Capture a sneak look at Disney’s Role 220 restaurant at Epcot sooner than its originate subsequent month

The countdown is help on to your likelihood to dine in Earth orbit.

Walt Disney World Resort has put mid-September for the extremely-anticipated and long-awaited opening of Role 220, a recent restaurant at Epcot put aboard a apartment dwelling excessive above the planet.

“Foundation with a day out in the principle-ever house elevator, drag 220 miles above the Earth at this recent restaurant that suits perfectly in our EPCOT fable!” Disney Imagineer Zach Riddley wrote on Instagram, sharing a video preview of Role 220 on Friday (Aug. 13). “This immersive trip brings you to the Centauri Role Role, the put that it’s possible you’ll perhaps well presumably clutch a virtual imagine on the planet from above whilst you dine.” It is possible you’ll perhaps well look that video sneak look beneath.

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Positioned adjacent to Epcot’s Mission: SPACE enchantment, Role 220 will offer guests “very ultimate meals and a spectacular expect,” with sizable image windows providing a simulated vista associated to what astronauts look from aboard the World Role Role (the title of the restaurant comes from the altitude at which the ISS circles Earth).

“Role 220 is a supreme addition to EPCOT persevering with our legacy of real storytelling — fantastical experiences rooted in real science and designed with a unfold of world-class consultants that makes you wonder “how’d they converse out that?!” wrote Riddley.

The recent table-service trip, operated by the Patina Restaurant Neighborhood, will just internationally-inspired delicacies, more than 1,000 bottles of the sector’s finest wines and a gargantuan option of craft beer. But sooner than guests can partake in the house meals and drinks, they want to aloof be transported to orbit first.

“One in every of my first experiences as a child was once experiencing the Hydrolators — those magical conveyances in The Residing Seas Pavilion that took you the final contrivance down to Sea Substandard Alpha. That maintain moved me (somewhat literally) and sparked this magic of likelihood we shriek about with EPCOT,” recalled Riddley. “This house elevator trip is our know-how’s entry into this rich legacy of inspiration that will elaborate the contrivance in which forward for EPCOT and a supreme addition to World Discovery!”

Role 220 was once in the initiating scheduled to begin in 2019, however the pandemic delayed the debut till now. The outlet in mid-September comes correct weeks sooner than Walt Disney World kicks off “The World’s Most Magical Pick up together” on Oct. 1, marking the resort’s 50th anniversary. 

Robert Pearlman is a Role.com contributing author and the editor of collectSPACE.com, a Role.com partner quandary and the main house history recordsdata e-newsletter. Apply collectSPACE on Facebook and on Twitter at @collectSPACE. Apply us @Spacedotcom and Facebook.

Robert Pearlman is a apartment historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an web e-newsletter and neighborhood devoted to house history with a direct point of curiosity on how and the put house exploration intersects with popular culture. Pearlman will more than possible be a contributing author for Role.com and co-author of “Role Stations: The Art work, Science, and Reality of Working in Role” printed by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online suppose material for the Nationwide Role Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped place the house tourism company Role Adventures and at show masks serves on the Historical past Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Expertise and management board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was once inducted into the U.S. Role Camp Corridor of Popularity in Huntsville, Alabama.