Abandoned - Epcot's Never Built Attractions

I really like how well you incorporated your own personal opinion into a formal documentary kind of video (and still some funny bits), its like as this channel is growing, rather than just sharing the facts about the places, you also show us how passionate you are about these topics.

4:51 I love how there's just a section titled "cool stuff".

That bullet train simulator would be ridiculously easy to build and maintain, I'm surprised it never made it out of the drawing board. Plus Japan Railways (or at least their Eastern division) is very gung-ho about promoting their high-speed rail system overseas, hopefully they'll contact Disney at some point.

7:46: "Honestly, it just seems like Disney had an enormous amount of bad luck and trouble with their attempts to build any new showcase pavilion." I feel like it's not as much "bad luck" as it is their insistence that somebody else pay the exorbitant construction costs of these new areas, while Disney itself makes billions off them. To my knowledge, the reason why the Maelstrom ride and the Norway pavilion were never updated (until Frozen came along...) was because Disney wanted Norway to fund it. Disney essentially sits on enough money to buy some of the actual countries they feature in pavilions, but somehow still find it reasonable to insist that others pay the construction. I wouldn't exactly call it "bad luck" when sponsors turn them down.

I've always loved the World Showcase, but it felt incomplete to me. The countries seemed too small, I always thought that they should have been entire sections, immersing you in the culture and making you feel like you're really in that country instead of just being 1 or 2 themed shops and restaurants. I know that was never Disney's plan, but now it still makes more sense why I felt it was incomplete.

"journey into imagination is like experiencing a car crash" LMAOOO

Is the bankruptcy issue in Greece preventing the country from installing a pavilion? Or was Disney just not interested in a Greek pavilion? I honestly thought a reconstructed Parthenon or Panathenaic Stadium with a Hercules involvement to get Disney sponsorship would be incredibly fitting for the World Showcase. Yeah, I can definitely imagine Greece being in the World Showcase.

I’ve always had this weird fascination with learning things about Disney things. It’s a huge company and it’s odd to think something they slap their name on can still fail. The first story I learned about was what Epcot was originally meant to be and that’s sparked this for me ever since.

I felt that mini rant about future world on a spiritual level

I still want the Mt Fuji coaster so bad. They could put it between the US and Japan pavillions and since they want to bring in IPs, they could make it Big Hero 6. It's the perfect mesh since San Fransokyo is literally San Fransico and Tokyo put together (hence the name). Stupid Kodak.

It’s really awesome to hear when someone agrees with you on how Epcot is at the moment, especially since everyone is soooo stuck on product placement rather than what the park is- yes because Gardians of the Galaxy and Frozen really are what Epcot is all about

There is something really sad about our society that Disney, in order to make money, must abandon the educational -pro-future intriguing theme that the park was based on, in favor of "MUH GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" and "MUH FROZEN." The whole point of Epcot was that it had to do with THE REAL WORLD. Fantasies were for Magic Kindgom. Movies were for Hollywood Studios. Epcot. Epcot was one the of few fun places on planet earth that wasn't trying to avoid being on planet earth and not in a fantasy land.

Actually the Norway pavilion was an offshoot of the Scandinavian pavilion when the Norwegians were the only ones to pony up. EDIT: As a former EPCOT Cast Member, this was a great video as always!

"Journey Into Imagination is like experiencing a car crash" I had to laugh.

I visited Epcot a couple of weeks ago and it’s sad to see how much the park has been neglected and forgotten over the years. It’s truly one of my top favorite parks and it’s sad to see it in the state that it’s in. I hope what Disney has planned for the park over the next few years makes it stand out from the rest because Epcot needs that badly. And people want that badly.

Gotta love the feeling when you hear that distinct "What's up guys"

Holy shit if Disney made a Mount Fuji ride it would make OBSCENE amounts of money.

Too bad Epcot never lived up to its original concept -- would've been cool to see it as a prototype community.

I was so lucky to see Epcot in 1983, shortly after it opened. At 8-years old, I was at perhaps the ideal age to have that experience. Once in a lifetime.

Now I'm really curious how much (if any at all) of their plans for Fuji went into Everest in Animal Kingdom. It's also crazy to think that Everest is Walt Disney World's last fully original ride (not based on a pre-existing brand) and it opened more than 11 years ago, and even with Avatar in the park the ride still remains super popular. Now, everything announced for Epcot's future has a movie tie-in (apart from a Mission Space refurb).