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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. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Closed in 1998 by CapS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closed on September 7, 1998, according to the Save Mr. Toad's Wild Ride site. It was a fantastic ride; too bad Disney closed it. :(

    1. Re:Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Closed in 1998 by Thomas+M+Hughes · · Score: 5, Informative

      Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is still open and running in Disney Land. They only closed the Walt Disney World version in 1998.

    2. Re:Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Closed in 1998 by NormalVisual · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually, WDW opened in October of 1971, but your point still stands - the article is wrong, as The Ride closed in 1998.

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    3. Re:Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Closed in 1998 by Danny's_Land · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, I wrote the original post, and i screwed up -- closed in 1998. I got copy-and-paste happy.

  2. CGI decapitations too? by Saeger · · Score: 5, Informative
    Everybody knows the real reason why many of these happy-happy-joy-joy rides get shut down: They're too dangerous! :)

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    1. Re:CGI decapitations too? by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, those rides aren't too dangerous, it's that people are too stupid. Maybe you should think about that nexttime before you decide to go walk the monorail track.

  3. disney nostalgia freaks, there's a place for you.. by witts · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you love memories of disney rides long gone, check out http://www.yesterland.com/yester.html
    absolutely great website if you wondered whatever happened to your favorite ride!

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  4. I wouldn't be surprised....Daycare bullies. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Considering they sent cease and desist letters to a daycare. I wouldn't be surprised at all.

  5. Soon no more MTWR at DLR by AgtAlpha · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not only is Mr. Toad's Wild Ride no longer at Disneyworld, but it's slated to be taken out from Disneyland, too. Sucks, because that's one of my fav rides there!

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  6. Two great sites for Disney Weenies by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am one of the biggest Disney weenies in the world. I've had an AP since I was 15, and I long for a return to the old days of Disneyland. I would love to see a full-on 3D recreation of Disneyland in various eras, that could be "walked thru."

    Two sites that I frequent are Yesterland.com, which features pictures, descriptions and memories of the almost every "retired" Disneyland attraction, and MiceAge.com, which features backstage "exposes" about Disneyland and the people who run it.

    1. Re:Two great sites for Disney Weenies by NormalVisual · · Score: 2, Informative

      I am one of the biggest Disney weenies in the world. I've had an AP since I was 15, and I long for a return to the old days of Disneyland.

      For those that are not big Disney weenies like CleverNickName and myself, "AP" refers to "annual pass". :-)

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  7. Read the website before posting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Next time read the website before posting. The Mr. Toad ride wasn't even built in 1967, Walt Disney World wasn't even open until 1971. And they finally removed the ride in 1998. Despite the protest of people who wanted to keep it.

  8. Time warp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    The Walt Disney World version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closed in 1967.

    That's cool! Walt Disney World didn't even open until about 1971 or 1972

  9. Re:Sad by nytes · · Score: 4, Informative
    What amazed me is there is nothing on the Thousand Leagues under the Sea ride which i was on when i was 7 but when I went back in 1998 was closed due to it no being able to be made handicap accesable, which pissed me off to no end cause it was one of my favorites along with Mr. Toads
    Actually, dig around a little and you'll find that neither sub ride (both Disney World and Disneyland's sub rides are now closed) were close due to ADA requirements. ADA only would apply to new construction.

    It's pretty common knowledge among the fan community (of which I admit that I am one) that they were closed simply due to save on the maintenance costs. It's further believed that Disney World's sub ride was closed because the staff conned Disney prez Ovitz (about halfway down the article).
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  10. Typo by Danny's_Land · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry, meant to say that MTWR closed at WDW in 1998. See www.savetoad.com for more info than you need.

  11. "Wow, That Was My Favorite Ride" says ride fan! by Basehart · · Score: 2, Informative

    I asked my wife if she'd heard of this ride, seeing as she was raised in Southern California before her family moved to Seattle in the early 80's. "Wow, That My Favorite Ride" she said, and told me all about the sights and sounds.

    It was kind of disappointing to not be able to access the .avi files, seeing as we have a Mac, but the .mpg's ran great and really blew her away how realistic it all looked.

    She mentioned a big eyeball that would peer down at you after the "miniaturization" process, which was maybe included in the .avi we got to hear but not see, and also how the cars would go to the left after entering the miniaturizer, as opposed to going straight and actually turning into those little timy cars in the injector device.

    Also, the cars would jiggle about as they moved along the track, which would be a nice touch instead of the clinically clean super smooth tracking that the default CGI outputs.

    Can't wait to see more, and replace the .avi's with .mpg's please. It's yet another closed msft standard.

  12. Ride Chairs are now in the Haunted House! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Those ride chairs are now in the haunted house, they painted the backs black, but they are the same track the same pull doen bar and behind you speakers and everything, so the ride still lives as a ghost ride!
    That's california disneyland, don't know about florida

  13. Re:Real vs Virtual Rides by crucini · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you're merging together two different rides. Splash mountain is a flume ride, with conveyor lifts and tall drops. There is no guest or cast member power. There is also a canoe ride in the Rivers of America, which works as you described, minus the flume and elevation change. The biggest drop in Splash Mountain has a runout adjacent to the Rivers of America, so I can see how the two would blur together.