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In March of 2015, Disney announced that Innoventions West would be closed on April 30, and that the exhibits housed within the pavilion would be removed <ref> http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/innoventions/news/21mar2015-innoventions-west-to-close-in-april-along-with-vision-house-at-inventions-east.htm </ref>. This closure coincided with the end of the exhibitors' (Liberty Mutual, IBM and T. Rowe Price) sponsorship agreements <ref> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/theme-park-rangers-blog/os-disney-epcot-innoventions-west-closing-20150320-post.html </ref>. On June 31, 2015 a rest and relaxation area called a D-Zone opened in Innoventions West <ref name= "wdwmagic"> http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/epcot/news/26jun2015-new-d-zone-relaxation-area-coming-to-epcot-next-week.htm </ref>. Besides housing seating for guests and device chargers, a small snack and beverage stand also opened at this time <ref name= "wdwmagic"/>. In August 2016 Disney announced that The Sum of All Thrills and StormStruck would be closing on September 14, 2016 <ref> http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/08/breaking-the-sum-of-all-thrills-and-stormstruck-closing-goodbye-innoventions-at-epcot/ </ref>. The closure of the two exhibits left Colortopia and Take a Nanooze Break as the only operating exhibits left in Innoventions.
On November 12, 2017 The SpectacuLAB opened in Innoventions East <ref> http://www.insidethemagic.net/2017/11/new-spectaculab-show-officially-opens-spark-walt-disney-worlds-epcot/ </ref>, the exhibit closed on January 13, 2019 <ref> https://touringplans.com/epcot/attractions/spectaculab </ref>. In July 2019, as part of [[Epcot]]'s ongoing transformation, Disney announced that the remaining exhibits in Innovention's East, [[Fountain View Starbucks]] and the Fountain of Nations would be closing on September 8, 2019 <ref name="wdwmagicepcot"> https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/epcot/news/03jul2019-summary-of-all-the-closures-coming-to-epcots-future-world.htm </ref>. Furthermore, Disney also announced that the [[Electric Umbrella]], [[Club Cool]] and Mouse Gear would also be closing in the Winter of 2019<ref name="wdwmagicepcot"/>. The Fountain View, Mouse Gear, and Character Spot characters are all expected to move to temporary locations at this time <ref name="wdwmagicepcot"/>. While Disney has announced that [[Club Cool]] will be returning, no further information was given about the store's new location <ref> https://twitter.com/WDWToday/status/1146157571436421120 </ref>.
==Exhibits History <ref name= "book"/> <ref name= "edc"/> <ref> http://www.extinctdisney.com/#!innoventions-west/dv5v2 </ref> <ref> http://www.extinctdisney.com/#!innoventions-east/jskmk </ref>==
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===Innoventions East: The Road to Tomorrow (2000-Present2019)===
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|'''Take a Nanooze Break'''
|2010
|N/ASeptember 8, 2019
|Cornell University
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|'''Colortopia'''
|November 13, 2015
|N/ASeptember 8, 2019
|Glidden
|Replaced Vision House
|'''SpectacuLAB'''
|November 12, 2017
|N/AJanuary 13, 2019
|Murata
|Replaced Vision House
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===Innoventions West: The Road to Tomorrow (2000-Present2015)===
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'''[[Club Cool]]'''- Located in Innoventions West, Club Cool offers guests free samples of Coca Cola from around the world.
==(The Innoventions Fountains) Fun Facts and Trivia ===== Fountain of Nations <ref name= "allears"> http://allears.net/tp/ep/fount.htm </ref>=== * Every 15 minutes, the Fountain of Nations "performs" to classical music.
* Every 15 minutes, the Innoventions Fountain "performs" to classical music. The fountain was designed by Imagineer Mark Fuller.
* In the wintertime, the fountain receives holiday music plays instead.[[Image:InnoventionsFountain.jpg|thumb|350px400px|The Innoventions Fountainof Nations. Photo by Harshlight]]* The Innoventions Fountain of Nations can shoot water up to 150 feet in the air.
* The Fountain send 30,000 gallons of water up into the air per minute.
* On Epcot[[EPCOT Center]]'s opening day, representatives from 22 countries each poured a gallon of water from their homeland into the Innoventions Fountainof Nations.
====Music <ref name= "allears"/>====
The music for the Innoventions Fountain of Nations is rotated every 15 minutes in no particular order. The seven musical selections that can be heard are:
* "Standing in Motion" by Yanni
* An instrumental from the "Air Battle Sequence" from the Surprise in the Skies show (Surprise in the Skies was once a lagoon show at Epcot)
===Innoventions Pavilion===
* Disney CEO Michael Eisner liked the name Electric Umbrella (a the name given to one of Innovention's restaurants in 1994 by Imagineer Rolly Crump) so much that he wanted to use it as the name for the entire Innoventions pavilion <ref> Crump, Rolly, and Jeff Heimbuch. It's Kind of a Cute Story. N.p.: Bamboo Forest, 2012. Print.</ref>
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