Where's the scary? The abandoned? The creepy? Of which would continue to sponsor Spaceship Earth from 1984-2004. In 1984, AT&T was born as The Bell System was broken into smaller companies. The Bell System had a monopoly on telephone use and service across the USA. Which made EPCOT into some type of World Fair, combining technology from new and old and showing off various cultures.Īt first Spaceship Earth was sponsored by The Bell System. Besides all the old technology to the new, you could also travel around the world all in one afternoon. In 1982 with Spaceship Earth as the main attraction, inside the Giant Golf-Ball looking sphere, it was immensely popular. After much deliberation one Imagineer said, "Why don't we put those ideas together?!" I'm sure everyone had a duh, why didn't I think of that moment. They wanted to make one that showcased the world and it's culture but also exhibited the technology of the future. Well a few years after his death, his Imagineers thought of making a new park. There will be no retirees everyone must be employed.' People will rent houses instead of buying them, and at modest rentals. There will be no landowners and therefore no voting control. In EPCOT, there will be no slum areas because we won't let them develop. It will be a planned, controlled community, a showcase for American industry and research, schools, cultural and educational opportunities. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise. 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. will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. He planned that EPCOT would be a place where new technology was developed, people lived in harmony, and new things were being tried everyday. Walt Disney died while Magic Kingdom was being built, but he wanted a different park built first instead of Magic Kingdom. The New Global Neighborhood, EPCOT, at the Walt Disney Resort, closed in 2004Īnd there was the Network Tree, a sculpture with multiple trunks comprised of 111 miles of fiber optic cable!
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