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Item: Walt Disney World EPCOT CENTER TODAY Promotional Newspaper

Date: Spring 1981

Issue: Volume 1, No. 1

Description: Presenting news and photographs detailing the pre-opening construction for EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World. Includes references to upcoming attraction, includingSpaceship Earth, Universe of Energy, Future Probe (laterCommunicore / Innoventions), Transportation (World of Motion), The Land, andWorld Showcase

Features:

Upcoming attractions

Printed letter (page 4) from Card Walker, CEO and Chairman of Walt Disney Productions

Work by designers from WED Enterprises (renamed five years later as Walt Disney Imagineering)

Sculptor Blaine Gibson creating his bust of Benjamin Franklin for the American Adventure attraction

Large color illustration presenting an overview of the new EPCOT Center theme park at WDW

Notably, Spaceship Earth had not yet been named; referenced during construction only as a \"silver sphere\"

Measurement: 14\" x 22; as originally quarter-folded for distribution

Condition:Excellent condition; perfectly preserved for over four decades

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