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4. EPCOT’s Original Design
Disney’s Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow, better know as EPCOT is one of the four base parks and home to the World Showcase - a real fan-favourite cultural attraction.
This window into culture and the future was not intended to be a theme park at all, it was suppose to be a living, breathing, futuristic community.
Walt’s vision encapsulated a fully air conditioned hub at the centre, surrounded by technology based subsystems, state-of-the-art residential quarters, all connected by a looping monorail. The idea was that EPCOT or ‘Project X’ as it was known back then would serve as a blueprint for future community developments around the world, showing there are no limits to what is possible..
The project was disbanded after Walt’s death due to being too ambitious without Mr. Disney himself overseeing the development. The original mock-up models are now on show in Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland.