Post #97777 by Tiki-bot on Tue, Jun 22, 2004 12:08 PM

Why not just order from Amazon? Are they evil like Walmart and I missed it?

I finally got around to watching the second disk and it's also spell-binding. It has the pitch movie Walt made for the State of Florida about his plans for WDW and Epcot just 2 months before he died.

I remember hearing about Epcot when I was a kid and I wanted nothing more than to live in Walt's future city. Too bad it became nothing more than a World's Fair-type exhibit instead of an actual city. Then again, planned communities like this have a creepy, isolationist quality to them. Walt's blind optimism is refreshing, though, after years of dystopian future imagery.

The weather satellite segment is amusing, too. While the use of satellites to predict weather is dead-on, the idea of manipulating the weather on the grand scale they do is pretty frightening. All I could think about is the lawsuits (or riots!) that would arise due to the damage wreaked by the man-made storms they create. Again, very optimistic ideals. Gotta love that Peter Ellenshaw matte painting of the weather control center, though.