17 Sep
2004
17 Sep
'04
12:43 p.m.
<< Humm... you mean Disney might actually have to
make Walt's EPCOT dream
a reality and have a fully enclosed theme park? >>
In 1967, Walt Disney (after his death) presented on TV his original
concept of what EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) was
to be and it in no way resembled what EPCOT is today. It was not to be a
theme park, or more accurately a permanent World's Fair. Instead, it was
actually a city with approximately 20,000 citizens. The central
core/shopping/office district was to be inclosed by a dome, and the rest
of the "city" extended away from it in a wagon wheel style of monorails
and streets. I have this presentation on DVD from Disney's Treasures
collection.
For more, see: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/hogan/celebration/epcot.htm
Yeah we learned all about this in Disney Brainwashing... er... um,
"Traditions" (the intro to Disney class they put all the college interns
thru).
From what I understood (last time I asked friends that
still work for
Disney, which was a while back), Celebration is (was?) a borderline
cesspool of high crime and bad neighbors. So I guess that would make it a
successful failure?
-chris
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