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=== World Celebration === {{Gallery | align = center | mode = packed | File:Spaceship Earth 2021 night lighting.jpg | [[Spaceship Earth (Epcot)|Spaceship Earth]] | File:EpcotImagination.JPG | [[Imagination! (Epcot)|Imagination!]] <br />(formerly Journey Into Imagination) | File:Odyssey Pavilion, EPCOT.jpg | Odyssey }} '''World Celebration''' serves as the park's main entrance and a central hub that honors global human interaction and connection, including communication, imagination, creativity, and [[The arts|the visual and culinary arts]].<ref name="Epcot-D23-201922">{{cite web |date=August 25, 2019 |title=Major changes, new attractions coming to Epcot, Disney announces |url=http://www.fox13news.com/entertainment/epcot-to-undergo-multi-year-transformation-disney-announces-at-d23-expo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827175619/http://www.fox13news.com/entertainment/epcot-to-undergo-multi-year-transformation-disney-announces-at-d23-expo |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |work=fox13news.com |publisher=New World Communications of Tampa, Inc.}}</ref> The neighborhood features four major pavilions—Spaceship Earth, Imagination, Odyssey, and CommuniCore—as well as additional attractions, shops, and restaurants.<ref name="Besand 2023" /> Guests enter through the main entrance and walk underneath [[Spaceship Earth (Epcot)|Spaceship Earth]], an eighteen-story-tall [[geodesic dome|geodesic sphere]] structure and the anchor pavilion, which also houses an eponymous [[dark ride]] attraction that depicts the history of [[communication]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pedersen |first1=R. A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFyUx8XEE78C&pg=PA16 |title=The Epcot Explorer's Encyclopedia |date=2011 |publisher=R. A. Pedersen |isbn=978-1-4565-8966-0 |page=16 |access-date=May 12, 2020}}</ref> Directly behind Spaceship Earth are the World Celebration Gardens and Dreamers Point, featuring lush interactive gardens, lighting fixtures and ''Walt the Dreamer—''a bronze statue commemorating [[Walt Disney]]. The [[Imagination! (Epcot)|Imagination!]] pavilion celebrates the concept of [[imagination]] and features [[Journey into Imagination with Figment]], a dark ride starring [[Figment (Disney)|Figment]] that explores [[Sensory nervous system|the senses]]. CommuniCore Hall and Plaza is a multi-use pavilion used for exhibitions, gallery space, a mixology bar, a [[demonstration kitchen]], and music performances, as well as meet-and-greets with Disney characters.<ref name="Haring 2019">{{Cite news |last=Haring |first=Bruce |date=August 25, 2019 |title=New Disney Theme Park Attractions, Restaurants And Parade Outlined At D23 |url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/disney-theme-park-attractioins-previewed-at-d23-1202703922/ |access-date=September 6, 2019 |work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref> The Odyssey Pavilion is an exhibition space during the park's annual festivals. World Celebration is also home to Creations Shop, the park's main [[gift shop]]; Connections Eatery & Cafe, a quick-service restaurant and [[Starbucks]] themed to [[Food history|global food history]]; and [[Club Cool]], a [[The Coca-Cola Company|Coca-Cola]]-themed attraction and shop featuring complimentary samples of Coca-Cola [[soft drink]]s from around the world.
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