15th Annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival

Attention all you foodies and wine-lovers out there: tickets for the 15th Annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival are now on sale. The event, held this year at Epcot from late September through early November 2010, is the place to be for any food lover. Those who also happen to be Disney fans, well, that’s just icing on the cake. For those not in the know, the Epcot Food & Wine Festival is a 45-day-long event celebrating international cuisine and wine. It features demonstrations by celebrity chefs, nightly concerts called “Eat to the Beat!,” children’s activities, street performers, complimentary … Continue reading →

Disney and Disaster Preparedness

This summer, Walt Disney World will have a new Innoventions exhibit at Epcot. The title of this exhibit will be “StormStruck: A Tale of Two Homes”. StormStruck will focus on disaster preparedness and how to make your own home safe for when the next storm hits. With the strange weather patterns we’ve been experiencing worldwide and the devastating effect of more and more storms, both warm and cold weather, the general public is beginning to realize that disaster preparedness is no longer for the seemingly crazy granola-crunching survivalists. Disaster preparedness is something that every family should consider and take very … Continue reading →

Kid Stuff at the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival

The folks at Disney would never dream of planning a flower and garden festival without planning some fun and magic for the children who will be dragged along by their perennial loving parents! The following activities have been planned for family fun that includes both adults and children. Be sure to check them out if you go to the festival this year. Minnie’s Magnificent Butterfly Garden Hundreds of free-flying butterflies are sure to entertain and amaze as you walk through the butterfly house and garden. Peter Pan’s Neverland Garden This garden is new this year. This is a great topiary … Continue reading →

The Fifteenth Annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

The Fifteenth Annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival For 75 days, from March 19 to June 1, 2008, Epcot will celebrate “Fun in the Sun” with the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. You can see millions of blooms and the largest collection of Disney Topiary anywhere. (You know, the ones that look like Disney characters.) Garden Town will be a new addition this year. There you’ll be able to get gardening tips and participate in demonstrations. Some special events include the Flower Power Concert Series at the American Gardens Theater as well as a special Easter Brunch on … Continue reading →

Disney’s New “House of the Future”

Disney’s House of the Future (see photo) opened in 1957 at Disneyland in California. It was a Jetsons style, plastic, pod shaped home that had such exciting futuristic things as hands free phones, wall-sized televisions, plastic chairs, and electric razors and toothbrushes. The future eventually comes and so this House of the Future was closed in 1967. (It was so sturdy that wrecking balls bounced off it when Disney tore it down. Considering our recent weather patterns, this may be the kind of house that people in tornado alley and hurricane areas need to build. Would someone please let Brad … Continue reading →

Celebrities Narrating Christmas at Disney World

Every year, Walt Disney World has a Candlelight Processional at Epcot. This processional includes a musical performance with a mass choir and a 50-piece live orchestra accompanied by a celebrity narrator who retells the story of Christmas. Performances are held at the America Gardens Theatre and take place every evening at 5:00pm, 6:45pm and 8:15pm. While admission is free with your Epcot admission price, it isn’t always available. The only way to guarantee a seat for this performance is by purchasing a Candlelight Processional Dining Package. This allows you to have a meal at one of Epcot’s restaurants while guaranteeing … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday, EPCOT!

I know, I know. The acronym EPCOT was dropped back in 1994 for the simple non-word Epcot. EPCOT originally stood for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. It was Walt Disney’s dream that EPCOT would be a real city. Walt’s dream was to create the perfect city with a central commercial area surrounded by a residential community. The plan was to have 20,000 residents who would try out new ideas and materials that would eliminate the social ills found in other American cities. There would be schools, preschools, community centers, and churches but no unemployment, retirees, land ownership or voting rights. … Continue reading →

New Eats At Epcot

Forget about Space Mountain. If I am going to wait in line at Walt Disney World it’s going to be for a table that I can sit at and chow down on some serious grub. While I have (once) mustered enough courage to board Space Mountain, I willingly admit that when it comes to thrill rides, I am a big wimp. That’s why I love Epcot’s World Showcase. The focus there is less on the thrills and chills and more on… grills and all the tasty treats that are created on them. If you haven’t been to Epcot in a … Continue reading →

Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

Did you know that is what Epcot means? We forget sometimes that E.P.C.O.T. is an acronym and not just a name. 25 years ago, Epcot was opened. The original plan for this area was not necessarily an amusement park, but rather as a city of its own. The idea was to be a modern utopia designed much around the idea of the Tomorrowland Transit Authority and more. Walt’s original plan would create a downtown that was always indoors. This way the weather was always perfect – no matter if a hurricane was blowing in from outside. There would also be … Continue reading →

Norway’s Pavilion – Epcot

I wasn’t living in Scandinavia when I visited Epcot, so it’s as though life has a funny way of working things out, because the Norway Pavilion was actually my favorite part of the World Showcase part of the park. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy other pavilions, or that they weren’t interesting, but it was Norway that really held my attention both culturally, and recreationally. I’m a history buff, and coming from the North East of England where Vikings did roam the land centuries ago, Viking history is one of my favorite topics. The Norwegian exhibit at Epcot is host … Continue reading →