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EPCOT CENTER FUTURE WORLD AT WALT DISNEY WORLD!! PART 1

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Uploaded by on Nov 12, 2010

Please check out my channel for more Theme Park videos, Subscribe to be notified when I release a new video. This is Part 1 of 4. This was filmed on November 11, 2010.

Check out my Theme Park Blog: http://themeparktours.blogspot.com/

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1sbuqUkz4M

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1sbuqUkz4M

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHK0B4kkMg0

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb2JQhGwo4U

Epcot is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort, located near Orlando, Florida. The park is dedicated to international culture and technological innovation. The second park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1982 and was named EPCOT Center until 1994. In 2009, Epcot hosted approximately 11 million guests, ranking it the third most visited theme park in the United States, and sixth most visited in the world.[1]

Epcot is an acronym of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney. Disney's original vision of EPCOT was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test bed for city planning and organization. Disney's vision was not realized as funding and permission to start work on his Florida property would not be granted until he agreed to build the Magic Kingdom first. Disney died before the Magic Kingdom opened and the Walt Disney Company decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city.

The theme park originally was known as EPCOT Center to reflect the fact that the park was built to embody the ideals and values of EPCOT the city. The park consists of two sections; Future World and World Showcase, laid out in an hourglass shape. Both sections are patterned after the types of exhibits found at world expositions. In its early years, Epcot was often called a "permanent World's Fair."

EPCOT Center was constructed for an estimated $800 million to $1.4 billion and took three years to build (at the time the largest construction project on Earth).[2] Covering an area of 300 acres (120 ha), it is more than twice the size of The Magic Kingdom.[citation needed] The parking lot serving the park is 141 acres (57 ha) (including bus area) and can accommodate 11,211 vehicles (grass areas hold additional 500+ vehicles).

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  • awesome video...thanx

  • it looks so great with all the Disney cartoon stuffs, i wanna go to Eccopt, i`ll try for it!

  • holy shizzzzzzz ;o

    i soooooooo wanna go :O

  • WOW, when did they open Horizons again??? I thought it was closed for the next couple of years? How new is this footage?

  • yeah its cool ;)

  • Nice Vid man, Keep it up!

  • great video

  • cool.

  • really nice video. =)

    ive never been there but id so love to go there.

    keep it up. <3

  • wow.

  • Epcot Is The Best. Green Thumb.

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