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since the very beginning disney has
always looked for ways to stay relevant
with modern audiences as the canon of
disney films keep on growing a lot of
the beloved characters from these
stories are incorporated into the theme
parks sometimes as brand new additions
or by overlaying an old favorite over
the decades incorporating disney ips
into old rides have been huge hits and
some have been considered massive
failures so let's dive into the defunct
history of some disney classics at
disneyland and walt disney world as we
count down the top 5 failed and
successful disney ride overlays
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number five
back in 1959
disneyland debuted the submarine voyage
as part of an extensive expansion of
tomorrowland the submarine voyage was a
headliner e-ticket attraction and
everyone who visited disneyland wanted
to experience the subs it took you down
to the ocean floor as you got the chance
to see aquatic animatronic creatures
shipwrecks ancient ruins and the famous
sea serpent all while in a theme park
well as the years went on disneyland
began to neglect the ride in terms of
maintenance the lagoon had major cracks
and it started to cost a lot to operate
the attraction's popularity was
dwindling and this was during the
unfortunate cost-cutting period at
disneyland so in a statement to the
press in 1998 former disneyland
president paul pressler said the
submarine voyage has served disneyland
and our guests proudly for nearly 40
years but we know it isn't relevant
today as it once was
the attraction officially closed on
september 7th 1998 and instead of
demolishing the area imagineer tony
baxter convinced pressler to keep it
intact so he could find a way to
repurpose the attraction
as the lagoon sat empty imagineers
brainstormed ways to retheme the subs
they began to look at the upcoming
animated feature film atlantis the lost
empire it was said imagineers went as
far as doing tests in the subs but when
atlantis debuted in 2001 it wasn't the
smash hit disney was hoping for
imagineer scrapped the idea and it was
back to the drawing board it wasn't
until 2003 when a little film called
finding nemo opened to staggering box
office numbers tony baxter knew this was
it finding nemo would be the saving
grace of the submarine voyage in 2005
disney officially announced they would
become the finding nemo submarine voyage
and they went right to work on the
transformation this included replacing
all the rocks and coral in the outdoor
lagoon as well as removing the diesel
engines from the subs and replacing them
with electric ones imagineers did reuse
as much as possible in the interior of
the dark ride portion but also
constructed brand new scenic elements
this allowed imagineers to use
projection technology to place the
animated finding nemo characters in the
water this ip translated perfectly into
the submarine voyage and when the
attraction officially opened on june 11
2007 it was a hit finding nemo gave
imagineers a chance to bring walt's
precious subs back to life in a way to
stay relevant with modern audiences
we've enjoyed having you aboard on this
adventurous voyage thanks for joining us
and have a top day
number four
the enchanted tiki room opened at
disneyland in 1963 and it marked the
debut of audio animatronics in the theme
park audiences at the time had never
seen anything like this and they adored
this polynesian musical adventure
well when it came time to build walt
disney world's magic kingdom some of the
most popular attractions from california
were built in florida and this included
the tiki room disney decided to call the
magic kingdom attraction the tropical
serenade and although the name was
different it was pretty much a carbon
copy of the enchanted tiki room at
disneyland i mean why mess with a
classic that's already popular with
guests right well now let's fast forward
to 1997. disney animation in the 90s was
met with what we now know as the disney
renaissance era and with that many of
the popular 90s ips were incorporated
into the theme parks with this synergy
in mind disney decided to close the
tropical serenade in september of 1997
to transform it into the enchanted tiki
room under new management the
transformation took seven months and
when the attraction reopened in april of
1998 it now starred zazu and iango in
addition to the original birds this
change was done in an effort to make the
attraction more relevant with 90s
audiences and since the lion king and
aladdin were such big hits incorporating
these ips into the tiki room would mean
a guaranteed success right well not
exactly many guests were not too happy
with a strange adaptation of this disney
classic some saying disney ruined the
attraction the tiki room lost the
timeless charm and tranquility and it
was traded in for 10 minutes of mayhem
featuring iago squawking obviously you
guys don't know who we are don't you
guys have a blind in the movie it
featured odd covers of pop songs
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as well as a parody of friend like me
from aladdin
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oh my gosh it was just a very disjointed
effort of merging the old with new yeah
for one day now the story and execution
may have been a mess but the highlights
were definitely the new animatronics
this included the tiki goddess
who was awoken by iago insulting the
tiki gods but impressive animatronics
can only take an attraction so far well
on january 12th 2011 iago was squawking
like he normally does when a fire broke
out at the tiki room around 5 30 pm it
was a small fire that's said to have
started in the attic of the attraction
and was thankfully stopped by the
building's fire sprinklers
immediately after the incident the
attraction closed and there was no word
on reopening after the fire the
attraction had some water damage from
the sprinklers which included damage to
the first iago animatronic the
attraction was closed for months when
disney finally announced in august of
2011 that it would be reopening as walt
disney's enchanted tiki room iago and
zazu got the boot as disney restored the
attraction back to its original glory
with some slight modifications made to
adjust for time if it wasn't for that
little fire in 2011 then maybe we'd
still have the tiki room under new
management today why i'm tired i think
i'll head over to the hall of fame to
take a nap thankfully this classic
disney attraction was saved and
continues to spread the disney magic
walton visioned every single day
number three
when disney's animal kingdom opened in
april of 1998 dinosaur was an opening
day attraction but it was originally
called countdown to extinction with dark
rides being a disney staple countdown to
extinction was the only dark ride at the
park on opening day but it wasn't really
marketed as a family friendly experience
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i mean that's a pretty intense and
terrifying adventure not the
family-friendly tone you'd expect for a
disney dark ride but there's sort of a
reason for that see when animal kingdom
was being built it was severely over
budget so former ceo michael eisner
needed imagineers to cut costs one of
the ways to cut down costs was to use an
existing ride system this turned out to
be the enhanced motion ride vehicle
system from indiana jones adventure at
disneyland and they also reused the
track layout that's right both rides
share the exact same track layout while
the ride was in development the film
dinosaur was already in production so
when designing characters for the ride
disney knew this was the perfect
opportunity to incorporate the dinosaur
species from the film mainly the
iguanodon and the carnotaurus they even
incorporated aledar the iguanodon into
the now defunct discovery riverboat
attraction as the film made its way
further into production the pre-show
originally showed this when referring to
the iguanodon but then was replaced
shortly after opening to an animated
clip with aledar from the film the ride
continued to terrify guests as countdown
to extinction until may 1st 2000 when
disney changed the name of the
attraction to dinosaur
dinosaur
write it
the name change happened two weeks
before the film premiered and it was the
synergy michael eisner and imagineers
envisioned gone was the cerakosaurus now
replaced by aledar the iguanodon but
when it came down to the physical ride
there weren't too many changes dinosaur
was a family film so disney figured more
children would want to ride dinosaur
imagineers toned down the motion of the
ride vehicle and changed audio and
lighting effects in an effort to make it
less terrifying but the story remained
the same you set off to rescue the
iguanodon only to be chased by the
carnotaurus even though the ride today
is a toned down version of the original
it's still pretty terrifying especially
for the little ones if you look at the
ride vehicles today you'll see they say
ctx rover and the ctx is a leftover
relic that refers to countdown to
extinction a lot of people forget the
film dinosaur is linked to the ride
since the film did not end up a classic
like other disney films either way
dinosaur is still one of the must-do
thrill rides at walt disney world
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number two
the loss of the attractions to debut
during magic kingdom's 1994
refurbishment of tomorrowland was
extraterrestrial alien encounter the
attraction soft opened on december 16th
1994. then closed just less than a month
later since former ceo michael eisner
thought it was too tame
imagineers reworked the ride then it
officially opened on june 20th 1995.
welcome weary travelers to the great big
universe of xs it was a joint venture
between disney and george lucas but it
was unlike any other attraction at magic
kingdom what something's wrong an alien
being has been intercepted oh no he's
escaping
alien encounter the attraction was
intense dark and took thrill at walt
disney world to a whole new level
as you entered into xs tech you were
greeted by an xs robot known as sir who
demonstrated the company's teleportation
technology using skippy the alien once
you are in the main chamber a terrifying
alien appears in the teleportation tube
but then somehow escapes the power goes
out and while you're sitting in complete
darkness the alien starts terrorizing
everyone in the chamber you can hear the
alien shriek feel it move around the
room as the seats rumble and shake and
could even feel the alien's breath on
your neck
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alien encounter was so intense there was
even this warning at the front of the
attraction but that didn't stop guests
from complaining since alien encounter
was in the magic kingdom many guests
ignored the warning thinking that it
couldn't possibly be that scary it would
have been a much better fit in disney
mgm studios at the time and i bet the
attraction would still be around today
if that was the case well after only
eight years of operation alien encounter
proved to be too terrifying and it
closed for good on october 11 2003 since
the 2002 film lilo and stitch was such a
hit disney announced that a new alien
would be taking over the attraction
stitch's great escape opened on november
16 2004 and reused many of the same
mechanics and infrastructure from alien
encounter including the animatronics in
the pre-show as well as the theaters and
teleportation tubes you can see this
already looks much more family-friendly
than alien encounter now like alien
encounter the pre-show demonstrates the
teleportation tubes then there's an
alert that there's a level 3 prisoner
which turns out to be stitch once inside
the chamber stitch escapes and again you
found yourself in complete darkness only
this time there is a lot more comedy
added
this was definitely the family friendly
version of alien encounter which now fit
the overall mood of magic kingdom much
better but fans of alien encounter were
disappointed with the change when
comparing stitch's great escape to alien
encounter this was a massive downgrade
but one thing many people can agree on
is that imagineers did a fantastic job
with the stitch animatronic it was one
of the most complex figures at the time
that moved with such fluidity and ease
well on january 6 2018 stitch's great
escape closed and became a seasonal
attraction that never opened again it
was a stitch character meet and greet
for a couple years but in 2020 disney
officially announced that stitch's great
escape is closed for good now both
attractions go down as defunct pieces of
walt disney world history
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number one
when disney california adventure opened
in february of 2001 california screaming
was an opening day attraction that could
be found in paradise pier
today we know this area as pixar pier
but over the last two decades the land
theme to a seaside amusement park has
seen many changes from 2007 until 2011
paradise pier went through a remodeling
to make the area more disney but one of
the only rides that remained untouched
was the headliner attraction california
screamin the roller coaster is the
backdrop of the pier and at the time
when it was built it was the second
longest steel roller coaster in north
america california screaming quickly
became one of the most popular thrill
rides at disneyland i mean who can
resist the 55 mile per hour launch and
that vertical loop now disney rides are
usually all about the story but
california screaming was pretty much
just your standard exposed coaster that
played a soundtrack but it always
guaranteed a great time well just six
years after the previous revamp it was
announced in 2017 that paradise pier
would become pixar pier and california
screaming would be transformed into the
incredi coaster
sure
corporations call it synergy the
incredicoaster opened on june 23 2018
and even though the physical coaster
tracks stayed the same the ride was plus
adding a fun storyline as well as brand
new story elements
as you embark on your chase to find jack
jack who's escaped disney built brand
new enclosed scream tubes along the
track added new scenes at the beginning
and end of the ride as well as an
incredible no pun intended soundtrack
honestly the soundtrack is what makes
the incredi coaster feel like you're on
a high speed adventure with a purpose
not to mention you get to smell the
sweet sweet scent of chocolate chip
cookies now could things have been done
differently to make the attraction even
better i mean sure they could have come
up with a better solution for jack jack
on a stick and the characters in the
scream tubes could have been
animatronics but overall the
incredicoaster is still that much better
than california screaming incorporating
ip took this typical amusement park
coaster and turned it into a throw ride
with the disney difference so what's
your favorite disney ride overlay from
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