Today we remember the World of Motion, also in Epcot Future World East. World of Motion was an original EPCOT Center attraction, part of opening festivities on October 1, 1982.
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Main Street Gazette: Tomorrow's horizons are here, today
Growing up, as is still the case, I was much more intrigued by the photographs I could obtain with my 110 than I was with the assortment of postcards available in the Walt Disney World gift shops. It wasn’t that I could take better photographs, I couldn’t, and it wasn’t the fact that I lived right around the corner from the Vacation Kingdom, which I did, and could see these vistas just about any time I wanted to.
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Where Have the Sponsors Gone?
DisneyBiz looks at the decreasing number of attraction sponsors in the Disney Parks and specifically Walt Disney World.
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Today in Disney History: January 02: World of Motion Stops Moving
On this day in 1996, World of Motion - an opening day Epcot attraction sponsored by General Motors - closed.
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Meet The World: EPCOT In Anaheim
Unfortunately, after entertaining guests for 14 years, World of Motion closed in 1996 and was eventually replaced by Test Track. So what happened to all those set pieces and figures? Well, a small number of them went on to have a life after WOM.
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Re-Imagineering: Why We Whine
An interesting commentary by a Re-Imagineering reader on why Disney fans complain about Disney changes.
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Disneyana World: For Your Eyes and Ears Only
Back to April 30, 1982 for an update on EPCOT Center's World of Motion. This issue of Eyes and Ears details a quick ride through the show and offers some fun facts along the way. (I'm a sucker for Eyes and Ears!)
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Building EPCOT Center
I usually don't DisMark too many "photos only" posts, but this one pulls at my heartstrings -- I'm just an EPCOT kid at heart. Here's one of the Universe of Energy dinosaurs being put together, and a scene from World of Motion being constructed.
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Main Street Gazette: The Lean Machine
The article below, The Lean Machine, comes from one of the handouts that were available to guests as they made their way through the TransCenter after the main World of Motion attraction.
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