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When the overlays of introducing Nemo and Friends to the Living Seas as well as the Three Caballeros to El Rio del Tiempo occurred, these decisions seemed to brighten the overall feel and approach to the attractions, allowing children’s interests to peak along with the adults without changing the intent. Back when flamingos called EPCOT home in the early 90’s.īut does the IP infusion change the integrity of the three takeaway words from the plaque: entertain, inform and inspire? However, there are still pockets of edutainment and World Showcase has remained mostly intact in terms of experiencing culture. There has definitely been a shift from the sense of technological innovation and future prospects to where else can we fit IP, intellectual property, into the park. Granted, I was barely two in the early 90’s, but I have the VHS vacation tape for reference. I was lucky enough to experience EPCOT close to the earlier days of its initial opening. However, with Walt’s passing, that vision was not seen through and EPCOT transformed into a completely new type of theme park with two parts one based on edutainment through technological progress and the other a living, breathing world’s fair. If we think back to what Walt Disney originally conceived as the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, initially EPCOT would have been a functioning, operational city. Pondering on this inscription of EPCOT’s foundation, my three take away words were “entertain, inform and inspire.”
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It’s easy to feel that we don’t really know what EPCOT is anymore as it goes through its current metamorphosis stage.