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WestCOT was a planned second theme park for the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It was essentially a replica of EPCOT Center at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and would have been dedicated to the celebration of human achievement, namely technological innovation and international culture. The park would have been represented by SpaceStation Earth, a larger version of the geodesic sphere Spaceship Earth featured at EPCOT Center. In the 1990s, The Walt Disney Company expanded the original Disneyland Park into a multi-park, multi-resort business model. Intended to be the centerpiece of the revamping, WestCOT was officially announced in 1991, though financial restraints contributed to its cancellation in 1995. Its planned site would later house the complex's second theme park Disney's California Adventure Park, opened in 2001. ==History== In 1991, Disney announced plans to build WestCOT on the site of Disneyland's parking lot.〔Merissa Marr, (Disney's $1 Billion Adventure ) (Page B1), ''The Wall Street Journal'', October 17, 2007.〕 It was to be themed around a Utopian vision of the future, similar to EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World, and would have been the first Disney theme park to contain hotels within the park. Several issues arose that would ultimately lead to the project's cancellation. It required a significant land acquisition, though residential areas built around Disneyland caused land prices to skyrocket, and thousands of residents would have needed to be relocated. Residents claimed that the park's light pollution would be too much to bear at night, and that the replica of Spaceship Earth would have become an eyesore. With estimates hovering close to $3 billion and the company's significant financial problems with the recently opened Disneyland Resort Paris, the project was scrapped in 1995.〔 CEO Michael Eisner held a three-day executive retreat in Aspen, Colorado to come up with a new idea, and from that meeting of about thirty executives came the idea for a California-themed park.〔 That project became Disney's California Adventure, which opened in 2001 on the property that WestCOT was to occupy. The idea of building a resort hotel within a theme park was later implemented with Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, which opened in 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WestCOT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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