What do you wish you could, but you didn't and can't?

[jackfussell]

What would you at the parks, that's no longer there and that you never did before?

I grew up going to parks for one day visits here and there and sadly missed a lot of the rides and shows along the way. If I could experience some of the now closed rides and shows, that I missed I would make sure to experience....

1. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
2. Spectromagic parade
3.Snow White's Scary Adventures
4. Epcot Future World (when it was alive and full).

What about you?

 

[SallySkelington]

I've always wanted to go Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, simply because Mr. Toad is one of my favorite characters.

 

[Moonwolf]

I would have loved to do the Segway tour of EPCOT

 

[JimmyV]

1. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

I've always wanted to go Mr. Toad's Wild Ride,

I realize that it is heresy to say so on this Board, but nostalgia is an odd prism with which we view the past. So many people miss the Toad, or lament not having been able to ride it. But with much of the negative reaction engendered by the "shortness" of the 7DMT, one can only imagine the reaction if Mr. Toad were introduced today as a new ride. Toad was a 2:25 acid trip of incomprehensible plywood cut outs painted with black light neon paint. If it were added as a new ride today, it would be pilloried far worse than Figment, Stitch or Under The Sea. Heck. Under The Sea is a technological marvel compared to Toad. It is hard to understand the longing for a ride that, if added today, would be, at best, ignored and at worst, trashed mercilessly.

 

[Reddog1134]

I realize that it is heresy to say so on this Board, but nostalgia is an odd prism with which we view the past. So many people miss the Toad, or lament not having been able to ride it. But with much of the negative reaction engendered by the "shortness" of the 7DMT, one can only imagine the reaction if Mr. Toad were introduced today as a new ride. Toad was a 2:25 acid trip of incomprehensible plywood cut outs painted with black light neon paint. If it were added as a new ride today, it would be pilloried far worse than Figment, Stitch or Under The Sea. Heck. Under The Sea is a technological marvel compared to Toad. It is hard to understand the longing for a ride that, if added today, would be, at best, ignored and at worst, trashed mercilessly.

If it was "new" today then yes, your point stands. But you have to look at it as a product of it's time.

If many of the great films of years past were introduced today, most people would think they were crap and that "Hollywood could do better".

 

[JimmyV]

If it was "new" today then yes, your point stands. But you have to look at it as a product of it's time.

If many of the great films of years past were introduced today, most people would think they were crap and that "Hollywood could do better".

True. But there is an infinite ability to make films and only finite space in which to shoehorn rides. Given that WDW has a limit to the number of rides it can place in the MK, would we want it to "waste" one on Mr. Toad? If space was not an issue and everything old could have been kept, and everything new could be added (and the MK had 200 rides to choose from), then it would be great, and Mr. Toad would fit right in. And we'd still have 20,000 Leagues and If You Had Wings, and Mickey's House, and the Davy Crockett Canoes. I'd sign up for that. But with limits being what they are, the Toad served its purpose and its retirement was not unwise.

 

[Laketravis]

Toad was a 2:25 acid trip of incomprehensible plywood cut outs painted with black light neon paint..

Wait - are you talking about Toad or Test Track?

Anyway, I miss 20,000 Leagues and If You Had Wings. Those were cool.

 

[Reddog1134]

True. But there is an infinite ability to make films and only finite space in which to shoehorn rides.

LOL. At first, I thought you were saying "infinite" in reference to diversity of film. I was going to say, "Someone should tell Hollywood that".

 

[JimmyV]

LOL. At first, I thought you were saying "infinite" in reference to diversity of film.

Nah! That dreamed died with Porky's V.

 

[Mickey&Mouse]

Wait - are you talking about Toad or Test Track?

Anyway, I miss 20,000 Leagues and If You Had Wings. Those were cool.

Agree with 20,000 Leagues. I also miss the old Imageworks at Epcot with the rainbow tunnel and pin table, etc. I was only able to experience it once and it was one of the highlights of that trip. I wish they would reopen that area.

 

[JimmyV]

I was able to do it (numerous times), so my experience doesn't count, but....if anyone out there was unable to do Cranium Command, and now cannot do it because it is too late, then you should add that to your list!

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

Adventurer's Club. I was never old enough for Pleasure Island when we took family vacations when I was a kid. It was still there when I did the college program, but I just never got around to it. My parents absolutely loved it and hearing people talk about it on the boards, it sounds like it was a great time. I wish I had experienced that.

This is going to sound so silly, but I would have liked to have seen Mickey Mouse Club shooting or rehearsing during the Backlot Tour. I did the ride a number of times but never saw MMC stuff.

And, while I'm not a big lake or river person, I do think it would have been cool to see River Country.

 

[mummabear]

I believe when it opened adults could do BBB, I would love to be able to do this with my girls.

 

[Princess Yvey]

I was able to do it (numerous times), so my experience doesn't count, but....if anyone out there was unable to do Cranium Command, and now cannot do it because it is too late, then you should add that to your list!

I was too young to remember Cranium Command except I do remember the name, Cranium Command. My early epcot days were fuzzy, but I do remember "veggie fruit fruit, veggie veggie fruit fruit".... So whatever that was, I wish that was still there for me to see as an adult, and potentially to show my children!

 

[Oodalally13]

I wish I would have done Maelstrom earlier than March 2014.

But I wish I would have done Snow White's Scary Adventure. Would gladly trade that for extra-terror-estrial

 

[kangamangus]

I would have loved to see river country in its heyday. The videos of it decaying on YouTube only make my curiosity higher.

 

[Angel Ariel]

True. But there is an infinite ability to make films and only finite space in which to shoehorn rides. Given that WDW has a limit to the number of rides it can place in the MK, would we want it to "waste" one on Mr. Toad? If space was not an issue and everything old could have been kept, and everything new could be added (and the MK had 200 rides to choose from), then it would be great, and Mr. Toad would fit right in. And we'd still have 20,000 Leagues and If You Had Wings, and Mickey's House, and the Davy Crockett Canoes. I'd sign up for that. But with limits being what they are, the Toad served its purpose and its retirement was not unwise.

DLR has less space than MK, yet more rides than MK, and they still have Mr. Toad and Snow White both. And they are both popular rides.

(and that's not counting that they also still have Toontown w/Mickey's home, the Canoes, and the Nemo subs too...)

Out of all the arguments for not keeping some of these older rides at WDW, I don't really think available space is one of them.

 

[Angel Ariel]

Adventurer's Club. I was never old enough for Pleasure Island when we took family vacations when I was a kid. It was still there when I did the college program, but I just never got around to it. My parents absolutely loved it and hearing people talk about it on the boards, it sounds like it was a great time. I wish I had experienced that.

This is going to sound so silly, but I would have liked to have seen Mickey Mouse Club shooting or rehearsing during the Backlot Tour. I did the ride a number of times but never saw MMC stuff.

And, while I'm not a big lake or river person, I do think it would have been cool to see River Country.

I ditto Adventurer's Club. DH and I found it on our 2007 anniversary trip - just randomly came across it one night, our first time in PI at all. We got there pretty late, so didn't really have a "full" experience. We were really looking forward to going back again because what we had experienced was awesome. We were so sad to see it close before we could go back

 

[RAPstar]

original Journey Into Imagination
Cranium Command (thanks for reminding me, JimmyV)
World of Motion

Needless to say, I'm the only one in my family who likes Epcot

Oh, and I was on Disney property not long before The Adventurer's Club closed and wanted to go but didn't. I'm still kicking myself

 

[Oodalally13]

Ohhhh I forgot original Figment! One of my good friends tells stories of it from when she was a kid!