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- The six rides at Disney World that used to be better.
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I've been going to Disney World my entire life. There's a lot of things that have gotten better. But there are definitely things that have gotten worse. Join me, James from Guide2WDW, as I explore the history of six legendary Disney World rides that have all been downgraded in some way. From budget cuts to effects that have been turned off to baffling creative decisions, this video covers six attractions that have gotten worse in some way.
Were you surprised by any of these picks? Were there any I missed? Let me know in the comments!
🔗Links from this video:
Listen to the Land: • Listen To The Land Song
"Countdown to Extinction: Inside the Evolution of Animal Kingdom’s Time-Traveling DINOSAUR Dark Ride" - Park Lore: parklore.com/main/lost-legend...
Journey Into Imagination: Revisited - Full Ride Through Restored & Enhanced by RetroWDW: • Journey Into Imaginati...
🔎 Time Stamps:
0:00 - The history of the "Plus" and the "Minus" at Disney Parks
1:21 - Disney Downgrade 6: Just make believe you're back in the 80s
3:04 - Disney Downgrade 5: Missing the orange scents
4:38 - Disney Downgrade 4: Why did this ride get worse? That's proprietary.
6:51 - Disney Downgrade 3: The greatest teacher, failure is
8:16 - Disney Downgrade 2: Disco Inferno
10:30 - Disney Downgrade 1: How Kodak snuffed out one little spark.
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The laser cannons in ride being off also makes the scene especially weird, because the ride vehicles still stop and double back to avoid being run over by the cannons, except that’s not an issue. So if you’ve never been on the ride where the cannons work, it just feels like the droid driving is going a little crazy or taking a moment for a really tense dance break.
Yeah , I was on it last week and week before and thought I was making things up in my head when the cannons didn’t move
It can still read as waiting for them to fire before moving, but yeah it's very awkward without the intended interplay
Early on when the ride first opened, a maintenance worker accidentally broke it, and it just would have been too expensive (from Disney's POV) to fix, like the Yeti.
@@Joseph-oo7ppactually what happened was that it rammed into a ride vehicle.
Yea. Clearly they should be reprogrammed. Maybe just slowed down and continuous movement
One never realizes just how badly the Disney World parks are in terms of repair and depth until you go to Tokyo Disneyland and see ALL that the rides can be.
Disney Shanghai's Pirates of The Caribbean ride makes all of Florida & Cali look like jokes. Then you see the lazy remodel they did on Splash Mountain/Tiana's and realize how much better it could have been..
That's because the die hard Disney fans refuse to admit this and even go online bashing Universal. WTF does Universal have to do with this?? They always say crap like "Universal's rides are always broken. Disney takes care of their rides." UH UH. I went to Universal in 2020 and it was in better shape than Disney World. True, one or two attractions needed an overhaul but it was nowhere as bad as some of the Disney videos I've been watching for over a YEAR....
"Soarin Over the World" at least makes thematic sense at Epcot, having it replace "Soarin Over California" at California Adventure was such a boneheaded move they keep bringing back the original for limited engagements.
Totally agree. Soarin over California should be the default at DCA, and the World should be the default at EPCOT, and they should offer the other film as limited time events.
@Guide2WDW they really just need a better Soarin Over the World without the unnecessary CGI and stuff. Hell, at this point I'd be cool with a new California version in 4K
@@MCastleberry1980 agreed. The CGI stuff needs to stop flying at the screen. Just cut to a new scene. And edit World to work with the original music
In general it’s not as good as it used to be because the digital projection doesn’t sell the effects like the old film used to. It’s just not nearly as good in digital.
One of my favorite Disney attractions ever was Alien Encounter. It gave a palpable sense of dread beginning with Tim Curry’s voice for the robot SIR in the pre-show. They had Kathy Najimy for comic relief. The downgrade to Stitch’s Great Escape was a heartbreaking loss. Now that is gone too.
I would have totally included Alien Encounter in this video if Stitch was still open. A huge downgrade, even though I remember Alien Encounter absolutely terrifying me as a kid.
I'm fortunate in that the last time I visited WDW I got to experience both the OG Journey and Alien Encounter. They were both incredibly memorable and I'm so grateful I got to see them before they were ruined.
Extra-TERROR-estrial Alien Encounter also featured - as aliens - Jeffrey Jones, Kevin Pollack, and Tyra Banks!
I remember experiencing Alien Encounter as a teenager. After doing it for the first time, I immediately did it again just to see if it would still be scary since I know what was going to happen ahead of time. It was still scary because of the dark and jump scares, that I would equate to someone making you flinch, it was unavoidable. You were going to try and squirm out of your seat every time when the monster is breathing in your face with those projected 3D sounds on top of the hot breath. Pretty amazing. The funniest thing, there were older men talking about how they weren't scared outside the attraction on my 2nd go, I sat right next to them, they were screaming like little girls inside, LOL.
When I rode Soarin’ Over the World and saw the bent image in the screen, I wondered if I was accidentally in a Six Flags park. The quality was so Un-Disney. I can’t believe someone saw that, shrugged and said “Eh…. Maybe they won’t notice…?”
This is why I always request the middle section. Usually have to wait an extra 5 minutes or so, but it's always worth it.
I also have to say the removal of the floating candelabras in the endless hallway in the haunted mansion replaced by some dumb hatbox ghost is super disappointing to me. That was the most impactful effect to me when I was a kid and now it's gone for no good reason.
Disney’s ambition for problem-ridden effects vs ride length KILLS ME. Everest is like 2 minutes long? 7 Dwarfs is like 90 seconds. Tron
If Alien encounter was still open this would have to be on this list
100%
I experienced it back in the 90s. Scared the shet out of me. Memories... disney was awesome back then.
I have an idea of how imagineers could in theory fix the cannons in Rise at Galaxy's Edge. Redesign them so they don't move in front of the vehicles. But they move above them with a recoil like effect and maybe even shoot out smoke like they are overheating, That could be the reason that the R5s are scared to move past them. Just an idea.
I totally agree about the Imagination Pavilion tragedy! They ruined it!😢 that opening scene with Dreamfinder, the Dreamcatcher and Figment was magical! That was truly top level imagineering we will likely never see again. 😢 The fact that RotR has also lost its best effects is heartbreaking as well.
I still have very vivid memories of how incredible the Dreamcatcher was - it's a shame it wasn't preserved and updated in some way. That's one of the best things about Disney Parks. People have been going on Haunted Mansion and Pirates for generations - and they've been updated in ways that really preserve the experience. My big wish for D23 is a new overhaul of Figment that brings back Dreamfinder.
The horned dinosaur plush was actually very cute
Totally agree.
I’m surprised Test Track didn’t make this list! The current version of the ride is little more than wood cutouts with reflective tape.
Very good suggestion! Test Track 2.0 was more of a side-grade for me. The Tron-esque visuals are cool, and I find the car designer game fun. But they made the story of the ride really muddled, the whole “see your design on the ride” thing is super buggy, and the scenes are less memorable than 1.0. I could definitely see the argument that it’s a downgrade though.
Really hoping that the upcoming reimagining of the ride will be an upgrade.
That’s being nice
I went on when I was ten and it was so elaborate with all these physical set pieces
Why in gods name would they downgrade it with bloody Christmas lights?!
@Guide2WDW I can agree with the sidegrade opinion, I was a kid when 2.0 came out and me and my brother had a blast redesigning cars in the backrooms to min max stats and get on the top of the daily leader board for bragging rights lol
I'm so glad I got to ride the original before they ruined it.
@@Guide2WDW I think this year they are doing test track 3.0 and closing down the current ride in June sometime for a little over a year which means that they could be upgrading Test Track for once!
The Seas with Nemo and Friends- It's hard to compare the original with this relaunch, but the relaunch looks like 5 different group projects meshed together with effects that don't work well or at all. The jellyfish scene was done by a kinder garden class the night before the assignment was due. It's crazy how they could have added a really cool scene here (like from Na'vi River Journey) to immerse you into the ocean. The Anglerfish animatronic is rarely working. The animated tunnel should have shields around the projectors on the floor so (1) you can't see them and (2) it doesn't blind you and spoil the effect. This is something that is prevalent throughout the ride- they didn't take the time to conceal most of the projectors/lighting effects. Overall, very sloppy and not up to Disney standards. This could be so much better with just a few upgrades and maintenance.
Good suggestion! This ride could definitely use some love.
To me it's a the cheap clone of the submarine version at Disneyland. That ride could use some love but it's very loved.
For the record, Kodak didn't think digital cameras would work because at the time, the storage media could only hold 2 or 3 low quality images at a time and since the internet was rare, you couldn't just upload them to have them printed. It was just one of those cases where they came out with a game changing device way before the rest of technology needed to make it work could catch up.
That's a great point. Also, the first digital camera they developed was *so* far away from being anywhere close to a consumer device - but a huge tech innovation.
So, did I give them an unfairly harsh time about that in this script? Yes.
But did they also ruin one of the best rides of all time? Also yes.
I just went on a binge of your content while studying for finals. I adore your data driven takes which I feel I do not see a ton in the wdw planning community. Keep up with the outstanding content!
Fantastic video! Your presentation style is great and I loved the way that you edited this all together. Good work.
Thanks so much, Isaac! I appreciate you saying that! 😄
The main problem with the Yeti in Expedition Everest is that they would have to, essentially, cut a big hole in the side of the mountain in order to properly fix the animatronic. It’s a big design flaw that Disney should have been well aware of when the built the attraction.
I remember when “Listen to the Land” was removed from The Land. That happened when the sponsor changed from Kraft to Nestle. That intro scene was completely changed to the more serious tone it has today. I loved the song as well (another Bob Moline contribution) but it was pretty 70s but it would be awesome to freshen it up and bring it back!
I missed the detail about the sponsor change, thank you for sharing! I absolutely think that its dated feel was a huge reason why it got cut initially, but there's a lot of nostalgia and love for it now.
@@Guide2WDW oh yeah for sure. That’s my childhood lol. Bring back the universe of energy songs and I’d be a happy person.
Yeah, a new recording of the song by a contemporary artist would be great! They did that with the "Canada, a Lifetime Journey" song.
"Coming on the Horizons" - Guide2WDW, 2024
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Do we not remember the green laser box as you move into the time portal in Dinosaur? Now it’s a smoke/light swirl and even that rarely works.
Exactly! The ride is in a pretty sad state now.
the cannons were one of the things that really made rise super special.
i can't help but notice their absence, every time i'm on it.
It's such a shame.
As a CM at JII when it opened I can tell you that just like Horizons in its last days they were sending out empty trains all day.
Thank you for sharing that! I definitely remember that being the case for Horizons. Breaks my heart a bit to hear that. What I would give now to experience either of those again one more time!
@@Guide2WDW Me too... My absolute top favorite attractions and memories from EPCOT were Horizons and Journey Into Imagination.
Communicore used to have an education center for teachers and school groups. They also could answer anything about the parks. I once stopped and asked about the ferry boats that go from TTS to MK and who built them. I also had quesstions about the central computer center and the design. (BTW, the ferries were built on site by Disney Imagineering. They even had pictures.). I also miss The Great Movie Ride and the Footlight Parade fountain.
The new Communicore Hall looks like a big downgrade from what it replaced. I was really hopeful, but it just looks like a giant hallway. Since it's a flex space it may be cooler during festivals, but it's really disappointing that it replaced Innoventions/Communicore.
Been going to Disneyworld since 1973, it's all gotten worse !
My GF/ wife and I started going to WDW in 1978, we really enjoyed each trip up until our last in 2017. It just wasn't the same anymore. Now that my wife has passed away I'll never be going back.
Am I nuts? In my first time on Rise of the Resistance (Disneyland), an Imperial officer boarded our tractor-beamed shuttle and scared the pants off of us. It set up such an atmosphere of dread that “the ride” just disappeared, and escape was everything.
Now, nobody I know even remembers that aspect of the ride.
That female cast member had exactly the right amount of creepy authoritarian disdain that I would have confessed to anything.
Time to add tianas bayou adventure to the list of ruined rides
4:03 I really, really miss the old style paper ticket Fast Pass system.
Me too. I still have a stack of paper FastPasses in my office.
It worked well - can’t have that! Now you have to attend a seminar to learn Genie, Genie+, Lightning…
Fantastic video!
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it!
This was a great watch! Great job on handling these topics without sounding hateful or bitter.
Glad you enjoyed it! And I'm really glad you caught the tone I was going for - it comes from fascination rather than wanting to hate on anything. I wouldn't spend all this time making videos about Disney World if I didn't love it, and I still really enjoy all the rides in this video even if they have been diminished in one way or another.
I agree with these critiques of Disney World attractions, but I would reserve the worst Minus of all time for Disneyland's People Mover. It was "upgraded" to the Rocket Rods using the Test Track ride system in an effort to give TomorrowLand another E-Ticket class ride at a fraction of the budget. Unfortunately, it used the original People Mover track supports, which weren't up to the task of withstanding the ride's forces. Even the effort to slow down the ride vehicles around the turns (which created a herky-jerky lame ride experience) didn't prevent the supports from experiencing structural fatigue approaching catastrophic failure. On top of that, a low guest-per-hour capacity and unreliability shut the Rocket Rods down, and the remaining infrastructure was too damaged to revert back to the People Mover. A case of an attraction that was literally upgraded out of existence.
The same thing nearly happened to Disneyland's Space Mountain, but that's another story...
Both the People Mover and Rocket Rods were before my time visiting Disneyland, but I find that whole ordeal fascinating! It's such a shame because having that track empty is such a detraction in the land.
"Literally upgraded out of existence" - Love that phrase.
Rocket Rods or Eisner's folly a classic case of if it's not broken don't fix it. The Disneyland people mover was beloved nobody wanted it to be a E ticket attraction. I was a teen in the late 80s early 90s my friends and I loved the people mover sure it wasn't thrilling but it had this cool 60s swinging soundtrack and you could just chill for 10 minutes. I look at Tomorrowland today and I want to cry because now it's a eyesore a compilation of half measures and compromise and it's lost all it's identity. I would love to see Disney take the wrecking ball to Tomorrowland and completely rebuild bringing it back to it's previous glory. However I don't have any confidence in Disney's current management.
Loved this video. Keep em coming man!
Thanks so much!
Great video!
Thank you! 😄
I still miss Soarin over California. That incredible Jerry Goldsmith music still gives me amazing memories.
I hadn't been to any Disney amusement park since 1990 and just went to WDW last month. Loved how they put Captain Jack character into pirates ride.
EPCOT is just a shell to its former self. I remember being there with family when Epcot still want finished in 1983.
my only trip to the florida parks was January 2020, was during the time rise of the resistance had just opened,woke up at 5am to be at the park to get a place in line through the app, im also happy i got to ride dinosaur , since it was my first experience i thought it was awesome, mount everest i dont even remember the strobes being on HAHA
Michael Einser was an excellent CEO. Unlike the atrocious Bob’s we’ve been stuck with forever.
Eisner was horrible by the end. There is a reason he was pushed out. People forget so quickly. The Save Disney campaign was brought back to get him out because he was destroying things.
@@thereturnofthemacMost of us who miss Eisner didn’t forget. But still Michael did a LOT of things right. He gave us Star Tours, he tried to encapsulate Walt himself by making those bumpers with him interacting with Mickey and showing off the magic, he stopped Jeffery Katzenberg from basically destroying and shutting down Disney Animation after the failure of the Black Cauldron.
No CEO is perfect, that’s rare but in the beginning, there was more magic then what Bob is doing.
WHERE DID YOU GET THE POSTERS IN THE BACK?!?! THEY ARE SO CUTEEEE
Twenty-five years ago, we visited Disney World 4 to 5 times per year. Stayed in all the resorts from upper crust club level down to the most basic. Over the years we've seen degradation of rides and services. If you're young and have never been to Disney before, you have no point of reference to notice changes. Famous quote "You may not remember what they said, but you do remember how they made you feel".
Two things about Imagination. I went on Journey into Imagination for the last time in 97. Wow, it was in such a sad state at that point. The ride felt like it was struggling to move and half the animatronics weren't moving. I guess they new its days were number and were not really keeping it up. Journey into Your Imagination was better when it opened (I mean other than not having Figment of course). So many of the effects worked so much better then. The sound effect room used to be so much better. I am sure they turned it down because it scared kids but they should have changed it to something that wasn't scary but still showed off the impressive sound it is capable of.
We have a version of soarin in Las vegas with three different films and no wait
Great video and info but tiny misconception about the Everest ride. You travel through the Forbidden Mountain (which is made up) and Everest is the mountain in the background.
That's a really great clarification. Thank you!
It's not a ride, but the big restaurant in the Norway pavilion used to be a fabulous (and accurate in selections) Nordic smorgasbord. It was just incredibly good... up until they refurbished it into yet another mediocre character dining location so they could milk the connection to Frozen and charge way more for inferior food. I lament the loss to this day.
Now I want Disco Yeti Merch and random Bee Gees moments
Disney would never do that, but that would be sooooooo good.
On Soaring, since the attraction has multiple theaters, can they do both films, as The Great Movie Ride used to do? A single queue which splits into two near the end, one side going left the other going right, the cast member sorting guests randomly although they may request a side.
Only Disneyworld, for the most part, is the park Disney doesn't really focus on maintaining and fixing. Disneyland does have the Star Wars ROTR issue too, but Disneyworld has a lot of rides that need some love and care, refurbs, maintenance, etc. Only ride actually getting that to my knowledge is Test Track, and if you want to count "Splash Mountain" lol
Im also going to miss the Dinosaur ride. Its unique and awesome!
we just returned from Disney 2 weeks ago and we noticed lighting changes within the rides Spaceship Earth is noticeably darker inside as well as the haunted mansion which seemed to have lowered the light levels and canceled some of the greenish color within the ride and the hallway of candles seemed to be less lit and colorless while years ago it had a yellowish tint. I guess disney is lowering light levels/changing colors as energy conservation but it does affect ride experience. My family noticed, did anyone else.?
Will you adding splash mountain to the list in a future episode?
Space mountain. The lights inside use to pop more, and the track is one of if not the most uncomfortable out of any rollercoaster
When I worked in the parks, Figment was my favorite character, because of the old attraction. The new one just... Well, you put it well.
All of the old (original) Epcot Future World attractions had theme songs and a part of me misses that. I wish they would release them on an album or something
Part of the magic that I remember , was how the seats moved Around the various stages. Talk about imagination, it was truly that.
I went to Animal Kingdom during it's opening year. I still prefer the original Kilimanjaro Safari (poachers) way more than the "zoo tour" we have now. I rode RotR for the first time last December 2023. I was so blown away that I didn't notice the lack of the cannons. It was only when I got home & watched a full ride thru video that I noticed the effect was gone. I wish it was there, but if that's what it takes to keep the ride working I can live with it. (Both Kylo effects were fully operational! Yea!!)
The time to fix the yeti is coming up quickly though. Once all the new stuff coming to DAK opens up in 3-5 years, which will also be just after the 20 year mark for everest, it will be about time to retrack the ride. With all that new capacity it will be a good time to close it without having too much impact on ops. And if they have to get into the building to do that, it makes perfect sense to seize that opportunity to fix mr yeti as well. If they dont do it then, then I doubt it will ever happen.
That all makes a ton of sense. I really hope you are right!
This video is fun, I really enjoyed it! Random TH-cam suggestions on point, ngl. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! 😄
When compared neck and neck, Soarin over California is just not as immersive and enjoyable as Soarin Over the World, but California is California, so it makes sense that they would want a version about themselves...
😂 As someone who used to live in California for 15 years, no lies detected
Yeah it was really awkward last time I went on it. The cannon part was one of the coolest parts of the ride.
I feel like they could've had the chance to finally fix the Yeti when the parks were shutdown during Covid
Totally agree with Figment! What a sad day. It’s not even recognizable.
How about the shortening of the Tiki Room and the Country Bear Jamboree?
I went on Rise of the Resitance last week and the guns on the AT ATS didn’t work and didn’t lower, the cannons didn’t move and the light saber on 1 of the carts didn’t move if you want queues under 30 minutes stay in the park till the last hour me and my dad went on it 3 times in 2 hours we had a 80 minute wait which only took 25 and the next one said 25 but there was no queue at all and then we went on again it was still 25 minutes left but I took about 20 and right before park closing it was a 5 minute wait
It's a shame to hear so many effects weren't working, but also thank you for sharing your ride strategy. End of day is a great time to go.
Your videos are great man, it feels like I’m watching a Disney + show because the editing and quality is good! Keep up the great work man!
Wow! Thank you so much for saying that, and thank you for watching! 😄
@@Guide2WDW Absolutely brother!
Universal does it too. I went during the opening month of the Harry Potter section of IoA. I returned this year with my Potterhead son. Let's say he felt I had oversold the Hogwarts castle. Man, they butchered the queue around the castle! They removed the greenhouse with the screaming plants, the moving staircases, everything!
Tower of Terror is one that not many people bring up in terms of how much of the show effects are broken or messed up in some way, it's honestly shocking just how bad it has gotten in the past few years. Projections not having color, audio being completely out of wack, even the drop sequences themselves were toned down slightly.
I didn’t realize it was in such bad shape! I haven’t been on it in awhile. My last few visits have been with my small kids, and I’ve ridden ToT soooooooo many times in the past that I’ve just skipped it. But that’s a shame because I love that ride.
Sad, because I prefer it over the Guardians of the Galaxy version.
Test Track has had a couple of changes over the years and another one coming I think.
But back in 1997 WDW was giving previews of what was going to be a NASCAR racing experience. But when Disney didn't build it to NASCARs specs, they backed out and did not give Disney the approval. So now we have Test Track.
Glad I got to experience of Rise Of The Resistance multiple times with all the effects and scenes working as they should. Never experienced the “B” mode of anything or anything not working (like the giant blaster canons).
Not an attraction per se, but the Land Pavilion itself has lost a feature i liked as a kid. The hot air balloons (representing the seasons) hanging from the ceiling use to float up and down. Now they're stationary.
Miss the fountain in the pavillion as well..
I got to go on Rise of the resistance right after it opened and everything worked great, Kylo, the cannons moving back and forth. Been on it a number of times since and cannons have not worked for several years now and Kylo is hit or miss mostly miss, too bad. Glad I have it on video.
Same here. I recorded a video of everything working perfectly in February 2020 (it's on my channel), and I'm glad I have it for posterity.
The working Yeti is worth spending the money to fix it. It was so cool.
I heard it weighted too much and was damaging the ride
Any ride that has been closed down and replaced only with a meet and greet.
Universal does this so that they retain the right to use the (Marvel) character. If the character is no longer used, Disney regains its use.
i'd love to see a redo of journey into imagination but as a trackless dark ride
Trackless would be perfect for Imagination! Just bring back Dreamfinder too!
@@Guide2WDW of course! i wasn't around to see dreamfinder but everyone says that version of the ride was the best
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Wow, thanks for watching!
Countdown to Extinction/Dinosaur has been my dream ride since i was a kid. such a shame that it's been tossed aside so easily and that i'll probably never get to ride it 😔😔😔
In fairness, we would get to experience the touch and taste labs if Figment didn’t hijack the ride and take you to his open house.
😆 Hahaha, fair enough!
I was hoping they would take the opportunity to fix the Yeti during Covid when the parks were closed. No one was there and so it wouldn't bother anyone if they ride had to get taken apart and refurbished. But I guess they didn't think of that. Other things were on our minds at the time.
My family and I went on dinosaur last year but I went on it when it came out and it was way better back then. Last year it felt like most of the animatronics were broken.
Don't forget how they wrecked 180 top of Spaceship Earth. Remember how there used to be astronauts "floating" around working on a satellite while a girl looks on from a space station (which is still in Spaceship Earth, if you look to the right at a certain point when going backwards),
Cries in FlightForce at DisneylandParis (Old Rock n Roller)
The current version of Spaceship Earth vs the 1994 version (the only other version I've seen in person)
Test Track 2.0 vs the original
Enchanted Tiki Room WDW version after they ditched "Under New Management" was top on my list of downgrades (at least DL one is intact). It's a shell of the original. Also, I was told by a cast member that the reason they changed Rise of the resistance was because they had to cut out a certain number of seconds due to a California law during the pandemic that limited the amount of time that people could be in an enclosed ride vehicle. So they had to shave off a certain number of minutes. Probably doesn't apply to the gun room scene though since the vehicles go through the same dance, just without the guns moving.
I really miss the heat effect in the desert section of Living with the Land.
I forgot about that one!
The sun doesn’t change color anymore..the fire is missing in the field scene with the buffalo and blowing seeds
Went on Rise at disneyland and the cannons werent working there either. And also the lightsaber didn't cut through the roof. At first I thought maybe it was some mandela effect so I looked at some vids online to make sure I wasn't insane.
Yes, I had that experience at Disneyland too! Seems to be a bicoastal issue.
The Yeti problem is so unfortunate. They apparently didn't think about how they would fix it when it ever would break down and need repair, need replaced, etc. How did that fall through the cracks? (No pun intended)
I think the upgraded Matterhorn is now better as a whole compared to Expedition Everest. Crazy to design a theme park ride with such an oversight for maintenance.
What will make people come back to a theme park that will cause some disappointment but great success in the end. Shutting down a ride and saying you will be either fixing and upgrading it. And people will come flooding in when it re opens.
Disney is just ok...not great anymore.
Universal ls better
what is the song at the beginning of the video in the background?
It’s called “Lilys Bounce - Vintage Version” by Ziv Grinberg. I got it from Artlist.io’s music library.
I'm sorry I meant the song at like 1 minute
I saw a kid scream his head off after riding Dinosaur, and this was indeed the already neutered version. lol I never got to ride Extraterrestrial, another Eisner thriller.
Disneyland was always my park, and I was excited to share that experience with my wife after not going for nearly 20 years. I talked up Indiana Jones extensively as it was my favorite ride. To my huge disappointment in late 2022, major portions of Indy were not functioning, such as the iconic boulder chase. Additionally, many of the fire effects seemed diminished or non-existent. Overall a huge let down! In general, Indy just seemed tired and broken (kinda like the movie franchise). Anyway, I hope it has seen some love in the last 1.5 years.
Haven't ridden rise in forever, cannons are a big part. I think the lack of maintenance is a quiet indication of the failure of Galaxy's Edge. At least the food is still good.
It’s too bad there were no opportunities to fix the Yeti. Like when the park was closed for several months in 2020. 🤔
I've heard from other sources that fixing the Yeti would basically require tearing down the entire structure and rebuilding it. That's the kind of project that would probably take multiple years.
Good point. But that was also the start of the Chapek era, and pretty much every decision made under him was to maximize profit margins (at the expense of the guest experience, imo).
Nah, they needed all that money for Epcot's destru- renovation.
Gotta add that the Kodak decision to downsize the ride was also because the original opening to the right where you fly with Dreamfinder was, just like the Yeti, super ambitious and constantly broke. Kodak was outright refusing to fix the hook that synced the ride to Dreamfinder's machine, so they were forced to downgrade.
Being super pedantic, your statement at 8:45 is technically incorrect. The full name of the ride is Expedition Everest: Legend of the Forbidden Mountain. The ride takes place on a fictional mountain called the “Forbidden Mountain” that has a train that traverses said mountain and would take you to the base camp of Mt. Everest if not for the broken track. The mountain facade of the ride is portraying the forbidden mountain. So it is not ‘based on a real mountain’ unless you count the name only.
That’s definitely a good distinction, and I’m kicking myself that I forgot that detail. I’d still argue that the spirit of my statement is correct: Imagineering drew inspiration from a real world location to create the ride, just like with Matterhorn. Probably “they’re the only two Disney rides named after real mountains” would be more accurate.
I miss the Rex Allen narration on the "Carousel of Progress". Not that Jean Shepherd isn't good... but he's a little too recognizable. I hear his voice and I'm waiting for "Junior" to lick the frozen flagpole...
And how about the role/costume/character change for Jessica Rabbit on Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin?
TEST TRACK! Current version is horrible! Hopefully the upcoming redo will get it back closer to the original.
I'm a huge Stitch fan but even I thought that "chili dog burping Stitch" was in poor taste and not at all in line with his character of being an alien that didn't receive all of his genetic programming in creation. After all Stitch's entire movie Lilo & Stitch is based on Autism and development disabilities. Reducing stitch to regurgitating something based on fart jokes was by far the worst decision Disney Executives had made with refurbishing Alien Encounter. There were so many better ways to include Stitch in that attraction without resorting to Farting Sounds/Noises. Also toilet papering the Castle was in my opinion a cheaply thrown together" how do we dress up the castle again" to mark Stitch's arrival to the Park. Stitch may be mischievous but whoever's idea it was to toilet paper the Castle and make farting noises a part of the refurb of Alien Encounter, I sincerely hope that person was fired.
Totally agree that Stitch was a downgrade of Alien Encounter. I would have featured that attraction, but it's been closed for a few years now and I was only covering rides that are still active. But everything you say is right on the point. They haven't done Stitch justice at WDW.
Stitch is in the Tiki Room at Tokyo Disneyland, and I've heard that it's actually very charming and fun. Here's a video of it: th-cam.com/video/TIxe_85hNSg/w-d-xo.html
The Haunted Mansion has seen better days. I have compiled a very long list of effects that no longer work quite right, light levels that aren’t right, sound levels that aren’t right, etc. During my most recent visit in March, the Ghost Host narration in my doom buggy was silent until the ballroom scene. It’s aggravating.
What's sad is that the WDW version is better than the DL version but yeah not being able to see anything, hear anything or having the hat box ghost break the narrative hurts the experience.
Wow! Even people who don't have an axe to grind against Disney see the WDW Orlando Park decline.
They could at least make a lighter Yeti and keep the "disco" to cover for the lesser movement.
OMG -- I wondered why I didn't like Dinosaur as much when I went on it many years ago. I must have been on the EXCTINCTION version and I remember it being SO GOOD!!! I hope Indiana Jones brings back the fun!!