What do You Miss at WDW that doesn't exist any more?

[DawnCt1]

If you had wings (I think that's what it was called).

Yes! Eastern Airlines used to be the official airline of WDW.

 

[DisneyBlonde]

Alien Encounter

 

[jodifla]

The Mickey Mouse Review at the MK!

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

 

[NHdisneylover]

Many of hte same for me:

Tarzan Rocks (and a couple of the tarzans DID)

Cranium Command

Adventurer's Club

Comedy Wharehouse

AP lounge above Livign with the Land

Original Journey into Imagination

Discovery Island

20,000 Leauges Under the Sea

Fantasmic every night and with sparklers on the boat

Just "bumping into" characters

River Country

Bus drivers who gave great "spiels" as they drove and seemed to love their jobs

Real Peron in your Living with the Land boat

The Chair act in France

 

[Lauralee131]

How about 20,000 Leagues...anyone mention that yet? I skimmed pretty quickly but didn't see it - maybe I missed it...

My son would have loved that...big, heavy sigh...

 

[LoraJ]

Pleasure Island, being able to make ADR's, Mr. Toads Wild Ride, the skyride.

 

[JR6ooo4]

My vacations there....

MIkeeee

 

[Lanshark]

The original Journey to Imagination
Cheesecake Factory on the top floor of Disney Quest

 

[gladstoneganderfan]

Yes! Eastern Airlines used to be the official airline of WDW.

Didn't the CM's dress like stewardess' & they gave you a wings pin at the end of the ride? I loved the room at the end with the fans.

 

[Gary M]

During the mid-'90's they had a discount package for the Christmas season called Jolly Holidays. You got a very good room discount. Included in the package was a Christmas dinner and show at the CR. The food wasn't that great, but I liked the show. It really got me in the Christmas mood. The earlier December crowds were also much smaller then, than now.

 

[Nette]

The Disney Dining... Hell I can't even remember what it was called. 10 years ago on our honeymoon, the plan was pay $55/pp/per night and get $60 in credits for food per person per night. We had so much fun using up those credits. AND it included alcohol and tips if you wanted to use them that way.

The "lounginess" of Brown Derby. Again, on our honeymoon we went twice, and the first time there was an actual piano player and he had pulled a guest up to sing for him. It was so awesome (and romantic).

The view of the chinese theatre when you entered MGM... Not that stupid hat.

I know there are more... I just can't recall.

 

[java]

In no particular order

20,000 Leagues under the sea- my kids would love this!

The bucket ride(Skyway) A classic

If you could fly

Horizons

World of Motion

RIVER COUNTRY! My first ever water park experience

And honestly I miss the video tv's in EPCOT where you used to make your dining reservations for the day. It was first come first serve.

And I think I am one of the few that enjoyed Ariel's in the Beach Club.

 

[Angelhalo]

The Strawberry Swirl at the Enchanted Grove in the Magic Kingdom

The Skyway buckets

Horizons

Dreamflight

20,000 Leagues under the sea

Cranium Command

The Adventurer's Club

 

[DawnCt1]

In no particular order


And I think I am one of the few that enjoyed Ariel's in the Beach Club.

One of my most memorable, and last meals with my mom was at Ariels. We dined there during her last trip to WDW. She passed away from breast cancer a little over a year later. In a way, I am glad it is closed. Sort of frozen in time for me.

 

[java]

One of my most memorable, and last meals with my mom was at Ariels. We dined there during her last trip to WDW. She passed away from breast cancer a little over a year later. In a way, I am glad it is closed. Sort of frozen in time for me.

Oh that is a nice memory.

 

[OK!]

SKYWAY
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
River Country
I guess I miss Mr. Toad for nostalgia's sake, but the top 3 are the only ones that actually make me sad when I think about how they're gone now.

 

[DawnCt1]

The Disney Dining... Hell I can't even remember what it was called. 10 years ago on our honeymoon, the plan was pay $55/pp/per night and get $60 in credits for food per person per night. We had so much fun using up those credits. AND it included alcohol and tips if you wanted to use them that way.

The "lounginess" of Brown Derby. Again, on our honeymoon we went twice, and the first time there was an actual piano player and he had pulled a guest up to sing for him. It was so awesome (and romantic).

The view of the chinese theatre when you entered MGM... Not that stupid hat.

I know there are more... I just can't recall.

We used to do the World Vacation (all inclusive) and the Grand Plan once, (better than all inclusive), when there were paper tickets and the credit card looking "thing". We could spend about $1800 in meals, more than what the plan costs. In addition, I would buy paper tickets with my all inclusive card every morning at guests services for River Country, Pleasure and Discovery Island, and Typhoon Lagoon. I still have some of the original tickets. The last time we went to TL, the cast member couldn't bring himself to stamp the original ticket with a price of $18. I wonder if it ended up on Ebay?

 

[OK!]

I liked Living Seas before. Its as if an effort has been made to dumb down Epcot. UTC used to sponsor the Living Seas and they had a lounge with cookies and soda for all UTC employees. My mom just used to show her badge and we would avoid the very long lines that were so common at Epcot in the early years.

They used to have the same thing for AT&T employees at Spaceship Earth. I got to visit that lounge a few times.

 

[Belle0101]

My vacations there....

MIkeeee

That's what I was going to say! You beat me to it. After having been able to go every year since 2001 I haven't been able to make it back the last few years.

We keep saying "next year" and then one of comes down with some malady resulting in mega doctor bills and there goes the budget. Last year it was me (cancer) and this year it's me again (as yet undiagnosed). We already know there'll be no Disney next year.

By the time we get back they probably won't even have Cinderella's Golden Carrousel.

 

[maleficent esq.]

Just "bumping into" characters


Oh my goodness, that me smile when I read it. My very first trip to WDW when I was 17 ( I am now 51) I was walking out of the bathroom and literally bumped into Winnie the Pooh. When I looked up and saw that it was WTP I almost fainted. I ran back into the bathroom shouting Mom mom, I just ran into WTP. Most of the ladies in the bathroom started smiling because it was quite evident at that moment I had met WTP in person. That same trip the big bad wolf was walking around hugging a lot of teenage girls (Several times my older sister and I received hugs!)

Cheers
Mal