EPCOT will be 30 on Monday October the first and I thought that it would be cool to show some of the old concept art that Disney released prior to the opening. The above photo is one of the many sketches that were published in a pre-opening guide. Spaceship Earth (the giant golf ball to some of us) had many design concepts, one of which was to be a geospheric dome vs. its "lifted" globe shape that it has now.Looking closer at the drawing you can see pavilions in the distance that never made it to the construction stage.
The photo below shows author Ray Bradbury, one of the original consultants on the park, in front of one of the full scale mock ups of the park. You can see that the design of the park stayed the same with Future World in the front and World Showcase in the back, but the shape and design of many of the pavilions were altered prior to final product.
Disney has many events planned for October the 1st, 2012 including seminars with the original design team, models and artwork like are shown here, and of course a special showing of Illuminations: Reflections of Earth to close the night out. I would expect crowds to be huge and for Disney to throw in a few other surprises as well. Hope to see you there!!
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