The Thinking Fan's Guide to Walt Disney World: Epcot

Learn to Slow Down and Savor the World’s Boldest Theme Park

There’s no place like Epcot. It's the theme park that endeavored to change the world.

Now, more than 30 years later, Aaron Wallace dives deep into the heart of Epcot. Step beyond the typical rush-here, do-that frenzy of most guidebooks to truly appreciate the park’s history, storytelling, and controversies.

The Thinking Fan’s Guide is a lighthearted but scholarly tour through every Epcot ride and show. You’ll learn to unpack big questions like:

• Should a Future World attraction ever take place in the past?
• Are Frozen’s Anna and Elsa holding World Showcase hostage?
• Do Disney characters belong in Epcot?
• Why does the park spend so much time in Ellen DeGeneres’s head?
• Has Epcot lost its way?
• Did the park really change the world?

This is a guide for those ready to immerse themselves in the wondrous achievement of 1982’s EPCOT Center and the multi-faceted, modern-day Epcot it has become.

Longtime Disney buffs will find new insights and surprising perspectives, while newcomers will get more out of their vacations by learning to look at Epcot as a work of art.

Fall in Love with Epcot for the First Time... or All Over Again.

Aaron Wallace is a writer, podcaster, and attorney who studies movies,music, television, theatre, theme parks, and why we love them. He is the author of three bestselling books about Disney travel and entertainment.

Aaron first started writing about The Walt Disney Company while at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in both English and Communication Studies (with a concentration in media and film). While there, he taught a recitation course in analyzing children's literature, with an emphasis on Disney's adaptations in theme parks and movies. He later pursued an interest in law, earning a Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University and practicing as an attorney before transitioning full-time to his career as a writer, critic, podcaster, and public speaker.

Disney fans know Aaron as the host of On Main Street with Aaron Wallace, the web's longest-running Disney fan podcast, recognized by Apple as a Featured Podcast and a fixture in the Travel Top 10. He also reviews live theatre and conducts celebrity interviews as a Contributing Editor at BroadwayWorld.com, the web's #1 source for live entertainment coverage. His more than two hundred movie, music, and television reviews have reached an audience of millions across multiple outlets, including the popular DVDizzy.com.

He has been featured in The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Buzzfeed, Attractions Magazine, and The Orlando Sentinel, among other publications, and is a frequent guest on podcasts such as The Mad Chatters and Dizney Coast to Coast.

Today, Aaron lives in Orlando, Florida, where he visits the Walt Disney World Resort on at least a weekly basis and shares his adventures on Twitter (@aaronwallace) and Instagram (@aaronhwallace).

His website is available at AaronWallaceOnline.com.