Lost Disney Rides Recreated in CGI

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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Reminds me of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

[scrod]

If they can do a good enough job recreating the rides, their Whuffie's going through the roof!

Sad

[dswensen]

Sadly, I'm so out of touch -- it's been so long since I've been to Disneyland, I never realized they shut this ride down (Inner Space). This and Space Mountain were my absolute favorite rides as a kid.

I'm sad to find out (very belatedly) that it's gone, but happy to see that someone is doing something to preserve it. Even looking at those images of the huge ice flakes brings back a lot of very old memories.

Monsanto welcomes you...

[gooman]

to the best "make-out" ride ever.

At least to this hormone driven teen in the late seventies (before the geek gene fully asserted itself). Ahhh memories.

Trapped in the golf ball

[MillionthMonkey]

I went to Disneyworld 20 years ago and was inside the big golf ball- Epcot's "Spaceship Earth"- when there was a mechanical failure of some sort and the cars stopped moving. They sent someone to run down the track and tell everyone to stay in their seats. We were stuck there for almost an hour. When it happened we were passing by the Renaissance scene. There was an animatronic setup where a bunch of Renaissance Italians were gathered on some steps, and one of them was teaching the others from a book. The other was nodding like if he was listening- nod, nod, shift down, nod, nod, shift up, repeat. If you see less than one cycle of that, it looks convincing, but after a few hundred cycles it starts to look fake, like the guy isn't really listening or learning anything.

I felt bad for the people a bunch of cars behind us. They were trapped in the Dark Ages. But the real victims must have been whoever was passing by the animatronics of the 19th century telegraphist- with the telegraph rattling up and down and the guy spelling out letters of nonsense. They must have lost their minds.

Re:Trapped in the golf ball

[NormalVisual]

I'm a part-time monorail driver at WDW, and I think I found the worst place to get stuck this past summer. I was driving from the TTC to Epcot with a fairly full train during a pretty intense storm, and as I was passing the MK toll plaza we got word that a tornado warning had been issued. Nice, as I can't see more than 100 feet in front of me because of the rain. The fun started when I got about a third of the way around the Epcot teardrop and the entire system lost power for about 25 minutes. Not fun, as I had no idea where the reported tornado was. Turns out it was several miles south of me, but I still would not care to do that again. During the time we were stuck, there was also a direct lightning strike on the Innoventions East building about 100 feet away, which I'm sure freaked out a lot of people on the train.

Defunct Attractions

[LunarFox]

This reminds me of a website called Virtual Midway, which features some defunct attractions at Cedar Point. No fancy CGI but still fascinating (to me, at least).

Re:The trouble with this...

[Saeger]

without the key component (that feeling in your stomach)

That feeling is actually in your inner ear, and it can be simulated by stimulating it with lowlevel electrical shocks. I remember a couple companies were working on bringing this kind of device to the mass market, but it never materialized, probably for legal reasons.

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