Pictures of things No Longer Seen at WDW

[Chernabog1940]

Cranium Command

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

Here's something you no longer see at WDW - 5 nights at the Contemporary Bayview/Tower for $429.48!
This was from my very first trip to WDW (when I was 8).

 

[Islamom]

2009 Narnia

 

[Islamom]

2013 The Legend of Jack Sparrow

 

[hopemax]

Here's something you no longer see at WDW - 5 nights at the Contemporary Bayview/Tower for $429.48!
This was from my very first trip to WDW (when I was 8).


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Nice, for fun ran it through the Inflation Calculator

$1873.76

For additional kicks, a Bay Lake View in the Tower, for those dates this year is $3234.40 (no tickets)

 

[YawningDodo]

Spectromagic

I'm going to have to go back and read this whole thread, but this stood out to me...man. When I did the College Program in 2006 and was assigned to the costuming department at MK, some of my shifts were at Spectromagic. We used to joke that you knew you were really one of the crew when you started hearing the parade music in your dreams (and just about everyone who worked it would sooner or later). There were a particular group of performers who would put off putting on their (admittedly very heavy) costumes until the last possible moment, and I literally had nightmares about the parade being delayed because they wouldn't let me finish and get to the next group of performers on my line!

The thing in this thread that makes me incredibly sad, though, is the Adventurers' Club. I was a college freshman back then and I was convinced that the four main parks were the be-all end-all of the Disney experience. I spent most of my days off on property but I didn't bother resort hopping, didn't go to the water parks…and didn't spend even a single night on Pleasure Island!!!! One of my roommates tried to sell me on the AC but I brushed her off because I was convinced Pleasure Island was just a place people went to drink and be exposed to obnoxiously loud music, and I'd had more than enough of that in the college dorms. I was so incredibly wrong and only realized it when it was too late for me to go even once. I could have had four months' worth of visits to what sounds like exactly the kind of place I'd love, but instead I never even set foot inside the building.

 

[Mlopez]

awesome thread!!

 

[YawningDodo]

Horizons. Great memories there. Always tried to choose underwater house. I thought it was the coolest idea.

Holy--

And with that, it clicks! I DID ride Horizons on my first visit! Missed World of Motion (Test Track was slated to open a couple months after our visit), but when people talk about Horizons on here I kept thinking it must have been gone by the time I first visited because it didn't sound familiar. I do have vague memories of riding something where we got to choose a type of future house, but I thought I must have imagined it because I couldn't think how that would actually work on an omnimover.

And seeing all the notes about Spectro and what a shame it is Disney dismantled it...well, yes, it's sad that Spectro's gone. I suspect it's similar to the sky trams, though, in that it was in bad shape and it was going to be very expensive to repair. Even in 2006 the parade had recurring technical difficulties that kept putting us a float or two down what felt like at least half the nights it ran, and by the time I came down again in 2009 they'd flat-out removed several floats from the parade, Chernabog's wings didn't open anymore, and there were fewer moving parts. I think the Spectro floats were probably in pretty bad disrepair by the end.

 

[yeheyprincex2]

Here's something you no longer see at WDW - 5 nights at the Contemporary Bayview/Tower for $429.48!
This was from my very first trip to WDW (when I was 8).


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The price for one night now low season.

 

[FigmentIsTheBest]

Thanks for all the contributions.

If you find some photographic evidence of WDW things no longer seen we would love for you to share.

It is fun to remember the past while looking forward to your next visit.

Now there are things that we want to see that we would normally skip. Now we are adding things to our plans so we see them in case they go away.

Thanks to all for making this thread a success.

FigmentIsTheBest (OP)

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

Nice, for fun ran it through the Inflation Calculator

$1873.76

For additional kicks, a Bay Lake View in the Tower, for those dates this year is $3234.40 (no tickets)

Amazing, isn't it?

And I was just thinking ---- we stayed for 5 nights when WDW was basically just Magic Kingdom, Discovery Island, River Country (I think), and the Contemporary & Polynesian. I don't remember much of the trip so I don't know what we did to fill 5 days!

 

[Asc341]

I've got one confused castle to add - I can't remember if my family visited while the cake elements were being added, or taken away.



Also, here's one of the old park maps from Epcot - just looking at it gets me excited!

 

[MarieA]

I FINALLY got through this whole thread and have to say it's awesome! I think I missed something though. Does anyone have a picture of the "golden key cards"? I remember having them when I stayed at the CR back in the 80s. It was a blue card with a gold key on it which you needed to show to get on the monorail and to get in the parks. I believe it was also used to "pay" for your meals if you had the dining plan of the time.

I may have one. I am going to check when I get home from work. We used to do the "Gold Key Plan" in the early 80s and stayed at the CR too.

 

[MeeskaMooska13]

The volcano at the Poly!

 

[Chernabog1940]

 

[MarieA]

I found the gold key card as well as a couple of other keys from the CR. They were from the early 90s.

 

[huckabear]

This thread is fantastic!

 

[TLSnell1981]

I really miss the lights. **sigh**

 

[BuzzinDownToDisney]

Both the ride and this kind of wait time:

 

[MarieA]

Here are a few pages from the 1990 Magic Kingdom Club guide. I was a Magic Kingdom Club Director for several years and I kept some of the brochures. In 1990 Disney was selling Royal Caribbean and Norweigan cruises.