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Caption This: Printing History at Spaceship Earth at Epcot

Jennifer Fickley-Baker

by , Editorial Content Manager, Walt Disney World Resort

This week’s “Caption This” photo was snapped inside Spaceship Earth at Epcot back in 1985.

As a writer, this part of the attraction – which depicts the adoption of Gutenberg’s printing press – has always been one of my favorites. Have you traveled through this scene and stared at the guy in the red jacket and wondered just what he was reading?

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You tell us…what’s he so engrossed in reading about? Go ahead and give us your headline in the “Comments” section below.


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Comments

  • Alright Everyone, look alive. We’ve got visitors.

  • It’s the menu from his favorite restaurant.

  • From stone tablets to computer tablets – you mean this discovery is only temporary?

  • “EPCOT hours to expand. Audio-Animatronics say they’ll strike. Ben Franklin threatens to (keep) walking!

  • “We go to great pains to put out a great product, but all people really care about is the crossword puzzle.”

  • Hark, fellows! Thou must seeth Ye Olde iCanHasCheezburger! For verily, it causeth me to LOL.

  • All of that’s in a Hot Dog?

  • Jennifer Fickley-Baker gets a raise!!! Wish it was that easy.

  • Some one named Walt Disney is going to build a park on swamp land. That will never work.

  • “It’s Erasmus, not Erasmouse”.

  • “It says here that Da Vinci is working on some kind of flying contraption. It’ll never work…”

  • This looks like HTML code… I think we got the wrong paper again. This is a computer printout.

  • Hmm…Seems some fellow’s invented something called the “Internet”, and now they won’t need all those copies of the Yellow Pages directories we’ve been printing!

  • I put these red tights on for this???
    Oh!!! Please?
    Tweet me next time.

  • NO NO! You spelled Earth with an extra “e”! RPRINT THEM ALL AGAIN!

  • Don’t look now…but I think Dwight Eisenhower is across the way playing a lute!

  • “Place ‘M’ next to ‘N’ and screw in with ‘J’. What?! This part doesn’t look the same as the one I have. Man, I hate these instructions that come with these put-together-furniture pieces…”

  • “Stop the press, boys! Biergarten’s added Frikadellen to the dinner options — looks like we’re gonna have to print the menus all over again!”

  • “Mr. Iwerks, how many times do I have to show how to draw Steamboat Willie correctly?” said Walt.

  • Hey guys, listen to this. It says I may have already won!

  • “This copy is nowhere near as smart as the original Jeremy Irons script. Change should enhance, not worsen.”

  • Finally, I have the lyrics for One Direction’s “You’re Beautiful”!!!

  • “Is this papyrus?”

  • “…And thus, the idea of ‘Fine Print’ was created…”

  • Florida Gulf Coast University won again!?! There goes my bracket.

  • “Beards out of fashion, mustaches in…ha ha, guys, very funny…”

  • Everyone, listen. Walt Disney World just tweeted some amazing news – we are going to be part of a great feature attraction!

  • “Wait time for Soarin’ – 566 years and 105 minutes.”

  • Why is Epcot upside down on this park map?!

  • Early bloggers face challenges with character count limitations.

  • “We wouldn’t be able to print this so easily if it weren’t for the ABCs. Thanks, Phoenicians!!”

  • It says here that some guy named Trump wants to buy us.

  • Why exactly are we doing this, sir? Someone is just gonna turn it into an eBook one day!

  • “It was the best of times, it was the MORST of times, DANG IT STEVE!”

  • “All work and no play make Johannes a dull boy All work and no play make Johannes a dull boy
    All work and no play make Johannes a dull boy All work and no play make Johannes a dull boy”

  • “I’m not to sure about this prediction from Nostradamus. I mean an entire WORLD attributed to a MOUSE. No one’s going to believe that.”

  • i have to pay how much in taxes? thanks unnamed Egyptian guy 100 feet away for created Papyrus!

  • “Hey Jill I’ve noticed a number of spelling errors. Did you use spell check?”

  • I got this red jacket yesterday, NOW IT’S 50% OFF TODAY!!!!!!!!

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