What is your favorite "extinct" Disney ride/show?

[GrammieBee]

Skyway to Fantasyland - that ride was awesome. I hated Skyway to Tomorrowland though. Just the worst. Glad they removed it.

Color me confused. There was only one Skyway ride in the Magic Kingdom. It went between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland or from Tomorrowland to Fantasyland depending on which direction you were going. The gondolas traveled in a loop. If it wasn't crowded they might let you make a round trip without having to exit at one end.

By morning I realized that the quoted post was maybe meant to be a joke.

 

[Yert3]

Mickey Mouse Revue, SpectroMagic.

 

[graphite1326]

At MK
Alien Encounter
Diamond Horseshoe review
Merlin letting kids pull the sword from the stone
Mr Toads Wild Ride
2000 Leagues under the Sea ( never got the chance to ride em )

I agree with the first three. 2000 leagues I just can't figure out why people liked that. It was the most boring ride ever.

 

[Susan Savia]

Original Spaceship Earth
Horizons
World of Motion
Original Imagination

 

[Tom 55]

I miss 20000 Leagues and the Gondola. Here are some pictures from 1982. The Speedway picture is taken from Gondola ride.

 

[disneygeek 2069]

Snow White's Scary Adventures

I love the iconic Disney rides that make you feel like an adult who gets to ride on a kiddie ride. Even our teens loved to start our MK mornings with Winnie the Pooh, Snow White, and Peter Pan. It set the mood (smiles and laughter) for the whole day. And yes, that's exactly where we ran to at rope drop.

 

[ninjaprincesst]

20,000 leagues under the sea. I wish they would at least have built a nemo ride like Disneyland.

 

[HappilyEverAfter71]

I miss the old Spaceship Earth the most. I don't like the interactive screen thing and I miss the Jeremy Irons narration (that's the one I grew up with). It's still one of my favorite rides but still didn't like the update.

 

[mickey2008.1]

Front cab of monorail, that was my favorite, and that was just a few years ago. For the ages, Horizons.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I liked Honey I shrunk The Audience....I thought the concept of the Theater being shrunk was a creative concept for the Mid 90's and when It was still around before The Captain came back from the Dead I'd always go there..But, all I have now is to watch Martin's tribute to it on a 90" movie screen in my room...It's tragic I know....

And yeah..I'll watch Cranium Command On occasion as well...

 

[Weather_Lady]

The original Imagination ride.

 

[ChazDiz1971]

20,000 League Under the Sea without a doubt. I can't believe that they have not brought back some version of this ride.

 

[DontCallMeJr]

Horizons
Snow White
Mr Toad
Cranium Command

 

[gazhay]

Not strictly a ride, but seabase alpha in the living seas.
I loved that it was an immersive experience, and when i first rode the hydrolators aged 8 they amazed me. (I know!)
Horrible what they have done to it, and most epcot really.

 

[Christine in NJ]

20000 Leagues for sure! As a kid, this was always my pick for "parade ride", the ride you do that you love cause the line is short while everyone is at the parade. I loved being inside the submarine. I was sad when I went back years later and it was gone.

 

[CheshireCat12]

Why Mr. Toad? I just experienced that at DL and it was just not memorable.

 

[Mouse3268]

Its hard for me to say for a variety of reasons:
- It would have been Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, but I got the chance to ride it when I went to Disneyland in 2011. So I didn't feel like I was missing out anymore. Same explanation with 20,000 League Under the Sea and the Nemo Subs (yes I know the experience isn't the same, but it is similar enough).
- I never had the chance to experience Horizons, it was closed when I was 5 and I obviously cannot remember if I rode it or not when I was 2.
- I was 5 the last time I rode World of Motion and Journey into Imagination, so while I remember them, they don't have the same sentimental feeling if say they would have still been around when I went when was 11. Also I understand why both of them had to go, even though the execution of a new Imagination could have been much much better.
- The new version of Spaceship Earth does not bother me. Seems like a logical update and in a way incorporates some of the spirit of Horizons. I do agree that the decent could have been done better.
- Never went on Alien Encounter, would not have gone over well, haha!

Finally to my choice:

Wonders of Life pavilion was probably my favorite "extinct" thing at Walt Disney World. Loved Cranium Command and I thought Body Wars was more intense than Star Tours, which always made it more trilling for me. Plus the other stuff around the pavilion was always fun and I loved that everything was connected to a common theme, which we really only now in The Land.

Maelstrom will take over the top spot if the rumored Frozen takeover does indeed happen.

 

[Chasin' Tail]

Horizons. Followed by World of Motion

 

[Californian Elitist]

Why Mr. Toad? I just experienced that at DL and it was just not memorable.

Mr. Toad is a Walt-era attraction, where you end up in hell at the end. I've never experienced I dark ride like this one. It is arguably the most unique dark ride Disney's ever built, and I highly doubt we'd see something like this get built today. I can bet these are some of the reasons why people would like to see it back.

 

[The Mighty Tim]

I miss Horizons.