by Jim Smith | Nov 29, 2022 | Hidden
Question 1: In 1999 – Innoventions underwent a refresh for Disney’s millennium celebration. During the period from 2001-2007, who was considered the official “host” of Innoventions? (Hint: a previous iteration of this character has appeared in former attractions...
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...
