Does anyone know wat EPCOT stands for? LOL Told ye that it was random.



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Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow - hope that helps

Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow - hope that helps

That sounds right to me.

Yep, thats right, hoboswendy.
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Thought I would mention the reason it's called the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow: Walt Disney bought the amount of land he did in Florida for a reason. He planned to build a city from the ground up. Until his last days, he was working on the plans of a metropolis that would use the latest technological and designing standards to make what he considered a utopia.

Without Walt, the project floundered. His brother Roy never really believed in it, and once Roy was gone, no one in charge (notably Card Walker) championed it. When Epcot as we know it today was built, it was called EPCOT Center, and was thought to be the "center" of this community. But the last sort-of supporter of the original EPCOT, Ron Miller (Walt's son-in-law), was forced out of the company by sneaky rival Roy O. Disney (Walt's nephew), the project was all but eliminated. When Micheal Eisner was able to get firm control of Disney, the whole reason for the existence of Walt Disney World was irreversably changed to its being merely a resort, and Walt's dream of a modern, idealized "community of tomorrow" was forever extinguished.

Sounds like I'm sad. I almost am. I'm sorry Walt's last dream was discarded by people more interested in making money than changing the world (as Walt wanted to do). But on the other hand, having studied Walt's original plan for EPCOT, I would not have lived there. The plans call for a community so regimented by rules, there would have been little pleasure in being a resident.

Still, the idea of building a city from scratch is kinda cool (ask anyone who plays SimCity), and many of Disney's ideas were truly innovative and possibly achievable. But we may never know, because absolutely no one living today who is maybe in the position to build an EPCOT has any desire to do it. That's why Walt Disney was unique.

Thank you for this great explanation GG, I had a vague idea of this before but I never went deeper to understand Walt's project.

The name Epcot derives from the acronym EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney (he sometimes used the word "City" instead of "Community" when expanding the acronym). In Walt Disney's words: "EPCOT...will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise."