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The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 57 – Town Hall: Davy Feiten, Part I

Davy Feiten hard at work programming Splash Mountain.

For April on the Progress City Town Hall we’re thrilled to welcome audio-animatronics wizard Davy Feiten! Davy started his career as an animator before coming to Imagineering to work on EPCOT Center, where he programmed American Adventure, World of Motion, Universe of Energy, and more. In […]

The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 56 – Mobility!

Rendering of EPCOT’s World of Motion by Herb Ryman, 1979

It’s fun to be free as The Progress City Radio Hour continues our 40th anniversary retrospective of EPCOT Center with a celebration of the fifth freedom – mobility! In this episode, heed the call of the open road as we talk about the development of […]

Podcastin’!

Three years goes by pretty quick, doesn’t it?

Not that much has changed. Aside, of course, from the sweeping global pandemic that has kept us locked up inside for four months.

There’s at least one positive (?) outcome of all this cabin fever – there has been plenty of time for podcast shenanigans. I’ve […]

Make Your Own Kinda Magic

It’s Friday! And you deserve some retro Walt Disney World goodness.

This video comes from 1993. It’s one of a series of videos produced by General Motors for guests to the World of Motion pavilion at Epcot. Guests to the pavilion’s TransCenter were given a postcard they could send away to receive a free video. […]

The World of Motion

Recently, Epcot’s Test Track attraction reopened after a lengthy overhaul that saw a complete facelift of the attraction’s aesthetic. Gone are the old preshow, plot, and postshow area; gone are the Belgian blocks and the silly “tests” and the heat, cold and corrosion rooms. While the ride system and the actual ride profile itself remain […]