The Living Seas Pt. 1
Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World
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4.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael and Craig dive into the history of The Living Seas pavilion at EPCOT, what it could've been, what it became, and its legacy.
Links:
- Michael’s Disneyland History Segments
- Important DIS links and more information!
- Connecting with Walt on Twitter
Sources:
Books:
- The EPCOT Explorer’s Encyclopedia: A Guide to Walt Disney World’s Greatest Theme Park by R.A. Pedersen
- Walt Disney’s EPCOT Center: Creating the New World of Tomorrow, text by Richard R. Beard
- Epcot: The First Thirty Years: An Unofficial Retrospective by Jeff Lange and Kevin Yee
Websites/Articles:
- The Disney Wiki: The Living Seas
- Park Lore: The Living Seas: The Nautical Tale of EPCOT’s Undersea Pavilion from Concept to Clown Fish
- The Living Seas at intercot.com
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Transcript
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| 0:55.1 | Hey there, hi, they're ho there. |
| 0:56.3 | And welcome to episode 278 of connecting with Walt. |
| 1:01.6 | I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling. |
| 1:05.0 | And I am joined by my co-host, executive producer and good friend Craig Williams. Craig, happy new year and welcome |
| 1:14.6 | back to connecting with Walt. Happy new year to you as well, Michael, and everyone else out there. |
| 1:20.8 | How are you doing? I'm doing well. Thank you. And I had a great Christmas with my family and a very nice New Year's quiet. |
| 1:30.2 | I just, our court had a gathering outdoors. And I don't like cold weather. So I did not last till |
| 1:40.0 | midnight, even though I was dressed for the Arctic. But otherwise, it was very nice. |
| 1:45.0 | How was your holiday season? |
| 1:47.9 | It wasn't bad. |
| 1:49.0 | You know, got time with friends, with family, and, you know, it was a mild Christmas |
| 1:55.6 | for us, unfortunately. |
| 1:56.6 | But then on, we kind of had a, we were a week late on everything because then on new year's |
| 2:03.7 | Eve that temperature dropped and it got into the upper 40s on new year's Eve. |
| 2:09.2 | So if we could have had that on Christmas, that would have been perfect. |
| 2:12.9 | But it came a week late. |
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