Favorite Disney Rides!

Ehh: Mission to Mars [YAWN!]. Hall of Presidents [YAWN!YAWN!]

They broke it out for Halloween. Sounded pretty great!

least favorites: the flying Aladdin themed flat ride at Disney Studios Paris (stupid ride with crap theming, placement, and capacity at a crap park), Rock N' Roller Coaster at Disney Studios Paris, and, in fact, every other square inch at Disney Studios Paris, minus Cinemagique. and oh yea, that shitty redo of Journey Through Imagination.

Mission To Mars was also removed a few years back (yay).

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Alan

what did they do to Journey Through Imagination?!?!

I sort of miss Captain EO, but the Honey I Shrunk the Audience thing they replaced it with it kinda cool too.

Destroy: their rollercoasters are alright but they're just rollercoasters, nothing special

"A Duff for YOU and a Duff for ME!"

"I can SEE THE MUSIC!"

They reddid it into this raging crap fest and removed all traces of the only mascot in Epcot that sold anything, Figment. It was part of the changes that took place in the mid to late 90s at Disney World to "modernize" the parks. Some smart things were done (removing Mission to Mars and replacing it with Alien Encounter) and some truly stupid things were done (getting rid of Mr. Toad's and 20,000 Leagues for new rides based on Pooh and Buzz Lightyear). JTI's makeover was among the stupid ones. Supposedly they're gonna do it back because of a fall in ridership.

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Alan

I kinda miss 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - I dug it as a kid.

The Christmas parade at Disneyland is fantastic (chim-chim-a-nee), whereas the year we went to Disneyworld they did this apalling hip-hop shite: "Mickey is in da house".

At Epcot mr estela and I went on this ride/tour thing and they took our picture without us realising and we had these expressions of disgusted boredom on our faces.

My favourite Disney ride is Splash Mountain.

Why do I suddenly want to go again?

Disclaimer: Growing-up I had an aunt and an uncle who both worked for the mouse in Anaheim, so almost every school vacation involved trips to Disneyland. Yippee! (A helpful hit - Get there REALLY early and go do all of the "adultish" rides in Tomorrowland - then, in the evening, once all of the kiddies have cried and been taken back to the hotel room, the better rides (Pirates/Haunted Mansion/etc.) are virtually lineless. (Last time I rode Pirates five times in a row, with no waits - Cool!

And now, living in the town that the mouse-built, well, we have annual residence passes, so we can go and just ride what we want to and then go to Epcot or one of the resorts for dinner and come home - it's much more relaxing that way, but you don't get that "I just paid $50.00+ to get in here and I am going to make the most of my money!" panic/high that comes with being a tourist *sigh* (I do go to Animal Kingdom to watch the Galapagos Tortoises and the Indian Fruit Bats and the naked mole rats and meercats.)

Because all yer ILX friends rock, of course. :-)

This was my mother's theory, too.

She had wanted to ride the tea cups all her life. So when we finally got to Disney World, we (my brother and I and her) waited in line forever to get into the teacups.

The teacups, they are made for littler people than me (6'3") and my brother (just shorter). (We were in our late teens at the time, thereabouts.)

So we wedged our legs awkwardly into the teacup, all three of us, and waited for the ride to begin.

Naturally, as soon as it started, my brother or I reached for the center of the teacup and started turning it around, causing the teacup to spin. "NO!" said my mother. "No, we are not going to make the teacup spin. We are going to sit in the teacup and we are going to enjoy the fact that we are sitting in a teacup at Disney World."

My brother and I were a little stunned by the vehemence of my mother's dream, but it was clearly a moment she'd been dreaming of for decades, and we were going to let it be just as she always wanted it to be.

Afterwards she reported being quite satisfied with her teacup sojourn.

i just remember how much fun the Muppets 4d show at MGM is, and the TOWER OF TERROR!!!

RIP: Peoplemover, Mr. Toad, Journey Through Innerspace...

The Snow White ride really scared me, too. Especially when the car would get real close to the Witch.

My car/boat/"people mover" got stuck on Pirates of the Carribbean. "Yo Ho Ho, We're the Pirates of the Carribbean." for fifteen minutes. I'll never go to Disneyworld again.

Tokyo's Space Mountain intrigues me to now end

http://www.tracerx.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/img_1500.JPG
http://sg.geocities.com/xanthelee/Japan_Day2_Disneyland_SpaceMountain.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/130912044_ebbfef4a34.jpg?v=1157897313

virtual mr.toad - a work in progress but very realistic so far

One of the things that made Mr. Toad unique was each side was a different ride

http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/mtwr.htm

Attractions such as Space Mountain, Mission To Mars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion and the Grand Prix Raceway had either multiple lanes, tracks, theaters, queue or pre-show areas, but only WDW's Toad ride presented what was a truly different ride experience based on which side of the queue you chose. It was the only time in Disney park history this has happened, and it happened for Mr. Toad.

TRACK A SCENES

Toad Hall
Trophy Room
Kitchen
Gypsy Camp
One Way Street
Town Square
Winky's Pub
Keg Room
Blackout
Rain Room
Train Tunnel
Hell

TRACK B SCENES

Toad Hall
Library
Blackout
Barnyard
Barn
One Way Street
Town Square
Jail
Prison
Shireland
Train Tunnel
Hell

man I didn't know Mr. Toad's was gone. :(

I still lived in Florida and had season passes in 1998. The decision to replace Mr. Toad was HUGE then.

To be fair, I liked Pooh ok enough when it debuted, but yeah, the loss of Toad couldn't justify it.

On January 22nd, 2008, Disneyland closed its version of the ride until November 20th for refurbishment.[3][4] Disney has announced the rainforest scene will not be removed for an America scene, however various Disney characters will be placed throughout the ride with a Mary Blair style. New boats and a deeper water canal are being added so the ride can better hold those who are overweight. There are also new lighting effects being added to the inside of the attraction because it was too dark and dreary compared to other versions of the ride.

Sadly, the weight issue wasn't O_o, but the Mary Blair name drop was.

http://www.animationarchive.org/pics/maryblair19-big.jpg

If You Had Wings

This dude has it right:

"that was like the only place that was air-conditioned when you were a little kid. So if you ran out of tickets and you were like really hot and sweaty and couldn't afford a Coke you could always go on "If You Had Wings" and sit in the air-conditioning and just go around a couple times, cool off, and then you re-energize." - Greg Parmer

http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/iyhwcsl.htm

Some mp3s of the typically virus-catchy theme song somewhere on that site too.

Now can someone PLEASE find me a pic of the Club 33 sign in Disneyland but far away enough so that one can see the sign in its surroundings. Basically, not a close up. I've been looking for literally years.

Does that make sense?

i was one of the last people to ride Mr. Toad.

oooo lots of good videos of retired rides (in good quality)
http://www.mickeyclips.com/disney_18.html <---I liked the delta one

Kevin, is this what you mean?

http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/photos/8600138_fUTku-L.jpg

I loved 20,000 leagues as a kid. So much stoking of the imagination using simple upward-moving bubbles.

Hey Kevin, you should look into this thing called google image search or if that's too hard, maybe flickr.

Kevin, is this what you mean?

Yes!! Finally!! I've seriously been searching for years for a pic that pulled back a bit instead of an extreme close up. Thanx billions, Reddening!!!!!!

The entire (wonderful) site that is Widen Your World stems from his obsession with If You Had Wings:

http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/iyhw-main.htm

He's effectively gotten me to long to ride it.

My first WDW trip was after it changed to If You Could Fly, and my season passes as an adult began during the Dreamflight era, and ended after Buzzlightyear took the space.

But I LOVE those dry, dry rides/shows ala World of Motion and the original Universe of Energy (especially the Radok preshow)

Yeah me too. Space Mountain was fun and all. But you had to wait FOREVER for, what, a five or ten-minute ride whereas you could ride If You Had Wings over and over. Which means it had more of an opportunity to etch itself in your memory.

I just wonder how people managed to videotape anything without getting caught by the Disney police.

Plenty of Youtubery

If You Had Wings

Dreamflight

This is WYW's channel, full of lost WDW things:
http://www.youtube.com/user/widenyourworld

oh I am such a Disneyland freak! I love the place and all the secrecy that is a part of it. Hidden Mickey's and underground tunnels and mysterious happenings when "cast members" go bad. Hidden stuff that only D-people know about and stuff that only gets triggered to happen when a "tourist" does something "unacceptable". It's the ultimate place for adult only things that is cloaked by kid playground!

Before there was a Tim Burton version of the Haunted Mansion, I and a friend had the b-Geebzus scared out of us by a "cast member" who was just in the area of the car we were in during the ride and he reached around the car and grabbed at my neck!!! It was amazingly scary and wonderfully orgasmic at the same time as the car whipped around and there he was...this handsome guy about our age grinning and saying: "Got ya!". I liked D-land before that and since then I am an addict. Fav rides:
Matterhorn pre snowman
Space Mt.
Mr. Toad
Sleeping Beauty Castle Tour
Swiss Family Robinson Tree House
Carousel of Tomorrow
Pirates
Haunted Mansion

Did a D-land FAP really happen?? I would be all over that if it were arranged again.

old skool D-land link: http://www.yesterland.com/

I second The Carousel of progress ("it's a great big beautiful tomorrow"), the delta ride, and "If you had wings" was the perfect rest your feet ride - you could go around and around and I bet it would be a great make out ride.

Last time I went to Disney in Orlando, I went on the updated haunted house, which meant better special effects and holograms, but basically it was the same good old ride.

I'm thinking of some plain old spaceland railway ride - is that the same as "if you had wingss"?

the newish Monster Inc comedy show was awesome - the 3D monsters interviewed me during the show - they actually responded to everything I said... it was brilliant and I got to be one one of the big screens.

Are you mistaking the TTA/Peoplemover...

...with the defunct airplane ride (Wings/Dreamflight)?

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aaaawwwwhhh. I feel refreshed and relaxed after watching the video of the peoplemover. It was just such a nice sedate and good ride when we were really too warm and needed to be quiet and resting but still having a ride experience as little kids. The peoplemover was the bomb b/c it was a short wait ride and a L-O-N-G ride in return. It also was a teaser of rides that some might not have been on yet; like space mountain, arcade, autopia, etc. When I was really little it went through the Monsanto microscope ride and it was pretty cool too, it helped make me the adult nerd I am today interested in science; which all started with me asking my mom questions about the stuff I saw in the Monsanto* microscope ride.

*This is also the 1st connection I ever had/made with Branding. Although I didn't understand it, I still knew that Monsanto made scientific farming stuff that I saw advertised on the Walt Disney hour on TV every week. The Carnation store and the Welch's juice stand were Brands too and I asked mom about why they put the name on everything and she explained that those company's helped "Walt" afford to make new rides just for us. <sigh, I wish I were that naive again.>.

Yeah, right, considering Monsanto today!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#.22Terminator.22_seed_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_Technology

you got the peoplemover part correct, but I just don't remember "if you had wings" and the video quality is crappy. I mentioned Dream Flight earlier because I agree with its awesomeness

Which was the incredible shrinking ride that had Tron footage? I remember that(barely) from a trip in 1983

Also, now that I think about it, Epcot was PERFECT for me in my young geekling phase when I first visited at the age of 13.

yep, Monsanto= from mentor to monster. Harsh and cruel but correct. I still am not sure about dream flight, but will do some personal reflection to see if I can figure out what this was. Even still, Disneyland rocks, just cuz there is SO much right there lurking for any "tourist' with the right mind and gumption to scratch the surface and get into it.

People mover was the jam.

People movers was for making out on.

^^^ this

Also, show some love for the DOLE WHIP!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dole_Whip
(WDW, the counter across from Swiss Family treehouse serves this)
http://albums.mouseplanet.com/album235/06_aloha_isle.sized.jpg

People movers was for making out on.

ha!...I saw a guy getting a blow job on the Detroit People Mover once...during rush hour!

PeopleMover is one of the greatest names for a ride ever. also a great ride RIP

no love for America Sings? It killed a worker!

i once went to club 33 which is not a ride but a private restaurant over the Blue Bayou.That was pretty cool. i didn't even know the place existed before i went there.

Peoplemover, before the 1994 TTA renovation:

revive, i'm going soon!

RIP: Peoplemover, Mr. Toad, Journey Through Innerspace...

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:48 AM (twenty-one years ago)

revive, i'm going to DL/DCA soon!

i've been exactly once in between 2003 and this post. but this is a big step because nobody every had any interest in DisneySea/Tokyo and now all of the sudden we're banking hard into making this a summer plan.

Going to Disneyworld in a week. The wife has been threatening to make us go for years and it is finally happening. God help me.