Everything in Its Path

History

Steve Alcorn

Americas

Theme Perks

We were there to build castles -- castles in a new empire upon which the sun would never set... mice, ducks and talking animals... a man with a mustache and a mouse with a bow tie... and Epcot, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow -- Walt's greatest dream. It was a dream for a lot of us.   We had been hired to create Epcot -- hundreds of mostly young, mostly bright and all embarrassingly idealistic people. We believed in the dream, the company and most of all, the ideal -- that a Disney employee had one goal: to make as many other people happy as humanly possible.   From pixie dusting -- when new employees are indoctrinated into all things Disney -- through the craziness of the engineering design process, right up until the last frantic dash to opening day, Building a Better Mouse will show you the behind the scenes madness -- and fun -- that went into designing Epcot.

Building A Better Mouse

David Paul Green

Theme Perks Inc.

<p>On October 1, 1982, The Walt Disney Company opened its EPCOT Center to the world, heralding changes that would take the Disney property in Florida from a mere theme park to a world-class resort destination. Authors Steve Alcorn and David Green were there, as employees of Disney's WED Imagineering. "Building a Better Mouse" tells the tale of the "hundreds of mostly young, mostly bright and all embarrassingly idealistic people" who worked on Epcot, and gives a unique insider's perspective on what it was like to be in the trenches as a Disney Imagineer in the early 1980s, from pixie dusting - when new employees are indoctrinated into all things Disney - through the craziness of the engineering design process, right up until the last frantic dash to opening day. It is a breathtaking, breezy, E-ticket ride of a book, required reading for both hard-core Disneyphiles and people interested in the business side of themed entertainment.</p>

Building A Better Mouse: The Story Of The Electronic Imagineers Who Designed Epcot

David Green

Theme Perks Press

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