Howdy guys!
Some of you may remember my [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1366051"]Kormit the Freg[/URL] series. I've felt sort of burned out on that one for a while and decided to do something new based on an inside joke between myself and a friend.
Hopefully you guys'll enjoy!
[B]EPISODE 1
[/B][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV_ejPOn74g[/media]
[B]EPISODE 2
[/B][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXGiNq-CQks[/media]
Still a better Epcot than Epcot.
That was quite funny tbh
[QUOTE=woolio1;47872897]Still a better Epcot than Epcot.[/QUOTE]
Ha! Yeah, parody aside, Walt's idea was pretty crazy and unrealistic, but hey! He was a dreamer.
[QUOTE=scurr;47873174]That was quite funny tbh[/QUOTE]
Thank you, it's much appreciated.
[QUOTE=GoldenBalls;47873206]Ha! Yeah, parody aside, Walt's idea was pretty crazy and unrealistic, but hey! He was a dreamer.
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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-Walt disney
disney world is built on a swamp, the guy has a thing for doing insane stuff :v:. if he didn't die of lung cancer this thing probably would of been built and actually work.
(heres some photos of the swampland they built disney world on btw:
[url]http://www.wesh.com/orlandomyway/orlando-theme-parks/18403560[/url]
funny vid tho
[QUOTE=Wii60;47873239]"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-Walt disney
disney world is built on a swamp, the guy has a thing for doing insane stuff :v:. if he didn't die of lung cancer this thing probably would of been built and actually work.
(heres some photos of the swampland they built disney world on btw:
[URL]http://www.wesh.com/orlandomyway/orlando-theme-parks/18403560[/URL]
funny vid tho[/QUOTE]
Even as a big fan of Walt and Disney history I think E.P.C.O.T. was unrealistic and more a product of 60s optimism for the future.
I don't doubt that he could physically build the thing. He had the land and the money to do so, but as a concept, down to the details, it really wouldn't have worked in the long run. There's a difference between bulldozing a swamp against recommendation then building on it, and building a functioning and thriving city that contains absolutely everything people need.
For a start his concept was very strictly controlled and penned in, which psychologically isn't where people want to live. Not to mention having multi-layered tunnels under the city (and that skyscraper) would be extremely dangerous, and could potentially devastate large portions of the city if it was ever damaged in any serious way.
Ultimately it's more the result of a highly optimistic childlike dreamer of how a city would work than a realistic one or one designed by an actual architect.
But that's what made him who he was and is the reason people still talk about him today. He was a dreamer, and despite how ridiculous his idea was in this case, he showed he could get himself into a position where he could make it happen.
Sending the ethnic minorities into space was probably a bad PR move on his behalf though.
I wouldn't be sad if they demolished EPCOT and rebuilt it with today's technology.
[QUOTE=Smoot;47873582]I wouldn't be sad if they demolished EPCOT and rebuilt it with today's technology.[/QUOTE]
Or at least had another go. Would be interesting to see how projections of the future from different eras line up.
[QUOTE=GoldenBalls;47873493]Even as a big fan of Walt and Disney history I think E.P.C.O.T. was unrealistic and more a product of 60s optimism for the future.
I don't doubt that he could physically build the thing. He had the land and the money to do so, but as a concept, down to the details, it really wouldn't have worked in the long run. There's a difference between bulldozing a swamp against recommendation then building on it, and building a functioning and thriving city that contains absolutely everything people need.
For a start his concept was very strictly controlled and penned in, which psychologically isn't where people want to live. Not to mention having multi-layered tunnels under the city (and that skyscraper) would be extremely dangerous, and could potentially devastate large portions of the city if it was ever damaged in any serious way.
Ultimately it's more the result of a highly optimistic childlike dreamer of how a city would work than a realistic one or one designed by an actual architect.
But that's what made him who he was and is the reason people still talk about him today. He was a dreamer, and despite how ridiculous his idea was in this case, he showed he could get himself into a position where he could make it happen.
Sending the ethnic minorities into space was probably a bad PR move on his behalf though.[/QUOTE]
That's why he had the WED Engineering team. They're great at figuring out how to do completely ridiculous stuff. For instance, the Walt Disney World Utilidors. Or Robo-Lincoln.
Honestly, they could have built a structurally-sound city with those plans as a rough outline. The tunnels only passed through the main viaduct for the city, building a 30-story hotel with a single four-lane tunnel underneath it would be cake, even in the 60s. Atlanta's got a few today.
But, yeah, people probably wouldn't enjoy living there. It was a bizarre utopian dream, like all the others before it.
[editline]3rd June 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=xalener;47873637]Or at least had another go. Would be interesting to see how projections of the future from different eras line up.[/QUOTE]
Tomorrowland. That's how they line up.
They do not line up well.
wow i actually teared up from laughing at this.
great job
[QUOTE=Smoot;47873582]I wouldn't be sad if they demolished EPCOT and rebuilt it with today's technology.[/QUOTE]
I would. I like the World Showcase. Could use an update, but it's a cool thing. (Except for Frozen taking over the Norway pavilion. That saddens me.)
The front bit, though? Sure. Innoventions is actually being renovated right now, to be more of a tech showcase. Spaceship Earth is cool, and Test Track just got a big facelift, but there's honestly not a lot in that section. They could do better. Hire Santiago Calatrava and have him redesign it.
[QUOTE=woolio1;47873776]That's why he had the WED Engineering team. They're great at figuring out how to do completely ridiculous stuff. For instance, the Walt Disney World Utilidors. Or Robo-Lincoln.
Honestly, they could have built a structurally-sound city with those plans as a rough outline. The tunnels only passed through the main viaduct for the city, building a 30-story hotel with a single four-lane tunnel underneath it would be cake, even in the 60s. Atlanta's got a few today.
But, yeah, people probably wouldn't enjoy living there. It was a bizarre utopian dream, like all the others before it. [/QUOTE]
Indeed, I mean it's obvious it wasn't just purely his insight given he even shows a room of people hard at work in his giant concept room. But what I meant was that instead of an architect designing and building something, it's the concept of a child-like vision of what a city should be like, then filtered through someone who knows what they're doing that would have to jigsaw it together based on what they knew.
I mean, at the end of the day, he wanted to build an entire city from scratch. Not a neighborhood or town. I don't personally think most of it was practical or sound in the long term but c'est la vie, heh.
[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;47873867]wow i actually teared up from laughing at this.
great job[/QUOTE]
Thank you! What's sort of awesome and surprising about this video for me, is that even though I made Walt out to be a crazy money-grabbing racist super-villain, this thread has provoked actual serious discussions about his vision and the content of the real video.
It's pleasant!
[QUOTE=GoldenBalls;47873923]Indeed, I mean it's obvious it wasn't just purely his insight given he even shows a room of people hard at work in his giant concept room. But what I meant was that instead of an architect designing and building something, it's the concept of a child-like vision of what a city should be like, then filtered through someone who knows what they're doing that would have to jigsaw it together based on what they knew.
I mean, at the end of the day, he wanted to build an entire city from scratch. Not a neighborhood or town. I don't personally think most of it was practical or sound in the long term but c'est la vie, heh.
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Hey, the UAE did it just fine... Granted, it took thousands of slave laborers and billions of dollars in oil revenue, but they did basically the same thing. Big city in the middle of the desert, built from scratch over ten years. So the idea works. "Works."
I mean, if this doesn't look like a modern interpretation of the EPCOT idea, I don't know what does.
[t]http://static1.squarespace.com/static/551c55b7e4b0c1e6d1554714/t/551c570be4b0cd11d25754d6/1427920653153/3.jpg?format=2500w[/t]
Can't wait for episode 2.
"I know what you're thinking: 'Walt, thats a big fucking map'"
that was great
Amazingly done man; laughed hard and shared it to my friend
[QUOTE=woolio1;47873941]Hey, the UAE did it just fine... Granted, it took thousands of slave laborers and billions of dollars in oil revenue, but they did basically the same thing. Big city in the middle of the desert, built from scratch over ten years. So the idea works. "Works."
I mean, if this doesn't look like a modern interpretation of the EPCOT idea, I don't know what does.
[t]http://static1.squarespace.com/static/551c55b7e4b0c1e6d1554714/t/551c570be4b0cd11d25754d6/1427920653153/3.jpg?format=2500w[/t][/QUOTE]
any good doc's on the slave labor over there.?
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;47875336]any good doc's on the slave labor over there.?[/QUOTE]
I think Vice did a thing on it, I'd check over there.
You kinda sound like Iago from Aladdin. You should dub over him too.
Is there a link to the original somewhere?
[QUOTE=WhyNott;47879874]Is there a link to the original somewhere?[/QUOTE]
A fun watch for those who like disney history/lore
[video=youtube;sLCHg9mUBag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCHg9mUBag[/video]
Jesus, the Cars 7 quip
prime work as always
amazing. Seriously laughing my ass off.
[QUOTE=ThePanther;47879774]You kinda sound like Iago from Aladdin. You should dub over him too.[/QUOTE]
Gilbert Gottfried?
wh
do you have ears that work?
My sides are in orbit at the moment, holy fuck, keep doing these
[QUOTE=xalener;47881787]Gilbert Gottfried?
wh
do you have ears that work?[/QUOTE]
I see what he means sort of by the tone/accent, but yeah, I agree it doesn't really sound like it.
Even if it did, a good rule of thumb is never to parody/spoof comedy. You can't make a joke out of a joke and Iago as a character (and Gilbert Gottfried in general) is already ludicrous and funny.
[QUOTE=Clovernoodle;47880787]Jesus, the Cars 7 quip
prime work as always[/QUOTE]
Thanks man!
[QUOTE=Wii60;47880583]A fun watch for those who like disney history/lore
[video=youtube;sLCHg9mUBag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCHg9mUBag[/video][/QUOTE]
I saw this version moments after I originally uploaded the video. You've no idea how frustrated I was to use another version then find out there was an HD version available.
Ah well!
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;47881954]My sides are in orbit at the moment, holy fuck, keep doing these[/QUOTE]
Already sort of planning! I've found a few good clips so far.
The entire time, I was just trying to mimic the guy but with a Gilbert Gottfried impression.
[QUOTE=Smoot;47873582]I wouldn't be sad if they demolished EPCOT and rebuilt it with today's technology.[/QUOTE]
don't you dare touch my spaceship earth
[QUOTE=Smoot;47873582]I wouldn't be sad if they demolished EPCOT and rebuilt it with today's technology.[/QUOTE]
how about no
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;47884617]how about no[/QUOTE]
To be honest, that Spaceship Earth ride has to be one of the most boring rides I've ever been on.
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