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- Once upon a time, these Disney World rides were at their PRIME. And now? Well… let’s just say things have taken a turn for the worst.
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Miss you Extraterrorestrial Encounter. Thanks for scaring the hell out of me and my brothers. That certainly spiced up the Magic Kingdom day.
I think if it was in hollywood studios it would fit much better
Exactly! They should have just gutted it and moved it to Disney Studios. It was an amazing special effects show.
I’m glad I was able to go on it as a teen before it closed. I get it’s not for everyone but I love horror and it was nice to see Disney’s take on that genre with their budget.
I have every intention of bringing it back when I take Disney over. And the soccer moms who complain about it being too scary will simply get called "chicken" to their faces, which will make them cave to their pride much like Marty McFly does when someone calls him chicken.
I wish they just moved it to Hollywood studios. And with their purchase of FOX they could have themed it to Alien and xenomorphs
I’ve often thought that Disney could get a lot of value from putting together a straight up museum at Disney World using (for example) the stuff that used to be in the backlot prop warehouse. Locating it at Disney Springs, Wide World of Sports or winter summer land gold could generate more footfall for those attractions.
I think they used to rotate the things displayed in the prop warehouse? Rotating displays and exhibitions would keep the nerdy and nostalgic Disney guest coming back at a relatively low cost. It was always fun to try and spot obscure props (I once spied Maximilian from ‘The Black Hole’ in there) and it would be nice to recapture that.
Omg yes that is needed
I remember seeing the spaceship from The Day The Earth Stood Still there but never found out if it was screen used or not. It’s sad that the spaceship from Flight Of The Navigator sits atop the thirst rangers shop in Tomorrowland.
@@skh1964 it is better than it being abandoned, at least it is re used
They should have kept The Great Movie Ride. They could have updated it with more current movies.
RIP ORIGINAL Figment ride, Horizons and World of Motion-I loved thee and miss you still. 😏 It's still too soon for me to talk about Mr.Toad. 😭
One of my only memories from my childhood trip to Disney was getting stuck in a broken down Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ride. It felt like an eternity with the temperature inside getting so warm. I remember my mother on the verge of panic when the ride finally started up again. 😊
I'm still salty about Maelstrom being replaced by that atrocity of a ride.
It will be coming back. And I plan to erase almost all traces of Frozen in the parks after my takeover of Disney. Like what's going to happen? I'll draw the wrath of thousands of women and little girls for banishing Elsa?
@@stanfordite1I will support you all the way 🫡
Same here
Primeval Whirl was one of my favorite rides at Disney. It was always busy. Dino land in general was a great place for the kids.
You must have been there on special days because on any day I went it was a walk on and only one side was ever open. (A sure symptom of a ride that IS NOT busy)
My grandpa took me and my brothers when we were mid to early to mid teens and we got to ride the cup whirl thing. I went back to disney in 22 and it was done 😢
I loved Primeval Whirl! Dinoland USA was my favorite in it's prime. So campy and the sound track was fun
Backstage studio tour and lights motor action were my CHILDHOOD
The one that frustrated me for years growing up was how they never let the Great Movie Ride be seen as you entered the park. Everytime I went it had the giant Mickey hat in the way or a giant projector screen and stage in the way. But then when they got rid of it then they finally let it be seen as a centerpiece
It used to be that way initially
Sometimes, the nostalgia is still there, but they weren't maintained properly, and/or the nostalgia was removed for cheaper effects.
I loved hearing about Rise's and Expedition's woes (here's a solution for Everest: Put an animatronic Yeti in when you see him before the main drop and use a projection instead of the B-mode Yeti), but the big rush for me were the closed attractions such as the Studio Backlot Tour (loved hearing how AJ was once a participant), Body Wars, Maelstrom and Primeval Whirl, which invoked a lot of nostalgia. You hit all three rides that closed that our family has problems with over its replacements (Toad was unique with its two-track layouts for my father, Great Movie Ride had its various films and hosts for my sister, and Splash because not only do I love the source material, it also took so long for me to like this ride by 2016 since I don't like getting wet ever since I first went on it in 2003).
Refreshing new video, love this content!! I'd love to hear more about the history of the parks :)
It's not the same time as DFB by a mile, but Yesterworld and Defunctland are two channels that do terrific documentaries on the history of rides and other parts of the parks (among many other topics)
I must have had all the luck in the world because I had one day in DW last year to hit three parks, went to Rise Of The Resistance first thing in the morning, had no waiting line at all, and nothing broke down. Pfew!
Losing Spaceship Earth will break my heart just like GMR, HORIZON and MALSTROM.
I remember going to Epcot in 2015 with some friends and I was telling them how excited I was to ride Maelstrom (the year after it closed). I had not been there in many years and I had no idea it has been closed. My friends and I started to wonder if the creepy troll ride was a figment of my imagination! But good to know my memories were real and I'm not insane.
I remember meeting the Imagineers for Maelstrom before it was built. Glad we returned to ride it before it changed.
The dinosaur closure is absolutely devastating and will haunt me forever
Sum of all Thrills! I knew I had ridden a simulator like that once as a kid and didn't want my grandpa to put loops on it! Very glad to know I didn't make it up.
i LOVED Maelstrom this one being gone still hurts
What ride had the “ veggie veggie fruit fruit”. That was just a fun and catchy song. Love that they played a snippet during the Epcot fireworks in fall (I was there in late September)
I love fruits and veg
Kitchen Kabaret in the Land was a great attraction
@@jameswooden4521 What was that attraction about. I’ve never heard of it.
@@kaitlinschwarz3644Kitchen Kabaret was an Epcot opening day attraction which was incredibly wacky, incredibly camp, and honestly I would say is just as beloved as the original Journey into imagination ride.
Not me just now realizing that that’s what happened to Sum of all Thrills, I’ve been trying to find that ride for ages cause I remember it doing it as a kid and I could never find it, now I know why lmao
I was fortunate enough to remember riding Adventure Thru Inner Space at Disneyland, I loved it as a kid.
Frozen is despicable and what it did to Maelstrom, and to the Norway pavilion as a whole, has no name.
Went from riding maelstrom several times each trip to having only ridden frozen once since it was opened.
I genuinely love most of these! But I miss the Dreamfinder so bad
I miss the roller coaster creator with Bill nye at disneyquest
Splash Mountain and TGMR were our biggest losses.
Splash Mountain is still open. Disney is lying. I'll be enjoying Splash Mountain on October 1, 2046 for WDW's 75th.
Splash mountain going to bayou adventure is not a loss lol. That theme is still kinda old and very lovely. It's really not that bad lol
@@user-li6uq1yj4o it's really lame. i mean look at it.
@@firstlast in sorry you feel that way lol
@@firstlast Just say you hate it because you're upset a racist theming is being replaced with a Black character.
I’ll always be angry about GMR. All they had to do was update it
Me too!
It will be coming back. I have ways of knowing future events. And a clone will be coming to California.
No, it came down to licensing. Disney doesn’t have the rights to a lot of those movies in TGMR. Did you watch the video?
@@stanfordite1😂😂😂😂👍
@@mindyschocolate This is serious and you don't laugh at military personnel in the United States, civvie. I outrank you and you take orders from me according to Congress, do you understand? You will answer "Yes sir."
This is a GREAT video!!!!
Love DFB!!!❤
Body wars ride was a huge motion sickness experience 🤢 Miss the backlot tour.
I like the tropical idea. Good idea to capitalize on the tropical foliage and weather. I hope they don’t over do the cartoon themes and stick to an animal focus with sand and palm trees.
I loved Maelstrom.
You didn't mention two rides. One I thought should have been in Hollywood Studios (The Extraterrorestrial ride in Magic Kingdom) and the other being a ride that has seen three "different" incarnations. That would be the "If You Had Wings" ride (sponsored by Eastern Airlines until the company folded) which became "Dream Flight" (sponsored by Delta Airlines with the same exact track and about 90% of the same images and settings as the previous "Wings") and now is "Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters"...
I love it when someone else mentions if you had wings!
I've had the if you had wings song stuck in my head for nigh on forty years.
The show Southpark did an episode where the kids went to imagination land & they got there was by riding an airship with a guy singing a song that was an obvious parody of the dream finder & his song.
"South Park" is two words.
The Great movie ride was amazing. I loved it, even though it slow, because I liked fast stuff.
But the thing that killed this movie was the fact that they replaced the Live cast members dictating the ride, with a pre-recorded tape that would play instead. This came when TCM became a new sponsor. After listening to the new version of the ride, I never really liked the ride until it closed.
Speaking of Spaceship Earth needing a refurb, when my family rode the ride, the ride vehicle stopped moving in the dark star dome at the end, with the same audio repeating for 20 minutes. The rest of the ride was amazing, but it was not a super fond memory!
I was a tour guide on The Great Movie ride in the summer of 1990. I was 20 yrs old and on the College Program. It was so much fun and I am still sad it is not longer there. Many fond memories, including taking the vehicles around the track with the house lights on so you could see the hidden Mickeys, and R2 and C3P0. One day I got to help Bob Hope off the ride and did a tour for Jimmy Smits. Also, the Backstage Tour also included live sound stages. A few shows were being filmed there including the New Mickey Mouse Club.
Loved Maelstrom. Had six boys, way before frozen.
I promise I'm not passing any judgements with this comment, because I make these comments on lots of videos. I use the CC because I'm hard of hearing. Today's giggle is when you said about Frozen Ever After, "..rock trolls instead of tree trolls as well as several familiar faces like Elsa, Anna..." The CC read, "...tree trolls as well as several familiar **feces** like Elsa, Anna..."
I love Great Movie Ride. It was a long ride and you could enjoy AC on a hot day. I don't mind that they did something new, but I'm not a fan of the animation style for MMRR.
The ride was amazing and to replace it with something so half assed was beyond dumb. They need to revert back. Just like Splash Mountain
It grew on me. I’m fine with the animation style now.
You should do a video on all the great shows that closed. Cranium Command, The Circle of Life, The Timekeeper were all great shows.
Sad and will miss childhood ride Splash mountain
Splash Mountain is not closed. It's still open in WDW. Disney is lying.
Nice 👍, our recent visit during Christmas 2023 was memorable here
I will always feel grateful that I got to be on the final ride through of Ellen’s Energy Adventure
Lucky you, I liked the ride before they updated it wuth Ellen & Bill Nye.
This was such a cool video. So different from usual content
I’m glad I’m old enough to have
Visited most of these attractions because I went to MGM the year the backlot opened and I’ve been back to Disney many times.
I was an extra at backstage studio tour; I was an experimental teleporter ‘test subject’ that disappeared then reappeared later (looking like Hell warmed over) What fun that was! 😄
I would not recommend waiting for Rise until the end of the day. If the ride breaks down during the day Disney will close the standby queue to get all the lightning lanes through.
They don’t always. It depends on how long Rise of the Resistance is closed for. I either go late afternoon or get a lightning lane if available for this ride. It is my favorite ride in Hollywood Studios and it is unfortunate how often it breaks down. It has gotten better thankfully but not enough. I hope as the years go on for the ride that Disney figures out how to keep it from breaking down very often. I would prefer once in a while but even once a day with everything working on the ride would be better than right now.
18:16 Wait!!! Was that the part with an animatronic holding a square and saying “no” with his head, next to one holding a triangle and doing the same and a third one holding holding a round shape (an actual wheel?) and nodding? Ooohhh I miss SO much this ride!!! I loved this ride! I love Test Track too, can we have both, please? 😎
We had one day last week that we rope dropped mk. It was going to be 98 and we wanted to beat the heat. But literally 8 rides were broken down at rope drop, we didn't ride a single thing that morning and never did catch up. Spent our entire day rushing and roasting
Aww my kids loved dino land and especially that little playground with the fountains to cool off
I was 10 in 1987 when i went to journey into imagination. I fell in love with figment! Always thought that was an unerrated ride!
My daughter and I went to MNSSHP one year as the displaced Vikings of Maelstrom.
Wasn’t there like a movie thing or something at The Land before Soaring? I think I remember watching something and years later it was The Lion King and now it’s gone.
What about “honey I shrunk the audience” that was once in Epcot? I remember this experience when I went to Epcot in 2007. Then it closed down (but I’m not sure when).
Maelstrom was a must-ride for me. I miss it 😢
Primeval Whirl was always a very rough coaster. To the point that I had pain in my neck after I came off it the one and only time I rode it.
If you want to ride Primeval Whirl because "the wound is still fresh" (really?) then just go to Funspot in Kissimmee. They have the exact same model only it's yellow. It's a standard spinning wild mouse coaster that's in literally hundreds of theme parks around the world. That was the problem with it is that there was nothing special about it. It was an off the rack ride that every other park already had. Busch Gardens even had one until recently. It was never up to the standard of what a Disney park should have.
You know I would much rather have Expedition Everest be closed for however long it takes to properly fix the yeti and have the ride be what it’s supposed to be then have the disco yeti for the rest of the time the ride exists…
6:17 Maelstrom was opened in 1988. I know, because I was on it that year.
Universe of Energy was the best place to kick back from the heat and take a nap
Thank you for doing this video. I miss all if these rides old technology and everything. I would love Micky’s runaway railroad to go back to the old movie ride. I can still remember being scared of the Alien coming out of the ceiling, from the movie Aliens. And the backlot tour, it was so great seeing how movies were made, there is no appreciation of what went into making of me move now. And Last I was too one of the lucky ones to be picked to be an extra for the lagoon showing how water was used. Please Disney being back some movie magic.
WDW needs a new wild mouse coaster somewhere. I mean, their mascot is a literal mouse.
Oddly enough, my kids liked Body Wars and Food Rocks - it was a simpler time.
Aj have you ever done a video about the sink hole in EPCOT by the Odyssey building? I'm curious how they were able to stabilize the ground and make it into a water feature.
RIP Chester and Hester. You Legends will be missed
I was in the parks over the week of Thanksgiving the I only noticed the Yeti when I looked up at the right moment most people coming off were asking where it was 😬
I’d like for Disney to have a space for a museum/shows/iconic ride place. Extraterrestrial, backlot tours, great movie ride, 20,000 leagues, etc. Allows Disney to keep the main parks to better theme and still continuing on some of the originals. Maybe retro themed
YEAH! THX ALOT
Sum of all thrills was the BEEEST (that whole building rocked honestly!) and i will never be over Universee of Energy i loved that ride :')
Went to WDW with my 6 boys 1-2 times a year from 95-10. Can’t believe all these rides are gone.
I miss the Who Framed Roger Rabbit ride; it was the last ride I ever went on…
Mgm studios was all about movies so it has attractions related to the making of movies.
Epcot was about futuristic concepts and the world. So it had rides related to that theme.
But hollywood studios (mgm) now replaced those movie atrractions to more disneyish rides.
And epcot replaced their informative rides with more disneyish rides.
So, genuine question: does anyone know the new themes for Epcot and hollywood studios?
I LOVED the Great Movie Ride. It was really good. I was really miffed when they removed it. I was also a fan of the Backlot Tour, though by the time I got to do it, it had been cut to just one hour. It was still really awesome. I know Disney makes a lot more money off of IP, but I really preferred the original purpose of Hollywood Studios.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was one of my favorites. Disney isn't what it used to.
Horizons was my all time favorite 😢. Mission Space is so lame in comparison.
What about Cranium Command? That was one of the things Disney did best.
Truly the precursor to Inside Out!
Never forget Buzzy 🫡
One of my deepest regrets is not riding Primeval Whirl.
While I'm happy about Tiana the only thing I worry about is those animatronics as some of those have been around since America sings. Hope they're ok
It'd be cool if they projected the yeti just before you get to it make it look like it's going to grab you and have 3D glasses for it
We just went on the ride last month and whatever they did, it definitely looks and feels like the Yeti is reaching out to grab you. We went on twice, once during the day and once at night, and both times the Yeti looked like it was reaching out. Again, not sure what they did to make this happen but it was awesome.
I didn’t realize that The Great Movie Ride closed soon after my family and I visited. The same goes with Primeval Whirl.
I thought the GMR was boring. The Runaway ride is better for me
I can forgive a lot of things. The Great Movie Ride will never be forgiven for being taken away from me.
I need the background on Stitch has a Glitch and Monsters Inc Laugh Floor!
The Timekeeper never gets the respect it deserves.
A very great video
We’ve gotta get The Great Movie Ride back
Primeval Whirl had a very strange loading process that involved forced movement of metal parts. When it closed there was a rumor that a cast member had been killed by the loading mechanism. Of course I have no idea if this was true, but it wasn't hard to imagine how it could have happened.
The closure of Splash Mountain inspired me to purchase the "Song of the South" video. It was not for sale in the US, so I had to order it from some small company in Great Britain!
PS This is one of the best videos DFB has done! Great Job AJ!!
What about the sky ride?????????????
Never got to ride Alien Encounter😢. That’s one of the last rides I know of that wasn’t based off of a pre-existing IP. Plus I love horror.
Sad, really. I might've loved some of these attractions myself. Still, nothing lasts forever I suppose. You know what they say, you got to move with the times
Thank you for explaining why the "Great movie ride" had to close…because or licensing agreements..(it was the first time I’ve heard a decent explanation..But I just don’t know how you can call a park Hollywood without movie history…So please bring back the ride..
There were lots of rights and estate things Disney had to do. Ingrid Bergman’s character for example didn’t speak in the Casablanca scene because her family I think if not for state denied permission.
Petition to bring back old Hollywood studios
lol my sister got a concussion on primeval whirl
They should change test track to sugar rush from reck it Ralph
Never. Not everything has to be themed to a movie and Wreck it Ralph doesn't deserve any attraction. Some Disney IPs don't deserve any representation in the parks just like the 13 colonies had no representation in Parliament.
Dinosaur should have been moved to EPCOT
The Great Movie Ride and Splash Mountain were the 2 worst things Disney could have done to remove/change IMO
Journey Into Imagination should be brought back to its original format and design, esp with what they're able to do now
@dfbguide I hope you do a Disneyland version of this video.
Noooo my kids favorite place was Dinoland in Animal Kingdom!
Speaking of Horizons... Don't the opening notes of "Loki" mimick Horizon?
Miss the "Universe of Energy song"
For the next one: if you had wings and cranium command 😀
Anyone else watch knowing sadly you double never afford to go ever😢.. Disney is a sad un reality for my little family.. it’s way out of our price range. 😢😢😢. I’m not the only one sadly.. most people will never see Disney xj
I miss 20;000 Leagues Under the Sea and Spaceship Mars
If Primeval Whirl was jarring then I’m glad I never rode it nor do I miss it. Matterhorn is the same way. I don’t like rides that hurt my neck and back. They need to fix the Matterhorn track.