This year's EPCOT International Festival of the Arts has wrapped up, did you get a chance to go? Teenage Son Agent P shares his thoughts about our first visit to this newer festival in his review below:
This year was my first time at the Festival of the Arts and with it being a newer festival it still became one of my favorites, with its fun foods, experiences, art, Figment, and time of year!
Food Booths
One area where the food from the Festival of the Arts really shines is that everything seems and looks so artistic, gotta keep the Insta up! For example the stuff from the Deconstructed Dish booth looked amazing for being a quick snack, I only wish the portions were bigger!
This drink was surprisingly great, they made it taste like a real Bomb Pop! There were some other standouts for me. I really liked 2 selections from the Mexico Pavilion.
The Sope looked beautiful in its little shell. Not only was it pretty it tasted great too!
These were generously sized delicious twists on the Mexican classic "flan". This is a little flan on top of a moist chocolate sponge cake. Together the taste was very good.
The paint your own white chocolate Figment puzzle (from "Painter's Palate" at The Odyssey Festival Center) was super popular and practically everyone at the Odyssey was getting one! It was neat that they gave frosting paints. But if you noticed no one was really showing online what it looked liked finished with frosting on top. I think the problem was that the frosting was a little hard to work with. Still it was a fun idea and I have a hard time resisting anything Figment!
Merchandise
I liked this years merchandise although it used a bit too much "tie dye" for my taste. The hat was a nice blue color with the "tie dye" not as prominent while still having the mascot Figment on it! (Always a plus, you can not have too much Figment in my opinion!) The shirt was in the same style as the hat but I liked that it was not as loud. They also released a Spirit Jersey which was fully tie dyed out and had Figment over the heart.
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| Behind us is a poster with an example of the "tie dye" style found on most festival merchandise. |
Things to Do
There is so much to do for it being a smaller festival! They have set up seminars and drawing lessons in the newly remodeled Odyssey building. While we were there we missed out on the seminars but we did take a drawing class.
When we arrived for our class they were just wrapping up a Figment drawing class! I was a little sad to have barely missed it. But I still wanted to do the class, we learned how to draw Tigger. It was surprisingly difficult. From our seats we couldn’t see the instructor's screen very well. I laughed at how the drawing came out at the end, but it was still a fun experience!
The Odyssey building had a station where you could order custom screen printed shirts. We were impressed by the quality of the shirts. We were expecting it might be sort of like the ill-fated design a Tee by Hanes from Disney Springs. But the shirts appeared to be made with a ink gel which looked much better. The shirts were also nice and soft. The designs were pretty great as well, you could pick colors, mix and match designs. They even had some cool characters like Mickey, Donald, and Figment!
There were a bunch of famous large sized artworks all over the park. There was also a Figment themed scavenger hunt. It really is a great festival and definitely is underrated. This will be a festival I will want to come to for years to come. It has so many little experiences that make it such a super fun thing to do at Walt Disney World!
