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EPCOT & Disney World In early 1964, Disney announced plans to develop another theme park to be called Disney World a few miles west of Orlando, Florida. Disney World was to include "the Magic Kingdom", a larger, more elaborate version of Disneyland. It would also feature a number of golf courses and resort hotels. The heart of Disney World, however, was to be the Experimental Prototype City (or Community) of Tomorrow, known as EPCOT for short.

EPCOT was originally to be a model city, with roughly 20,000 citizens. In the words of Walt Disney, "It will be a planned, controlled community... There will be no retirees; everyone must be employed." Despite his dream, he was unable to obtain either permission or funding to begin building unless he began creating Magic Kingdom first. He died before the Magic Kingdom opened.