Originally opening with the rest of the park in 1982, EPCOT Center’s primary gift shop, Centorium was the Center Emporium for Future World and featured two levels of shopping with the second floor overlooking the Fountain of Nations.
Inside the store contained many forward-thinking toys and devices the seemingly foretold the future of high-tech shopping that is now so commonplace. Unfortunately the dawn of the new millennium, for which Epcot announced nearly two decades before, also claimed this fun and futuristic shop in 1999 to make way for is now Mouse Gear.
In continuing E82’s 5th Anniversary Celebration, we are set to re-open Centorium with several products in the works that will once again bring New “Gifts of Future World” into your home and on your computer. Starting with one of the most requests assets of The E82 Project…
I realize that a singular product does not a store make, but there are actually several new, innovative, and nostalgia-based items that will be coming online and in the store very soon!