10 Things You Didn't Know About Epcot

by Jen Gallie

1. The Fountain Of Nations

The Fountain of Nations behind Spaceship Earth in Future World is quite special.

Existing since the opening day of Epcot, the fountain is appropriately named as 22 different nations each placed a gallon of water from their retrospective countries. Water was brought in from as far away as the Thames, the Seine and the Nile to help fill the fountain.

The Fountain is pretty impressive to watch. It uses over 200 shooters to send water into the air, all choreographed against music. If all the water shooters were to go off at once around 2,000 gallons of water would be in the air at that time.

Epcot's Fountain of Nations actually has something in common with the famous Bellagio Fountains. Mark Fuller who founded the company responsible with the design of the Las Vegas water display worked with Disney on Epcot's own fountain in the 1980's.

Fuller and his team are also responsible for fountains at Universal Orlando and the Dubai Fountains.

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Jen has been a writer and video editor at WhatCulture for over 10 years. She has a BA Hons in History from Newcastle University and in a past life worked at Beamish Open Air Museum and was a corporate trainer (BTC Award in Education and Training). Jen joined WhatCulture to discuss all things Universal Orlando Resort and Walt Disney World, as well as her love of all things movies. She has worked closely with Universal and Disney, giving WhatCulture readers breaking news and exclusives. Her knowledge of Disney parks has lead her to be published by The Sun. If you've ever completed a Disney movies or Friends quiz on WhatCulture it was probably written by Jen. Jen's love of all things Universal's Halloween Horror Nights brought her to WhatCulture's Horror Channel as a video editor. Her video edits can be found across WhatCulture's Film & TV and Horror channels, along with WhatCulture's Facebook, Instagram and TikTok accounts.