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What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by jacobcary1 » May Mon 09, 2011 8:13 pm

Mine would have to be Delta's Dreamflight. It was a short lived attraction at WDW yet always a good one.

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by cousininmiami » May Mon 09, 2011 8:34 pm

HORIZON'S.......I still miss it every time I go to WDW :cry:
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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by jacobcary1 » May Mon 09, 2011 8:41 pm

cousininmiami wrote:HORIZON'S.......I still miss it every time I go to WDW :cry:

I love Horizons. It just wasn't getting visited enough to keep it open. It's a shame. But will always be in my heart as something great.THE ORIGINAL ORANGE SMELL.

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by Amy » May Tue 10, 2011 6:11 am

Horizons was great, but I also miss Cranium Command and Food Rocks and Kitchen Kabaret :(

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by mindflipper » May Tue 10, 2011 9:56 am

I miss If You Had Wings, Cranium Command, and the original Journey Into Imagination.

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by theBIGyowski » May Tue 10, 2011 11:02 am

I want to say Horizons...but I know I appreciate it much more now than I did back then.

Can I say the entire Wonders of Life pavilion? It had a lot of stuff in it that all went away and wasn't replaced by anything. I wish that pavilion was still open.
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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by Mr.ToadWildRider » May Tue 10, 2011 11:16 am

jacobcary1 wrote:Mine would have to be Delta's Dreamflight. It was a short lived attraction at WDW yet always a good one.
I absolutely adored Dreamflight. I was probably like 9 and too afraid to go on Space Mountain so my whole family would go and wait in the line and I would literally re-ride Dreamflight like 20x in a row to wait for them. We're gonna take you flyin' on the air ways we're relying, non-stop fantasy! I used to always look so hard to catch some miniscule detail I'd never noticed before when passing Paris and Tokyo. It was one of those simple rides that there was never a line for but had a catchy tune and I found interesting and relaxing even as a kid and loved. That and the original Rio Del Tiempo. I'd re-ride the heck out of that one too. I think it's funny how much of Dreamflight they've either re-used or re-tooled for Buzz though. The whole ride layout and the rooms are all the exact same I think. They even still have the jet engine smoky/strobe effect in Buzz (which I always found slightly disturbing as a kid w/ Dreamflight- it looked like you were driving straight into a spinning jet engine...).

I also really miss Mr. Toad as you may be able to tell by my name. I had just started to like 20k Under the Sea when they removed it. And I really miss virtually all of Future World as it existed in like 1992 with the old JII, World of Motion (which was my fave as a kid only slightly ahead of JII), Horizons, Wonders of Life, and old school Land Pavilion with the balloons/fountain, Kitchen Kabaret/Food Rocks, and the Living With the Land/Listen to the Land boat with live narration and older music,

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by MmeLeota » May Tue 10, 2011 11:44 am

Mr.ToadWildRider wrote:And I really miss virtually all of Future World as it existed in like 1992 with the old JII, World of Motion (which was my fave as a kid only slightly ahead of JII), Horizons, Wonders of Life, and old school Land Pavilion with the balloons/fountain, Kitchen Kabaret/Food Rocks, and the Living With the Land/Listen to the Land boat with live narration and older music,
SInce this thread is dedicated to WDW, I would have to completely agree with Mr.Toad on this one. 1992 was the first time I ever experienced EPCOT and it's never been the same since. :( I miss all of those listed (except KK...I never got to see it)...however, JII was my fave!!! I miss that one the most! :figment:
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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by Amy » May Tue 10, 2011 1:01 pm

Mr.ToadWildRider wrote:
jacobcary1 wrote:Mine would have to be Delta's Dreamflight. It was a short lived attraction at WDW yet always a good one.
I absolutely adored Dreamflight. I was probably like 9 and too afraid to go on Space Mountain so my whole family would go and wait in the line and I would literally re-ride Dreamflight like 20x in a row to wait for them. We're gonna take you flyin' on the air ways we're relying, non-stop fantasy! I used to always look so hard to catch some miniscule detail I'd never noticed before when passing Paris and Tokyo. It was one of those simple rides that there was never a line for but had a catchy tune and I found interesting and relaxing even as a kid and loved. That and the original Rio Del Tiempo. I'd re-ride the heck out of that one too. I think it's funny how much of Dreamflight they've either re-used or re-tooled for Buzz though. The whole ride layout and the rooms are all the exact same I think. They even still have the jet engine smoky/strobe effect in Buzz (which I always found slightly disturbing as a kid w/ Dreamflight- it looked like you were driving straight into a spinning jet engine...)...
My Mom would ride Dreamflight when I was on Space Mountain too! And then when Buzz moved in...look out! She loves Buzz :D

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by MadEye » May Tue 10, 2011 2:01 pm

ExtraTerrorestrial Alien Encounter.
We are all a little weird
And life's a little weird,
And when we find someone whose
Weirdness is compatible with ours,
We join up with them and fall in
Mutual weirdness and call it Love.”
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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by mindflipper » May Tue 10, 2011 2:20 pm

MadEye wrote:ExtraTerrorestrial Alien Encounter.
I loved the preshow more than I did the main ride/show itself. Tim Curry as the voice of S.I.R. was fantastic. Still one of my favorite lines (and I have used it many times at work, "No, you may not get out. You're our...lucky volunteer!"

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by theBIGyowski » May Tue 10, 2011 2:25 pm

mindflipper wrote:
MadEye wrote:ExtraTerrorestrial Alien Encounter.
I loved the preshow more than I did the main ride/show itself. Tim Curry as the voice of S.I.R. was fantastic. Still one of my favorite lines (and I have used it many times at work, "No, you may not get out. You're our...lucky volunteer!"
and Tyra Banks too!
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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by MadEye » May Tue 10, 2011 3:41 pm

theBIGyowski wrote:
mindflipper wrote:
MadEye wrote:ExtraTerrorestrial Alien Encounter.
I loved the preshow more than I did the main ride/show itself. Tim Curry as the voice of S.I.R. was fantastic. Still one of my favorite lines (and I have used it many times at work, "No, you may not get out. You're our...lucky volunteer!"
and Tyra Banks too!
The entire cast was great in the attraction! If it wasn't for them, I don't think AE would have been as good as it was.
We are all a little weird
And life's a little weird,
And when we find someone whose
Weirdness is compatible with ours,
We join up with them and fall in
Mutual weirdness and call it Love.”
― Dr. Seuss

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by Sleepy90 » May Tue 10, 2011 4:08 pm

Timekeeper.

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Re: What is your favorite retired ride?

Post by dichuy » May Tue 10, 2011 6:22 pm

If You Had Wings, without a doubt.
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