Attraction effects Disney installed but doesn't use ( w/pics if possible )

[micknpluto]

I don't know if this applies to the Epcot version, but when Soarin' first opened in California, the entire room would fill with fog to simulate clouds when the room went dark and the ride vehicle would lift-up. When the fog cleared, the vehicles would be all the way up and the screen would appear.

Now that sounds cool!

 

[aidtrismommy]

Thanks for this thread. My family thought (thinks) I'm nuts when I tell them the bridge in the safari used to rock and creak and the CM would warn of crocodiles. It has never done it the past 4 times we have been there and they don't believe me. Does anyone know of a place in Epcot that supposedly has pcitures, remants of Horizons and other things? I heard of it on here once but a while ago. I looked for it in Jan (supposedly near Club Cool) and couldn't find it. Any ideas?? I truly miss Horizons.

 

[Hmbldr]

Does anyone know of a place in Epcot that supposedly has pcitures, remants of Horizons and other things? I heard of it on here once but a while ago. I looked for it in Jan (supposedly near Club Cool) and couldn't find it. Any ideas?? I truly miss Horizons.

We saw this last April '08. It is an exhibit about the planning and opening of EPCOT, with lots of info, concept art on the original attractions and countries. And of course, Horizons was an original attraction. It is located on the same building as Club Cool, entered on the opposite side (Land/ Imagination side). Not sure if it still there, perhaps someone else can verify.

 

[~Kik-Kik~]

This appears in a second story window, as she peeks out through parted window drapes. I remember it clearly...but can't be sure if this is MK or DL. I think DL.

Your thinking Disneyland, and she is still there.

 

[Buzz Litebeer]

Not sure if it still there, perhaps someone else can verify.

I believe that exhibit has since closed.

 

[Caribbeanprincess]

Bumping, because I love this thread!

 

[Spritie]

subbing

 

[alleghator]

did the tea cup ride not have the mouse pop up out of the tea pot ?

We were there in 2006, and I made my family stand and wait while I timed it so the mouse would be up out of the teapot and facing toward me for a picture. But, I think it was worth it.

 

[alternativepirate]

I don't know if this applies to the Epcot version, but when Soarin' first opened in California, the entire room would fill with fog to simulate clouds when the room went dark and the ride vehicle would lift-up. When the fog cleared, the vehicles would be all the way up and the screen would appear.

That would be so cool if they still had that.

 

[Baloo]

I remember a lot of the things y'all have mentioned from the past that are now gone...the Les Paul and CM in RnR...the jeep,the CM and Little Red in the safari...dinner ressie in Communicore...the fire breathing dragon cave in AK...the wench chasing pirates...the spinning bathing beauties in GMR ...the burning cabin...the Golden Girls house...but something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet.....

...when your Jungle Cruise captain shot at the hippos...I remember it startling the heck outta me!! He or she had a gun...and am I remembering right?!?!...it was like attached to a cord?!?!...I believe it was sometime in 2001 when they took this out of the ride.


Here's an interesting article that was written several years ago 2001,I think (though it was posted to that site in 2003) because I know in 2002 we bought our boys the wooden rifles in Adventureland.

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79455

 

[HallGirl]

...when your Jungle Cruise captain shot at the hippos...I remember it startling the heck outta me!! He or she had a gun...and am I remembering right?!?!...it was like attached to a cord?!?!...I believe it was sometime in 2001 when they took this out of the ride.
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The skippers still have the guns, but they say "shoo" instead of shooting them. That's something that puzzles me because at Disneyland they still shoot the guns.

 

[Philagoofy]

Just found this thread and haven't yet had the time to read all so please forgive me if this was already mentioned & answered.

At the beginning of Pirates of the Carribbean, just before the little fall, there are 2 skeletons on the left. I remember the arm of one slowly waving back & forth as if beckoning and saying "Dead men tell no tales". Am I remembering something that never was?

 

[Macca1111]

Just found this thread and haven't yet had the time to read all so please forgive me if this was already mentioned & answered.

At the beginning of Pirates of the Carribbean, just before the little fall, there are 2 skeletons on the left. I remember the arm of one slowly waving back & forth as if beckoning and saying "Dead men tell no tales". Am I remembering something that never was?

Yes you are. The "Dead Men Tell No Tales" is still there, but it's always just been a voiceover...the skeletons both on your left and right are long since dead and can't move(the one on the right is only moving because the wheel is moving him). The only alive things before the drop are the bird and the crab - the wildlife.

 

[Robo]

My family thought (thinks) I'm nuts when I tell them

1-the bridge in the safari used to rock and creak and the CM would warn of crocodiles.

2-It has never done it the past 4 times we have been there and they don't believe me.

3-Does anyone know of a place in Epcot that supposedly has pcitures, remants of Horizons and other things? I heard of it on here once but a while ago. I looked for it in Jan (supposedly near Club Cool) and couldn't find it. Any ideas?? I truly miss Horizons.

1- The crocodile bridge has always been described in the CM spiel as "rickety" (or similar) but THAT bridge does not "rock."
It is ANOTHER bridge (just before the "red clay pits") that is rigged to oscillate while the vehicle is on it. It did not oscillate with EVERY passing vehicle, even in the past.

2-Now, with the newer version of the ride (new spiel, etc.) I'm not sure that it EVER oscillates the ride vehicles, anymore.

3- Mouse Gear, the huge FW gift shop, has remnants of the original "Journey Into Imagination." Major sections of Dreamfinder's balloon vehicle can be seen near the ceiling affixed to the walls.
Set pieces and props from Horizons, World of Motion, etc., can be found in the "prop shop" queue area just before you board the tour trams in the Backlot Tour at DHS.

 

[kmk1180]

I read, so I can't verify from personal accounts, ....
That the Polynesian Resort orginally had a wave machine to simulate surffing but it was shut off or never used because it eroded the beach too fast.
And part of it still can be seen off the island across from the resort.

 

[Robo]

I read, so I can't verify from personal accounts, ....
That the Polynesian Resort orginally had a wave machine to simulate surffing but it was shut off or never used because it eroded the beach too fast.
And part of it still can be seen off the island across from the resort.

This is correct.

 

[Conan the Librarian]

When in the MK in May 2009, at leasst one of the Skippers in the Jungle Cruise used the Gun with the Hippos and it went "Bang" also. They also told the 'Hippo' joke as opposed to the 'crash course' joke.

 

[Jozymouse]

ITA that the backstage tour is LAME compared to what it was in the early 90s
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I agree! I remember seing the facades of the Golden Girls houses, the Bette Midler movie in the prop room and also, at some point, when we were in the tram in the residential area, we saw Mickey and Pluto playing ball on the street and Roger Rabbit was riding a bicycle...!!! I really miss the "old" backstage tour!!!!

 

[Robo]

at some point, when we were in the tram in the residential area, we saw Mickey and Pluto playing ball on the street and Roger Rabbit was riding a bicycle...!!! I really miss the "old" backstage tour!!!!

I think you are remembering incorrectly.

I know, for a fact that, Roger Rabbit never learned to ride a bike.

 

[kmk1180]

When in the MK in May 2009, at leasst one of the Skippers in the Jungle Cruise used the Gun with the Hippos and it went "Bang" also. They also told the 'Hippo' joke as opposed to the 'crash course' joke.

I was a Jungle Skipper in 94 for the college program.

Yes but the guns used to have actuall bullets to load.
They weren't real bullet bullets. But noise makers the sounded like bullets.
It would hold 6 shots and you would fire 3 each trip. but you would have to make sure to reload after each trip because they didn't all work right.
Then you had "special" bullets for emerency use only. You would load those if there as a problem and you needed help...like your boat broke down or something.
Those bullets were extra loud and able to be heard from the dock no matter where you were on the ride.