The ABANDONED Remnants of Old Epcot Center

Woah, woah, woah wait.... You mean to tell me there wasn't always a giant Nova Corps ship just hanging out in front of Universe of Energy?! Epcot Center has changed throughout the years. First to Epcot, then to EPCOT (like they're yelling.) What remains of Epcot Center and Epcot (not yelled) and where can we find it today?
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[@thekenziewolf]

I love how mission space blares that warning about how you shouldn’t ride it probably 100 times while you’re in the queue

[@BAM5636]

True and yet if you stand at the exit, you will see person after person act like they didn't know orange was going to be that intense 🤣.

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

Orange you going to explain why it's so bad? I'll see myself out

[@UmmYeahOk]

What’s bad is when they chicken out in green. I’ve done orange enough times that I don’t need to prove anything. But sometimes it’s sad seeing people chicken out right after being assigned roles. Then it happened to us, when my daughter chickened out. I should’ve ask to do the rider swap, but I didn’t. We all just gave up our fast pass for nothing. I’ve never gotten the chance to ride either updates.

[@BAM5636]

​@UmmYeahOk Bummer. Green is really tame. I suppose all the warnings get some freaked out even though they are mostly for the orange riders. Orange is basically what it was before the update just with updated graphics. So you didn't miss a lot to be honest. I am now officially retired from mission space..at least orange.. Lol.

[@TheInfintyithGoofball]

what? what was so wrong with "orange"?🤨🟠

[@mattrobinson973]

Fun fact. You can recreate the orange version of mission space at home by simply falling down your stairs. You’ll get the same “day totally ruined” feeling for free

[@HandleHandle233]

Does anyone else also get as sick as a dog on guardians of the galaxy?😢

[@starshine3940]

😂😂😂

[@ginadoyle4089]

😂😂

[@bdchiaccio]

Yup and Everest​@@HandleHandle233

[@darkstrifequeen1458]

Yeah I slipped on the stairs once and wound up with a nasty bruise on my butt! I was even feeling a bit of vertigo and couldn’t sit up without feeling dizzy.

[@clarkautin7157]

I visited EPCOT Center in December of 1982 as a college freshman. I have to say that EPCOT was mind-blowing. It was unique, cutting edge, and maybe even a life changing experience. The problem is that even if EPCOT had not physically changed one single bit in the past 40+ years, it still would not be original EPCOT. The world has changed and the internet has made it smaller and less mysterious. Technology is not as wonderous as it once was because it is moving rapidly and we learn about advancements almost immediately. Different world cultures are not as fascinating as they once were because we can virtually experience them at any time. What I am trying to say is that when EPCOT opened, it provided a sense of awe and conveyed a feeling of optimism that it really cannot duplicate today. Sadly, there can no longer be an original EPCOT Center.

[@toddhensley880]

Exactly. What are they going to do, show us video phones? Let us try on VR goggles?

[@EuroMIX2]

Same problem MGM/Hollywood Studios has, but about "behind the magic of film and TV production". It's no longer the big, intriguing mystery that you can sell park goers on the experience of, we have DVD extras, youtube videos from official sources and people breaking down and explaining how it all works from the comfort of our own home. Both park themes have unfortunately become outdated and irrelevant as time and technology marched on.

[@johngalvano5895]

@@EuroMIX2 I think the retro-Hollywood aesthetic is timeless, though

[@kidsruntheshow3752]

You know it’s a good video when Offhand starts the video off with Greek Mythology

[@seanoning]

i've never had a fear of dark rides or animatronics or anything like that, but something about those abandoned setpieces hidden in plain sight on spaceship earth is so unsettling to me!!

[@joshuacheshire5859]

Are the animatronics still there too?

[@honeysuckle754]

Offhand when Living with the Land goes through corkscrew: 😎 Offhand when Mission Space tilts you in a box: 🤢

[@NinthShinigami]

I still miss what EPCOT used to be. I didn’t get to experience Horizons and a couple of the other classics, but I was able to experience it when Maelstrom was still a thing as well as the old Test Track. The park just feels like a shell of itself now 😭

[@KwangTheMongrel]

Couldn’t remember the name but I have very fond memories of maelstrom

[@BAM5636]

Horizons was old Epcot to me. Sorry to hear you never got to experience that. Between that and the orginal imagination pavilion, that is what I think of most when going to epcot in the 80s. Good times. That said, even then people said Epcot was a park you could skip and was more educational than fun. So I can understand why Disney ended up very slowly changing things. That and with the destruction of the sponsorship model it worked on, I guess change was inevitable.

[@darkstrifequeen1458]

Horizons was the best experience I ever had as a kid!

[@jec6613]

And here I sit thinking that Test Track in any incarnation is new Epcot. I remember being so excited as a knee high to a grasshopper child to see the ride vehicles exit the building and go back in, kept me entertained while we were in the line and I was sad when the line came inside and I couldn't see it anymore.

[@RoadtrippinwithTakacs]

I still can smell the orange grove of Horizons whenever the word is mentioned. It was that good. 💪 Too bad it's gone.

[@UnrealFire]

The restrooms at The Odyssey were renovated at least a couple years ago! They have blue hexagons on the walls now and Dyson hand dryers. Definitely not what you have pictures of anymore, unfortunately.

[@CameronJP]

I know he isn't local. However he should of been to the park atleast once or twice to realize those bathrooms were renovated. Or atleast heard they were renovated.

[@UmmYeahOk]

The last time I was at the Wonders of Life pavilion, I overheard a cast member tell another cast member that she had never seen it so busy before. That’s why I was shocked to hear that would soon close it for good. Soarin’ was brand new, and only had one theater then. So when they closed Wonders of Life, instead of adding a new ride to the lineup, they merely replaced it, as they lost Body Wars, not to mention all the other fun stuff inside. They just really wanted those lines to be long.

[@thebunnyfoofoo]

6:22 that mural is by artist Bob McCall. His daughter still runs his foundation. He did original closing mural at Horizons and there is a painting of his in the American pavilion at EPCOT. He did a ton of stuff for Disney

[@emliztober]

i really think part of what makes epcot EPCOT is that it’s constantly changing. i haven’t loved every addition to the park but Experimental is literally in the name

[@patrickdaly5988]

Brought my kids to Epcot for the first time last summer. Admittedly, the walls were still up, but they just wouldn't believe my stories of how amazing the place was back when I first visited in 92. I kind of gave up trying when I saw them try to play with the sad remnants of the imagination pavilion.

[@thatevangarcia]

Love the comparison to the ship of Theseus. I think the day videos like this stop being made is when EPCOT dies. Versions of EPCOT live in all of our hearts in different ways. The even if they close EPCOT and gets reduced to rubble. It’s still lives in all of us just like the ship of Theseus still lives to this day

[@DeadAsmodean]

Thanks to this video I now have a parody of Rob Zombie's "More human than human" stuck in my head but it's "More Epcot than Epcot". Life is weird when you are both a Disney parks fan and a metal head.

[@TheInfintyithGoofball]

or me when I'm dreaming. (u really don't wanna know)

[@experiment626eventing]

please please never stop making these old epcot videos! its my favorite thing to watch!!

[@veromikes]

Horizons Forever. I’m 50 and was at Epcot every year since October 1982. 80s Epcot was Amazing. 1986 was my favorite year in Epcot. Right when the living Seas opened.

[@BrettDault]

Back when it was an actual aquarium and not the sad bucket it is today 😢

[@veromikes]

@@BrettDault yup.

[@MissMTurner]

Oh yeah. I'm 47 and my first trip was 1984. Epcot was amazing back then. It was all so fascinating.

[@Zephymonkey]

Loved Horizons! I remember going on it over and over again just to choose the different endings. I'm also 50 and have gone since it first opened.

[@veromikes]

@@Zephymonkey yes!!!!

[@jmn327]

Was in EPCOT Center as a baby in the late 80s, spent a chunk of my childhood at mid-90s EPCOT, have seen new EPCOT, and, uh...yeah, I remember still having a lot of love for the park when I visited in the early 2010s, but it was in large part because I still saw the "bones" of old Future World and could imagine how Imagineering might bring it back to life with new ideas that resonated the way the original park did. Visiting more recently was tougher on that front, even in World Showcase in some places.

[@jasonrussell9637]

I think Epcot was more a mindset than a physical place. It has changed and it will continue to change. I hope there comes a return to the mission of Epcot, not just a cash grab.

[@jalapeno1119]

Maybe the real Epcot was the friends we made along the way

[@rdcortes22]

Wonders of Life was not a filler pavilion! Body wars and cranium command use to be some of the funnest rides for a kid.

[@UmmYeahOk]

Even experiencing it as an adult in the 21st century, it was still pretty good. Last time I was there, I overheard a cast member tell another how she had never seen the pavilion that busy before. …which is why I was shocked when I found out they closed it soon after that.

[@Fjaert]

Inside out would be a great replacement for cranium command. Body wars could just come back updated with you floating through some transgender blood or something. Wonders of life could come back as what it is with a new name like the body or something to fit into the parks theme. Really stupid for Disney to have an entire place that has full capacity to handle a large part of the crowd and not use it. So glad I got the chance to go to Disney in the 2000s to catch some of this stuff before it died.

[@UmmYeahOk]

@@FjaertSome guy actually sued Disney for stealing his idea for Inside Out. As soon as I heard about it, I knew he had never heard or experienced Cranium Command. Sure, there were two Disney shorts in the 40s, possibly as late as 50s, that used the same concept, but it was Cranium Command I instantly thought of.

[@Fjaert]

@@UmmYeahOk man I just want some shit to do back in Epcot. Wonders of life had things that could soak up your time in between rides. Same with innovations, now it's all been replaced with empty space and that's shameful as piss

[@UmmYeahOk]

@@Fjaertthat’s why I was so shocked when I heard they closed it. They had finally opened a new ride, only to close another, bringing the ride count to the same amount it’s been since 1989. Sure, there were a lot of other things to do within that pavilion, but we wouldn’t see a new ride be added to the count till Ratatouille. And it’s insane to think that Soarin was so popular that it needed two more theaters added onto it. It wouldn’t need more if there was other things to do, like The Wonders of Life. And even when Soarin was open, Innoventions was pretty much done for. I remember the House of Tomorrow, which was already outdated, and the Segway experience. All they had to do was drag all that Disney Quest stuff into the area, and it would give crowds more to do.

[@Lostfearlessleaderswiftie]

Had my first craft fair today. Got home and saw this. I was already overjoyed and this made me even more overjoyed.

[@kentslocum]

I would argue that we wouldn't need or want or miss the "original" EPCOT Center, if Disney had maintained the same dedication to excellence throughout the years. The problem is that EPCOT 3.0 does not pay proper homage to its past, nor does its present respect the intentions of the original Imagineers.

[@jetsons101]

I have been going to Disneyland since 1957 and still go quite a few times a year. It has changed a lot BUT it is still Disneyland -- I still remember Space Station X-1, the Bathroom of Tomorrow and Rainbow Ridge Pack Mules. I now take my grandson there. Over the years things have but it is still Disneyland.

[@jondbm]

Fun fact - the Odyssey backs onto the Cast Member cafeteria, with a shared kitchen facility in between them. Obviously these days it’s not used very often for the Odyssey side, but it kinda is still a restaurant every day backstage.

[@lauranichole86]

Im 38 and still have fond fragment memories of horizon and the citrus scent. Also... I lived through BODY WARS 😂

[@Cornberry]

Such a small part of the video, but I love the usage of white Vision’s line at the beginning. People who’ve seen Wandavision know it’s a reference to that scene when they actually talk about the ship of Theseus, but people who didn’t watch it just see it as an appropriately timed clip.

[@brianmcdonald6519]

One thing you have to remember is that Walt said it would never be finished!! Everything would be continually changing and/or growing! That was Walts vision, and I believe the imagineers are still trying to live up to that vision!!

[@ChrisWehadababyitsaboy]

to celebrate 300k subs, you should ride Mission Space on the crazier version, blindfolded

[@UmmYeahOk]

My favorite Spaceship Earth scene that was removed was the future scenes that showed a kid in the US playing a game with someone from, I think, Japan. They were “FaceTiming” each other, and their languages were being translated back and forth on the fly. This was HUGE, and not something I’d see until I had my own daughter and she was doing it. So even after the 2007 update, it would’ve been fine. What wasn’t fine was hiding everything and making you interact with a screen during your complete descent. I mean, a year or two later, we would all be doing that on our iPads anyway, right?

[@wdwexploreandchill]

Yay! A Sunday morning video about EPCOT! 🎉💜🎉

[@AndrewJHayford]

Horizons was my favorite. It went from being an image of the future, to being a glorious Retrofuturism showcase. I loved it as a kid and teen.

[@EmmettLBrown2015]

I was a '90s kid and I have so many wonderful memories of Epcot Center and It's glory days. It was quite a time.

[@351wmustanggt]

I used to go to EPCOT and WDW back in the early 80's and remember all plus a lot more than you mentioned. In fact I went to WDW as a kid back in the 70's when it was the original WDW.

[@donkeydefense]

Some of Epcot 2.0 is fantastic, some has been terrible, but there is still a lot of Epcot Center alive in the park.

[@spinlok3943]

Old Epcot was objectively superior.

[@Jaszi007]

I didn’t experience it, except for the original Club Cool, but I completely agree except for Cosmic Rewind cuz I really enjoy it even though it’s not educational science stuff like Epcot used to be.

[@metallicnole4514]

I’ll never object to cosmic rewind in Epcot. They needed a big attraction like that and it’s so much better then Ellen’s energy adventure. Remy’s was a great addition as it draws people to world showcase.

[@spinlok3943]

@@metallicnole4514 They still don’t belong in Epcot. They easily could’ve done something else.

[@metallicnole4514]

@@spinlok3943 The pavillion and set up is very epcot. Plus the ride is awesome so I'm glad it's there.

[@jwprimetime9795]

My family took us to Epcot in October of 1992. I can’t tell you how amazing it was. I was only 8 but it instantly became my favorite park. I don’t even know what I think of it now.

[@raphaelyounes4308]

MISSED FACT: The concrete hexagonal planter in front of mission space, shown in 11:28, is original from 1982, and was shaped exactly to match the horizons building as viewed from above.

[@OperativeD]

I was fortunate enough as a kid to go to EPCOT in the early 90's when most of the original attractions were still in operation. World of Motion, CommuniCore, Horizons, and Body Wars, Cranium Command, and Kitchen Kabaret at the Wonders of Life Pavillion. Though dated I still enjoyed them all for what they were and were trying to do. "They don't make em like they used to..."

[@sophiareinhardt7416]

I wasn’t alive for the Epcot 1.0 but I definitely see some of it shrine through in todays Epcot (living with the land, Moana water journey and the ideas of conservation and like the cool things we can now do with wayer, mission space in the whole space exploration ideas) but that being said I think we still have stuff to keep working toward or maybe we won’t have original Epcot back. I think especially when maelstrom was taken out more recently we all kinda knew IP was going to start seriously taking over Epcot and then when Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure opened it really solidified that and even now with cosmic rewind. I am excited to see how test track might be able to bring back some old Epcot with the world of motion (supposedly from what I’ve read) makeover. I do however wish we still had classic attractions like horizons or the original journey into imagination (esp since I never experienced it). It’s weird getting fomo of a park I never even lived to see

[@ktm6612]

You know? The same can be said about Univwrsal Studios Florida, that park really wiped out most of the original 90s theming and attractions with the only one standing being E.T. adventure

[@alexprieto4815]

37 here, great memories of Horizons as a kid. It was amazing. Ugh being reminded of Epcot’s deterioration as something truly special with each new decade is beyond depressing lol awesome video

[@TBustah]

Yes, I’m familiar with the Ship of Theseus. The Navy has a literal example: the research sub Alvin. It’s been in service since the mid ‘60s, but every component on it has been replaced at least once.

[@thecoolestdad]

The original Epcot Center was special. For those that never got to experience the original Epcot I wish yall could have. The atmosphere was so different than it feels today. Universe Of Energy was a slow moving ride but it was so cool going through the prehistoric dinosaur days. Horizons was an exceptionally cool ride. Videos do not do it any justice. Then there was the World Of Motion. Again, a slow moving ride but it took you through the development of transportation throughout the ages. The original concept of Journey Into Imagination was much better than what it is today. This ride NEEDS to be completely changed. Listen to the Land was great, but it is still the same ride as it was. I am glad for that. Then the Living Seas. It needs an overhaul and reverted back to the original concept and get rid of the Nemo stuff. I am glad Spaceship Earth is still the same. Talks has it that they were going to change it but I hope enough people stood up and said NO! Even the two Communicore buildings had lots of hands on stuff to do. Sadly those in charge at Disney these days are "dumbing down" all of Disney. It's rather sad. I still love to go to Disney. We are going down in September and staying on property again. YAY! But I am not happy with a lot of the changes that has happened in the last 15-20 years.

[@gregmanning8967]

If you're gonna mention the Horizons reference in Mission: Space, you should also mention the Universe of Energy theme reference in the Guardians of the Galaxy ride. The "rock music" at the beginning of the roller coaster portion is a rock cover of the Universe of Energy theme.

[@wheninrome42]

i would argue that we never even had Epcot, at least not EPCOT as Walt wanted it... but the Epcot that we had in the 80s/90s was GOAT epcot, bring back Maelstrom!!

[@DarkSt0rm009]

Honestly, This made me remember how much I missed innoventions, which I first experienced when they were pretty much re-using sega's E3 booth

[@SalivatingSteve]

Dude I dig your shirt with the spaceship earth triangles all over it!

[@dronesaur4328]

When you started talking about Horizons, I thought you were going to talk about the planter in front of Mission Space. I believe it's the original planter that used to be in front of the entrance to Horizons, and is shaped like the ride building.

[@chloewildner167]

I really like this video. I often find myself wanting to say that Epcot is my favorite park, but the reality is that the Epcot I think of doesn’t exist anymore.

[@mariog1982]

I was fortunate to experience Horizons during a family vacation to Disney World in the early 90s. It was a visual feast for the eyes. The most imaginative theme park ride I’ve ever experienced. You literally enter another world.

[@Clint7777]

There’s something just so right about seeing those dark palm trees in front of the lit up Spaceship Earth at dusk

[@oliviabradley332]

Out of season festival signs and decorations are kept in an empty lot between riviera and boardwalk resort - not the topiaries but like the rainbows from festival of the arts and the food and wine signs etc. Wonders of life is probably full of like - so many plastic forks and knives

[@juvetravels]

The 80's restrooms are gone! I think that's why the Odyssey was closed when you went there. I went today, the building was open and the restrooms have been completely modernized. :( The tile is gone. Everything inside them is redone. :(

[@Robert-rv3zm]

I remember visiting EPCOT In the early 80s. One of my favorite attractions was the Living Seas when it featured the Hydrolators that would transport you to Seabase Alpha. Being younger and more naive, the illusion made me think I was really being going down to the sea bed. I was really cool. Fast forward to 2011. I took my sister’s 3 kids to the Magic Kingdom and EPCOT. The whole time, I was telling them about the Living Seas and how cool it was. Long story short, they had changed the format of ocean exploration to a Finding Nemo cartoon. I felt foolish and disappointed, although the kids enjoyed it. At my current age, I doubt that I will ever visit the park again. Kinda sad. 😢

[@jasonjmarchi]

The real Epcot never happened. Walt Disney died too early, and the "suits" turned Epcot into a tourist attraction and destroyed Walt's original plan for the City of the Future in which new technologies would be presented and tested, and the City evolve as technology changed.

[@OakForestBoys]

Watching this while at Epcot in the bathroom of the imagination pavilion even though they just removed the original music 😭

[@williamspendlove]

Spaceship Earth... one of my all time favorite Disney attractions, when Imagineering actually created Disney magic!

[@Captain-Biscuit853]

The East India Trading company sign on the wall near Offhand, What a masterpiece.

[@hlavco]

Hey, at least EPCOT still has its symbol structure, unlike MGM.

[@wade_jpeg]

Unfortunately, the Odyssey restrooms were renovated a few years ago. As an alternative, there are restrooms post security but pre touch points that are still original.

[@davidschiller1611]

The Odyssey Rest Rooms were updated when the building was. The old brown was a favorite because it was so old.

[@lukeathing6753]

Literally just went to Epcot today and was arguing with my sister about wether or not the people below the astronauts on the Spaceship Earth mural are “purple aliens”

[@voiceoverguyharris]

Literally just returned back from our trip there. I really enjoy watching your videos. Thank you for what you do.

[@kurtbrigandi]

Im surprised you didnt mention the Horizons planter. In from of mission space is the original planter from Horizons, which happens to be the shape of the old building!

[@jec6613]

What made the original EPCOT Center (yes, it was stylized all caps!) different was that there were no characters or existing IP. That changed slightly for the Kidcot stations over time to get children more interested in World Showcase, but really that was the differentiator. That's changed significantly in the last decade or two - no ride in World Showcase has escaped Ipcot, and in the front half of the park it's better, but The Living Seas and Universe of Energy are now turned into Ipcot attractions. And it started innocently enough, putting The Three Caballeros into Mexico, a very old nostalgic IP, but now the Big Bang upgrade to UoE became Guardians, and that makes zero sense to me.

[@jennierod81]

I was at Epcot two days ago. No, it’s not the Epcot of my childhood, but it’s still my favorite park ❤

[@NealHunterHyde]

An EPCOT Center Replica Park - I would SO be down. However, could we set it in the late 1989, instead of 1982? Otherwise it wouldn’t have Journey Into Imagination, Norway/Maelstrom, Horizons, Wonders of Life and The Living Seas.

[@rayBoogie77]

Walt Disney used to say that Disney World is never done being built. If he’s right, then the current EPCOT is the real EPCOT.

[@ChrisRobb-iy6nr]

The flaw in your theory is that the ship gets replaced with boards that look exactly the same, as where Epcot gets replaced with things that look totally different. Apples and oranges my friend.

[@theboringkaren]

You just gave me a new activity to do when I visit EPCOT next weekend!

[@nicholasharvey7039]

I don’t have any nostalgia for what EPCOT used to be. I still say that I haven’t seen so much of the park as it is today so I’m determined to see the park the way I want 😭😭

[@nemiiart]

Wow, that’s the perfect metaphor for Epcot. Nice work!

[@michaelschroeck2254]

6:32 mmmmm I can actually smell the musty canvas smell !!!

[@faithlessfate]

The restaurant at mission space has the old horizons spinning greenhouse too

[@alexandriabowser6105]

As an AP holder, who often goes alone. I hope I run into you one day!

[@BrettDault]

I'm a many years long evening enjoyer. But there are so many people. I really only care for mk AFTER the fireworks anymore. Everything else is a disaster. ...although I do have a few favorite quiet Epcot spots that are very wonderful 🤗

[@dasutobani]

I always kinda wondered about Spaceship Earth, the descent part always felt a little empty, with just the starfield.

[@FinDaFrogGuy]

If you think about it couldn’t the ship of Theseus thought experiment apply to all of us? Like we grow new hair to replace the hair we cut, our teeth fall out before we grow replacements, we discard old ideas as we grow new memories and experiences, and the billions of cells that make up our entire being are constantly duplicating and dying. So are we still the same person as when we were like 4? I think so. We just aged. So like us, Epcot aged and continues to age

[@KwangTheMongrel]

Epcot ended when they got rid of that Norway ride with the trolls

[@AndrewJHayford]

I'm like 90% sure Spaceship Earth was narrated by Walter Cronkite initially.

[@sharker49]

I am shocked at the lack for Mission Space, its not perfect but its a fun space ride that is partially based on a box office bomb.

[@ryanjones4106]

Maybe the real EPCOT is the friends we made along the way 😆

[@RetroFett]

OK, I'll say it... make a NEW Journey Into Your Imagination... in the WOL building! It fits better with World: Discovery on that side of the park, they can keep the CURRENT JIYI open while the new version is being constructed, and once complete the current pyramid building can then be closed/ gutted and used for an original attraction. While I would miss the gladsspyramids, the golden dome of the former WOL building would be NICELY with an Imagination theme.

[@TBustah]

Marley was dead to begin with: EPCOT in 1982 was pretty far removed from Walt's original vision.

[@gr33ngirlsea]

My goodness, what a philosophical video!

[@kjverhage5706]

I totally miss the whole "World's Fair" aspect of Epcot. I never got to see the day 1 version of Epcot as I didn't come into the world until 89 but I do remember my first trip to Epcot in 96 and again in 98. It's sad that they didn't keep Horizons or the ride with Alex Trebek and Ellen DeGeneres or the Wonders Of Life pavilion, I really got upset when they replaced the Norwegian boat ride. I mean I can understand the gentle refreshing here and there but I wish Epcot would go back to a more permanent World's Fair aspect of the park with the technology and whatnot they used to have. Just give it a gentle refreshing every five or so years.

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

Yeah. Though the whole idea of a “world’s fair” seems a bit strange to me now, and I actually went to one as a kid, and loved it. A remnant from a time when you couldn’t se anything anywhere on your tablet. Also, the ride with Trebek and Degeneres did not originally have them in it! It did have the dinosaurs though. It was basically pro-fossil-fuel propaganda (thus the dinosaurs, aka living fossils). It did have a cool preshow, which was projected onto a screen made of moving blocks. It can’t really be described, and probably can’t be properly experienced as a mere video.

[@WheezyLiam]

I cant believe they put Guardians in the place of Universe of Energy instead of Wonders of Life. Such a shame.

[@jeffb33]

Fyi, if they made an Epcot as it was on opening day, you wouldn't have Horizons, Journey into imagination, The living sea or Maelstrom

[@MonsterRat1000]

i would like to proposed another question that kind of expands on what you asked towards the end: if they built the Epcot 1.0/Vintage Epcot Center/Epcot 1982 in a different disney park, including things from the original that are still able to operate/function, would THAT be more of the original Epcot than what's in WDW now?

[@daniellemarcantel2487]

Wish I would have gotten to experience original EPCOT. Sad that the park is a shell of what it was. I love Mission Space, Spaceship Earth, and the original Test Track too.

[@timrobblee6193]

Horizons is the best EPCOT ever had! Miss that ride!

[@mistermustachio336]

Hi, it's me. I'm the EPCOT Center purist; it's me. After my last trip in 2008, I swore to never return. When the name lost all sense of mission statement, I lost all interest in that park. Since 1994, the park has become a bittersweet disappointment. I challenge you to name one major change to the park that was a true improvement? At best, Frozen Ever After is a lateral change from Maelstrom... and yes, Horizons was everything you have wanted/ hoped/ dreamed it to be and so much more. Dammit man, now I need to go watch some ride-through videos of those lost rides.

[@Naotakun]

Hello fellow lovers of mission space! I love that ride, especially after drinking around the world.

[@ThemeSnark]

You could do this same video again, only replace "Epcot" with "California Adventure"...but then we'd run into the Ship of Theseus situation again, wouldn't we?

[@michaelschroeck2254]

11:19 this building was always a mystery to me! I first went to Epcot in 1984 but my family did not go near it. When I went again in 1997 I saw this building and thought it would make a great restaurant!!! 🤣🤣🤣 but it was closed! Having been many times since I have seen it be everything you mentioned. I feel bad for the building. It is a primo location!

[@Altris29]

Ohh! I miss Horizons, that was always my favorite! as well as the Original Imagination ride, (with the play room upstairs.) Hmm hey..Didn't Spaceship Earth also have the song 'Tomorrow's child' playing near the end? Or am I thinking of another ride? I can't remember. It's been so long since I've been to Disney world. I use to go often as a child back in the 80s and 90s. I think the last time I went was in 2000. It has changed so much, I don't know if I would enjoy it as I once did.

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

Tomorrow’s Child, and the Walter Cronkite narration, were from the 2nd iteration of Spaceship Earth, and the one I remember from when I was a kid.

[@peggynewton3904]

Biggest downgrade IMO was Horizons to Mission Space. Followed closely by Maelstrom to Frozen.

[@vixx313]

I miss the old journey into imagination ride...I do like the new light show on the epcot ball, but honestly I think they need to add a new country to the world show case.

[@BrettDault]

I worked at Odyssey and World Premiere (back adjacent employee Cafe) in 91-93ish before switching over to MK attractions (JC). It was a very busy restaurant with a day long repetitive but fun character show. And an amazing burger bar that was like a salad bar. Fun memories, but was happy to leave F&B. Also, good epcot went away with the crazy long extension of Reflections of Earth and that awful wand thing, and, yes, the destruction of Journey Into Imagination...and now, Morocco 😢

[@Sheri7029]

Hey there....i feel like we are missing something....

[@JennF0103]

I got to see Horizons in ‘98 before it closed and it was magical…alas.

[@kurzy17]

If Disney actually did rebuild the park as it was when it opened in 1982, wouldn't it have to be called EPCOY?