December 2003

This visit: December 29-30, 2002. Drive about 100 miles to the southeast from Walt Disney World to the Atlantic Coast to visit Disney’s first Resort without an accompanying Theme Park. Photos and video from December 30, 2002.

100 Years of Magic February 2002

February 4 to 14, 2002. Resort: Disney’s BoardWalk Villas Slideshow Images Photo #1 of 37 Walt Disney World February 2002 ▶ Play 2.0s Fantasmic! Disney-MGM Studios 2/4/2002 Illuminations: Reflections of Earth Epcot 2/4/2002 Page created: February 24, 2002 Last Updated on August 10, 2026

Spaceship Earth

When it opened in October, 1982, the second theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort was called EPCOT Center. The letters in its name were capitalized to emphasize that the word was really an acronym coined by Walt Disney in the 1960s during the development of the “Florida Project” …

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