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From: smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning)
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Subject: Re: EPCOT
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 16:51:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 16:51:39 1986
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh

> Last time I was in Florida, I went to EPCOT, and found it to be a total waste 

Another point of view:  My wife and I visited EPCOT and the World Showcase.
We thought that they did a very nice job.  We had lunch in France, and dinner
in Italy the first day.  The second day, we had lunch in Japan and dinner in
Germany.  The restaurants are staffed by cooks from the native country.  Most
of the servers are nationalized Americans or people of the appropriate descent.
All of the meals were excellent and the prices were quite in line for what 
you got.  The exhibits varried widely. Canada has a fabulous film on the
beauty of Canada.  The US has varried groups of entertainers coming along.
The others have shows, rides, and many other forms of entertainment, all
of which we enjoyed.  The entertainment is aimed at the mature adult and
not at the kiddies or young adult crowd.  There were many kids and young
people there but I think they would have rather been in Disney World or
Wet 'n Wild.  The commercial exhibits were not nearly as interesting as
the international exhibits, even though we did hit as many as we could and
enjoyed them also.  One caution, they had the monorail fire while we were
there.  The people in the monorail had to climb onto the roof of the
monorail to escape the fire.  They were on the roof of the monorail cars
for 30 minutes before the firemen got them down.  If you have a weak heart
or haven't paid up your insurance, you might want to avoid the monorail
until they install some emergency evacuation system.  Disney Corp. is 
great at avoiding bad publicity so it didn't hit too many papers but it
was scary.  You don't have to take the monorail unless you go between
the Hotels, Magic Kingdom, or World Showcase.  Even then you could walk
or take a bus.