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Walt Disney Productions unveiled the world’s premier “theme” Park on October 1, 1982. The park, known as EPCOT, cost Walt Disney Productions and their collaborators almost a billion dollars, and will one day sprawl across almost 600 acres in northern Florida. The park’s twin components, Future World and World Showcase, have a single theme: Man’s ability to survive through communication.

Four thousand laborers, 1800 planners, a host of corporate giants (like Bell Telephone, Kraft, Kodak, and General Motors), and several foreign countries (including Canada, Mexico, France, China, and Japan) worked sixteen years to complete EPCOT. Disney’s talented crew of imagineers (artists, architects, and engineers) handled most of the design. A thousand outside consultants, including noted science fiction author Ray Bradbury, also made contributions during the final stages of the park’s construction.
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