
I love Walt Disney World history and so I was very excited when my friend Kay told me she had found a huge collection of her WDW photos from the 1980s! Here’s some information on Epcot’s Daredevil Circus 1987-1988.
One of the finds were photos of Elephants in Epcot! Kay remembered there was a Daredevil Circus that not only included the elephants but also trapeze acts and much more.


As we talked I recalled a flyer I had from the 80s which talked about the circus.

A google search turned up several articles on the Daredevil Circus as well as some video.
One of the articles I found, written by Lenn Millbower a former Cast Member, actually called it a “spectacular disaster” due to the tremendous amounts of problems with the show.
“That’s why, those of us who worked in Future World at Epcot in the 1980s –this Examiner was an operations lead–were surprised to learn that the beloved CommuniCore Fountain would be torn up and replaced with a stage for a circus so it could support “36,000 pounds of elephant pachyderm.” We were also told that the beautiful fountain would never return. … And the fountain? It was rebuilt and runs to this day.” (http://www.examiner.com/article/a-ground-level-view-of-the-epcot-daredevil-circus-spectacular-disaster)
Here is one the the Disney Photos that was used in promotion of the show:

Here are links to the videos I found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3pTRxr4U58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw8tQZUuZdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY58CMPYYBo
So while this Yesterland Epcot blog does not contain my own photos, I hope you will find the information as interesting as I did.
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