Why is there an EPCOT Center trash can at the Disney-MGM Studios?



Michael Crawford of Progress City USA recently wrote about a TV special that explored the opening of the Studios, The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park: The Dream Comes True (1989). While watching the video, I noticed something peculiar during a segment about the Citizens of Hollywood characters.



There in the background on Hollywood Boulevard is a familiar two-tone blue trash can. Yes, that’s an original can design from EPCOT Center! The futuristic design doesn’t really fit the nostalgic look, does it? (The Hollywood Boulevard trash can design is more retro in nature.)



More likely than not, this sequence was shot either pre-opening or at some other earlier development period in the Studio’s history, prior to all the themed elements being put in place… including trash cans. In the meantime, the EPCOT can is probably just serving the practical function of being, well, a trash can.



// Walt Disney World, Disney-MGM Studios, Hollywood Boulevard, 1989



[Source: Michael Crawford at Progress City USA. Used by Permission.]