Vintage Disneyworld ’96: Epcot
So a while back I started posting some vintage Disneyworld photos, all the way from 1996, on here. And then I forgot all about it. But now I have remembered again! So seeing as I still have the photographs lying around on my disk drive, shall we take a look at ’90s Epcot?
You can repost the pictures of the attractions here (not that they’re very good), but please don’t repost any pictures with people in them!
Terrible quality photo but you get the idea.
Ah, Spaceship Earth. I remember… going inside it and there was a dark ride in there? Lemme check on Google. Aha! There WAS a ride in there! And I have almost entirely no memory of it.
Look who it is! Yep, at some point during that day we met Mickey. The thing that takes me aback about this photo is the lack of crowding around him.
Tigger was also there…
But it looks like I enjoyed meeting Winnie the Pooh most, if these photos are anything to go by.
I deemed meeting Pooh worthy of inclusion in my holiday scrapbook, even though I couldn’t quiiiite spell his name right.
Awww.
Now this photo… this I think might have been taken inside a restaurant called The Electric Umbrella. I remember it was technology-themed.
…But, looking up pictures of The Electric Umbrella, it looks a bit different (and lighter) so maybe it wasn’t in there? Perhaps it was on the Spaceship Earth ride? If anyone knows I would love to hear from you!
Let’s move onto the World Showcase!
Heeeere we are! I wonder what was in that bag I was holding? I think it was a plushie of Nala from The Lion King, but I’m not 100% sure.
Some landmarks:
Now I definitely remember IllumiNations being held on the lake here, but sadly I don’t have any photos of it as far as I know. (I imagine some of that is due to ’90s-era cameras being really bad at taking photos at night.)
Hey, person all in pink, d’ya mind not photobombing?
Here’s some shots of me and my family posing all round the World Showcase. Selfies hadn’t been invented yet so I guess the last one must’ve been taken by a kindly stranger.
And lastly, a lovely water feature.
Alas, I don’t know what part of Epcot that’s in, either.
Geez, this brought back memories. I can remember Epcot a bit more clearly than the other Disney parks for some reason. It must have left quite an impression on eight-year-old me.