We Found Expensive Nuts AND Nutcrackers in EPCOT!

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We’ve been to EPCOT, walked around World Showcase, and checked anything and everything out that’s new! So here are all the latest updates.

EPCOT Food Updates

Spice Road Table Juice Bar

The Spice Road Table Juice Bar in Morocco has switched up its set-up a little. Before, you would see the back of the juice machines when ordering. They switched out the juice machines with their small bakery case so now you can see what treat they have available.

Oasis Sips and Sweets

A new snack cart called Oasis Sips and Sweets in Morocco has opened up! We had some rather pricey — but healthy — snacks there to check it out!

Spread

The cart should be open from 1PM every day, if staffing allows.

Read our review of this new snack cart

Garden House

In Japan, Garden House was open! This is the pavilion’s outdoor sake bar.

Garden House

A Cast Member told us that they hope to be open every day, as staffing allows.

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EPCOT Merchandise Updates

House of Good Fortune

We discovered Mermicornos in the China Pavilion! These are plushes that are half unicorn and half mermaid and 100% unique! We ended up buying one as a gift!

Blue Mermicorno

A few were on sale for $10.95, while others were $13.95.

See more photos of the Mermicornos

We also found some charming Year of the Ox Coin Banks. This one looks so happy.

Year of the Ox coin bank

This one also sports a big smile.

Year of the Ox coin bank

These coin banks are $18 each.

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Weinkeller

The Weinkeller wine of the week is a 2017 Graf Reipperg Lemberger.

Wine of the week

It’s $8 for a 3 oz pour or $30 for the bottle. Cheers!

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Die Weihnatchs Ecke

We decided to discover what the three most expensive items were in the Christmas shop in Germany. At first, we thought it was a Santa Klaus Stein for $135.

Santa Claus Stein

But it turned out to be a Nutcracker! He didn’t even have a price tag on him, but a Cast Member rang him up for us and we discovered that he was a whopping $150!

We definitely weren’t expecting this…

Our third place winner, though, was a pricey Teddy Bear for $64.99.

Expensive bears

These ARE, however, handcrafted goodies from Germany, so that makes them nice collectibles. But whew!

See more photos of these items

Mitsuokoshi

It’s peach season in Japan, or at least at the Japan Pavilion. We found several different kinds of peach snacks, as well as a book about a “Peach Boy!”

‘Peach Boy’ Book

After some research, we learned that Hinamatsuri is on March 3rd, which is a giant Peach Festival in Japan. It celebrates the peach blossom season on the lunar calendar. So that possibly explains all the sudden peach stuff we’re now seeing at the Japan Pavilion.

Peach Gummy Candy

Super Mario Bros. fans rejoice — we found a Yoshi Baseball Cap! This vibrant green cap is $24.95.

Yoshi hat

See all the peach stuff we found

Speaking of video games, we also found an Animal Crossing Backpack! For those who don’t know, Animal Crossing is a very popular game on the Nintendo Switch — it became THE game to play during 2020, thanks to all the quarantining we did.

Animal Crossing Backpack

It’s got so many of the game’s little animal characters on it. You can grab it now for $59.99.

See more photos of the Animal Crossing Backpack

EPCOT Construction Updates

Future World West

The waterways around Future World West were being drained when we visited EPCOT!

Drained waterway

We thought it might have something to do with the upcoming Moana water attraction, but the waters are being refilled again, so it’s likely just some regular maintenance.

See more photos of the drained waterways at Future World West

Festival Market Booth

The Festival Market Booths between Germany and Refreshment Outpost is now a pin station!

Pin trading station

So pin traders have another spot to do their thing at EPCOT for the time being!

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That’s it for our time at EPCOT, at least for now. But we’ll be back soon with even more updates!

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