#Original EPCOT Center Future World Trash Can

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Getting up close and personal with Figment - and the original EPCOT Center Future World trash can design! // Walt Disney World, Epcot, Future World, Journey into Imagination, 1985 [Source: “Lindsay_at_30_071.jpg” by jsclark is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0]

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Journey into Imagination with Figment may be a ridiculously-bad 2nd sequel to the well-loved original that adorned Epcot's Future World from 1983-1998, but it does have 2 redeeming factors: trash cans in the show scenes! As you explore Figment's upside down imagination, trash cans are spotted in both the kitchen and bathroom scenes. Just ignore the rest of this poor attraction and pray Dr. Nigel Channing has an anvil fall on his head so he'll shut up. // Walt Disney World, Epcot Center, World Celebration, Imagination!, Journey into Imagination with Figment, 2022 [Source: Jeremiah Good. Used by permission.]

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This is a requiem for a trash can. After the loss of PUSH The Talking Trash Can in 2014, the Electric Umbrella restaurant was the last remaining location on Walt Disney World property to host a garbage can that actually talked. All you had to do was find the single can in the facility that had a cord extending into a neighboring power outlet. Unfortunately, as part of Epcot's multi-year transformation, the Electric Umbrella has been closed. This location originally opened with EPCOT Center on October 1, 1982 as the Stargate Restaurant inside CommuniCore East. As CommuniCore was being redesigned into Innoventions, this fast-food facility was closed on April 10, 1994. It reopened as the Electric Umbrella restaurant on June 24, 1994 - and kept that name until it finally closed on February 15, 2020. At some point, this talking trash can was added -- and branded with "Waste Please" messaging -- which seemingly was removed over the years. Electric Umbrella's talking trash can played 6 prerecorded messages that were trigged by a switch on the inlet door flap. When you pushed it to throw your garbage away, it played a message.

"Hey dude, like your trash is totally awesome... NOT!"

"Ah-ha-ha-ha! This is my lucky day. French fries!"

"What are you doing? What are you doing? Stop that! I ordered pastrami, not salami!"

"Cool! Thank you! [giggles]"

"Hey, it's mine!" "It's mine!" "It's mine!" "IT'S MINE!"

"Ouch, hey watch it dude. Like, your trash just knocked off my shades!"

With the restaurant now closed, the future of the trash can is unknown. Obviously, we'd like to see it return in some capacity to Epcot. Do you have any memories of this talking trash can? // Walt Disney World, Epcot, Future World, Electric Umbrella, 2019 [Source: Steve Tanner personal collection.]

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During D23 Expo 2019, the reimagining of Epcot was announced, featuring a multi-year makeover that will divide the park into 4 neighborhoods: World Showcase, World Celebration, World Nature, and World Discovery. Disney is repurposing the long-neglected Odyssey Pavilion as a preview center, showcasing "Walt Disney Imagineering presents the Epcot Experience." Aside from the really long title - and Disney's continued fascination with using "neighborhoods" instead of "lands" when describing theme park zones, the biggest benefit of this move is a brand new trash can design appearing in Epcot. The Odyssey got an updated paint job and with it, new white and light blue cans with the vintage Epcot logo and recycling icons represented in grey. Watchful CanFans will note that this also introduces an update to the recycling can iconography at Walt Disney World, which has been stuck on using the horrid "Butt Bottle" icon. This updated Can/Cup/Bottle "Recycle" icon is a nice improvement, but still on the cluttered side. The new white & blue cans are a nice throwback to the original Future World "Waste Please" can designs from 1982. // Walt Disney World, Epcot, Future World, Odyssey Pavilion, Walt Disney Imagineering presents the Epcot Experience, 2019 [Source: LaughingPlace.com. Used by permission.]

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