The park featured “imagined worlds from film, television, music, and theater, drawing inspiration from the Golden Age of Hollywood”. Hollywood Comes to Floridaĭisney-MGM Studios opened in 1989, in a location just south of Epcot. Ultimately, the company was uncertain about the feasibility of operating a functional city, so the idea was scrapped in favor of the current iteration. Though the scope of Epcot was impressive at the time, it was still vastly scaled down from Walt Disney’s original vision for a fully functioning “city of the future”. Surrounding the nearby lake were pavilions themed after various locations in the world. The park was anchored by Future World and “Spaceship Earth”, the iconic geodesic sphere structure that sat at the entrance of the park. The site, which was twice as big as the Magic Kingdom, is best described as a permanent world’s fair. The first major Disney World expansion was Epcot Center, which opened in 1982. The original master plan for Walt Disney World did not include plans for the Seven Seas Lagoon, and it was likely added so that the displaced earth could be used to fortify swampy sections of the property to make them suitable for building. However, these projects were scrapped after the 1973 oil crisis as tourism declined. These areas were all connected by a monorail system.Īs these maps depict, there was a plan to develop three unique themed zones around the Seven Seas Lagoon: Persian, Asian, and Venetian. When Walt Disney World finally opened in 1971, it included the main Magic Kingdom site, as well as two golf courses and two hotels-Contemporary Resort and the Polynesian Village Resort. Using shell companies to preserve his anonymity (and to keep the price down), Disney began acquiring the sprawling properties that would become today’s Walt Disney World (WDW).
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