Retro Epcot Symbols

[DisneyGirl10]

I LOVE the retro EPCOT symbols, but I'm not that sure as to what they all stand for!

Can someone more in-the-know than I am elaborate?

I'm particularly curious about the EPCOT park symbol...which 5 "original attractions" are the 5 interlocking rings representing?

Thanks!

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

The 6 Originals are...

1. Spaceship Earth
2. CommuniCore
3. The Land
4. Journey into Imagination
5. World of Motion
6. Universe of Energy

The 5 rings represent the 5 pavilions that are not SSE...SSE is the globe in the center.

There was also a 6th Original logo for WS.
Those were in 1982

Added to these were Horizons(83), The Living Seas(86) and Wonders of Life(89).


Hope this helped!:wave:

 

[vonpluto]

Don't forget the little used World Showcase logos.

From a WDI calendar, June 1982:

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Don't forget the little used World Showcase logos.

From a WDI calendar, June 1982:

Ah, very nice. I have not seen those in a while.

 

[lazyboy97o]

You described eleven symbols, but there is a twelfth, between the park and Spaceship Earth. What is this symbol?

 

[maelstrom]

You described eleven symbols, but there is a twelfth, between the park and Spaceship Earth. What is this symbol?

I think that would've been the symbol for World Showcase itself... the similar icon at the end of the second row was for the World Key Information Center.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I think that would've been the symbol for World Showcase itself... the similar icon at the end of the second row was for the World Key Information Center.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[HMF]

Word on the street is there is a possibility that a new set of logos based on the new SSE one might be coming soon.

 

[brkgnews]

Word on the street is there is a possibility that a new set of logos based on the new SSE one might be coming soon.

That totally would not suck.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

You described eleven symbols, but there is a twelfth, between the park and Spaceship Earth. What is this symbol?

What, the simple globe? No idea.:shrug: It's just there.:lol:
Might be for Earth or WS.

Word on the street is there is a possibility that a new set of logos based on the new SSE one might be coming soon.

I would very much like that. The new SSE one is great.

(But bringing back the old ones would rock, too!)

 

[ClemsonTigger]

Word on the street is there is a possibility that a new set of logos based on the new SSE one might be coming soon.

That totally would not suck.

As if average joe guest is not confused enough with directions...:brick:
The original symbols when used were not always understood...required just a tad of thinking...

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

As if average joe guest is not confused enough with directions...:brick:
The original symbols when used were not always understood...required just a tad of thinking...

Oh, heaven forbid some things aren't spelled out right in front of us! :brick:

Stupid average joes.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

As if average joe guest is not confused enough with directions...:brick:
The original symbols when used were not always understood...required just a tad of thinking...

:shrug: Were they really that hard?:lol:

 

[ClemsonTigger]

Yea, in fact they were. For those that didn't consult their maps and make the link between the symbol and the pavillion, the only ones people seemed to get were The Land and The Living Seas.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Yea, in fact they were. For those that didn't consult their maps and make the link between the symbol and the pavillion, the only ones people seemed to get were The Land and The Living Seas.

:shrug:

The only ones that are kinda baffling are JII and UoE. The rest...Anyone with some sense could figure it out. Seeing that the "odd ones" are in the corners of the park...:lol:

 

[diddy_mouse]

I have always liked the symbols.

Sure, they were a product of the 80s and unfortunately didn't hold up as the park made changes. But for me they helped add a nice little visual punctuation mark to each of the pavilions.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

I have always liked the symbols.

Sure, they were a product of the 80s and unfortunately didn't hold up as the park made changes. But for me they helped add a nice little visual punctuation mark to each of the pavilions.

You REALLY like the symbols!:lol:

Honestly, most of the symbols still work. Only MS needs a new one.(They could even reuse the neever used Journeys in Space one!)

 

[EPCOTPluto]

(They could even reuse the never used Journeys in Space one! )

Which is? I never knew it would have one.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Which is? I never knew it would have one.

A circle surrounding two curved lines that look like a space shuttle.


I'll see if I can get a pic..

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Here...This is a screen grab from Martin's Tribute on the Horizons-Journey-Mission Space switch...

It's the purple thing in the background.:lol: