Thirty20Eight #340 (S9:E1) - Celebration, Florida USA (Disney's Perfect Town)
The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory
Matt Parrish and Kevin Quigley
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Matt and Kevin look back on the building and opening of Disney's Town of Celebration in Florida. From Walt's EPCOT plans to Michael Eisner's manufactured nostalgia, Celebration represented a seminal achievement in Eisner's Disney Decade.
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| 0:00.0 | 21st centuries here, it's time for the dream to come true, this glorious figment of one man's imagination. |
| 0:33.6 | It started a long time ago. Continue to flower. |
| 0:39.3 | Here at Epcot, nations celebrate human achievement and potential. |
| 0:43.3 | Its 300 acres are divided into two worlds, Future World and World Showcase. |
| 0:49.3 | Future World offers fascinating explorations into realms of energy, transportation, and imagination. |
| 0:56.0 | You'll also find adventures in communications, sea exploration, food production, and other vital topics. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm Michael Eisner, and welcome to the Disney Sunday movie. |
| 1:06.0 | Tonight we're proud to share with you one of the great Disney movies of all time, 20,000 leagues under the sea. |
| 1:12.7 | This epic motion picture was inspired by Jules Byrne's classic novel of Undersea Adventure. |
| 1:18.7 | Two years of pre-production planning was required to bring this time of story. Welcome to Season 9 of the 3028, a show about theme park history and pop culture listery. |
| 1:41.2 | I am Matt Parrish. |
| 1:42.5 | And I'm Kevin Quigley. |
| 1:43.4 | I am Season 9's Matt Parrish. And I'm Kevin Quigley. I am season nine's Matt Parrish. |
| 1:46.5 | New and improved. How can it be new and improved? Nobody knows. Kevin, it's season nine, |
| 1:52.4 | and we have a master plan that involves disgusting master plan communities all season. That's all |
| 1:59.6 | we're doing. That's literally every episode. |
| 2:02.0 | So we're tackling one today. |
| 2:03.5 | We're going to be talking about Levittown, Fordlandia. |
| 2:06.6 | That's all we're doing the entire time. |
| 2:08.2 | Fordlandia. |
| 2:09.4 | Just rubber trees. |
| 2:10.8 | No Ford ever had latex in it from that forest. |
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