Port Disney in July 1990, first presented to city and port officials in closed meetings, then revealed in a public meeting on July 31, 1990. This was followed by the publication of "The Port Disney News", which was mailed directly to homes in 1991 to drum up public support. The project was canceled in December 1991 in favor of the planned WestCOT theme park in Anaheim. Some elements of the theme park that was to have been built at Port Disney were later incorporated into Tokyo DisneySea, which opened in 2001. On March 6, 1992, Disney announced that it would end its
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant and a ripoff. In their book "Vegetarian Walt Disney World and Greater Orlando", Susan Shumaker and Than Saffel call the Sci-Fi Dine-In "the wackiest dining experience in any Disney park". The Sci-Fi Dine-In, located on Commissary Lane across from "Star Tours" and adjacent to ABC Commissary, opened on April 20, 1991 as one of the twenty new attractions opened at Walt Disney World to mark the complex's twentieth anniversary. The restaurant was created with a strong emphasis on theme, in emulation of the 50's Prime Time Café, which had opened two years prior. Disney hoped that the focus on theme