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On October 1, 1982, The Walt Disney Company opened its
EPCOT Center to the world, heralding changes that would take the Disney property
in Florida from a mere theme park to a world-class resort destination. Authors
Steve Alcorn and David Green were there, as employees of Disney’s WED
Imagineering, and they capture the design and building of what is now called
simply Epcot in Building a Better Mouse.
Released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening,
Building a Better Mouse tells the tale of the “hundreds of
mostly young, mostly bright and all embarrassingly idealistic people” who worked
on Epcot, and gives a unique insider’s perspective on what it was like to be in
the trenches as a Disney Imagineer in the early 1980s, from pixie dusting – when
new employees are indoctrinated into all things Disney – through the craziness
of the engineering design process, right up until the last frantic dash to
opening day. It is a breathtaking, breezy, E-ticket ride of a book, required
reading for both hard-core Disneyphiles and people interested in the business
side of themed entertainment.
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