EPCOT

Alaina continues her Disney Parks series with an episode on Walt Disney World Resort's second gate: Epcot. Walt Disney's original idea for all that Florida land was a planned city so unique that the world would come to see how his people lived and worked. After his death, some of those ideas, and the name, were recycled to be a theme park that serves as a permanent World's Fair. Is high modernism the path to despotism? Even so, could it have worked? How can you hit a forever-moving target: the future? Who needs rides when you can visit 11 themed gift shops and drink?

Links!

• Epcot website
• Walt Disney's EPCOT film
• The Reedy Creek Improvement District
• Collections of concept art
• Epcot Center 1978 Preview Video; Featuring Card Walker
• Epcot dedication ceremony
• Opening Celebration TV Special
• Kitchen Kabaret
• Symbiosis
• Captain EO
• Abandoned - Journey Into Imagination
• Abandoned - Horizons
• Abandoned - Wonders of Life Pavilion
• The Making of Me
• Video comparison of Maelstrom and Frozen Ever After
• Epcot Festival of the Arts Trip report

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

"One Little Spark" by the Sherman Brothers

"The Three Caballeros" by Manuel Esperón and Ray Gilbert