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Description of Pictures: (030125B) Disney's Epcot Center (Future World and World Showcase): I remember watching "Uncle Walt" pitching this theme park on the television show. The park was called "Epcot", an acronym for "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow". (You don't see them pushing it as an acronym anymore.) It was an example of corporate-corporate sponsorship. Individual rides in the Future World section would be sponsored by different corporations while the sections of the World Showcase would be sponsored by different countries. So you pay $50 to go into Disney World and you get advertising from other companies. It's a little bizarre. Some of the sponsorship is heavy-handed (you end up in a car show room after the GM ride) whereas others aren't.

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1. EPCOT_030125_003.JPG: Disney's moved into "legacy" offerings. For $25, you can have little picture of yourself mounted on huge slabs in front of the EPCOT globe. Frankly, I found this to be offensive. I normally think of legacies being for charitable causes whereas Disney is purely for profit. Obviously, my misgivings were the exception since Disney had what appeared to be several million of these images mounted on these stones. (The Magic Kingdom, by the way, has "legacy" paving stones that you can order too. I have a feeling the EPCOT offerings are going to last longer than the paving stones.)
2. EPCOT_030125_009.JPG: Disney's EPCOT Center has quite a few Segway machines. These are two-wheeled scooters that sell for about $6,000. Multiple computers make sure that you stay balanced on the little cart.
3. EPCOT_030125_011.JPG: Test Track is said to be the most popular ride at EPCOT. You're placed in a test vehicle and sent over some road tests. It's a fun although quick ride.
4. EPCOT_030125_012.JPG: The Space exhibit was still under construction when I got there but the building certainly looked cool. When it opened later in the year, it was the first Disney ride to come with barf bags because a bunch of passengers got nauseous.
5. EPCOT_030125_018.JPG: This globe is the symbol of EPCOT Center. Inside is a fairly boring ride sponsored by AT&T concerning communication.
6. EPCOT_030125_042.JPG: Living Seas is basically an aquarium, said to be the second largest on the east coast. The fish inside were mesmerizing.
7. EPCOT_030125_081.JPG: These are the "test" vehicles for the Test Track ride
8. EPCOT_030125_115.JPG: You can see a chunk of the World Showcase portion of EPCOT around this lake here.
9. EPCOT_030125_135.JPG: This building had "The American Experience", an animatronic-centered patriotic show which centers around Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain discussing the history of America. Unlike the "Hall of the Presidents" in the Magic Kingdom, this one involves a lot of sets that move on and off-stage on queue.
10. EPCOT_030125_226.JPG: More of those "legacy" stones
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Wikipedia Description: Epcot
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Epcot is the second theme park built at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. It was dedicated to international culture and technological innovation. The park opened on October 1, 1982, and was named EPCOT Center from 1982 to 1993. Based on square footage, it was the largest Disney theme park in the world until 1998, when Disney's Animal Kingdom opened.

EPCOT is inspired by Walt Disney's creative vision. Here, human achievements are celebrated through imagination, wonders of enterprise and concepts of a future that promises new and exciting benefits for all.

"May EPCOT Center entertain, inform and inspire and above all, may it instill a new sense of belief and pride in man's ability to shape a world that offers hope to people everywhere. " -- — E. Cardon Walker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Walt Disney Productions, October 1, 1982

The planned community:

The name Epcot derives from the acronym EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney (he sometimes used the word "City" instead of "Community" when expanding the acronym). In Walt Disney's words: "EPCOT...will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise."

Walt Disney's original vision of EPCOT was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test bed for city planning and organization. The community was to have been built in the shape of a circle, with businesses and commercial areas at its center, community buildings and schools and recreational complexes around it, and residential neighborhoods along the ...More...
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