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By Michael - June 19th, 2011 For those of us in the lowly demographic called “fandom”, true insight is only gained through extreme displays of excess and obsessiveness. This especially holds true when researching older Imagineering projects, and most particularly projects that were somehow altered or never came to be. So little artwork or information escapes from Fortress Disney, that each […]
By Michael - August 4th, 2010 Herb Ryman at work on EPCOT Center’s Mexico pavilion
Herb Ryman’s work on EPCOT City for Walt Disney ended well before Walt Disney World’s debut in 1971. Ryman departed WED Enterprises that year, and set off on another round of world travels. He returned to the halls of Imagineering in 1976, though, in order to […]
By Michael - July 17th, 2009 Walter Cronkite and an animated Robin Williams in Back to Neverland
The very sad news has just come across the wire that legendary newsman and television anchor Walter Cronkite has died today at the age of 92. Cronkite, who served as the anchor of the CBS Evening News for 19 years from 1962-1981, was a […]
By Michael - July 3rd, 2009 Rendering of EPCOT Center, 1980 (Click to Enlarge)
Things have changed a bit since our last visit to early EPCOT; the park is now looking a lot more like the version we later would come to love. Horizons has arrived, but it’s still known as Future Probe. Spaceship Earth and Communicore have lost their golden […]
By Michael - June 27th, 2009 Let’s take a look at EPCOT Center in 1979, three years before it would actually open:
Rendering of EPCOT Center, 1979 (Click to Enlarge)
Slightly different, is it not?
Clockwise from the golden Spaceship Earth in Future World, we have the Energy pavilion (Universe of Energy), the Science & Invention Pavilion, the Transportation pavilion (World […]
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The Progress City Primer
From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.
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