Your favorite WDW ride....now extinct?

[Stepharoonie!]

So tell me, what was your favorite, but now missing, ride at any of the WDW parks?

Mine was If You Had Wings. I actually found a website the other day about it, and it was amazing to look at the pictures and remember the ride.

My boyfriend also told me that there used to be a type of boat ride in the moat around Cinderella Castle...but I do not remember this. Does anyone else??

[Feelin' Goofy]

Mission to Mars.

[nativetxn]

Mission to Mars and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride :(

[danny1649]

::yes:: :wave2:

[Horizons16]

sky buckets wow... that was crazy i went on vacation once, came back year later....... gone



i would say Horizons:goodvibes

[BonnieA]

If you had wings was my favorite also. I do have a very fuzzy video a friend sent me so I can refresh my memory (have to use my memory, the video is really dark). The boats you are talking about were the swan boats. I remember seeing them but never went on them myself.

[meeko_33785]

Probably the Hunchback show at MGM. It wasn't the greatest show IMO, but it was nice while it was here. At least one good thing happened since it was closed- Beauty and the Beast started back with shows 7 days a week. :jumping1:

[2MuchOhana]

I don't remember If You Had Wings; but I do really miss Mr Toads Wild Adventure. Is the ride still in CA or is that now gone, too?

[Princess Michelle]

I miss-

Delta Dream Flight
Mr. Toad
Horizons (I only got to go on this one time before it was banished. :( )

I also miss 20,000 leagues just for the fact that we could be going on it and not looking at wasted space. :rolleyes:

[crazy4wdw]

My favorites would be
1) the original Journey into Imagination ride
2) Horizons
3) 20,000 Leagues under the Seas Submarines

[Tigger's Mom]

I miss World of Motion...I loved the humor.

Also, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride....Our daughter drove her grandparents straight to h--- at the age of 12...on their first trip to WDW...made a wonderful family inside joke which still comes up 8 years later.

[Happy Birthday Cat]

Even though the ride is still there, I miss the name "WEDway people mover". There was just something about that name that is currently missing.

HBC

[LibertyBelle]

Originally posted by Soltwisch Family
I don't remember If You Had Wings; but I do really miss Mr Toads Wild Adventure. Is the ride still in CA or is that now gone, too?

I miss MR TOAD!!! Yes Soltwisch Mr Toad is still running in California, it's a little far for me to travel, but I can deal with it since I still CAN ride it.

Since I can still fly to Cali and ride Mr Toad, I have to agree the "Original" Journey into Imagination is a big one for me...

[Laurabearz]

Originally posted by Happy Birthday Cat
Even though the ride is still there, I miss the name "WEDway people mover". There was just something about that name that is currently missing.

HBC

I agree... it will always be the people mover to me....

Mission to mars is an oldie but goodie... SKy Buckets... LOVE those! But prefer the ones at DL as they went thru the Matahorn (are the DL ones still there?)

And I hope and pray I will never have to add CoP to this list.....

[FreshTressa]

20,000 leagues. I never got to ride the other ones!

[Stepharoonie!]

Yikes! I forgot about the ORIGINAL Journey Into Imagination!! THAT was one of my favorite rides.....along with Haunted Mansion :) When I was last at Epcot for my birthday, I was really upset with the new JII. :( What a shame!! I miss Dreamfinder! Bring him back!

[CoolDisneyCat]

Our family loved World of Motion.

My memory is a bit hazy.. was Delta Dream Flight and If You had Wings the some thing or not? Was one a circlevision (is that what it is called) movie?

I miss the skyway too. My DD was a bit scared of it, but I had to ride every time.

[TreeOfLife]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame's at MGM was a big loss. There were visits where I kept coming back all day!

It was disappointing to experience 20,000 League Under the Sea as a teen, return 25 years later looking to share it with my own kids and find out it is gone...

But the most catastrophic disapointment was the look in my children's eyes when I told them that they closed the Alien Encounter!

Disney's Imagineers think with the same bodily organs they use to excrete, if you please allow me to openly express my deepest thoughts on the matter...

[BonnieA]

CoolDisneyCat:
If you had wings and Delta Dreamflight were similar but not the same. If you had wings was first and Delta Dreamflight replaced it when they changed sponsors from Eastern Airlines to Delta. The circlevision you remember was called America the Beautiful.

[IAN5150]

I miss Horizons and World in Motion
I keep hearing a lot about The Hunchback show I saw it in 1996 and thought it one of the worst things in Disney i thought the juggler was much better

Am I missing something?!!

[lentesta]

In no particular order:

:earsboy: If You Had Wings / Dreamflight (see this website for a nice tribute: http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/iyhw-main.htm)

:earsboy: The RYCA-1 post-ride show at Space Mountain. A neat look at the future. Big-screen TVs. Video phones. Automatic language translation. Now everyday items at Amazon, Amazon and Babelfish. You kids don't know how good you have it today.

:earsboy: The original Tiki Room show. Remember the days when attention spans lasted twenty min....wait, what was that on TV?

:earsboy: Horizons, but it would be really dated now. And there's enough video of it on the web to reconstruct the entire ride. Should I win the lottery (and I mean when, I'll donate some of my winnings to re-constructing this attraction.)

Len

[DisneyVillain]

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride :(
Tiki Birds :(
Carousel of Progress :( (We don't do busy season.)

[Chicago526]

Mr. Toad of course!

I'm going to DL in Feb. I'm a little worried. Should I ride it and maybe spoil my childhood memory of a realy cool fun ride? Mr. Toad as a grown up may be a let down...

[Stepharoonie!]

Originally posted by Chicago526
Mr. Toad of course!

I'm going to DL in Feb. I'm a little worried. Should I ride it and maybe spoil my childhood memory of a realy cool fun ride? Mr. Toad as a grown up may be a let down...


YES! You should ride it. It will be every bit as great as you last rode it :) When will be the next time you can drive through Hell, anyways?! :)

[Stepharoonie!]

Originally posted by DisneyVillain
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride :(
Tiki Birds :(
Carousel of Progress :( (We don't do busy season.)

Tiki Birds? They're still there....do you mean the original show?

Also, that webpage about "If You Had Wings" is AMAZING! I love it, I've visited it before. :p

[NotTooGoofy]

I vote for the 20,000 Leagues under the Seas submarine. As a small child, climbing into the sub and going underwater was a thrill. It's a shame it's not around anymore.

[DisneyVillain]

Originally posted by Stepharoonie!
...do you mean the original show?Indeed. The new show lacks the charm of the original. My family was disappointed.

[MickMan]

20,000 Leagues under the Seas Submarines. They where kind of cheesy but it was fun climbing down into the sub.

:jumping1:

[walt's assistant]

1) 20,000 Leagues under the Sea...yeah, to an adult the ride was dopey...but to a child it was very cool.

2) Skyway



WA

[gypsydoodlebug]

20,000 Leagues...what exactly IS Ariels Grotto and is there a ride there? DH is still mad at WDW for nixing this ride and won't go near the grotto area! <shedding a bitter tear. sniff> :snooty

[CdnDisneyFan]

Mine would have to be If You Had Wings, and Mission To Mars, I don't get there often enough to really notice many changes, but those are the main two. Oh yeah, can't forget Mr Toad!!!!

Jules

[MDDisneyFan]

The original Journey Into Imagination (love figment!!). However my favorite ride was CoP. I'll probablly never get to see it again.:worried: :worried:

[Rapunsel]

The got rid of the buckets at DL about 10 years ago.. Too many people throwing things... The rides I miss most from DL are:

The Submarines.. They used to have real mermaids in the water!
The People Mover
The Cars that they put on the people mover track.
The Rockets
Swiss Family Robinson Tree House



But we all have fond memories of our favorite rides... But I do like how they differ between the two parks...


rapunsel

[Beanie]

Definitely Horizons! I miss that ride!

[Scottish-Helen]

I miss the original Journey Into the Imagination. That was one of my favourite rides :( At least Figments still there though :D

[tallyfamily]

Back when most rides/attractions required an A, B, C, D, or E ticket which you had to BUY in a booklet that never had enough E tickets, my favorite was "If You Had Wings". It was FREE and the A/C was always ice cold. I love Buzz Lightyear, but I wish they would have left the airplane takeoff from "Wings" and "Dream Flight"! I like that part better than what they do now!!:D

[nowellsl]

Now I can't get that song out of my head - If you had wings, had wings, had wings .......ahhhhhhhhhh!:crazy:

[Trisa]

20,000 leagues for me too!:(

[Alice42]

1) Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (I miss this soooo much!):guilty:
2) Horizons
3) World of Motion
4) The Living Seas ride (with the seacabs)-was this ride called anything?????

[Mickey76]

:D

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride!

::MickeyMo Mickey76

[Laura]

Originally posted by Stepharoonie!
My boyfriend also told me that there used to be a type of boat ride in the moat around Cinderella Castle...but I do not remember this. Does anyone else??

(Sorry if someone else posted this; I read most of the posts but might have missed one.) There were swan boats (http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/psb.htm) at the castle. You can still see the ride track.

Anyway, the ride I miss is the original Journey Into Imagination. I first rode it in 1983 when I was 7. I loved it!

Here's some good websites for nostalgia lovers:

Widen Your World (http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/wyw.htm)

Epcot Discovery Center (http://www.intercot.com/edc/gateway.html)

Yesterland (mostly DL, not WDW) (http://www.yesterland.com/yester.html)

[Jane E.]

I agree with "If you had Wings'. I can remember as a teen running out of tickets. (I think E tix were the good rides. As I remember I'd always go home with A tix left.) We'd ride on it 4 or 5 times in a row. We'd also run over to the Contemporary and go to their game room. It was the biggest gameroom I'd ever seen in my life. I swear it used to be bigger than it is now. I also liked the Main Street Cinema with Charlie Chaplin movies but I always wished that there were seats there like in a real movie theater. Oh & that Walt Disney Story movie that they used to have.

And I do remember those Swan Boats in front of Cinderella's Castle. I didn't really like that ride. They had minature scenery things to look at and as a teen I thought it looked bad. I was also totally amazed the first time I saw Circlevision, America the Beautiful. (Just wished there were seats. I felt like I was always standing. Thats why I went on "if you had wings', I could finally sit.)

I remember the first time I went to Magic Kingdom, my brother & sil thought that the only way you could get to Tomorrowland from Fantasyland was to ride the skyride.

I also remember camping at WDW and swimming was allowed at the beach. But I was always afraid of gators, so I never would.

[Stepharoonie!]

WOW! So that's what those look like. I always wondered why it looked like a ride was in that moat once...and now I know.

I love "old ride" stories. Anyone remember Boardwalk and Baseball in Hanes City?! :)

[RoqueC]

Horizons; which is pretty much the most common response.

[Jane E.]

Stepharoonie, I never went to Boardwalk & Baseball but did go to CircusWorld twice. It was in the same place as Boardwalk & Baseball. I remember watching the circus, getting my face painted & wanting to be selected for the audience participation show. I never got picked & was so disapointed. I think that was the main problem with the place. If you didn't get selected you just spent your time watching. They also added some sort of a rollercoaster - it was the first time I ever looped on a coaster & I was terrified. I loved the concept but they needed more stuff to do. It would have been great if there had been a way for everyone to participate. As I remember it took about 1/2 a day to go thru.

[Planogirl]

Another one who misses Horizons, in fact I miss the old Future World. My goodness, we spent a lot of time there in the olden days.

[BonnieA]

I remember Circus World fondly. That was also the first looping coaster I ever went on. My son had his face painted there and I bought all the makeup to do this at home (and I did for many Halloweens). There were also quite a few shows. There was a huge screen movie, a magic show, a circus show under the big top. They had indoor displays of miniature circus set ups. There was a parade everyday and all the children were asked to participate. There were other rides, though not too many. We went there 3 times and each time they had added more. This was at a time when Disney only had the Magic Kingdom.

[Stepharoonie!]

I remember the day the shut down Circus World...I was one of the last people in the park. Then they turned it into BoardWalk and Baseball....my first ever REAL rollercoaster ride was on the Hurricane there!

It's sad to see places like that go. :(

I also remember Xanadu the HOUSE OF THE FUTURE in Kissimmee. It's still standing, creepy looking as ever :)

[Byrd]

It was my first year to teach. I had 34 third graders in the lower part of South Carolina. I thought it would have been wonderful to take my students with me on that trip. They would have been amazed. They would have loved the Swan Boats. Most of them had not even been to Charleston 30 miles away! Boy the memories. Things do change!
Byrd
:teacher: :teacher: :teacher: :teacher: :teacher: :teacher: :teacher:

[SpaceMounatin]

I can't choose between Delta Dream Flight and Mr. Toads Wild Ride.:confused:

[Harambe]

but everytime I think of the Tapestry of Natins Parade - and know it is gone! - I want to cry!!!

Hey La - Hey La Hey La - SSOOOOOBBB!

[sm4987]

Mr. Toad and Horizons

[jiminyfan]

3: World of Motion
2: Horizions
but
#1 the ORIGINAL IMAGINATION.

:(

[DisneyGirl421]

I miss Mr Toad's Wild Ride so much! And also, I miss Carousel of Progress... yes i kno, its not totally closed, but its only open on certain occasions.. and of course, when I go, its not open!

[ead79]

I miss Tapestry of Nations the most, followed by Horizons.

[Anna_Sh]

princess:
1. Horizons
2. World of Motion
3. Alien Encounter
pirate:

[dsneygirl]

World of Motion

[callmecal]

The Swan Ride!

I think they removed the tracks from the water in the last few years...

[Mrs. Potts]

Count me in as missing Horizons too. My oldest son adored the submarines on his first trip at age 2. I remember climbing down into those subs at least 4 or 5 times on that trip! Does anyone remember "Magic Journeys" which was the Three D movie where the Lion King show went in at MK and where "Philharmagic" is now? I thought that was kind of a neat little movie, not very "flashy" but pleasant and relaxing.

[Momto8]

Does anyone remember "Magic Journeys" which was the Three D movie where the Lion King show went in at MK and where "Philharmagic" is now? I thought that was kind of a neat little movie, not very "flashy" but pleasant and relaxing.

I don't remember Magic Journeys being there, but I remember the Mickey Mouse Revue being there. I remember liking that show, but it was so long ago since I saw it, I can't remember too much about it.

[DisneyVillain]

Originally posted by Momto8
I don't remember Magic Journeys being there, but I remember the Mickey Mouse Revue being there. I remember liking that show, but it was so long ago since I saw it, I can't remember too much about it. Magic Journeys was the original movie at Journey Into Imagination. It was replaced there by Captain EO, and moved to MK.

[goofygreb]

I really miss 20,000 leagues. I wish my kids would of had the chance to ride this. My first trip to WDW with my kids was the year after they closed it! I was really bummed!! :(

[trola2]

Not a ride, but a place that gave my family great joy. We will truly miss it when we are there next month...

We forever will mourn the demise of the Gourmet Pantry. Best place in the WORLD for a little take out meal for everyone with a candy or fabulous dessert snack...and the most inex*****ve. It was always a planned event for us.

<sigh>

~~Beth