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Lost Disney Rides Recreated in CGI

Posted by timothy on from the please-add-space-mountain dept.

Dan Howland writes "Disney closes the rides, but the CGI geeks love them too much to let them disappear. 'Adventures thru Inner Space,' the Disneyland ride in which you shrunk down to the size of a molecule, ran from 1967 to 1985. Atommobiles.com is a fan site which includes this elaborate CGI recreation. The Walt Disney World version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closed in 1967. Virtual Toad is in the process of re-building it." I was born after 1967, and I've ridden MTWR many times, so perhaps they're talking about an older version.

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  1. I wouldn't be surprised.... by Garinwirth · · Score: 5, Funny

    if they got cease and desist letters for "infringing Disney's property."

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  2. This is the end! by OrthodonticJake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon all Disney rides will be in CG and you'll see advertisements on TV with kids begging their parents to 'log on to Disneyland'. The only problem is that people will not be surrounded with merchandise.

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    1. Re:This is the end! by dswensen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, if they're running IE, they'll have plenty of popups hawking merchandise... Nearly the same thing.

  3. MTWR by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was born after 1967, and I've ridden MTWR many times

    I went on Mr Toads Wild Ride back in 1993, at the young age of 9, and after that I vowed to never experiment with LSD or other hallucenogenic substances.

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  4. disney funny stories by witts · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember reading a book about Disneyland, and the favorite joke about the Inner Space ride was this: The disney employees could always spot the horny teenagers hoping for a nice long, dark ride. When asked how long the ride was, they'd intentionally give the teenagers a made-up answer like "Nearly an hour." Then they'd wait for the teenagers to suddenly emerge from the ride and struggle to put all their clothes back on, in full view of the waiting patrons... Good times!

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  5. Weird... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just the other day I bumped into the Inner Space guy and chatted to him about this very project. It's a small world after all.

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  6. Re:Trapped in the golf ball by Montag2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Similar story: I got stuck in "Pirates of the Caribbean" in Disneyworld for almost an hour. I will die a happy man if I never have to hear "Yo ho ho its a pirate's life for me!" another time.

  7. CGI? by Seth+Morabito · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on, these days you should implement things as Java web services, or maybe a simple LAMP solution using MySQL and Perl, Python, or PHP. CGI is just so mid-90s!

    Oh, wait, you mean Computer Graphics? Not the Common Gateway Interface? My mistake.

    Seriously, every time I see CGI I have this moment of confusion when I try to map the subject into my little web development world. Too much time writing code I guess.

  8. They shut down Captain Eo? by georgeha · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a young boy, I found that ride with Michael Jackson very touching.

  9. Real vs Virtual Rides by Latent+Heat · · Score: 4, Funny
    It would be too bad if every ride went virtual reality. My favorite Disneyland experience was not on a ride but watching a ride. In Frontierland they had this kind of log flume ride. It was a water course, and the patrons rode in these "cutout logs." While the water kind of flushed the ride logs along just like with real lumber rafts, and I guess a chain hooked the logs to take them up high so the logs could cascade down a flume as a kind of thrill part of the ride, the patrons actually had paddles and provided some of the motive power of the ride, and there was a Disneyland employee guide sitting in the back working a rudder.

    Anyway, one of the logs had an entire crew of young men, who looked quite muscular under their t-shirts, and they had military-style haircuts (I don't know enough military to tell Marine from SEAL from other units, but these guys looked quite trained well beyond Basic and they had some kind of military haircut). Anyway, these guys took the paddles and got a rhythm going, and not only did they get their log throwing a wake, the Disneyland "guide" was in the back with this expression of sheer terror and hanging on to the rudder for dear life. That alone was worth the price of the park admission.