disneysteve
DIS meet junkie
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2002
This is an interesting thread. One thing that I think people tend to forget (or they haven't been visiting long enough to know) is that almost nothing today is as it was when the park first opened. I've been visiting since 1978 and there have been hundreds of changes, some drastic, but many more subtle. "Classic" rides have changed over the years. Small World isn't the same as it used to be. Haunted Mansion has been changed and updated including a whole new room (the Escher-like staircase room at the beginning) as well as changing the projected ghosts at the end among other things. We all know that Pirates has changed several times. Main Street has gone through multiple changes over the years. Gone are the arcade and the magic shop and the camera store and the theater, for example. The queue for Space Mountain and the post-show are different, as are the cars themselves. The Splash Mountain cars have changed, too. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find something that is still exactly as it was on the day it opened. So it's always a little funny when someone is defending a "classic" ride that is actually quite a bit different than it was originally.