Broken/Removed Effects Photos and Videos

[limbo]

Hello everyone, I'm currently in the throes of a fun bout of insomnia, so I've decided to make a thread instead of lurking like I usually do.

I've always been fascinated at how things used to be in the parks, but it hasn't really been until fairly recently that I started to look into things that used to be a part of certain attractions that I thought I knew a lot about. It's crazy just how different things can get and how easily they fly under the radar, and sometimes even major levels of immersion are lost to time, never to be seen in person again! Recent research into major abandoned effects in Countdown to Extinction has really got me wondering... Does anyone here have any photos or videos of broken/removed/abandoned attraction elements from back when they were in full working condition that they'd like to share?

 

[Dragonman]

Yesterworld and Defunctland have many videos about this subject.

One such abandoned element that’s very popular here is the space station inside Spaceship Earth. It’s still there but blacked out

Photo creds go to @marni1971

 

[NickMaio]

Where is this space station?

 

[Dragonman]

Where is this space station?

It’s in 180 top as your vehicle turns around and you see the endless field of star lights raining down. Right above this if you were to quickly turn around:

 

[NickMaio]

It’s in 180 top as your vehicle turns around and you see the endless field of star lights raining down. Right above this if you were to quickly turn around: View attachment 348538

Oh thanks.....they should have left the space station

 

[Goofyernmost]

Oh thanks.....they should have left the space station

To hard to dust plus every time they flush a toilet in the space station people got wet in the vehicles below. They had to abandon the stations and it joined the ranks of miscellaneous space junk.

 

[limbo]

Just recently came across this while exploring this rabbit hole. I had no idea there were falling rocks!


Also, this was taken during a Haunted Mansion anniversary event, and at around 8:20 you can see a cast member dressed up as a knight in the corridor of doors! I wonder if it is the same costume they used when they were testing that concept of live scare actors from decades earlier.


ALSO also, I recently found out that the star tunnel at Space Mountain used to be a lot more populated. According to widenyourworld, the tunnel's windows not only had the dizzying star effect, but static dioramas inside as well. (I'm not talking about the dioramas that come after this point when the queue starts to zigzag).
One scene portrayed an astronaut riding a moon buggy across a lunar surface, another a satellite transmission beamed from the Coliseum in Rome

It would be cool to see more images of these scenes.