EPCOT Central

Thoughts on restoring Disney's most unique, most daring theme park.

Friday, May 09, 2014

An Open Letter to Tom Fitzgerald

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Dear Mr. Fitzgerald, I read last week that you are taking over the creative direction of EPCOT, and I know I am not the first to writ...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Did You Sea This News?

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With all the incredible advances in learning more about the alien world beneath our feet, every day it seems more and more of a shame tha...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Why EPCOT Lost Its Way

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At the D23 Expo last week, a frenzied festival of corporate control and spin, there was this discovery: How did Disney allow this to es...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

The Best EPCOT?

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Yes, I know ... it's been a while since I've posted, thanks to business travel and all sorts of other distractions.  But with the re...
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Thursday, June 06, 2013

The High Cost of Disney Living

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Thinking back to my last post about the cost of admission to a Disney theme park and the decision by Disney to spend more than $1 billio...
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Monday, June 03, 2013

Money, Money, Money

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Let's talk about money for a minute. Three decades ago, Disney built EPCOT Center for $1 billion, and the cost of a one-day pass to...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Memories of EPCOT Center

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Memorial Day may be past, but it still seems an appropriate time to remember some of the best aspects of a bygone EPCOT Center.  Although ma...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Beating Disney at Its Own Game ... Again

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Here's what a visitor to EPCOT Center would see today: * A Universe of Energy attraction that hasn't been updated in 18 ye...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

All Manor of Envy

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Sorry.  I know this is long overdue.  I started this post three weeks ago and then, well, life happened. All is well, except for the ...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How We Might Have Met the World

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Just when I think I might love EPCOT Center a little too much, I run across something like this absolutely extraordinary site that contai...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

The 21st Century Begins for EPCOT Central

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Thanks to the urging of several readers, EPCOT Central is now on Twitter, joining the masses of people who somehow have figured out ways t...
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Stunning, Incredible & Heartbreaking

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This breaks my heart. It is stunning technology.  There's no better place than EPCOT to apply such a remarkable display of i...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

How Disney Blew Its Second-Biggest Brand

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In the three and a half years since the last EPCOT Central post, a lot has happened.  More than a quarter of a million people have visite...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Farewell, Uncle Roy

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You'll be missed.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

A Mom's Thoughts On EPCOT

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For a while now, EPCOT Central has been meaning to share this letter from a reader. If Disney executives don't trust ardent Disney love...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Captain Oh-No

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Here's a shocker to those who say EPCOT Central wants to turn Disney's most ambitious theme park into a shrine to the 1980s: Bringin...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

"Two miles deep in that darkness, an amazing world ..."

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Scientists today announced unbelievable discoveries deep in the oceans of our own planet . "Until now, scientifically inconceivable. Ye...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

EPCOT: What Doesn't

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How could Disney get something so spectacularly wrong, so consistently? Put simply: Innoventions is awful. Making the problem even more fas...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

EPCOT: What Works

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Take equal parts Pirates of the Caribbean and Peter Pan's Flight, mix with EPCOT Center's original mission, stir gently, and bake at...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Not for Children Only ... and That's OK

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"When I was 6, EPCOT was so boring to me. I'm glad they changed it." "I may not care for Nemo, but my 5-year-old loves i...
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