The True Story of Disney’s First Failed Sci-Fi Convention, Contact 96

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With today’s news that Star Wars Celebration wouldn’t happen this year, with the official Star Wars convention not returning until 2022, we thought it might be fun to look back at Disney’s first, all-but-forgotten attempt at an official sci-fi convention: Contact 96. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard about it because honestly nobody has (people who were there barely remember it), but from its inauspicious beginnings, it would end up inspiring one of the key special events at Walt Disney World for decades and feed into the resort’s emphasis on food …

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