Walt Disney's Original Plan for EPCOT - Part 1

Here is Walt Disney's original idea for EPCOT. The film was made for the Florida Legislators so that the state would give the company the self-governing rights and permissions it needed to build its giant theme park, resort, city utopian thing. ***TRIVIA: He dyed his hair for this.

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[zz811]

Walt's projects were NEVER about money. He was always scraping the bottom of the barrel, the corporate sponsors came from desperation from Walt's LACK of money.

Sorry capitalists just aren't that important. There are better motivations in life than money. If you have people who are really excited about a project they will donate time and effort and cut your costs by 90%. Capitalists on the other hand will raise your costs as much as they can, then do as poor a job as they can get away with.

[togio100]

well, you've got to be practical

besides, can you think of a reason why Walt Disney didn't deserve to indulge a bit into the American dream? He worked his ass off since he was a kid, chased his dreams in earl Hollywood, confronted setbacks at every turn, and in the process changed the face of entertainment forever.

considering he was a poor kid from the Midwest at one time, it seems like a happy turn of events that he had his own Cinderella story of sorts.

[SirGabriel2076]

Batman, on the other hand, looks cooler in his cape for the following reasons:

He is almost a bad guy, but is always a good guy.

His cape actually does something.

He does not posses magic.

He was way cooler when he watched his mother die.

Joel Shumacker apologized for making a flop.

[SirGabriel2076]

Another reason why Disney and WB are better than Star Wars: THEY ACTUALLY HAVE ARMOR THAT ACTUALLY WORKS!

At least Disney's noble ally, Iron Man does.

[SirGabriel2076]

I imagined a fan fiction version of this with absolutely nothing subtracted but updated with the best anti-ACME magic defense.

[SalientK]

Could a glass dome big enough to cover an area that big even be created using current technology? Unless it's actually a metal frame with glass panels embedded in it, which sounds more doable. Even still, I wouldn't want to be under that thing when a giant chunk of glass comes crashing down.

[gegenee1]

I intend on building this.

[johnyboy6405]

when was this video recorded?

[vgmaster9]

I bet Dubailand took lots of inspiration from the original EPCOT concept, with different little cities inside.

[MrAlGator]

Indeed even Alfred Hitchock worked several times with Disney for SFX on his movies, Disney´s Ub Iwerks and Disney specialists were hired by Hitchcock for SFX for The Birds. Walt Disney was a genius and his EPCOT concept originally was to create a new kind of society far better than the one we have now. And he wanted to achieve it with love and ideas and not with war or power.

[SirGabriel2076]

@SirGabriel2076 In addition, not only were the two studios were BETTER at the special effects business, but the said films were also DECENT films with POSITIVE reviews, much better than that frog in that Plinkett-pwned prequel!

[SirGabriel2076]

@zz811 The reason why I am now a Disney fan instead of a Star Wars fan. Disney had some really awesome effects like making leprechauns small. The company lived on to this very day and improved special effects even further with Pixar, both Tron films, and Pirates of the Caribbean. The Warner brothers, on the other hand, I believe, were geniuses too. The company, too, made big bucks on spectacular special effects. You could probably guess at least one movie that was known for that.