion for what proved to be its final seasonal run.
The pavilion reopened for what proved to be its final seasonal run, playing The Making of Me over the 2006 holiday period.
The pavilion opened for what became its final seasonal run, beginning November 26, 2006.
The Wonders of Life pavilion opened for what proved to be its final operating phase, running November 26, 2006 through January 1, 2007.
The Wonders of Life pavilion opened for the 2006 Christmas season, which became its final operating run.
Added a non-spinning, less-intense 'Green Team' option alongside the original spinning 'Orange Team,' giving guests two selectable intensity levels of the same Mars mission.
The pavilion stayed closed through Epcot's busy 2006 Easter period, prompting reports it had shut permanently, then reopened for the 2006 Christmas season.
The Wonders of Life pavilion shifted to seasonal-only operation, so The Making of Me ran only during selected peak periods rather than daily.
The Wonders of Life pavilion and Body Wars with it moved to seasonal-only operation, running for limited stretches of the year instead of daily.
Disney cut the Wonders of Life pavilion to seasonal operation on January 4, 2004, leaving Coach's Corner available only on the days the pavilion opened.
Disney moved the Wonders of Life pavilion to seasonal operation, so the Fitness Fairgrounds was open to guests on only a limited number of days each year.
Disney moved the Wonders of Life pavilion to seasonal-only operation, leaving Sensory Funhouse open to guests during peak periods only.
The Wonders of Life pavilion switched to seasonal-only operation, so Cranium Command ran only during periods when EPCOT needed extra guest capacity.
Disney cut Wonders of Life back to seasonal operation, opening the pavilion for peak spring and holiday periods rather than daily.
The Wonders of Life pavilion switched to seasonal operation, so Goofy About Health was available only during high-attendance periods.
Disney cut the Wonders of Life pavilion back to seasonal operation, opening it only when the park was projected to approach capacity in the spring and Christmas seasons, so Frontiers of Medicine was reachable only on those days.
The Wonders of Life pavilion dropped from daily operation to seasonal-only operation, so Wonder Cycles ran only during peak periods.
ExxonMobil ended its 22-year sponsorship of the pavilion in 2004, after which all references to the company were removed from the signage and the show.
Opened at EPCOT in the former Horizons pavilion, debuting a centrifuge-based motion simulator themed to a crewed launch to Mars, with a pre-show hosted by Gary Sinise as CAPCOM.
Mission: SPACE celebrated its grand opening on the former Horizons site after soft-opening earlier in 2003.
MetLife ended its sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion, leaving the building without a sponsor while Cranium Command itself ran unchanged.
MetLife ended its sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion, and Goofy About Health continued to operate.
MetLife ended its sponsorship of the pavilion after nearly twelve years, leaving Wonders of Life without a corporate underwriter while its attractions kept operating.
MetLife ended its sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion in June 2001, after nearly twelve years.
MetLife ended its sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion in June 2001, leaving the building that housed Coach's Corner without a sponsor.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ended its sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion, and the pavilion never took on a replacement sponsor.
MetLife ended its sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion, leaving Frontiers of Medicine and the rest of the pavilion unsponsored.
MetLife ended its sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion, leaving Wonder Cycles and the rest of the building without a corporate backer.
MetLife's sponsorship of the Wonders of Life pavilion ended by June 2001, leaving the pavilion and its attractions without a corporate backer.
The pavilion's original entrance marquees were replaced in 2001 with new signage carrying the sponsor's post-merger name, ExxonMobil.
The AnaComical Players gave their last show in August 2000, while the rest of the Wonders of Life pavilion continued to operate.
The Horizons show building was emptied and demolished during 2000, clearing the site entirely.
The AnaComical Players stopped performing, ending the improvisational skit show staged in the Fairgrounds' 100-seat AnaComical Theatre.
Opened as Test Track presented by General Motors, replacing the retired World of Motion (closed January 1996); the GM-themed dark ride simulated automotive proving-ground tests and ended on a high-speed outdoor loop reaching about 65 mph, the fastest Disney ride of its time.
Test Track opened inside the retained World of Motion show building, soft-opening on December 19, 1998 and officially opening on March 17, 1999 after testing delays.
Test Track officially opened in the same pavilion on March 17, 1999 with The Assembly Experience, a new walk-through post-show, in the role the TransCenter had filled.
Horizons closed permanently after its final day of operation.
The pavilion reopened on September 15, 1996 with a rewritten show titled Ellen's Energy Crisis, immediately renamed Ellen's Energy Adventure, starring Ellen DeGeneres with Bill Nye, Jamie Lee Curtis and Alex Trebek, keeping the dinosaur diorama, the traveling theater cars and the ride's layout while replacing everything else.
The refurbished pavilion reopened temporarily on June 14, 1996 to help handle the park's busy summer crowds, then closed again on September 2, 1996 so the new films could be installed.
The original Universe of Energy show closed on January 21, 1996 so the pavilion could be rebuilt around an all-new presentation.
World of Motion closed permanently on January 2, 1996 after just over thirteen years of operation.
The TransCenter closed with World of Motion when the pavilion shut to guests on January 2, 1996.
Everything inside the pavilion's ride building was removed after the closure, and interior construction for Test Track began in the spring of 1996.
Horizons reopened, still unsponsored, ahead of neighboring Future World attractions closing for refurbishment.
In November 1995 Epcot announced that World of Motion would close and be transformed into a new attraction called Test Track.
EPCOT announced in November 1995 that World of Motion, the pavilion housing the TransCenter, would be transformed into a new General Motors attraction called Test Track.
Horizons went dark in December 1994 with no public explanation from Disney, beginning a closure that lasted about a year.
General Electric's sponsorship contract for Horizons expired and the attraction continued without a corporate sponsor.
General Motors' long-term sponsorship contract for World of Motion lapsed in 1992, after which the company agreed only to one-year renewals for the attraction.
The Making of Me, a 16-minute film about conception and birth directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Martin Short, opened in the pavilion's theater eleven days after the pavilion itself.
Cranium Command opened as a 200-seat Audio-Animatronic and film show inside EPCOT Center's new Wonders of Life pavilion, sponsored by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Goofy About Health opened with the MetLife-sponsored Wonders of Life pavilion in Future World at EPCOT Center.
The Wonders of Life pavilion, sponsored by MetLife, opened in Future World at EPCOT Center alongside Body Wars and Cranium Command.
Wonders of Life opened at EPCOT Center as a health and human-body pavilion presented by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, anchored by the Body Wars motion simulator and the Cranium Command theater show.
Body Wars opened inside the new Wonders of Life pavilion at EPCOT Center, sending guests on a miniaturized trip through the human bloodstream aboard four 40-passenger motion simulators.
Coach's Corner opened with the Wonders of Life pavilion, which debuted at EPCOT Center on October 19, 1989, and let guests swing a bat while a professional athlete's video coaching critiqued their form.
Fitness Fairgrounds opened as the interactive exhibit area under the dome of the MetLife-sponsored Wonders of Life pavilion when the pavilion opened to the public at EPCOT Center.
Frontiers of Medicine opened with the MetLife-sponsored Wonders of Life pavilion in Future World East as a walkthrough multimedia attraction whose videodisc topic stations, worked with telephone handsets, told fifteen stories of lives changed or saved by breakthrough medicine.
Sensory Funhouse, a hands-on exhibit that tested guests' senses and included a forced-perspective Ames room, opened inside the Wonders of Life pavilion when the pavilion opened to the general public at EPCOT Center.
The MetLife-sponsored Wonders of Life pavilion opened in Future World East housing Wonder Cycles, stationary bicycles with attached televisions whose video tours played faster the harder guests pedaled.
The Making of Me, a 16-minute film about conception and birth directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Martin Short, opened in the Wonders of Life pavilion theater.
The show ran eight minutes on seven screens set in a cartoon cityscape, cutting clips from around two dozen classic Goofy shorts into a story about Goofy giving up his unhealthy habits, including the song "Unhealthy Living Blues".
The AnaComical Players began performing improvised health-and-nutrition comedy sketches, staged with three performers and one volunteer pulled from the audience, at the AnaComical Players Theater inside EPCOT Center's Wonders of Life pavilion.
Disney publicly announced the Wonders of Life pavilion that would house Frontiers of Medicine, with construction to begin the following month.
Horizons opened at EPCOT Center as part of the park's Phase II expansion, sponsored by General Electric.
World of Motion opened on October 1, 1982 as an opening-day attraction of EPCOT Center, presented by General Motors, carrying guests in four-to-six-person Omnimover vehicles through Audio-Animatronic scenes tracing the history of transportation.
The TransCenter opened as the walk-through General Motors exhibit hall at the exit of World of Motion, the Future World pavilion that debuted with EPCOT Center on October 1, 1982.
The Universe of Energy pavilion opened with EPCOT Center on October 1, 1982, sponsored by Exxon, pairing large-format films with battery-powered traveling theater cars that carried guests through a primeval diorama of audio-animatronic dinosaurs.
Riders disembarked from the ride into the TransCenter, an interactive post-show exhibit area about products and concept vehicles in development by General Motors.
Designed by Bob Rogers and BRC Imagination Arts, the TransCenter housed the animatronic show The Bird and the Robot, the Water Engine show, the Aerotest exhibit on airflow and fuel economy, a replica wind tunnel, and the Dreamer's Workshop displaying General Motors prototypes such as the Lean Machine.
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