Vintage Epcot videos

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Jan Fri 15, 2010 9:59 am

For those of us longing for the good old days, check out this set of videos on youtube....... http://www.youtube.com/user/allmightypuff

Over an hour of Epcot from 1983. Interesting to see the place way back then. Stargate restaurant, inside the Land, World of Motion. The buses that used to run around World Showcase.

Future Guy · Post by **Future Guy** » Jan Fri 15, 2010 10:11 am

Saw this yesterday. Isn't it awesome? The entrance plaza was way better before the gravestones. What really strikes me was how empty the place was.

And is it just me, or are they using the exact same Christmas Tree twenty-seven years later?

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Jan Fri 15, 2010 5:41 pm

I think it might be the same tree.

Those are fantastic videos. The place looks a little more open back then. Probably b/c of the young trees that hadn't filled out yet.

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Jan Sat 16, 2010 10:09 pm

Oh how i'd love to visit OLD EPCOT at least once.

casrin · Post by **casrin** » Jan Mon 18, 2010 9:27 pm

I miss it.

MetalRage · Post by **MetalRage** » Jan Tue 19, 2010 1:45 am

woah cool! Thank you I'm excited about watching these!

ctrain2281 · Post by **ctrain2281** » Jan Tue 26, 2010 10:01 am

WOW! Those brought back alot of memories. That was how EPCOT should have looked like. It isn't bad now by any means but doesn't have the same feel that the old park did.

aboden · Post by **aboden** » Jan Tue 26, 2010 10:09 am

*sigh* the good old days... I was only three when it opened but <3 all things Epcot

agingerbugg · Post by **agingerbugg** » Jan Tue 26, 2010 1:41 pm

aboden wrote:*sigh* the good old days... I was only three when it opened but <3 all things Epcot

I agree. Except for the three thing, I was 11 months, 11 days when it opened.

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Jan Tue 26, 2010 3:53 pm

Geez! Gotta bunch of young whippersnappers here acting like old men regretting their bygone glory days...

The park wasn't "perfect" back then. Just different. It had some faults back then too. Changes had to be made - some good, some bad (most of them at the Imagination Pavillion fall into the last category). Hopefully, some time in the next 10 years, they will give EPCOT a renovation face-lift. Things will be different again - and people will look back at now as if it was the "golden vintage" era.

aboden · Post by **aboden** » Jan Tue 26, 2010 5:33 pm

agingerbugg wrote:
aboden wrote:*sigh* the good old days... I was only three when it opened but <3 all things Epcot
I agree. Except for the three thing, I was 11 months, 11 days when it opened.

mindflipper wrote:Geez! Gotta bunch of young whippersnappers here acting like old men regretting their bygone glory days...

The park wasn't "perfect" back then. Just different. It had some faults back then too. Changes had to be made - some good, some bad (most of them at the Imagination Pavillion fall into the last category). Hopefully, some time in the next 10 years, they will give EPCOT a renovation face-lift. Things will be different again - and people will look back at now as if it was the "golden vintage" era.

Rofl well I've almost breached the 30 age bracket, less then a year to say i'm still in my 20's haha

But I agree MindFlipper, I think Epcots high point was late 80's and early 90's. The renovations/additions past that time were mostly negative in my opinion.

I don't know who to explain it but the design/architecture/decor was great to me. This word doesn't bring good things to mind but the only way I can describe it, "sterile" or "clean". It was very sharp looking with out too many things to clutter the area up. Epcot was intended to be our window into the future. I think it's become more fanciful to bring more families into the park. I think because unlike us hardcore Disney/Epcot lovers kids didn't like it much. Rather go to MK and ride fantasy land stuff and similar.

Even though you might point out JII, but remember the outside? Very clean cut and minimal. So maybe the outside were more then the insides of the rides/attractions.

But that's just one man's opinion hehe

Post by **Len90** » Jan Tue 26, 2010 8:10 pm

aboden wrote:
agingerbugg wrote:
aboden wrote:*sigh* the good old days... I was only three when it opened but <3 all things Epcot
I agree. Except for the three thing, I was 11 months, 11 days when it opened.

mindflipper wrote:Geez! Gotta bunch of young whippersnappers here acting like old men regretting their bygone glory days...

The park wasn't "perfect" back then. Just different. It had some faults back then too. Changes had to be made - some good, some bad (most of them at the Imagination Pavillion fall into the last category). Hopefully, some time in the next 10 years, they will give EPCOT a renovation face-lift. Things will be different again - and people will look back at now as if it was the "golden vintage" era.
Rofl well I've almost breached the 30 age bracket, less then a year to say i'm still in my 20's haha

But I agree MindFlipper, I think Epcots high point was late 80's and early 90's. The renovations/additions past that time were mostly negative in my opinion.

I don't know who to explain it but the design/architecture/decor was great to me. This word doesn't bring good things to mind but the only way I can describe it, "sterile" or "clean". It was very sharp looking with out too many things to clutter the area up. Epcot was intended to be our window into the future. I think it's become more fanciful to bring more families into the park. I think because unlike us hardcore Disney/Epcot lovers kids didn't like it much. Rather go to MK and ride fantasy land stuff and similar.

Even though you might point out JII, but remember the outside? Very clean cut and minimal. So maybe the outside were more then the insides of the rides/attractions.

But that's just one man's opinion hehe

I have looked at old pictures of EPCOT and it is interesting to see that Futureworld is pretty much living proof of what people thought the future of architecture would be like in the 1980's. I appreciate the changes made in recent times to try and bring back a classic appearance that I was too young to ever enjoy. I am upset that I never got to fully appreciate and remember the great classic attractions that are now a thing of the past.

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Jan Tue 26, 2010 9:34 pm

Clutter does seem to describe the current Future World. What they did to Communicore Plaza/Innovention Plaza is just clutter. And the worst clutter ever? The legacy stones - or as someone on this forum called them "gravestones". It does also feel like they change their minds over and over about the direction of the style and theme of the park. They need to renovate the whole look of EPCOT with a central theme to its look/style. Get back to the future in Future World.

Lori60 · Post by **Lori60** » Feb Tue 02, 2010 12:26 pm

Does anyone know if the "gravestones" can be removed anytime soon. What I mean by that is.... when people bought the pictures was there a guarantee that they would stay out at the entrance for 10 years or anything like that. They could maybe consolidate them and put them off to the side and return the entrance to it's original glory!

aboden · Post by **aboden** » Feb Wed 03, 2010 12:51 am

Lori60 wrote:Does anyone know if the "gravestones" can be removed anytime soon. What I mean by that is.... when people bought the pictures was there a guarantee that they would stay out at the entrance for 10 years or anything like that. They could maybe consolidate them and put them off to the side and return the entrance to it's original glory!

Don't know but I'd assume it said something like that but of course Disney can pretty much do what ever they want. I say some of us locals go and dismantle those gravestones slowly over time

wonder if anyone would notice?!?! hehe