Walt Disney's Original Plan for EPCOT - Part 3

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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[FuturelyAncient]

Lol tony stark's dad in iron man 2 hella reminded me of walt and the model for epcot

[moemankool]

My name is Walt Disney, and I'd like to ask you a question: Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

[pileonthewoman3]

would you kindly

[Totes1829]

I would say Disney isn't quite done with this project just yet...

[Sdpiano6]

if you actually dig deeper into what Walt wanted for EPCOT, its more than a little creepy. (like you said lauriegorden9) He sort of wanted all of these people living under a virtual microscope. its sort of like books like The Giver and The Hunger Games. And Uglies (by Scott Westerfeild) fans, does 'The Greenbelt' remind you of any thing? Exactly. This should be another literary conflict. It happens enough, Man vs Ideas, things that sound good, but never end up working in the end...

[POPCANA]

@lauriegordon9 I like the "skeleton" aspect of this community. Meaning the smooth flow of the transportation systems, innovative infrastructure, highly organized balance of land purposes, emphasis of the city center etc..

This vid definitely has the "perfect community" tone to it but ignoring that part I think today's city's (even in booming China) could learn some things from this vid.

[SirGabriel2076]

@FuturelyAncient He should be. He unites both Disney and Marvel against Bugs Bunny's right hand man, Bruce Wayne!

[SirGabriel2076]

I can imagine what people with WB shields would be like with Leeroy Jenkins in the party at this city's gates.

[SirGabriel2076]

This gives me inspiration for what the capital of the Walt Disney Empire would be like in my fan fiction stories. There would also be the Disney castle somewhere that would be designed to withstand ACME arsenal (which is of the Warner Brothers Empire, Disney's arc enemy) meaning that it would be the universe's most fortified castle complete with both highly defensive walls and anti-air magic towers.

[Chibihalo2]

I guess when EPCOT didn't quite turn out like Walt's original plan the Disney Corporation went the way of their PUD Celebration. They never did get close to what they wanted to do with their planned community because of state and county building codes. Instead, Celebration turned out to be a model of the perfect Fifties and Sixties small town American community. A community with some pretty set in stone neighborhood rules to make everything perfect from the front.

[GoldsteinsBook]

@lauriegordon9 Right, because the slums of Detroit and near-endless hordes of welfare-dependents of Albany, NY are so much better. Shut up.

[rockfreak611]

@lauriegordon9 reminds me of a Brave New World esque "utopian" society *shudders*