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WALT DISNEY WORLD · BAY LAKE, FLORIDA

EPCOT

“a permanent world's fair”

Walt's city of tomorrow grew up into a permanent world's fair — one half rockets and test tracks, the other half a lagoon ringed by eleven countries. Come for the sphere, stay for snacking around the world.

Spaceship Earth
Icon · World Celebration

✦ the sphere swallows rain — hidden one-inch gutters drink every storm

THE ANIMATED COLLECTION · 9 PIECES

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World Celebration

1
  • Journey Into Imagination With Figment

World Discovery

3
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
Coaster
A backwards-launching storytelling coaster in the dark.
Test Track
Race track
Design a car, then hit 65 mph on the outside loop.
Mission: SPACE
Spinner
Centrifuge astronaut training — orange if you dare.

World Nature

4
Soarin' Around the World
Show
Hang-glide over the planet's greatest hits.
  • Living with the Land
  • The Seas with Nemo & Friends
  • Turtle Talk With Crush

World Showcase

5
Frozen Ever After
Boat ride
Arendelle by boat, inside the Norway pavilion.
Remy's Ratatouille Adventure
Dark ride
Shrink to rat-size and scurry through Gusteau's.
Gran Fiesta Tour
Boat ride
A boat drift through Mexico, inside the pyramid.
World Showcase Lagoon
Landmark
Eleven nations around the water — Luminous fires over it nightly.
  • The American Adventure
opened
October 1, 1982
neighborhoods
Four
the icon
Spaceship Earth
my headliners
Guardians · Test Track · Remy's

EPCOT is two parks holding hands: a front half that still believes in the future — launch coasters, test tracks, astronaut centrifuges — and a back half where eleven countries share one lagoon.

World Showcase is staffed through a cultural-exchange program, so the person pouring your school bread in Norway is actually from Norway. Eating around the lagoon is the real headliner attraction.

Every piece above is hand-drawn and animated — the sphere glitters, the rat scurries the rooftops, Test Track laps. Flip to dark mode and Luminous fires over the lagoon.

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