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...EPCOT as envisioned by Walt was certainly nightmarishly controlling, although endlessly fascinating. He wanted to build a planned city, a new town, with a dome over it, a nuclear power plant and electric cars, and a social contract that supercedes the Constitution. People would waive their Constitutional rights in favor of an explicit written social contract that would be more like an employment contract...
...Because it is a measure of the spell that Disney cast upon my family this week that, after I got my breath back - I felt for a second like I had been whacked again by the takeoff sequence over at Epcot?s ?MISSION: Space? - I had a moment of exquisite clarity. I?m sure it was quite like what overcame Tom Brady, when he suddenly realized that the next thing he had to do in life was get to Disney World. ?Well,? I said to myself, ?I am certainly not going to let George F Steinbrenner, the Terror from Tampa...
...made some mistakes at Epcot. First, we booked a ?Lunch with the Characters? and Mary Grace is still scared . . . let?s say witless by characters. Whenever Pluto hove into view, she freaked. And both she and Jack lost it at ?Honey,? because a 3-D snake popping into your face is not want you want or need when you?re three. (Daddy?s gotta say, however: The effects were terrific...
...Dave had to work on a case in London via computer on Day Two - an eerily suitable predicament on Epcot Day - so the happy task of taking Christopher to ?Mission: SPACE? fell to Uncle Bobby, which is me. ?Mission? is a heckuva ride. They give you three or four chances to back out before the harness slips down and, in a room that doesn?t go anywhere, they zoom you to Mars. If you?re squeamish, take their heed. They keep saying the ride can cause motion sickness, and I will offer as Exhibit A the young...
...always enjoyed walking through the ?countries? of Epcot, and I was pleased that the children didn?t find it too burdensome or ?adult? on Monday. We dined at Mexico, and it was as good as dining gets at Disney. Afterward, the kids danced as a mariachi band played. I watched them, happy as could be, and wondered if this would last another three days, or if the memory would last forever. For Caroline, perhaps, it will - this will be her ski lodge, her hot chocolate with marshmallows. For the twins, it?s doubtful they?ll remember, no matter how many...