Epcot Center: the postcard variant capital of the (WALT DISNEY) World
The four view card of the Mexico pallion, above, was probably first
published around 1989 I know this from the markings on the back of the card,
and those marking are what this article is about.
Most of the other cards that have the Epcot Center rings logo in black,
like this text,
, as opposed to gray, like this text,
are from things that opened later like;
The Living Seas, Illuminations, the Morocco,
Norway, and Wonders of Life pavilions. Not only does the logo make me think
these came out in 1989, but also
I'm certain they weren't printed before 1986, since, until then
since most Epcot card printed before
then were marked with © 1982 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS
or © 1983 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS
(based on original release date) by 1985
many of these cards had been re-printed with © WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS,
but, after the 1986 renaming of the corporation to THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
the year re-appeared in the copyright on those early cards and
their reprints appeared with © 1982 DISNEY and © 1983 DISNEY. So Epcot cards
copyrighted just © DISNEY sort of make up their own little series. With the
exception of the one Mexico card I have pictured
here the rest of those cards are on the last page of this chapter.
And just
in case you thought I made the system Disney used to copyright their cards for
Epcot Center before the introduction of bar codes perfectly clear, then here's
another point, most of these cards were also published in
separate versions that were sold at hotels rather than in the
parks and the copyrights on those were totally different. On those cards the
Epcot Center logo on the card back was top and center, as opposed to the
logo in the lower right-hand corner as in the cards sold in the parks. The
numbers on those cards is has the "EC-"
prefix, as opposed to the "0100-" prefix on the cards sold in the parks
and then there are the copyrights. The Copyrights similar to the
cards sold in the parks
with all the initial cards in that series
being copyrighted © 1982 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS,
the one difference being that they even used that "1982"
on the cards that were printed
as © 1983 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS on the cards sold in the parks.
In other words, none of the cards in the "hotel"
series was printed with a © 1983 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS copyright. Then,
in 1986, when Disney changed its official name to THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY the
copyright on the "hotel cards" went to © The Walt Disney Company, and
thankfully they stayed that way! so at least
there are only two copyrights for each card in the "hotel series". Of course
when you add it all up you can end up having easily six versions of many of
these Epcot images, three "0100-" series copyrights two "EC-"
copyrights and a bar coded version.
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