><< 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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