LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The park that Walt Disney described as his ‘Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow,’ or ‘Epcot’ for short, opened to the public 39 years ago today. After successfully running ...

Exactly three years to the day after construction started, Disney CEO Card Walker opened the gates to the bold entertainment experiment called Epcot on Oct. 1, 1982. “To all who come to this place of ...

On Oct. 1, 1982, Walt Disney World Resort invited guests to imagine what life would be like in the 21st century with the opening of EPCOT Center. This first-of-its-kind theme park focused on ...

ET celebrates EPCOT's 40th anniversary with behind-the-scenes stories and a look at the park's opening weekend in October 1982. EPCOT, the modified vision of Walt Disney's dream for an “Experimental ...

While it was meant to be an opening day attraction, this deceptively complex ride needed about four more months to make it work. In no small part it was due to its incredible opening scene: Meeting ...

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I’ve seen a lot of EPCOT concept art in my day. But a new video released by Disney has some behind-the-scenes shots that I’ve never seen before, including scale models of everything from the Horizons ...

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