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The only problem with anything "of tomorrow" is that at the pace we're going right now,tomorrow would catch up with us before we got it built.             ---Walt Disney Proudly Welcomes you to: (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow)  

Live Camera of the park:

EPCOT (this is from the official program for the Gramd Opening Dedication Ceremony of EPCOT Center (1982):  

Some twenty years ago, long before the opening of Walt Disney World, Walt Disney envisioned a place where the gratest feats of human imagination and invention could be communicated to the benefit of all people. He called his idea "EPCOT"--the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow--for he wanted to present alternatives and possibilities for a better life ahead.

 

Walt Disney's death on December 15,1966,was a critical event for the company. His vision of "a new Disney World" outside Orlando,Florida,especially his concept of EPCOT,was so strongly a personal,life-summing statement that many beleived the dream might die with Walt. Not so. For in addition to the fantasy empire he had created,he had also built a unique organization...determined to carry out the plan Walt had outlined...When,in July 1975,Walt Disney Productions announced it was moving forward with the plans for EPCOT, to some it was a bolt of lightning...

 

From the beginning,Walt Disney World has been planned,constructed and developed with EPCOT concepts in mind. Futuristic designs and technologies have been put into action as a matter of policy--monorail and linear induction power transportation systems,a solar-powered office building,state-of-the-art waste treatment processes,the first all-electronic,fiber-optics telephone system,and much more. Since 1971,Walt Disney World has been host to the world--130 million people from 100 nations have visited this comunity.

 

The planners,designers,engineers,and operators of Walt Disney World are already providing nearly all the public services of a city,from communications and security to waste disposal. Implemented by the Reedy Creek Improvement District,the EPCOT Building Code,embodying Walt's philosophy for EPCOT,is firmly in place as the foundation for future development. What was lacking was a public focus for new ideas and concepts,a "center" for the communication of new possibilities for the future--directly to the public.

 

To answer this need,we are developing EPCOT Center: a permanent World's Fair of imagination,discovery,aducation and exploration that combines the Disney entertainment and communications skills with the knowledge and predictions for the future of authorities from the industry,the academic world,and the professions. Our goal is to inspire the visitors who come here,so that they will be turned on to the positive potential of the future and will want to participate in making the choices that shape it. We beleive that in a world where cynicism and negativism abound, there is another story,and we have chosen,with forethought and conviction,to tell it and to be that voice of optimism.

 

Now we have a way to bring real focus to the import of creative and futiristic processes and the value of frienship among nations. EPCOT Center is a permanent World's Fair of imagination,discovery,education,and exploration built with the help of leading American and international industries and with the cooperation of a number of goverments.

Choose from the many areas of Epcot:

Pavilion or Building	Rides and Sites
Spaceship Earth	Spaceship Earth Global Neighborhood-Exhibit
The Living Seas	The Living Seas
Imagination Pavilion	Honey, I Shrunk the Audience Journey into Imagination The Image Works
Inoventions East & West	Inoventions East & West
Universe of Energy	Ellen's Energy Adventure
Wonders of Life Pavilion	Body Wars Cranium Command The Making of Me AnaComical Players and more!
Horizons	Horizons
The Land	The Circle of Life Food Rocks Living with the Land BEHIND THE SEEDS- A Special Guided Geenhouse Tour
Test Track	Test Track

 

Mexico	Pavilion Description (Mexico) El Rio del Tiempo-Boat Ride Live Entertainment
Norway	Pavilion Description (Norway) Maelstorm Stave Church-Exhibit
China	Pavilion Description (China) Wonders of China Dragon:Ruler of the Wind and Waves-Exhibit Live Entertainment
Germany	Pavilion Description (Germany) Live Entertainment
Italy	Pavilion Description (Italy) Live Entertainment
The American Adventure	Pavilion Description (America) America Gardens Theatre The American Adventure Live Entertainment
Japan	Pavilion Description (Japan) Bijutsu-kan Gallery-Exhibit Live Entertainment
Morocco	Pavilion Description (Morocco) Tresures of Morocco-Exhibit Live Entertainment
France	Pavilion Description (France) Impressions de France Live Entertainment
United Kingdom	Pavilion Description (United Kingdom) Live Entertainment
Canada	Pavilion Description (Canada) O Canada! Live Entertainment
Nightime Events and other special info.	Illuminations Epcot in a day