Have you seen the incredible series on Disney Plus detailing the history of Disney’s theme parks? Highly recommended. When I finished watching the series I remembered a box that I made years ago after going to EPCOT with my family. You have to see this “vintage” handmade EPCOT box!
By the time I built this I had already corresponded with Disney several years prior, while doing a school report about EPCOT Center, and was increasingly certain that I was going to grow up to become an Imagineer (blissfully unaware that I would be temporarily waylaid by the film industry).
So excited was I by our family’s trip to EPCOT I came home and decided to create a miniature version of the park using spare bits and pieces from my arts and crafts projects. The result (as we now look at it) is hilariously horrid and wonderfully artsy.
![Open position to reveal the theme park! This is a vintage handmade EPCOT box that I made all the way back in the early 1980s.](https://blog.drewprops.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/my-epcot-box_2731722305_o-1024x768.jpg)
What you cannot really see from these photos is that I took fiber optic cables from a 70s novelty lamp and ran them below the model so that it lit up when the crude contacts on the rear hinges closed the circuit.
I took these photos on a camera back around 2008, hence the low quality. If anybody at Disney wants to acquire it I’m negotiable ;)
Uh oh, I wonder if I took the battery out??
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