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The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory

Thirty20Eight #242 - Epcot Center 1971-1993: The Twenty-First Century's Here!

The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory

Matt Parrish and Kevin Quigley

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, Matt and Kevin dive into the third installment in their Epcot summer series where they look at the construction of Walt Disney World, planning EPCOT, the opening of the Epcot Center, and the early evolution of the park.

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0:00.0

It started a long time ago.

0:28.0

Continue to flower and grow from the marvelous mind of that magical man.

0:34.0

Now the theme of the green man, the fabulous plan,

0:37.0

are born and just fussed in to get underway.

0:40.0

And the 21st century begins today in 21st century.

0:58.0

I simply have to tell you that my friends who are singing,

1:23.0

we're going to live in this world.

1:44.0

Welcome to the 3028 show about theme park history and pop culture history.

1:50.0

I'm Matt Parrish and I'm Kevin Quigley.

1:52.0

Kevin, it's the summer series episode three.

1:57.0

It's taken forever to get here, but it's still the summer.

2:00.0

I think that the last summer series we did lasted until December.

2:04.0

So I think we're doing okay.

2:05.0

I think we're doing good.

2:06.0

I mean, this is a fun one because this is the building of Walt Disney World show.

2:12.0

What's going to happen with Epcot show?

2:14.0

And what's interesting is you can do uddles of research on 1970s like plans for Epcot.

2:20.0

It's still not really as well covered as like plans for Disneyland.

2:26.0

It's very strange.

2:27.0

You know, you can, yeah, like you'll, everything about the Disneyland build is covered.

2:32.0

And I'm guessing part of that is because it was an uncomplicated one-year construction.

2:37.0

And then here we already have Walt Disney World, which is already a much bigger concept.

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