LEGACY

The experimental film presenting new solutions to the park's paradoxes and the possibilities for using proven principles to optimize its potential to positively improve our tomorrow.

50 years ago today we lost the most positively important person of the 20th Century —

Walter Elias Disney

Here we pay tribute to his legacy and put forth a personal challenge to surpass it.

Tomorrow will be better as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
— Walt Disney

To spite its constant presence in our daily lives, the mere existence of an entire country founded solely on ideas becomes more miraculous with each passing year.

On May 21st 2015 something extraordinary occurred in the most unlike of places that has literally changed the course of events for both my life and the trajectory of E82. To paraphrase, Arthur C Clarke’s instructions on appreciating 2001:

1. See TOMORROWLAND
2. Read the following article
3. Repeat the dose as often as necessary…

A discussion on how EPCOT Center’s prophetic promises really came to be and how to restore relevance in a world of ever-changing complexity culminating in the creation of a Whole New Realm for The E82 Project!

For nearly two decades, Imagineers and park leaders have struggled with presenting the Epcot concept in a world of ever changing complexity and public tastes. The results of this struggle of ideas have become apparent in recent years as inconsistencies of tone, quality and message not only exist from pavilion to pavilion but also within the individual attractions themselves. Many solutions have been tried with most stemming from a way too light-hearted ironic and even comical approach that have been grafted onto a serious park trying not to take itself seriously. Still, there is one approach that has been seldom employed, but in all cases proved to be enormously successful.

What does it mean to be a truly unique theme park in an otherwise oversaturated market of child-focused entertainment — the challenges of word association, and the enormous marketing potential that lies dormant in the world’s first theme park created for adults.

Examine the financial challenges of maintaining, creating, and revitalizing the community of tomorrow while ultimately proposing a radical departure from the current philosophy. From present conditions to the realities of application - the pitfalls of today and the exciting possibilities of a sponsor-free tomorrow.

On the eve of Walt Disney World’s 40th birthday, it is also the last year of Epcot’s tumultuous twenties. As we approach the park’s third decade let us pause to reflect on the problems faced by the Community of Tomorrow from a completely unique perspective. For this one, I’ve also consulted my good friend and long time associate, Artist, Lecturer, Scientist, and the world’s foremost expert on just about everything; Professor Ludwig Von Drake.
Find out just what "he" has to say about our perpetually troubled Geosphere.

Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime.

-Buckminster Fuller