Diving Into Early EPCOT Center: The Shape of Confusion
Added 2024-09-25 01:07:22 +0000 UTCIn the second episode of Defunctland After Dark, Kevin adds what was missing from his documentary Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History... his dumb voice. In this first part, Kevin covers everything from the origins of the post-city EPCOT concept to the beginnings of EPCOT Center as we know it.
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I think your “science center” explanation is spot-on. I feel like center is interchangeable with “institute” in that context.
thejesteban
2024-09-26 14:05:23 +0000 UTCexcellent, looking forward to it. I'm the exact target audience for these videos.
Chad Haefele
2024-09-25 21:07:53 +0000 UTCI think Marty Sklar’s explanation is likely a nomenclature retcon, I believe that’s the internal reasoning they put behind the name to make it sound purposeful, but I don’t think that’s where it “came from” based on the earlier uses of Center. In Part 2, I’m planning to touch on this idea of retcon reasoning even more than I did in this one.
Defunctland
2024-09-25 19:48:37 +0000 UTCI need to revisit the book, but I think Foxx Nolte's Hidden History of Walt Disney World talks about the Epcot Center name, and says Disney briefly considered branding all of WDW as their implementation of the original EPCOT idea - with this park, "Epcot Center" is the core of it. That idea didn't stick, but the name did. The Danny Kaye Who's on First routine goes along with that. I think there's truth in all of these ideas, I'd guess it came from multiple places. I really enjoyed this video, thank you.
Chad Haefele
2024-09-25 18:32:30 +0000 UTCI’m glad they got Danny Kaye to clear that up. And they knew exactly how crazy these naming conventions are!?
David A Behlman
2024-09-25 06:46:13 +0000 UTCRe: the Epcot Center naming bit. Just last month I was writing something about the original Epcot Center and I read the Epcot Center book they published when the park opened. In Marty Sklar's introduction, he says this, "Implemented by the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the Epcot Building Code, embodying Walt Disney’s philosophy for Epcot, is firmly in place as the foundation for future development. What was lacking was a public focus for new ideas and concepts, a ‘center’ for the communication of new possibilities for the future, directly to the public.” Which definitely checks out with your theory as to why they chose the word "center"
Jose M Luna
2024-09-25 01:47:59 +0000 UTCoh hell yeah let's go
Sephiroth1204
2024-09-25 01:29:08 +0000 UTC
