Former Disney Imagineer Reveals 1990s Switzerland Pavilion Concept Art for EPCOT
Social media posts of the archival sketches have reignited fan conversation about World Showcase expansion decades after Norway’s opening.
Overview
- In mid-August 2025, former Disney Imagineer Eddie Sotto shared on social media concept art he created in the mid-1990s for a Switzerland Pavilion at EPCOT.
- The sketches depict a Matterhorn-style bobsled ride that exits into a village lake, a moonlit ice-skating experience and a themed skate-village dining area.
- Sotto spent 13 years leading concept design at Walt Disney Imagineering and was invited to submit his take on the Swiss Pavilion but had no further involvement.
- The public release of the archival designs underscores the absence of new World Showcase additions since Norway opened in 1988.
- Disney has not confirmed any formal plans to build the Switzerland Pavilion, leaving its status as speculative despite fan enthusiasm.