by Jim Smith | Jan 20, 2023 | Disney, Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney Spotlight Series, Extinct Disney Attractions
(A version of this article was published for Pirates & Princesses on January 20, 2023.) “Is there a doctor in the house? Or at least somewhere in the theme park?” Look no further than the Wonders of Life. This pavilion – devoted to health care, the human...
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 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 | Sep 25, 2022 | Disney, Disney Spotlight Series, Extinct Disney Attractions
(A version of this article was published for Pirates & Princesses on September 25, 2022.) EPCOT – Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow In Walt Disney’s later years, his greatest dream – EPCOT Center – was to be an actual functioning city....
by Jim Smith | Aug 17, 2022 | Disney, Disney Spotlight Series, Extinct Disney Attractions
(A version of this article was published for Pirates & Princesses on August 19, 2022.) “Energy – you make the world go ’round.” This simple statement of fact also serves as a warning of the fragility of Earth’s natural resources. Does that sound a bit...
