After many years, almost 30 to be exact, Captain Eo will be closing its doors at Epcot for good in early December. A poster was put up at Epcot this morning that showed the final mission will be happening on Dec. 6, 2015, and making way for the Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival.
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The poster was put up this morning and images were caught of it and thrown up on Twitter and started spreading like wildfire. Captain Eo opened originally in 1986, closed in 1994, and then reopened again in 2010.
According to the poster, the final date would be Dec. 6, 2015, and Captain Eo would officially close as of Dec. 7, 2015.
UPDATE As of 4:45 p.m.
The Disney Parks Blog has now revealed that Captain Eo’s final mission will be on Dec. 6, 2015, and making way for the new Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival.
Coming in December, Epcot guests can experience beloved Disney and Pixar animated shorts in a new 4D experience located in Magic Eye Theater in the Imagination Pavilion. “Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival” will include a look into the visionary minds behind some of the world’s most iconic animated films today.
Then inside the theater, guests can put on their 3D glasses and enter the imaginative worlds of three animated shorts, which will burst to life on the big screen (and in the theater) like never before.
To make way for this new offering, “Captain EO,” the current occupant of Magic Eye Theater will say its final farewell December 6. Hope many of you are able to come out to see them change the world one more time.
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The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that the poster has since been taken down outside of the Imagination pavilion in Epcot where Captain Eo is shown. Disney has also not yet officially commented on the possible closure and it’s making things kind of weird.
Over the past year, Disney has been showing previews of other films in the Captain Eo theater, and that included George Clooney’s Tomorrowland. After the preview as over, Michael Jackson and company would return to fight aliens.
It seems as if Captain Eo’s days are numbered at Epcot, but we’ve heard that before and it never happened. Only now, we’ve gotten a poster proving it…but then it was taken away. Guess it’s back to waiting and seeing if Michael Jackson will continue to change the world past Dec. 6, 2015.
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