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One of those rumors that just does not seem to want to go away is happening again.  Tom at the great site WDW News Today is talking about what the future holds for the Imagination pavilion at Epcot’s Future World.

A couple of days ago, everyone went crazy over a permit filed that was called “Imagination Demolition”.  The internet billowed with speculation, but don’t get too excited.  This is yet another “routine maintenance” permit.  (We didn’t report this because I just couldn’t confirm the nature of the plans.)

According to some of our sources here at WDW News Today, the permit filed for “Imagination Demolition” is only part of the routine refurbishment now going on inside Epcot’s Imagination pavilion. However, we are still hearing that some of the folks from Walt Disney Imagineering are using this opportunity to survey and plan future attraction development inside the building. While a new attraction may or may not be on the near horizon, there will certainly be something new to see in the Imagination pavilion within the next 3-4 years.

While Disney officials sit and laugh at all of us for going crazy over rumors like this, I would hope they pay particularly close attention to this one.  There is a good reason why speculation over a change at the Imagination pavilion never seems to end.  It is because fans of Epcot are desperate to get something they can be excited about in that building like we all used to be.  Chalk this one up to “hope” rather than “rumor”.