What if we told you that there was one place in Disney World that’s giving us major high school vibes?

EPCOT

We’ll give you a hint — it’s in EPCOT, it’s not a ride or a food location, BUT it IS considered an attraction. This next one will give it away, so be ready: It’s new and the majority of Disney World fans hate it. YEP, it’s CommuniCore Hall and CommuniCore Plaza.

In fact, we’ll include Celebration Gardens in here too for a specific reason we’ll explain later, but these new areas give us MAJOR high school vibes. We want you to think back to your high school. All schools look quite different from each other, but if there’s one thing most of them all have, it’s a cafeteria.

CommuniCore Hall

When you walk into CommuniCore Hall, or take a look at the photo below, just look around for a second and you’ll see it…IT LOOKS LIKE A HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA! It has those white shiny floors, the tables and chairs spread around, a few things hanging on the walls — it literally feels like we just walked from our history class to eat lunch at a way-too-early time of day.

CommuniCore Hall

CommuniCore Plaza may look like a courtyard to those of you who went to fancy schools, but we also think that Celebration Gardens gives us courtyard vibes too. The Walt the Dreamer statue is like your school’s mascot statue, or an important landmark of some kind, there’s random seating everywhere that kinda has a design. You’ll probably get lost the first time you walk through it and it’ll take you a few tries to really find your way around — you see where we’re going with this?

Walt The Dreamer in EPCOT

CommuniCore Hall and Plaza are planned to be used as new flex spaces for EPCOT’s festivals, and in the meantime, you can catch the new ¡Celebración Encanto! show on the CommuniCore Plaza stage. This means we aren’t seeing what this space can REALLY look like during a festival, and for Disney’s sake, we hope it transforms BIG time.

CommuniCore Plaza

You see, the issue is, most Disney fans HATE the way CommuniCore Hall and Plaza look and are angry it took so many years to create it. Many feel it doesn’t fit with EPCOT’s theme, that it’s plain and boring, and are angry CommuniCore Plaza is mostly out in the sun with little to no seating.

CommuniCore Plaza

For now, this high school cafeteria vibe is what we’re stuck with, but we’re hoping to see it change when EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival begins on August 29th! Be sure to stay tuned to DFB for all the latest Disney news!

Check out the concept art for CommuniCore vs. what we actually got

What do you think of CommuniCore Hall and Plaza? Tell us in the comments!