Most missed closed Disney attractions?

spacemt354

spacemt354

Chili's
WEDway1975 said:
I loved that narration. I wish they would of got the same person who did the old narration to do the new narration. The new narration is not futuristic at ALL! :(
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I agree. The current voice doesn't have any feeling or emotion to it. The old voice was just so deep and rememberable. The "now approaching ..." and then the bell afterwards sounded fantastic. I was really sad to see it go.
 
Beholder

Beholder

Well-Known Member
I also preferred it when it was the Countdown to Extiction attraction, not the current overlay.

Updating or keeping a ride fresh doesn't have to mean slap a character or what's hot element on it. That's a cheap grab for attention and selling generic merchandise. I understand the profit/business motive behind that, but leave the mass production/selling of cheap stuff to Walmart. Disney should produce a higher end product with higher end attractions. I'm paying enough to get in.

Sorry for the rant, but the "nothing like it anywhere" factor is slowly starting to fade. When a attraction that was built on an original concept gets a "character" overlay, it comes off as forced
and clumsy. Disney is better than that, and
we deserve better than that.

Just my opinion.
 
Mrsdonaldduck

Mrsdonaldduck

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hth1917 said:
My most-missed, in no particular order:
  • 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. Yes, the "sea creatures" were lame, and no, the undersea illusion wasn't perfect (you could always see the surface of the water, no mater how deep you were supposed to be), but this was such an ambitious attraction. The ride vehicles were by far the most beautiful ever designed for Walt Disney World. The lagoon itself provided an attractive water feature to Fantasyland, and the slow crawl of the subs around the lagoon was pleasantly kinetic.
  • Horizons. What needs to be said? Maybe the most-lamented of all lost WDW atttractions, and the one that best represented the optimistic futurism of early EPCOT Center. Mission:Space would be less hated by fanbois if it hadn't replaced this one.
  • Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. The weirdest (in a good way) ride at WDW. Of course, they still have it in Anaheim, but without the unique two-track, two-different-experiences layout that we had here in Orlando.
  • World of Motion. I really miss World of Motion: the classic Marc Davis show scenes, the immense number of AAs, the ethereal beauty of the CenterCore finale. Test Track is not worthy to stand on the same plot of ground.
  • Journey into Imagination. A third devastating Future World loss, suggesting that of all areas of WDW, Future World has suffered the worst depredation over the years. Childlike in the best possible sense, Journey into Imagination was nonetheless a very sophisticated experience.
  • If You Had Wings. Back in the coupon-book days, it was a freebie. There was never a wait. It was COOL, both literally and figuratively. Its loss was not on the scale of 20k or Horizons or even Toad, but I miss it still, and to this day I have flashbacks when I hit the Buzz Lightyear speed tunnel.
Honorable mentions: The Skyway; El Rio del Tiempo; The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.
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Ohhhhhh I loved "if you had wings" totally a flash back to growing up in the 70s!!!!!! Even as a seven year old this was one of my favorites! I think we rode it a lot because it was free
 

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