What's New at EPCOT: Celebrity Performances and Holiday Decor!

What’s new in EPCOT? We’re here to tell you!

Spaceship Earth

EPCOT has received some Christmas updates and we even saw two celebrities perform in front of Spaceship Earth! Let’s get into it.

EPCOT Construction Updates

At the EPCOT front entrance, holiday garland was added under the archways! We will be watching to see how this may or may not change for the Festival of the Holidays beginning on November 26th.

Happy holidays!

The EPCOT Christmas Tree was up in the World Showcase, as well as more holiday decorations throughout the park.

Christmas Tree

Take a stroll around EPCOT to see what holiday decor has arrived so far!

Check out more photos of the holiday decorations that arrived in EPCOT!

At the entrance of EPCOT, we noticed that there was a winter stage show set up near Spaceship Earth! We’ll get into what happened here in a bit. (Spoiler alert: It was a Christmas show!)

Holiday stage

The three circular stages were set up in a Mickey shape, and read on if you want to see who performed here!

Find more photos of this EPCOT stage here!

And in the Morocco pavilion, the gift shop remains closed.

Morocco Gift Shop is closed

Now let’s get into shopping!

EPCOT Merchandise Updates

Pin Traders

We spotted two new pins in Pin Traders! The Disney Terrarium Series added a new Stitch pin for $19.99.

Stitch Pin

And the Artfully Evil series added an Honest John & Gideon pin for $19.99!

Honest John Pin

Now let’s get to the big news from EPCOT!

EPCOT Various Updates

There were two celebrity performances in EPCOT this week! Country singer Brett Eldredge took the stage first to be recorded singing some holiday tunes.

Hey, Brett!

This isn’t Brett Eldredge’s first time performing for a Disney special and we’re excited to see how the special turns out!

Watch videos of Brett Eldredge’s performance here!

Next Chance the Rapper performed! We didn’t hear him perform any holiday songs but it was a fun show, and there was even some snoap!

Chance the Rapper

We aren’t yet sure when this Disney holiday special will be released, so keep reading DFB for more news!

Watch Chance the Rapper’s performance in EPCOT here!

Phew, what a week in EPCOT! Keep checking back with DFB for more news from Disney World!

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