Disney's abandoned works.

[CrazyChik]

The pictures of river country now look sinister, then again maybe that's because of my absurd fear of seemingly calm waters, where you can't see the bottom.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Legendary Years, I'm 99% sure will never be finished. They've been sitting out there for years, molding and rotting away. Despite rumors they haven't been worked on for 6 years either. I wish they'd just tear them down.

River Country has alligators in it, among other things. It's a hugeee safety problem, IMO. Someone could get over there and...ugh. I don't even wanna think about it.

I just hope, like Hilary said, if they shut down an attraction or park that they at least clean it up. Keeping these things around is just sad.

Hilary...ohmygosh your uncle is CanadianGuy!? Haha, I'm over on the TPAS board all the time and see him post a lot.

 

[goofyandplutoluver]

When I stayed at POP Century about a month ago the view from our room was the Legendary Years. I walked over the Generation Gap bridge that connects both POP Centurys to each other to get a better look. It was quite an eye sore. I wish they would finish the Legendary Years. It would be wonderful.

ETA:
The Generation Bridge was GORGEOUS. It has signs of all the generations. It had flowers, benches, it was clean, etc. But durning my whole vacation I have never saw one person on it.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Legendary Years, I'm 99% sure will never be finished. They've been sitting out there for years, molding and rotting away. Despite rumors they haven't been worked on for 6 years either. I wish they'd just tear them down.

River Country has alligators in it, among other things. It's a hugeee safety problem, IMO. Someone could get over there and...ugh. I don't even wanna think about it.

I just hope, like Hilary said, if they shut down an attraction or park that they at least clean it up. Keeping these things around is just sad.

Hilary...ohmygosh your uncle is CanadianGuy!? Haha, I'm over on the TPAS board all the time and see him post a lot.

Yep, definitely my uncle. Don't see him often though.

Anyhoo, River Country is partially accessible. I mean, you can go to the entrance and walk through the turnstiles, and through Mickey Backyard BBQ you can access the River Country bathrooms and an old food cart thing. But the pool and river area are fenced off. You'd have to be pretty ambitious to actually try to get in there...
And you'd probably end up hurting yourself, getting caught or something like that.

 

[Tinkerbell424]

Aw

 

[disneydance]

I never went to River Country so what was it exactly also I saw the Pop Ledgendary years when we were dropping people off at Pop on the Magical Express it made me very depressed knowing they were never going to finish it and it was just a waste of time

 

[Babyjustrun]

I never went to River Country so what was it exactly also I saw the Pop Ledgendary years when we were dropping people off at Pop on the Magical Express it made me very depressed knowing they were never going to finish it and it was just a waste of time

River Country was another water park.
It didn't draw in a lot of people once they built the other two parks.
The water wasn't chlorinated stuff, it came from the lake.
It actually did look pretty cool back in the day.

 

[CrazyChik]

River Country was another water park.
It didn't draw in a lot of people once they built the other two parks.
The water wasn't chlorinated stuff, it came from the lake.
It actually did look pretty cool back in the day.

It sounds like my version of hell.
If i'm right though they did have a regular pool there as well didn't they?

 

[Babyjustrun]

It sounds like my version of hell.
If i'm right though they did have a regular pool there as well didn't they?

Yes, they did.
If you look at an aerial shot on.. Windows Vista Live? I'm not sure what it is, it's like Google Earth, you can see that the pool is a nice aqua color and that the water slide area is all swampy mucky and brown.

 

[goofyandplutoluver]

I'm if this was mentioned in this thread already but the Legendary Years is supposeably not finished because of the decrease of tourism since 9/11. The Legendary Years (as of April 2006) were said to be family suites. Similar to the ones at AS Music.

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This is from WikiPedia:

A few of the "pop icons" to represent these decades have already been revealed by the shape of the swimming pools in the design plans. The pool in the 1940's section is to be shaped like a highway sign, suggesting a "Route 66" motif. The pool in the 1930s will resemble a soda bottle, and the 1910s pool forms the outline of a Monopoly game board.

 

[3mtn-kate]

o wow... that's really depressing

i never got to go to river country it was already gone by the time i was old enough to go to WDW

 

[CheezDoodle]

I actually like seeing pictures like that... but it is sad. And that Treasure Island artical was really cool. I never knew about that.

But, for a while I was absolutley intrigued by River Country... I too thought that it was icky, dangerous, amoeba infested lake water. But after some research, I found out that though it was lake water, it was treated with a chemical called bromine, which is similar to chlorine. So it killed all the amoebas and stuff, so it wasn't dangerous. But unlike chlorine, it turned the water brownish instead of bluish. And oil and stuff from the boats was still getting in.

Among many other factors, another big reason for the closing of River Country was that florida state made a law that no pool water could come from natural sources (Bay Lake). Or something like that.

And the reason they don't tear it down is because A) $$$ B) A lot of wildlife live there. And I actually love seeing it from the WL boat .

But what I don't get is why they didn't convert the chlorinated pool into a pool for FW guests, and gated off the swimming hole.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I never went to River Country so what was it exactly also I saw the Pop Ledgendary years when we were dropping people off at Pop on the Magical Express it made me very depressed knowing they were never going to finish it and it was just a waste of time

It was a water park. It had a sand bottom pool, it was supposed to be sort of a 'down home' type of park.

River Country was another water park.
It didn't draw in a lot of people once they built the other two parks.
The water wasn't chlorinated stuff, it came from the lake.
It actually did look pretty cool back in the day.

It actually wasn't lake water. They closed it because they lake water was leaking in.

 

[Blumonkeyboy]

If aligators were on discovery island, disney would do somthing bout it. DI could provide an easy way to MK and several hotels

 

[Babyjustrun]

If aligators were on discovery island, disney would do somthing bout it. DI could provide an easy way to MK and several hotels

Actually it has tons of animals there.
I believe it's protected land, you know for the animals.

 

[BabyPiglet]

If aligators were on discovery island, disney would do somthing bout it. DI could provide an easy way to MK and several hotels

There are tons of animals (including alligators) there. Like Hilary already said, it's protected land.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Most of the animals that used to be on DI were moved to the Animal Kingdom or sent to local zoos. But I'm sure they left some there.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Yeah, but it's Florida. There's going to be alligators.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Well obviously.
Just saying that alligators once were one of the things that they had the island to observe.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Yup.

I sort of had a nightmare about those RC photos. Especially the pool that's only have full and is all green and black now. *shiver*