20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

[Synonymous]

The water starts in the 20K lagoon. Coloring is added later, I thikn beginning with Jungle Cruise. It's not anything harmful to the environment.

 

[eeyore0062]

Safari Steve... I know you have answered this question before... HELP!!!

 

[grinningghost]

I am positive we rode this in May, 1994. I remember because my stepson went with us that trip and really thought 20K was a cool ride.

 

[kel3420]

I just read somewhere that it closed Spring of 1994, so that throws my memory of riding it in 1995 in the toilet

 

[Bob Noble]

I rode the 20K LUS when I was 15 in 1973. No doubt it was one of my favorites. I bet we rode it 5 times before the day was out. That was before Pirates and Tom Sawyers Island was under construction.

Boy am I old or What!!

Anyway you can also see one of the original subs on the back lot tour at MGM.

 

[eeyore0062]

We went in fall of 1973, and went to Tom Sawyer's Island. I always thought it was one of the original attractions of the MK.

 

[wdhatter]

The 20K lagoon is it's own lagoon. It's water does not connect to anything else in the park. It does NOT connect to the Everglades either. That really made me laugh. I'm a 12 year WDW Cast Member who is still there.

 

[Synonymous]

Okay, so why does the tour guide tell this story? Depraved satisfaction at fooling the tourists?

 

[wdhatter]

Maybe she's confused with Disneyland. They have a dark water system that starts near the sub lagoon there and flows (by gravity) to the castle moat, various streams, Jungle Cruise, Pirates and ending in the Rivers of America to be pumped back to the top of the hill. Just a thought.

 

[SueM in MN]

Except that the water at DL would have to go a reeeeaaallly long way to drain into the everglades.

 

[Synonymous]

I would hope that someone who's been a tour guide at WDW for a decade wouldn't get confused with Disneyland. The only explanation is an out and out lie, which I also find hard to fathom.