Former Show // latest change 2024.06.10
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Also known as Innoventions: The Road to Tomorrow, Innoventions East, Innoventions West.
This show is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
CommuniCore Hall and CommuniCore Plaza opened to the general public on June 10, 2024 on part of the former Innoventions site, while the East building had been repurposed as Connections Eatery and Connections Cafe.
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Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana opened on October 16, 2023 on the cleared northwest portion of the Innoventions West site.
Demolition crews were tearing into the Innoventions West structure by October 2020, clearing its northwest section for a new attraction.
Innoventions East operated its final day on September 7, 2019 and closed for good the next morning, ending the complex's 25-year run with its last exhibits, Colortopia and Take a Nanooze Break.
The SpectacuLAB, a live science-demonstration show presented by Murata and Science From Scientists, opened in Innoventions East next to Colortopia in November 2017.
A Walt Disney World spokeswoman confirmed on September 13, 2016 that The Sum of All Thrills and StormStruck had closed for good, leaving Colortopia as the only remaining occupant of Innoventions East.
Colortopia, presented by Glidden, opened in Innoventions East in November 2015 with a Ty Burrell-narrated theater segment, a color lab and an interactive painting station.
Innoventions West closed on April 30, 2015 after a final operating day of April 29, and the overhaul Disney had described as temporary never happened.
In March 2015 Disney confirmed that Innoventions West's remaining exhibits - The Great Piggy Bank Adventure, Think presented by IBM and Where's the Fire? presented by Liberty Mutual - would end their runs and that the hall would close.
The Sum of All Thrills, presented by Raytheon, opened in Innoventions East on October 14, 2009, letting guests design a coaster, bobsled or jet run at a touch table and then ride it on a KUKA robotic-arm simulator.
The Great Piggy Bank Adventure, presented by T. Rowe Price, opened inside Innoventions West on May 19, 2009.
StormStruck, a 4-D weather-safety show presented by the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, opened in Innoventions East in August 2008.
A 2007-2008 renovation dropped the 'Road to Tomorrow' subtitle, changed the complex's aesthetic and retired Tom Morrow 2.0, the Audio-Animatronic host voiced by Max Casella who had greeted guests since 2000.
General Electric and General Motors, sponsors of Innoventions East since opening day, ended their exhibits in June 1999.
Innoventions was rebuilt for Epcot's Millennium Celebration and took the subtitle 'The Road to Tomorrow,' with the East building's exhibits marked by green highway signs and the West building's by blue.
Innoventions opened on July 1, 1994 in the twin former CommuniCore buildings as Innoventions East and Innoventions West, a walk-through showcase of emerging technology with hands-on sponsor exhibits from General Electric, General Motors and Honeywell.
Per the documented record, Innoventions at EPCOT opened on Jul 1, 1994.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Innoventions is dated Sep 7, 2019: Innoventions East operated its final day on September 7, 2019 and closed for good the next morning, ending the complex's 25-year run with its last exhibits, Colortopia and Take a Nanooze Break.
The latest documented change (documented Jun 10, 2024): CommuniCore Hall and CommuniCore Plaza opened to the general public on June 10, 2024 on part of the former Innoventions site, while the East building had been repurposed as Connections Eatery and Connections Cafe.
16 documented changes, dating back to 1994 — the fan-kept show changelog nobody else keeps.
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