Futureport ’82

I should’ve done some more digging when I posted that World of Motion recreation video. Turns out it’s from Futureport ’82, a digital recreation of the Future World part of Epcot Center as it was on opening day in 1982. It’s built in Unreal Engine and available for download. It looks really impressive.

I went to Epcot when I was 8 years old and the park has changed so much now that it’s a total nostalgia trip to be able to (digitally) walk around Epcot like it was when I was a kid. For example the Communicore buildings were turned into shopping/restaurants, and just recently they’ve torn down half of Communicore West and built a garden, so it’s awesome to see the science and technology exhibits that used to be in there. And I distinctly remember watching the “Backstage Magic” show in the little theater but I forgot where it was actually located.