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Prototype Community of Tomorrow. It was to be an extension of the massive mind-control
being
carried out at Disney World. The original EPCOT city designed by Walt was to carry on its
commerce (traffic) via underground
roads and tunnels like the Disney Theme parks. After Walt
Disney died, his successors changed the proposed experimental
city into another theme park simply
called Epcot. It is not unusual to see crowds of over 48,000 people descend on Walt Disney World
and the EPCOT center in a single day. Some visitors arrive via a monorail. Visitors can buy 5-Day
World Hopper passes which allow them to bounce around with admission to all the sites for a seven
day period. In other words, some families stay for a week at Disneyworld.
Hardcore visitors can get
Annual Passports which provide unlimited use of Walt Disneyworld
for an entire year.
In reality, many visitors to Disneyworld
begin the day enthusiastic and after a day of hot sun and
waiting in long lines with large crowds for imitations
of reality, the tourists are zombie-like
and
looking forward to getting back to their hotels. Many people have felt the rides were not nearly what
they expected. Some of the rides are better than others, and some typically get comments like, "It was
stupid." Some of the spooky events like Snow White’s Adventures,
or the oversized heads of the
Disney characters walking around can leave the little preschool children terrified and dazed for the
rest of the day. In contrast, older children, who normally rarely show patience at home may show how
much they want to go on a particular Disney ride, by waiting an hour and a half in the hot sun for a
ride. Alien Encounter is a Walt Disneyland feature that invites tourists in for a "demonstration
of
interplanetary
teleportation."
When the "demonstration"
as planned "breaks down" an ,,alien" with
asocial traits appears among the audience and terrorizes the audience. A cute creature is hideously
fried, deformed, and then vomited into space screaming. Here are some comments from visitors to
this Walt Disneyland
attraction:
·
"Alien Encounter ...is one of those rides I can say I’ve seen and that I have no intention of ever
doing again. In fact, parents who take children under the age of six should be brought up on child
abuse." Woman, from MI
·
"Alien Encounter was the WORST experience for my 10-year-old (and almost every child in there).
It starts out cute enough during the preshow, but the actual show is a disaster for children. My
daughter screamed and cried in terror throughout it. I thought the Disney warnings were vague and
inaccurate. When we left, there wasn’t one child with dry eyes (even sturdy looking 12-year-old boys
were crying.). I think an age requirement
of 13 or 14 is more appropriate.
I
talked to a few adults and
we even agreed that the special effects were extremely unpleasant even for us. This show is not a
Disney family experience--its
ATROCIOUS!!"
A
mother from Phillipsburg,
NJ.
·
"We did go to Alien Encounter...The
preshow is deceiving. It kind of lulls you into thinking "this
isn’t so bad." When the main part came up, I admit the experience gave me the absolute heebie-
jeebies. . .I am never doing that presentation again--it was way too intense for me, and I’m now 27
years of age!--from a family
in Laurel, MD Michael Eisner, the President of Walt Disney Co.,
initially rejected Alien Encounter for not being scary enough when it was being considered as an
addition to Disneyworld.
One wonders what he would have liked! Snow White’s Adventures,
which
was an attraction at Disneyland, was one of what the Disney people called "dark rides". After a while
a
sign appeared with a witch warning people that the attraction was scary. Later in 1983, they
renamed it Snow White’s Scary Adventures.
It might be interesting to point out that when the original
Snow White and Seven Dwaffs film came out, that England forbid the film to be seen by any child
under 16 unless accompanied
by an adult because of the scary content of the movie. How far we have
come since then. Schools in the Florida and California areas also make field trips to the Magic
Kingdom that are arranged with Disney. EPCOT receives tens of thousands of children this way during
March, September and October. High schools use the Magic Kingdom for proms or senior nights, and
some couples use the facilities of the Magic Kingdom for weddings. Modem Bride ranked Orlando as
the number-one
honeymoon
destination in the world. Group discussions
of people who
