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 EPCOT / EPCOT Center / Epcot (by Paul Williams / webmaster@waltopia.com) 

  
 EPCOT - was the name Walt originally gave for the city portion of the Florida Project (Disney World). The theme park was NOT at the center, rather to the north of EPCOT 

 If you take a look at this map http://waltopia.com/gallery/drawing.html you'll see PARK located in the upper portion of the property (where the Magic Kingdom is today) and EPCOT (the city) is the flower looking shape in the middle. 

 The theme park was meant to be a revenue stream for the city... a place for the residents to work... and a tourist attraction. 

 EPCOT Center is what they named EPCOT when it opened in '82. It was a sort of nod to the idea that it wasn't ""EPCOT"" per se... but the center of what EPCOT may become. 

 The name was switched from the EPCOT to Epcot as the acronym no longer made sense (as noted in the listing)."