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

[Newsies]

Discovery Island for sure.

 

[Mickey&Mouse]

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!

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

I can relate to the fuzzy memories! Even though I was 13 on my first trip, most of what I remember is from the Imagination building at Epcot- most likely due to my younger brother falling in love with the Figment ride. We rode it many times! I guess for nostalgia’s sake I would love to see it all again, just like it was back then. But I would also love for my kids to experience all of that, too. I guess the kicker is knowing that much of the old Imageworks is still intact upstairs and has sometimes been included on tours. At MK I wish my DS5 could experience 20,000 Leagues. He would love it!!

 

[Sargeant Tibbs]

If You Had Wings. I've done the youtube ridethrough and it looked like a pretty amazing ride.

River Country. My parents never took me.

Speaking of Discovery Island... I was looking through old WDW pics and found a really nice shot of one of those weird little deer rats that used to dart out on the trails. Maybe I'll have to make that my avatar...

There is so much gone now. What I would give to stroll through HS circa 1992. What a fun park it used to be.

 

[JimmyV]

This thread is reminding me just how lucky I was growing up. There isn't a single thing mentioned on this thread that I didn't do. Dad was pretty adamant that if we were going to spend a week at Grandma and Grandpa's house in South Florida sleeping in guest rooms and pull-out sofas, eating "Early Bird Specials", then a 3 or 4 day trip to Disney World would be the reward. (And after Epcot opened, that grew to 5 or 6 days). Did that pretty much every summer from 1972-1984. After that, it's was trips with my brothers, then with my own family.

 

[jackfussell]

I also get the nostalgia effect, remembering some things to be better than they possibly were. For me it's more of I never got to do them, and I wish I could say I did. There are so many things that I vaguely remember walking past as a kid in the parks, always racing to a mountain or some other favorite. We went so infrequently that I know I missed things along the way.

 

[L&Lfan]

Alien Encounter
Mr Toad's Wild Ride
Plaza Swan Boats
Mickey Mouse Revue
If You Had Wings
Snow White's Scary Adventures
Illuminations pre-Reflections of Earth

 

[HM]

Horizons and World of Motion. Both were gone by the time we started going with our kids in 1999.

The Skyway closed down during our first trip and never reopened (1999). We wish we'd made an effort to do it first thing....but it was closed due to an accident, and you can't predict that. (I'd ridden in the 70s, but my DH and kids never did).

 

[CAL2]

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!

hi, i know its not the same as seeing it in person, but you can watch it on youtube

cal

 

[yeheyprincex2]

I wish I would have seen the 25 year anniversary castle in person, didn't make it to Disney till 2002. and I missed out on Nemos sub ride last year it was closed, oped the day after we left

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

I seriously wish i could have seen the birthday cake castle. Not even joking. It's so tacky and I love it.

 

[JimmyV]

I seriously wish i could have seen the birthday cake castle. Not even joking. It's so tacky and I love it.

Ugh! It was awful. But at least I can say that I saw it, even though I would like to "un-see" it.

 

[IrishNYC]

My first, and only (so far) trip to WDW was in 1981, so I got to experience Mr. Toad, Snow White, and River Country. I remember being terrified of Mr. Toad, and I was a fairly fearless 10 year old at the time. River Country was fun. I remember the long tube slides, and a slide that dropped off about 10-15 feet above the water. There were both pools and lake water to swim in from what I remember. We were there for the 10th Anniversary. I wish I could find my pics from then. Epcot was being built while we were there.

 

[Princess Yvey]

hi, i know its not the same as seeing it in person, but you can watch it on youtube

cal

You know.... I didn't even think of that!! Guess what I will do now....

 

[YawningDodo]

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.

Uuuuugh, same here. When I went on the College Program in 2006 I didn't know what the Adventurer's Club was, and when one of my roommates tried to tell me about it I blew her off because I assumed Pleasure Island was nothing but ear-splitting dance clubs (I kind of really hate big parties and the music I heard coming out of the 'Island some nights when I was in DTD seemed to bear the assumption out -- I never spent even a single evening on Pleasure Island). The next time I went back I knew more about it and was raring to go, but they'd literally just closed PI that year. So much regret.

This is going to be hokey, but World of Motion. It closed before I even went to WDW for the first time as a kidl I love the old audioanimatronics and Spaceship Earth is one of my favorite things at Epcot, so I wish I'd been able to go on more of that style of ride while it was around.