LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The park that Walt Disney described as his ‘Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow,’ or ‘Epcot’ for short, opened to the public 39 years ago today. After successfully running ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WRTV's Ray Steele revisits a WRTV report on the opening of EPCOT Center from October 1982. Justin Boone's 2026 running back ...

Exactly three years to the day after construction started, Disney CEO Card Walker opened the gates to the bold entertainment experiment called Epcot on Oct. 1, 1982. “To all who come to this place of ...

Commemorative ticket from EPCOT’s opening day on October 1, 1982 EPCOT Center opened on October 1, 1982 as the single most expensive private construction project the world had ever seen. It was ...

ET celebrates EPCOT's 40th anniversary with behind-the-scenes stories and a look at the park's opening weekend in October 1982. EPCOT, the modified vision of Walt Disney's dream for an “Experimental ...

While it was meant to be an opening day attraction, this deceptively complex ride needed about four more months to make it work. In no small part it was due to its incredible opening scene: Meeting ...

When EPCOT opened in 1982, the new Walt Disney World Park brought Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow to life. When people think of EPCOT, they often envision the ...

I flew to Orlando last weekend for the 35th anniversary of Epcot – Disney’s first “non-Magic Kingdom” theme park. The ceremony itself was nothing spectacular – former Disneyland and now-Walt Disney ...

I’ve seen a lot of EPCOT concept art in my day. But a new video released by Disney has some behind-the-scenes shots that I’ve never seen before, including scale models of everything from the Horizons ...

Grand opening ceremony at EPCOT in 1982 at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Photo from Walt Disney World) The EPCOT Center (Photo by Bernard Annebicque/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images) ...