| Many classic older attractions at Disney World | | | | attractions. The ride offered a humorous look at |
| have fallen by the wayside over the years as | | | | the history of transportation and closed in 1996 to |
| Disney replaces them with newer (and | | | | make way for Test Track. |
| occasionally better) ones such as Expedition | | | | Who Wants to be a Millionaire – Play It! Based |
| Everest at Disney’s Animal Kingdom; Lights, | | | | on the hit ABC TV show, this Disney-MGM |
| Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show at | | | | Studios attraction closed in 2006 along Mickey |
| Disney-MGM Studios; The Seas with Nemo & | | | | Avenue. A new, yet-unnamed attraction is |
| Friends at Epcot; and Stitch’s Great Escape at | | | | scheduled to occupy the soundstage in the near |
| Disney’s Magic Kingdom. Here’s a brief list | | | | future. |
| of some “long gone” but not forgotten | | | | Plaza Swan Boats. Opened in 1973, the D-ticket |
| Disney World attractions: | | | | Plaza Swan Boats embarked from two Magic |
| Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Despite an extensive | | | | Kingdom loading docks: one near the entrance to |
| “Save the Toad” campaign, Disney’s | | | | Tomorrowland and the other near the Plaza |
| Magic Kingdom replaced Mr. Toad with The Many | | | | Restaurant. The Plaza Swan Boats stopped |
| Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1998. | | | | running in 1983. |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. One of the original | | | | Mickey Mouse Revue. One of the Magic |
| attractions at Disney’s Magic Kingdom, 20,000 | | | | Kingdom’s original attractions, Mickey Mouse |
| Leagues closed in 1994 and has been partially | | | | Revue opened in Fantasyland in 1971 and featured |
| replaced by a Winnie the Pooh playground and | | | | an audio-animatronic orchestra of popular Disney |
| Disney character meet & greet area. | | | | characters singing such classics as “When You |
| If You Had Wings. Sponsored by Eastern Airlines, | | | | Wish Upon a Star” and |
| If You Had Wings was one of the few rides at | | | | “Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee.” The Mickey Mouse |
| Disney’s Magic Kingdom that rarely drew a | | | | Revue closed in 1980 and was shipped to Tokyo |
| line. It was replaced by If You Could Fly in 1987 | | | | Disneyland. Mickey’s PhilharMagic now occupies |
| and now Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin | | | | the site. |
| stands on the site. | | | | Flight to the Moon. Hosted by Mr. Tom Morrow, |
| Captain EO. A big-budget 3-D movie directed by | | | | this “state-of-the-art” Tomorrowland |
| Francis Ford Coppola, Captain EO starred Michael | | | | attraction opened on Christmas Eve, 1971 and |
| Jackson and Anjelica Huston. It closed down in | | | | became hopelessly outdated by 1975 when it was |
| 1994 and Honey, I Shrunk the Audience now | | | | replaced by Mission to Mars. Stitch’s Great |
| stands on the site in Epcot’s Future World. | | | | Escape now occupies the site. |
| ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. This thrilling | | | | HONORABLE MENTION: Horizons. This Epcot ride |
| attraction opened at the site of the former | | | | made its debut in 1983 and closed in 1999 to |
| Mission to Mars in Tomorrowland in 1995. | | | | make way for Mission: SPACE. It has developed |
| ExtraTERRORestrial gained a cult following but has | | | | somewhat of a cult following over the years, |
| since been replaced by Stitch’s Great Escape. | | | | although I remember it as a mediocre Future |
| World of Motion. Sponsored by General Motors, | | | | World attraction that dated very quickly. |
| World of Motion was one of Epcot’s original | | | | |