20000 leagues eyesore

[KNWVIKING]

....Go watch the fireworks at the lagoon.Aim your camcorder at the water. you get a great reflection video.

Maybe they could find a way to freeze it. Let the Ducks play in Orlando.

 

[Space Command]

they shoudl get the submarines back and turn into a Nemo's reef ride

 

[seashoreCM]

>>> The water from the [20,000 Leagues Under The Sea ]lagoon ... can flow through the storm drains into seven seas lagoon.

>>> The [20,000 Leagues lagoon] water was never cleaned since the 1st day they put the attraction in so they would need to find a way to clean it or dispose of it properly.

Actually these two statements contradict.

About the Splash Mountain water never being changed and just being replenished with rain water or with fresh piped water when needed, rumor has it that some restaurants never change the cooking oil in the French Fry maker and similar appliances, just adding new oil as needed. While each month enough oil to refill the tank completely may have been added, we cannot prove that there are no molecules of old oil still in the tank since day one.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

I, too, wish that 20,000 Leagues was still around as an attraction but realize that maintenance costs are considerable.

Water in rides such as Splash Mountain is treated to keep mold and bacteria down. But I doubt that the water is sterile.

 

[grinningghost]

So the bean counters at Disney don't want to shell out the cash to do something with the lagoon? Great. So generations from now, people will be looking at it saying, "do you know that this water is 100 years old? Isn't that fascinating?"

 

[KNWVIKING]

... No, what will happen someday is they will actually make the lagoon into something and people will cry "how dare they get rid of ariel's grotto".

 

[Rikku]

Hmm...100 year old water...I can see it now...yelling in its aquatic senility at that young whipper snapper water in the bottles about the good old days when being water meant having plastic fish swimmin' round inside ya!

 

[grinningghost]

KNWVIKING and Rikku, you guys are too much.

 

[walt's assistant]

Originally posted by grinningghost
Not to sound like a broken record, but this is one of those scenarios where it would be nice if Walt were still around. He would MAKE something get done there. If it required searching the world over for an engineering team that was capable of it, he would do it, whatever the cost.

Actually, if Walt were still here, it never would have languished for this long anyway.

I believe Walt wouldn't have allowed the attrraction to have been taken out in the first place...he would have had it FIXED!!!!!

The end of 20k has always been disappointing to me. Yes, it was somewhat corny. But through the eyes of a young boy, I was on a REAL submarine, under the water! Magical stuff! It was a treasure that we have lost forever because someone was too short sighted or money-conscience to do the right thing.

Let me put it another way....whatever the sum would have been to fix the issues with 20k, Disney would not be worrying about it today. But we would still have 20k!

WA

 

[PatriciaH]

Originally posted by MelissathePooh
here is a thread where we talked about the walls of the lagoon before - jeez this was just a couple of months ago-

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=376437&highlight=+lagoon

I also remember Safari Steve explaining water movement through the park, but it may not have been on this forum. The jist of it, if I remember correctly, was that the jungle cruise water was connected to the castle moat water and the "swan boat" water by tomorrowland, as you can tell by looking. The rivers of america connect to the seven seas lagoon by the cannel that the electric water pagent comes out, between the grand floridian and the walk around the world. The water from the lagoon and the jungle cruise/moat can flow through the storm drains into seven seas lagoon. It is something like the watrer in the 20K lagoon is the highest water point, so it pushes the other water towards the seven seas lagoon as it overflows. Basically there is some movement and flow in the water and it isn't just a stagnant pond.

Did you know that you could theoretically float from the haunted mansion to the adventurer's club?

I think what the cm meant was that they don't regularly empty it or add water to it - it is a natural process of the rain filling it up and it evaporating or overflowing to the seven seas lagoon.

Anyway, this was d-r not Melissa.

That is what our tour guide on Keys to The Kingdom told us as well. They need the water in there because the bodies of water all flowed together and emptied into 7 Seas Lagoon.

 

[grinningghost]

Originally posted by PatriciaH
That is what our tour guide on Keys to The Kingdom told us as well. They need the water in there because the bodies of water all flowed together and emptied into 7 Seas Lagoon.

OK. If they want us to buy that story, they should put something in the water rather than have it sitting there getting stagnant. Or is it supposed to be a beautiful waterway which just adds to the scenery? Maybe they could put a fishing pier there...

 

[colleen costello]

My Dad swears that Disney, never missing an opportunity to get more money out of the tourists, will someday allowe people to be "buried" at WDW. He imagines ashes and urns, not bodies. Anyhow, on our last visit together we hung out by this water a long time, while dd was in line to meet Ariel. We talked about what a great place this lagoon would be to "dump the ashes..."

Who knows?

 

[ryley26]

i like the fishisng idea and if you catch a fish with mickey ears you get to go to the front of all lines for the day. does anyone know what flourescent plastic fish eat

 

[kidzmom3]

I had heard a rumor, can't verify it at all, that they were thinking of making an Atlantis themed ride but when the movie tanked they gave it up. I has also heard, cannot even name a source so take it with a grain of salt, that they were thinking of making a ride similar to the one in Tokyosea where you ride above the water.

 

[KNWVIKING]

***"i like the fishisng idea and if you catch a fish with mickey ears you get to go to the front of all lines for the day. does anyone know what flourescent plastic fish eat" ***

Yeah, green pieces of paper,'bout 6 inches long,2 inches wide.

 

[grinningghost]

Originally posted by kidzmom3
I had heard a rumor, can't verify it at all, that they were thinking of making an Atlantis themed ride but when the movie tanked they gave it up.

Yes, but true to their methods of madness, they instead made a direct-to-video sequel of their tanked movie.

 

[seashoreCM]

>>> Atlantis based ride...
Sea World beat Disney to it.

>>> Disney, never missing an opportunity to get more money out of the tourists, will someday allowe people to be "buried" at WDW...
At or near the Haunted Mansion?