by Jim Smith | Mar 16, 2023 | Disney Parks & Resorts, Travel News, Travel Planning
Lots of Walt Disney World news was released on March 15th, highlighting many new experiences coming soon! Here are the biggest things coming your way. As we’ve been anticipating for what feels like forever, TRON Lightcycle/Run will be opening in Magic Kingdom to...
by Jim Smith | Nov 23, 2022 | Disney, Extinct Disney Attractions
“E.P.C.O.T … will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems.” – Walt Disney In the later years of his life, Walt Disney’s ambitious imagination envisioned EPCOT Center to be a functioning “city of...
by Jim Smith | Oct 14, 2022 | Disney, Disney Spotlight Series, Extinct Disney Attractions, Lists, Role Call - The Best of Disney
We’ve all seen those old photos of the early days of Walt Disney World’s EPCOT Center. Some of us have been in a few of these photos, or even taken them ourselves. Well, old is new, retro is in, and EPCOT has turned forty years young! To celebrate, let’s take a look...
by Jim Smith | Oct 5, 2022 | Disney Trivia, Lists and Trivia
Our delightfully progressive friend EPCOT has turned 40 years young! In honor of the occasion, I wrote a piece in my ongoing “Dearly Departed Disney” dedicated to EPCOT’s CommuniCore. In performing my due research on this long lost Future World pavilion, I came across...
by Jim Smith | Oct 5, 2022 | Hidden
Which opening day EPCOT Center attraction (located in CommuniCore) has the dubious distinction of being the first of the park’s opening day attractions to close? Answer: Astuter Computer Revue This show was designed to make computers seem less foreign and intimidating...
