Abandoned Attractions

[MusiqChic99]

omg!!! i totally forgot about the oranges until you mentoined them!!! i loved those....

i really need to get old pics from my mom and dad of disney trips past....

i miss the roger rabbit stuff too...when mgm opened all iwanted was a pic with roger rabbit but i never found him....

The orange drinks!!!!!!

I wish we had a picture of one. Actually I think we probably do somewhere at my parents house.

Old memories!

 

[Planogirl]

Don't know if anyone answered your questions but the dancing fruits and veggies was Kitchen Kaberet, I believe.

We were also at MGM the first May it opened. I believe the movie they were working on at the time was Beauty and the Beast.

Lastly, as pp said, I sure do miss the view of the Chinese Theater when you walk into HS. I reaally dislike that Hat!

The fruit and veggie show was Kitchen Kabaret at first and then Food Rocks later. DS loved it when he was young and I enjoyed its kind of kitschy charm.

I agree with your comment about the Chinese Theater.

 

[shafke]

Don't know if anyone answered your questions but the dancing fruits and veggies was Kitchen Kaberet, I believe.

We were also at MGM the first May it opened. I believe the movie they were working on at the time was Beauty and the Beast.

Lastly, as pp said, I sure do miss the view of the Chinese Theater when you walk into HS. I reaally dislike that Hat!

Veggie, veggie, fruit, fruit. Veggie, fruit, fruit.
Now I am going to have to find the recording I have of that to get it out of my head.

 

[rhpools]

The fruit and veggie show was Kitchen Kabaret at first and then Food Rocks later. DS loved it when he was young and I enjoyed its kind of kitschy charm.

I agree with your comment about the Chinese Theater.

The fruit and veggie show is one of my earliest memories of Disney. I had the broccoli stuffed animal.

 

[rhpools]

Didn't there used to be big "pin tables" in the Imagination building? They were huge tables where you run your hands under it and push the pins up to get the imprint of you hand or whatnot. Whatever happened to those?

I remember those!

Does anyone remember about 15 years ago there was a sound effects show with Chevy Chase? They would pick people from the audience to help. They played a movie with all the sound and then they played it with no sound and the volunteers had to do the sounds using props. The they played it back with the the volunteers sound effect. It was very funny to hear how off the people were. The door would close and thiry seconds later you would hear (bam)

 

[Robo]

I remember those!

Does anyone remember about 15 years ago there was a sound effects show with Chevy Chase? They would pick people from the audience to help. They played a movie with all the sound and then they played it with no sound and the volunteers had to do the sounds using props. The they played it back with the the volunteers sound effect. It was very funny to hear how off the people were. The door would close and thiry seconds later you would here (bam)

That was "Monster Sound Show" and was located in what is now the "Sounds Dangerous" theater.

 

[Beauty & the Best]

Didn't there used to be big "pin tables" in the Imagination building? They were huge tables where you run your hands under it and push the pins up to get the imprint of you hand or whatnot. Whatever happened to those?

According to an earlier post on the thread and some YouTube videos I saw a while ago, almost everything is still up there on the 2nd floor not being used. I wish they would open it back up again. The new Image Works is horrible and so many of the camera stations were not working on my last trip.

Yes there is still a lot of stuff upstairs in the Imagination attraction. A CM took us up there as part of an Epcot tour. Those pin tables are definitely still there, we played with them for a quick minute but couldn't go further in to see what else was there.

 

[Sea-Donkey]

Wow. I agree...the pin tables were great. Long live the pin tables!

 

[Kaewin]

I agree that the race cars should go or at least get an upgrade.

 

[Markstudy]

The orange drinks!!!!!!
I wish we had a picture of one. Actually I think we probably do somewhere at my parents house. Old memories!

I found this photo...but the drinks Disney sold in the 1970's had just one plastic orange, and was the perfect size for kids. I'd love to see a photo of kids at Disney drinking their orange drinks. It was so cute for visitors to Florida.

 

[Cindy's Ugly Sis]

I found this photo...but the drinks Disney sold in the 1970's had just one plastic orange, and was the perfect size for kids. I'd love to see a photo of kids at Disney drinking their orange drinks. It was so cute for visitors to Florida.

Can't see your pic at work, but I was so excited to see these posts about the drinks! I wanted to post about them the other day, but I was afraid people would think I'm crazy. If I remember correctly, there was also a grape drink that was a plastic bunch of grapes. There may have been another fruit, but I can't recall. They sold them in carts around the park, and I think at a big Sunshine orange drink stand in Adventureland. But that's 30+ years ago now (sigh).

 

[Markstudy]

Can't see your pic at work, but I was so excited to see these posts about the drinks! I wanted to post about them the other day, but I was afraid people would think I'm crazy. If I remember correctly, there was also a grape drink that was a plastic bunch of grapes. There may have been another fruit, but I can't recall. They sold them in carts around the park, and I think at a big Sunshine orange drink stand in Adventureland. But that's 30+ years ago now (sigh).

I forgot about the grapes... but I do remember that now. And another person mentioned they remember a lemon also.

We are crazy, but for a kid at Disney.... some thirty years ago, it was a really neat little toy that you got with your drink. Just one of those tiny parts of Disney magic that made the entire experience so special

 

[Glenn]

Remember when even window shopping was good at the world. I started going in the mid 80s when there was alot of unique things to be found. Now its pretty generic. Last trip just bought 1 CD. I especially miss some of the neat things they had in the American pavilion in Epcot. For acouple of yrs they even sold traditional music & american made dulcimers from a cart in front of the pavilion. Last trip it seemed mostly cheap trinkets made in China. Couldnt they have at least a good selection of traditional American music, jazz or others that foreign touris (& the rest of us) might find to be a good memory. Just listen to the background music while waiting for Splash & thats what I mean.

 

[Markstudy]

Remember when even window shopping was good at the world. I started going in the mid 80s when there was alot of unique things to be found. Now its pretty generic. .

The shopping at Disney World use to be an event. It was like they sent buyers all over the world to bring back things we'd never seen before. They always had a few real expensive items that would blow everyone's socks off.

Now its all t-shirts and cheap trinkets. It seems they fired the professional shoppers and world travelers who worked for Mr Disney to fill his shops....and replaced them with MBA's and Accountants who stock the stores to increas volume and cut cost by going for standardization.

 

[LoriABil]

I found this photo...but the drinks Disney sold in the 1970's had just one plastic orange, and was the perfect size for kids. I'd love to see a photo of kids at Disney drinking their orange drinks. It was so cute for visitors to Florida.

OMGosh! I so remember my orange! I was only 3 when we went to WDW for the first time in 1978 and we all got drinks! Mine was an orange! It got lost in a move and my mom was so upset, but I was in junior high, so I didn't care! I'd give anything to have that back now! Memories!

 

[Cordovad88]

Not an "attraction" per se, but "abandoned and rotting" nonetheless.

Pop Century -Legendary Years UNFINISHED - 3 Bird'sEye - Only Unfinished area

Pop Century -Legendary Years UNFINISHED - 4 Bird'sEye Both Room Bldgs -North

Pop Century -Legendary Years UNFINISHED - 5 Bird'sEye Both Room Bldgs -East

Pop Century -Legendary Years UNFINISHED - 6 Bird'sEye Clubhouse/Lobby Bldgs

from what i'm hearing these arent quite neglected, theyre just waiting to see how the suites over at the all stars do to go ahead and build "value" suites over in the early years section of pop!

 

[doconeill]

from what i'm hearing these arent quite neglected, theyre just waiting to see how the suites over at the all stars do to go ahead and build "value" suites over in the early years section of pop!

They've had plenty of time to see how the suites have been going (and as far as I understand it, well). They just don't NEED to build the rest of POP right now. If/when they do, I'm sure at least some portion will be suites, but I doubt it will be all suites.

 

[Belle_princess]

I finally got some pictures. Not really Abandoned Attractions, but gone. . .

20 year WDW celebration

Main street in 1992- you can see the cinema and the penny arcade along with some others things that are harder to make out.

 

[mcwheelee]

So much for the Abandoned half of POP Century!!!!
Disney has announced plans to build an entirely new resort Called The Art of Animation Resort!!
Here are the details.....

http:
//disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/05/disneys-art-of-animation-resort-unveiled

 

[doconeill]

So much for the Abandoned half of POP Century!!!!
Disney has announced plans to build an entirely new resort Called The Art of Animation Resort!!
Here are the details.....

http:
//disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/05/disneys-art-of-animation-resort-unveiled

Here is a thread for discussion about it:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2464834