I'm glad this exists, and seems to be getting updated to feature more of the park. I personally am really bummed by the changes they are making to the park. It's just a kind of scattershot of franchises and IPs they own now, rather than an attempt to showcase a positive view of the future. It was never perfect, heck the Energy pavillion was sponsored by an oil company, but even with its flaws, it was a unique thing. There are ways to do what it did, in a more modern context, and it's unfortunate they didn't try. EPCOT was Disney, because Disney was more than what they just owned.
I was an opening day Epcot Center cast member in 1982 (World Key Information Service and Guest Relations.) The first restaurant next to the "travelport" globe was called "The Stargate Restaurant." Across in Communicore West was the Sunrise Terrace – Initially, the restaurants were in opposite locations until they realized that the "Sunrise Terrace" did not face the sunrise, so they switched locations – Stargate became Electric Umbrella later. So many notes, but this is really cool to revisit.
The Latin at 33:17 is placeholder text used by graphic artists and designers to hold text and test fonts and spacing – That "Lorem Ipsum" has been around for this purpose for decades. 🙂
33:20 – I helped make those signs for this project, also a few in the Land Pavilion food court. Yes, the source material was very sparse for those, so I just put the standard latin words.
This is so weird. I literally went to Epcot today for the first time in 20+ years and I just got back to the hotel and opened up YouTube to this. I was like Get out of my head!!!
My God, this is incredible. Unlike Mike, I AM a tattoo guy, and I have the overall EPCOT icon (the five intersecting circles with a globe in the middle) on my right forearm. Thinking about adding a Spaceship Earth icon somewhere…
I hope they add ride walkthroughs, although each ride would probably be as much work as they've put in for the main park areas. But even as-is, this is blowing my goddamn mind.
This is pretty amazing to see – I love Epcot though curious to experience original Epcot way back when. Will definitely check this out and would love to see the project continue to expand.
Ive no interest in the place and had it on in the background whilst i was sorting parts. I just enjoy listening to these two lovely lads chatting and sharing their passions
There's a band / artist called WINDMILL who did a record called EPCOT STARFIELDS and it's basically a concept album about this. It's super poppy, I loved it back then
This is really cool. You guys should do even more Quick Looks of mods and homemade stuff.
I one hundred percented Disneyland Adventures on Xbox Game Pass last year, even though it's not very good, just a bunch of collectibles and fetch quests and bad minigames, but I just used it as an excuse to spend time inside a "virtual Disneyland". I've wished Disney would make an updated sequel to that game, with better video game things to do in the park, perhaps actual RPG-style quests, and updated detail and visuals. I'd prefer them just redoing Disneyland as that's the one I have nostalgia for (I've never been to Disney World) but Disney World would be cool to, and probably the more obvious choice for a sequel.
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if there ever was an ultimate american game for americans..This must be a strong contender. Can you eat an Epcot?
I used to work in Special Education, and I had a kid who was OBSESSED with theme parks. I bet he would lose his mind at this
I'm glad this exists, and seems to be getting updated to feature more of the park. I personally am really bummed by the changes they are making to the park. It's just a kind of scattershot of franchises and IPs they own now, rather than an attempt to showcase a positive view of the future. It was never perfect, heck the Energy pavillion was sponsored by an oil company, but even with its flaws, it was a unique thing. There are ways to do what it did, in a more modern context, and it's unfortunate they didn't try.
EPCOT was Disney, because Disney was more than what they just owned.
This rules
I look forward to this getting the recreations of the rides. And maybe VR perhaps so I can more fully encapsulate myself into my EPCOT nostalgia.
Wow surprised to see this covered. My second thought was better see Mitch in this sitch ✅
This is pretty sweet! Do I need a multimedia capable PC to run this software?
I’ve been following this project for a long time, and it looks so amazing! I really miss 80s EPCOT.
Thats so neat. And most of those old rides have footage too avaliable online if they wanted incorporate it in there.
This is cool, but disneys gonna sue the SHIT outta the developers if they find out about this.
Incredible
The camera motion blur is making me nauseous. I like per-object motion blur, but camera motion blur is awful.
This is great
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This is a phenomenal project! Wow!
I was an opening day Epcot Center cast member in 1982 (World Key Information Service and Guest Relations.) The first restaurant next to the "travelport" globe was called "The Stargate Restaurant." Across in Communicore West was the Sunrise Terrace – Initially, the restaurants were in opposite locations until they realized that the "Sunrise Terrace" did not face the sunrise, so they switched locations – Stargate became Electric Umbrella later. So many notes, but this is really cool to revisit.
The Latin at 33:17 is placeholder text used by graphic artists and designers to hold text and test fonts and spacing – That "Lorem Ipsum" has been around for this purpose for decades. 🙂
33:20 – I helped make those signs for this project, also a few in the Land Pavilion food court. Yes, the source material was very sparse for those, so I just put the standard latin words.
This is pretty neat, glad y'all showed it off!
As a fan of the 90s Disney podcast, this was great! Can you do one with your brothers, Mike?
This is so weird. I literally went to Epcot today for the first time in 20+ years and I just got back to the hotel and opened up YouTube to this. I was like Get out of my head!!!
disney adult is such a boring kind of sicko to be
This is probably the coolest quicklook I've ever seen you guys do over all of the years. Thank you very much Mike and Jeff for showing this off.
I thought this was going to be some weird frog fractions game
My God, this is incredible. Unlike Mike, I AM a tattoo guy, and I have the overall EPCOT icon (the five intersecting circles with a globe in the middle) on my right forearm. Thinking about adding a Spaceship Earth icon somewhere…
I hope they add ride walkthroughs, although each ride would probably be as much work as they've put in for the main park areas. But even as-is, this is blowing my goddamn mind.
Yhis video made me so happy. Is yhere anywhere that I can access this? Or is it just a personal project on someone's own system?
Thanks
This is pretty amazing to see – I love Epcot though curious to experience original Epcot way back when. Will definitely check this out and would love to see the project continue to expand.
Are there any other projects like this
Amazing project and highly enjoyable quick look!
Ive no interest in the place and had it on in the background whilst i was sorting parts. I just enjoy listening to these two lovely lads chatting and sharing their passions
There's a band / artist called WINDMILL who did a record called EPCOT STARFIELDS and it's basically a concept album about this. It's super poppy, I loved it back then
Always wanted to go to Epcot… not sure when that will happen so this was nice lol. What a great pair to take us on this tour. 😅
This is really cool. You guys should do even more Quick Looks of mods and homemade stuff.
I one hundred percented Disneyland Adventures on Xbox Game Pass last year, even though it's not very good, just a bunch of collectibles and fetch quests and bad minigames, but I just used it as an excuse to spend time inside a "virtual Disneyland". I've wished Disney would make an updated sequel to that game, with better video game things to do in the park, perhaps actual RPG-style quests, and updated detail and visuals. I'd prefer them just redoing Disneyland as that's the one I have nostalgia for (I've never been to Disney World) but Disney World would be cool to, and probably the more obvious choice for a sequel.
"It would be like a permanent CES in here"
Somewhere in New Jersey, Jeff Bakalar shudders and he doesn't know why.