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Liberty Mutual has joined the list of sponsors in Innoventions. No formal announcement of an attraction has been made, though work has begun on the project.

We previously mentioned that Innoventions was undergoing an aesthetic change and upgrade which included the removal of the Tom Morrow 2.0 character and the Road to Tomorrow theme.

This change over is nearly complete and the new entrances from Future World East and West are getting finishing touches as we speak. Additionally, new guide maps for the two areas are being offered in the park. Those direct guests to further explore Innoventions via the new companion website, which can be found at http://innoventions.disney.com/

StormStruck has opened in Innoventions East and during its first week is proving of interest as it is pulling in the crowds.

If you’re simply interested in checking out the latest attraction in Epcot then be sure to hit Innoventions before the crowds fill in at park opening. Typically the area is deserted until crowds finish their first rides on Soarin and Test Track.

Rumor has it that the StormStruck show in Innoventions East at Epcot will begin soft openings on Monday, August 4th.

The show takes over a large area of the Innoventions space and is said to be a fairly in depth experience. Guests will enter a house and experience the ravages of a major storm on the structure – with them inside. The second half involves guests getting involved in preventing the demolition of the home by adding new reinforcements and technology that help homes weather the storms in real life.

If well executed this experience may become one of the more popular diversion in Innoventions, drawing a moderate wait time during peak periods akin to “Where’s the Fire?” in Innoventions West.

Innoventions got a new look with a new color scheme last year. It has become a teal and turquoise theme, which was installed on the main entrances with new signs.

After several permits a few months of sitting on their hands, Disney has finally begun installing the new signage at the secondary entrances to the buildings. Perhaps the millennium tent will also take this new color scheme?

Hyper-active and happy-go-luckey robot Tom Morrow 2.0 is no longer part of Innoventions at Epcot. The area is slowly being rethemed and he is apparently not part of that future vision.

The long time occupant and fan favorite of Innoventions East, Fantastic Plastic Works, has ceased operation.

The area will become part of a new exhibit for Innoventions, possibly expanding to reclaim some of the unused space where the old Backstage Magic and Epcot Computer Central show used to be.

As part of the updates to Innoventions East and West recently, the little robot character of Tom Morrow 2.0 has been removed. An overall retheme of the area appears to be in progress.

Waste Management has opened and is an elaborate multi-step interactive game in Innoventions East that takes 4-person teams of guests and involves them in the processes behind the management of.. waste.

Guests queue up to enter a large area behind a full-size green dump truck and hear a introductory speech and then type in some vital statistics into a touch screen. The team choices determine how much waste their team produces on average in a year.

An Innoventions hosts then retrieves a miniature dump truck from the nearby parking lot which has the teams data loaded onto it which will be driven around to various stations for the 3 games to be played to sort, burn, and process the trash into a landfill. The truck lights up and even beeps when it backs up.

The games are fun and require the truck to be docked to record the data and have trash levels based on the team inputs from earlier games. The first game, a trash sorting game, assigns each player a type of trash to sort and uses touch screens as a virtual conveyor belt.

Two other games give players on the team similar tasks to process the waste and eventually awards the team a certificate showing their accomplishments.

Details of the new Waste Management area of Innoventions have been release. There, guests visiting the pavilion will have the opportunity to virtually experience the operations on a single-stream recycling line, feed the boiler at a waste-to-energy facility and run the bulldozer at a landfill in a hands-on, interactive exhibit called “Don’t Waste It.” In a fun and entertaining way, families will have the ability to calculate the amount of garbage they produce in a year and then have the responsibility to dispose of it safely and in ways that enhance the environment.