Walt Disney's plan for EPCOT

This video was made sortly before Walt Disney's death. It highlights his vision for EPCOT.

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Travel & Events

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• Disney
• Epcot
• Disneyworld
• Disneyland

[tikigirl]

@SmileyV07 - I'm glad you like the Disney animation since Walt's death. I personally don't. I don't feel that the animation is of as good a quality as the earlier films. But i am biased. Fred Moore was an animator on many of the earlier films. He is also my grandmothers cousin. So the films Fred worked on have always been special to me. I am also a Disney...er....Freak? :D

[greenie95125]

@tikigirl If I had a relative that was an animator, I'd feel the same way. However, if Walt had access to today's tech, his cartoons would look a lot different. He always did the absolute best with what he had to work with.

[tikigirl]

@greenie95125

Your are correct. But the Disney animators did work that is better than todays animation without todays tech.

Take a good look at Snow White sometime. The body movements of the character Snow White are so good they look rotoscoped. But they aren't. The animators were just that good. Attention to detail.

[legomation24]

Did you know one of Walt's teachers told him he didn't have enough of an imagination? That itself proves never to let people let you down. Walt was a genius, I am now waiting for someone like this man to walk this earth again. I pity the Disney these days, just a bunch of Pop star singing crap, back when Walt was alive, the Disney company cared about their films, and the films actually had a moral. e.g. The Lion King. RIP.

[tikigirl]

@legomation24 Walt Disney died in 1966. The Lion King is from 1994. A long time after Walt's death. But I agree. The films made while Walt was alive were the best Disney ever did.

[gegenee1]

I intend on building this.

[redique]

@PandaPurpleify I disagree with you. He was making lots of money with movies and disneyland the land he bought was so big that what he paid was REALLY cheap and everyone wanted to support on this project then but when he died the people that were then the disney chiefs said they didnt want to take care of a city so they bailed but money was never a problem for disney and he had many time suffered with little money and always came successful in a way after and he would never lose his imagination.

[FrenzyGuys]

@legomation24 lion king fail. lol

[PandaPurpleify]

I respect Walt and his idea, but this would never have worked, and at their time, with their technology, it would probably have been of bad qualitiy and outdated quickly by our technology. Besides that, the cost would have been ENORMOUS. They already paid enough for the land. The land + EPCOT, would have been so depressing and the project would probably never have been finished. In turn Walt would become depressed / stressed and lose his imagination. I think Walt should never have felt that way.

[beypokefan]

So a basically they were building Japan?

[Abcflc]

Its a capitalistic Venus Project haha

[stuk90]

if you want to see epcot become realty join the zeitgeist movement... we are working on creating this city.

[gjw2000]

@Robob710 This is pretty much how I feel about it. It could really have been something if he'd been able to see it through, but I guess we'll never know now. Not like there are loads of multi-billionaires with Walt's vision and work ethic around willing to invest in something like this.

[Jkillers123]

doesn't this remind you of iron man 2?