I was thinking the other day, unlike most other forms of popular media, books, movies, music, TV shows, theme park attractions can really be lost.
There's a great effort in hollywood to maintain and restore old films, some that could be lost due to age (I've heard some of the original Doctor Who episodes have also been lost forever).
Theme park attractions, however, have no such organized preservation efforts. Of course, we have lots of unofficial efforts to preserve video and audio of the attractions with the extreme amount of work done by @marni1971 and others, then re-creations of popular rides in 3D as well (Adventures through Innerspace, Horizons, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at WDW, original Star Tours to name a few) .
However, I do wish that these companies like Disney and Universal put more effort into making official recordings of everything available, or virtual experiences of the extinct attractions. Unfortunately, I know Disney is hesitant about this, since many new attractions were rated much poorly than the ones they replaced.
Imagineers and theme park designers put in a LOT of work to put these attractions together and some only last a decade or two before being unceremoniously replaced.
There's a great effort in hollywood to maintain and restore old films, some that could be lost due to age (I've heard some of the original Doctor Who episodes have also been lost forever).
Theme park attractions, however, have no such organized preservation efforts. Of course, we have lots of unofficial efforts to preserve video and audio of the attractions with the extreme amount of work done by @marni1971 and others, then re-creations of popular rides in 3D as well (Adventures through Innerspace, Horizons, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at WDW, original Star Tours to name a few) .
However, I do wish that these companies like Disney and Universal put more effort into making official recordings of everything available, or virtual experiences of the extinct attractions. Unfortunately, I know Disney is hesitant about this, since many new attractions were rated much poorly than the ones they replaced.
Imagineers and theme park designers put in a LOT of work to put these attractions together and some only last a decade or two before being unceremoniously replaced.