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3 unusual facts about EPCOT


Circle of Life

Disney's Epcot park currently features a cinema-type film called Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable from 1995 with Timon, Pumbaa and Simbaa discussing environmental topics at the Walt Disney World Resort as well.

Europa-Park

Located inside a large geodesic sphere structure, similar to Spaceship Earth at Walt Disney World's Epcot.

PlayMotion

Their internal Funlab is an R&D incubator allowing for free thought and autonomous action which has produced many games and technologies throughout the years, including a landmark 5-screen, 250 player experience at Disney's Epcot in Orlando, Florida.


Alcorn McBride

Alcorn McBride was founded in Southern California in 1986 by Steve Alcorn, an engineer who worked on Epcot and served as vice president of engineering for Linn Electronics, an electronic musical instrument manufacturer.

Jeff Burke

He then went on to create other attractions such as Kitchen Kabaret at Epcot's The Land pavilion, the Wonders of Life pavilion at Epcot, Phantom Manor at Disneyland Paris and The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management) at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Laurence Wright

Wright's early work with theme parks included his composing the music for several of the attractions featured at the General Motors' World of Motion pavilion, one of the original attractions to open in 1982 at the Orlando, Florida Walt Disney World EPCOT theme park.

Paul Bocuse

His son, Jérôme, manages the Chefs de France restaurant inside the French pavilion at Walt Disney World's Epcot.

Walt Disney World Monorail System

On March 19, 2010, Disney debuted Monorail TRON on the Epcot line as part of a marketing plan for Tron: Legacy.

Will Rogers, Jr.

Rogers had a minor career as an actor and was most noted for playing his father (whom he closely resembled), particularly in The Story of Will Rogers (1952), Wild Heritage (1958) in which he played a judge, and in 1982 (in voice only) in The American Adventure at Disney's Epcot in Florida.


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