A new set of River Country Pics

[NowInc]

The biggest kick that I got out of the entire thing is that he seems to think that he is the first one to do this. It's been done some many times and is listed on You Tube so often that it takes up half the cyberspace available. Many before him, including the infamous, Adam The Woo have done it and have been given "life time bans". All anyone has to do to get back in is to ask nicely a year or two down the road and they get reinstated. If there ever was a "been there - done that" discovery the river country exposure is the largest.

To get unbanned you have to apply for an appeal. They will ask you to remove your video/photos of your trespassing from your channel. Of you comply, they reinstate.

 

[PhotoDave219]

And used a Drone to take the photos. Drone use is not allowed on WDW property. Rules? They don't pertain to me...

But hey, he legally rented the boat, so I guess thats good enough.

I'm with the others, who cares if its there rotting. I'd rather them spend the money improving parts of the property we are supposed to visit.

Very cool pictures though.

Meh. Theyre not all that.... similar to what other have done.

 

[NiarrNDisney]

I'm surprised the Mouse never went in and d the place to later reuse of the decorations, equipment, kiosks, slides etc. etc. and reused it somewhere else on property. I figure they could have used the tables and chairs at a pool in FW and even taken the water wheel pictured in the OP's post in the Animal Kingdom, Disney Springs, Frontierland, or even Typhoon Lagoon just as an example.

 

[dstrawn9889]

Disney is not interested in recycling for use elsewhere on property. why work with old junk, when you can get new and not have any maintenance issues associated with? as for demo, Disney doesn't demo on P&R budget... they wait and roll it in with the costs of the new capex expenditure. would you rather have fresh paint on guest facing areas and working AAs or river country flattened?

 

[MGMBoy]

I really miss this park and seeing the pictures brings back fond memories of days gone by but the "article" ticks me off.

"Lawless says he interviewed workers who operate Bay Lake where the park is located and he says they told him that the lake is dangerous to swim in" Ummm... I'm not sure who/what this ubiquitous "Bay Lake" operation is but is it any more dangerous than any other lake in Florida?

I also, like others, don't understand the whole angle of bog corporate juggernaut not cleaning up their mess. It is THEIR property and, as long as it isn't polluting or causing harm, it's no different than me leaving my grill out on my back patio.

Anyway, really enjoy some of the more scenic shots but this guy makes me made otherwise. :-/

P.S. Does anyone else think that they should try to reopen the upper pool (the actual paved pool with the pair of drop slides). I'm sure there are infrastructure/liability/ADA concerns that would prevent it but that would be the coolest thing if they could at least resurrect that one pool.

 

[montyz81]

Disney is not interested in recycling for use elsewhere on property. why work with old junk, when you can get new and not have any maintenance issues associated with? as for demo, Disney doesn't demo on P&R budget... they wait and roll it in with the costs of the new capex expenditure. would you rather have fresh paint on guest facing areas and working AAs or river country flattened?

They do recycle, a lot. The wheel in Mission:Space was also in Horizons. The AA in the computer room in SSE was also in Horizons. They used the subs from 20k in a Hollywood Studios, in DisneySeas in Japan and in Castaway Key. I believe more of the AA's from Horizons was used elsewhere too. The railroad cars from the Wilderness Campground were used as Kiosks in Downtown Disney and one of the Water Parks. The Parrot AA in PotC was used in the World of Disney for a little while. The list goes on....

 

[dstrawn9889]

but again they only cherry-pick from the crem de la crem, you dont see the deck chairs out around another pool, or a patio umbrella that does not match the decor at any other location... simply put, they wouldn't pull a slide or themed rockwork and put it somewhere just 'because we have it', something unique and that would match or compliment the decor, sure... Mechanicals, no way; infrastructure, not

And BTW the gravity wheel is from the movie Mission to Mars
The attraction queue contains several items and commemorative plaques from past, present and fictional future space missions. Among the items on display are props from the 2000 film Mission to Mars, including the rotating "gravity wheel" from the predecessor X-1 spacecraft, a model of which hangs from the ceiling, and a replica of a NASA moon rover from the Apollo program.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Let's just remember the simpler times....