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 | took nearly 3,000 designers and 4,000 construction workers to build the first phase of Epcot. |
| 54 million cubic feet of dirt was excavated to build the park. |
| Epcot had its soft opening Sept. 28, 1982, at 4 p.m. |
| Spaceship Earth, the visual and thematic centerpiece of Epcot, weighs 16 million pounds, measures 165 | |
| feet in diameter and encompasses 2.2 million cubic feet of space. The outer "skin" of Spaceship Earth is made up of 11,324 aluminum and plastic-alloy triangles. |
| At Spaceship Earth, Mickey Mouse is hidden in his own constellation just beyond the attraction's loading | |
| area. |
| The fountain at Epcot Innoventions Plaza can shoot water 150 feet in the air -- within 30 feet of the top of | |
| Spaceship Earth. If all of the shooters were fired at once, there would be 2,000 gallons of water in the air. |
| The ride technology for the Soarin' attraction was based on an erector set model created by Walt Disney | |
| Imagineer Mark Sumner. One million pounds of steel provides the ride structure and 37 tons are lifted during each ride cycle. |
| It took more than 650 Walt Disney Imagineers more than 350,000 hours (the equivalent of 40 years of | |
| time) to develop Mission: SPACE. The Imagineers' efforts took place over a five-year period. |
| At Mission: SPACE, there are 13 quotes by space explorers and visionaries on the attraction's wall of | |
| honor. The most recent was added in September 2007 by teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, reading "Reach for your dreams . . . the sky is no limit." |
| At nearly a mile long and reaching a top speed of 65 mph, Test Track is the longest and fastest ride at a | |
| Walt Disney World theme park. |
| The body of water at The Seas with Nemo & Friends provides a home to 3,000 fish and other sea | |
| creatures and contains 5.7 million gallons of water, one of the largest man-made ocean environments in the world. |
| More than 30 tons of fruits and vegetables grown at The Land pavilion each year are served in Walt | |
| Disney World restaurants. |
| The Land has a "tomato tree" that is the only one of its kind in the United States. The massive plant has | |
| produced a world-record harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes from a single vine. |
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| Fun Facts |
| Barbara Morgan's Quotation Plaque at Mission: SPACE |
| Spaceship Earth weighs 16 million pounds |
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