Participating in the 1964 New York World’s Fair was an important steppingstone Walt Disney took in paving the way for the future of the Disney Parks. But what the world didn’t know was Disney had been secretly buying up parcels of land in Central Florida, accumulating property twice the size of Manhattan and planning his biggest idea yet—Walt Disney World. He called it his “Florida Project” and at the epicenter was EPCOT, a utopian city of the future that would change the world forever.