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EPCOT: Around the World and into Tomorrow
Jon C. Halter
At Disney’s new attraction in Florida you can take an eye-popping journey into the future and also travel to nine different countries, all during a single visit. The late Walt Disney turned many of his dreams into reality. He created colorful cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and produced classic animated and real-life motion pictures. He built two popular entertainment centers – Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida. Disney’s last and greatest dream was a project he called EPCOT – Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. “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," he said. Last October Disney's fabulous Epcot Center opened to the public. It was built at a cost of $1-billion on 260 acres within Walt Disney World which is near Orlando, Florida. Epcot is really two separate and distinct attractions. In Future World you'll see what tomorrow holds in such vital areas as communications, energy, transportation, agriculture, imagination and technology. World Showcase, on the other side of a 40-acre lagoon, gives visitors an authentic feeling and experience of eight different foreign lands and cultures. […]

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Source type Magazine
Volume 73.7
Published
Language en
Document type Feature
Media type text
Page count 4
Pages pp. 28-31

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Id 2775
Availability Free
Inserted 2016-09-01