Epcot "Center"

[gail228]

I am trying to educate a non-Disney fan. He continues to use "Epcot Center" when referring to Epcot and "Disney" when referring to the Magic Kingdom. This is such a pet peeve...

My question, when did they drop the "Center" from Epcot? I don't think I ever knew the correct year, and need to have accurate information to help my friend.

 

[graygables]

1994 Name changed from EPCOT Center to Epcot '94
1995: Name changed from Epcot '94 to Epcot '95
1996: Name changed from Epcot '95 to Epcot

Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (if anyone needs to know! )

NOT "environmental"

 

[CDSTapisRouge]

I just had to add that they are doing construction work on I-4 right now and I about had a FIT the other day because they put up a brand new sign (one of the big green directional signs) that says Epcot Center... I am 100% with you on that pet Peeve (and when people ask "What time does Disney open" and you know full well they mean MK but you have to correct them

 

[CheshireVal]

In my mind I still think of Epcot as EPCOT Center, because that's what it always was. It's hard to suddenly start calling it something different!

 

[slug]

I've been going since before there were any other parks besides MK, so I always say "Disney" instead of MK, knowing full well that I'm wrong. I also still say EPCOT Center because I'm stubborn and that is what I always called it.

 

[rlovew]

I too refer to it as EPCOT Center. It was that when I went as a child when it first opened and in my mind that is its name.

 

[ChrisFL]

1994 Name changed from EPCOT Center to Epcot '94
1995: Name changed from Epcot '94 to Epcot '95
1996: Name changed from Epcot '95 to Epcot

Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (if anyone needs to know! )

NOT "environmental"

which has always been a misnomer anyway, since it never was a real community, like the original Walt E.P.C.O.T. plan, so I don't mind that they changed it to just Epcot, it never was the correct name for the park to begin with.