Agreed, I never had the opportunity to ride WoM when I was a kid. While the videos will never fully encapsulate the experience, it is easily one of the best rides WDI has ever made. It does something that only few rides can do, be timeless. Also, it FEELS like a Disney ride where you are transported into these fantastical settings. I really hope we one day get an updated version of that attraction.(Rip out TT excluding ending) Maybe Pete Docter and Teddy Newton can design it!Being a Marc Davis fan, I miss World of Motion most of all. WoM was Marc's last major project for WDW and the attraction had his trademark humor all through it (although, some sources cite Ward Kimball for much of the design work). http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/wom.htm
It was a classic Disney ride that featured Omnimovers, the largest cast of AA characters ever assembled, and a catchy theme song ("It's Fun to be Free") composed by Disney Legends, X. Atencio and Buddy Baker.
It was a sad day when WoM was gutted and turned into Test Track. What was once known as "The Funny Ride" of Epcot Center now has all the magic and charm of a downtown parking garage.
Even if the new overlay of Test Track is a huge success, I'll always miss World of Motion.
I don't miss the original JII as much as I miss Imageworks. I could probably suffice with the existing ride if they brought back Imageworks ( of course with a few updates to keep with technology).
Something you'll never hear on the forums " man I really miss The Radio Disney River Cruise". Holy smokes that thing was awful.
Nothing else even comes close...
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Yeah. It should have been a simple transportation boat but it was a horribly long "ride" where we saw snakeskin (I think?) and heard a lot of useless facts that you learned in elementary school from some teenager.Was it really that bad? ?
Try this for a start:Now I already heard a little bit about and I realize it is really missed but what was exactly the Adventurers Club? A show?
In the early eighties, when we weren't amusing ourselves with throwing peanuts at young German tourists at the Miami Fontainebleau where we stayed, we went up to Orlando to do the Swan Boats.BTW anyone here who actually did the former Swan Boats in MK?
In the early eighties, when we weren't amusing ourselves with throwing peanuts at young German tourists at the Miami Fontainebleau where we stayed, we went up to Orlando to do the Swan Boats.![]()
You had to wait forever for boats that were hot and overcrowd. But considering I was as much in love with the hub and castle as I am today, I loved the Swan Boats. You got an entirely different perspective of the area from the water, and going round the treehouse was cool. The boats were a bit similar to the WedWay. A relaxing ride through familiar surroundings, in the case fo the boats from below, not up. Boy did those castle walls look big from near the draw bridge!
The MK has many less experiences that just take you around the parks. There were Keelboats and canoes on the RoA, a Skyway above TL and FL, more vehicles on MS.
Se much fewer boats too, gone are said Keelboats and canoes and submarines and Swan Boats.
Extinct attraction at WDW. Yeh, me being there.![]()
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