Walt Disney World has revealed new particulars for the 2023 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with a sneak peek on the Encanto topiaries and Orange Fowl merchandise, plus full lists of the gardens and shows. We have now all of that, plus commentary and ideas about this 12 months’s “Contemporary EPCOT” occasion.
In case you’ve missed previous protection, this 12 months’s EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant will run from March 1 to July 5, 2023. Held for 127 days, it’s 2 days longer than the occasion has been for the final 2 years. Walt Disney World has prolonged each Flower & Backyard and Meals & Wine by round a month every in recent times, successfully bridging the hole between the 2. See our Final Information to the 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant Information for all the pieces you must know earlier than you go!
Through the four-plus months of the 2023 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant, visitors can discover lush gardens, pattern candy and savory bites with refreshing sips (for a charge, in fact!), and store new merchandise collections that includes Orange Fowl, Snow White and Figment. Beginning at sundown, a vibrant spectacle of sunshine can be proven on Spaceship Earth, with the Beacons of Magic returning for one more new show…
Greater than 200,000 bedding crops are added to the gardens of EPCOT for the Flower & Backyard Pageant, together with a further 60,000 bedding crops that create the long-lasting floral designs that make up the World Celebration East & West Lakes. The Dragon topiary, positioned within the Japan pavilion, consists of sun-loving succulent crops, including bursts of colours to the almost 20-foot-long show.
As a result of the 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant can be celebrated throughout two seasons, plant shows may also evolve with the climate, making for true seasonal magnificence and element. Company visiting throughout each spring and summer time months may even see new alternatives because the season modifications. A mid-festival “refresh” has at all times occurred throughout the occasion, but it surely’s turn out to be way more pronounced in the previous couple of years.
Making their debut this 12 months, topiaries of Mirabel, Antonio, Isabela and Luisa from Disney Animation’s Academy Award-winning “Encanto” greet visitors in the principle entrance of EPCOT. Every Encanto topiary options particulars impressed by every character, together with Isabela creating stunning flowers between her fingers and an illuminated butterfly for Mirabel.
A brand new topiary of Princess Tiana from The Princess and The Frog graces the American Journey in World Showcase that includes a shocking ball robe and illuminated fireflies. Within the France pavilion, Lumiere and Cogsworth topiaries return with progressive new components, together with lit candles for Lumiere and a working clock for Cogsworth.
Disney Horticulture and Walt Disney Imagineering labored collectively to design, construct and develop various topiary shows.
This course of started almost a 12 months in the past. Artists developed sketches, Imagineers designed 3D fashions, expert welders molded frames, and horticulture specialists selected plant supplies. Right here’s a behind the scenes have a look at how that occurred:
Right here’s the complete record of topiaries on the 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Festvail and the place you could find them:
- Encanto, Together with Mirabel, Antonio, Isabela and Luisa – NEW!
Principal Entrance - Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Chip, Dale and Pluto
Bridge to World Showcase and World Celebration - Woody, Bo Peep and Her Sheep
World Nature Close to The Land Pavilion - Goofy
World Showcase - Tiana – NEW!
The American Journey Pavilion - Buzz Lightyear
World Discovery Close to Mission: SPACE - Donald and Daisy
Neighborhood Backyard Close to Connections Café in World Celebration - Figment
Close to Creativeness! - The Three Caballeros (Jose, Donald and Panchito)
Mexico Pavilion - Anna and Elsa
Norway Pavilion - Troll
Norway Pavilion - Dragon
Japan Pavilion Close to Torii Gate - Pandas
China Pavilion - Simba and Mates (Rafiki, Simba, Mufasa and Sarabi)
Between Creativeness! and The Land Pavilion - Pumbaa and Timon
Between Creativeness! and The Land Pavilion - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Germany Pavilion - Woman and the Tramp
Italy Pavilion - Magnificence and the Beast
France Pavilion - Lumiere and Cogsworth
France Pavilion - Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy
Between France and Morocco Pavilions - Peter Pan, Captain Hook and Tick Tock Croc
Between United Kingdom and Canada Pavilions - Winnie the Pooh and Mates (Rabbit, Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger)
United Kingdom Pavilion - Tinker Bell’s Fairy Home Backyard
United Kingdom Pavilion - Bambi and Mates
Close to Creativeness! and Refreshment Port - Geese
Canada Pavilion - Butterflies
Principal Entrance, Scentsy Backyard, Butterfly Home and World Showcase
Walt Disney World has additionally launched new data about two new gardens which can be debuting for the 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant. First is the Neighborhood Backyard in World Celebration. On this, visitors can join with the earth and one another at this celebration of a various and thriving communal backyard plot.
Second, there’s Shishi-odoshi within the Japan Pavilion. It is a spot for quiet contemplation of the methodical motion and soothing rhythm of this conventional Japanese bamboo water fountain.
With greater than 15 Out of doors Kitchens positioned all through the park, visitors can benefit from the freshest flavors as spring offers approach to summer time, together with greater than 50 new foods and drinks objects. Company may take a tasty tour via the gardens and discover EPCOT with Backyard Graze, a contemporary meals stroll highlighting 11 scrumptious candy and savory plant-based choices – all listed within the Pageant Passport.
We coated the FULL Out of doors Kitchen Meals Sales space Menus for the 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant final week, so you’ll be able to see all the choices there. If you happen to ask me, this lineup sounds actually good, with extra promising dishes than we’ve seen at any EPCOT occasion shortly. I’m personally wanting ahead to the shrimp scampi poutine (no joke) and can probably inadvertently be testing whether or not it’s fit for human consumption a complete dish of that earlier than using Cosmic Rewind.
Additionally returning for the 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant is the favored Backyard Rocks Live performance Sequence within the America Backyard Theatre. These performances function internationally acknowledged artists Friday via Monday and native Orlando expertise rocking the home Tuesday via Thursday. This 12 months’s lineup contains:
- Smash Mouth
- Blue Oyster Cult (New)
- The Pointer Sisters
- Luis Figueroa (New)
- Piso 21 (New)
- Switchfoot (New)
- AJ Croce (New)
- Casting Crowns (New)
- Jason Scheff (New)
- Plain White T’s
- Easy Plan
- And lots of others!
Eating packages for lunch and dinner can be found at eight EPCOT areas with assured seating on the Backyard Rock Live performance Sequence. See Backyard Rocks Live shows at 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant: Dates, Lineup & Eating Packages for all the pieces you must know.
Personally, I’m holding out hope for Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken seem with Blue Oyster Cult as particular visitors. I acquired a fever, and the one prescription is MORE COWBELL!
Talking of contemporary additions to this 12 months’s competition, the merchandise collections will function new designs…with a blast from the previous. Specifically, Orange Fowl is the star of a brand new ‘70s-inspired assortment that jogs my memory of my grandparents’ front room. Simply add some wooden paneling and shag carpet to that Spirit Jersey and it’d be proper on the cash!
Along with that, there’s a Loungefly backpack, headband, a limited-edition Disney Munchling, CORKCICLE tumbler, and a bunch of different stuff. As a fan of Orange Fowl, I actually recognize the character being integrated into extra designs, even when these should not for me. (Additionally, the colour decisions look extra like autumn than spring, however what do I learn about vogue…)
Lastly, there’s the brand new Snow White assortment with a Dooney and Bourke bag, garden-inspired headband, and extra. There’s additionally a Figment Assortment with Crocs and extra. Company can go to Pageant Markets, Odyssey, and Creations Store to buy these collections whereas provides final.
To not be a debbie downer or something, however I’d like to see extra regular Figment merchandise. Don’t get me fallacious, it’s cool to see the character represented on EPCOT occasion objects. Nevertheless, there have been (actually) extra Figment “Dropping Beets” objects final 12 months than all common new Figment merchandise releases mixed.
No disrespect to the Dwights of the world, however as a bona fide beet-hater, there’s no method on earth I’m shopping for that stuff. I’m extra prone to buy the Figment crossover with bears and Battlestar Galactica (talking of sci-fi, see the Stargate for a restricted time–earlier than it glows away endlessly after April 2, 2023!) than I’m a bunch of beets merchandise! Why launch so many area of interest merchandise however not easy crowd-pleasers for the imaginative carnivores who love Figment however hate gardening?!
In the end, the tentative lineup for the 2023 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Pageant sounds stable. We’re getting a brand new Encanto topiary show, which needs to be an important addition (nonetheless ready on an Encanto meet & greet over a 12 months later, although!). We’re getting a bunch of nice new and returning objects to the Out of doors Kitchens. We’re even (perhaps) getting extra cowbell courtesy of Blue Oyster Cult.
My solely grievance is de facto concerning the Figment facet of issues. What was added for this 12 months’s Pageant of the Arts was an important begin, however I’d actually like to see Walt Disney World doing extra with Figment. I’m undoubtedly biased, however EPCOT’s festivals ought to incorporate the park’s unofficial mascot in additional substantive methods, which I believe in flip would assist promote much more Figment merchandise (…and in flip enhance the chances of a brand new attraction!).
With the Figment meet & greet and new film across the nook–and the character clearly in a position to transfer merchandise that isn’t about beets–now’s the time to enhance his presence. Figment is to EPCOT what Duffy is to Tokyo DisneySea–a license to print cash–however Disney simply doesn’t appear to appreciate it as a result of they’ve made an excessive amount of bizarre beets merchandise that hasn’t bought effectively. However I digress. We’re actually wanting ahead to the 2023 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Pageant!
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