Name: 檔案-迪士尼5大失敗的遊樂設施和景點 (Archival- Top 5 Failed Disney Rides & Attractions)
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Since the inception of both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, the parks were built with

unique attractions all thanks to Walt Disney Imagineering.

The imagineers have designed dark rides, spinners, water rides, thrill rides; attractions for

Now there's many attractions that have been huge successes and have become Disney classics

such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain, It's a Small World, Haunted

Although Disney's Theme Parks are a magical place where everything seems perfect, not

every attraction Walt Disney Imagineering built has been perfect.

There are the few attractions built in the Disney Theme Park history that didn't meet

expectations once they were built and operating and some that were just complete flops.

So today, we're gonna be looking at the Top 5 failed Disney rides and attractions.

Number 5- The Flying Saucers 1961 marked the year when Disneyland opened

the Flying Saucers attraction in Tomorrowland.

It was located on the footprint where Space Mountain's queue and the Magic Eye Theatre

This ride gave guests a chance to float on air, control their own ride vehicle and possibly

engage in a futuristic version of bumper cars, or bumper saucers to be more exact.

The blue platform sat on a basement below the ground that blew air up through the holes

As you sat in the vehicle, you would lean your body to the left or right and this would

cause the saucer to move across the platform.

It was a pretty cool looking ride, and it definitely fit the futuristic look of Tomorrowland.

Although guests really grew to enjoy this attraction there were some downsides to it.

Little kids had some trouble if they didn't weight enough and were too light.

The saucer would just sit there in one spot bouncing up and down if they tried leaning

to either side, sometimes even knocking the rider out of the saucer.

And if you were a bit too big the saucer wouldn't move at all.

It was an operations nightmare back in the 60s that required upwards of 25 cast members

to start in the morning, as well as 15 to maintain the ride according to a past Disneyland

It was one of those rides that would constantly break down since the ride's technology wasn't

really perfected, not to mention that it didn't have a good rider capacity either.

Ride technicians did their best trying to keep it operational but they eventually gave

up. and in 1966 The Flying Saucers, along with many other attractions in the land, closed

to make way for a newly reimagined Tomorrowland that would open in 1967.

When Tomorrowland reopened guests weren't too thrilled that the flying saucers were

no longer at the park, and according to former imagineer Tony Baxter;

Even to this day you hear people taking about when you gonna bring back the flying saucers

Number 4- Luigi's Flying Tires As part of the 1.1 billion dollar renovation

and expansion plan for Disney California Adventure, Cars Land would open in 2012.

One attraction that was part of the new land was Luigi's Flying Tires which paid homage

to the old Flying Saucers attraction at Disneyland.

Imagineers took a crack at this concept once again.

This time instead of using single rider vehicles, imagineers designed a much larger vehicle

in the shape of giant tires that could fit up to 3 riders.

In the same fashion as the flying saucers, the ride vehicles were designed to have riders

lean to either side which would move the tire across the platform.

It looked cool, but Luigi's Flying Tires encountered problems even before it opened.

For starters, when Bob Iger, CEO of the Walt Disney company, tested the ride he was EXTREMELY

Iger immediately went to the imagineers and said it needed to go faster, but the imagineers

told him the ride vehicles were going as fast as they could.

So imagineer's went back to the drawing board and quickly came up with a plan.

Originally, the ride didn't have a soundtrack so they created 8 Italian style songs as well

as adding beachballs for guests to throw around, like what was seen in the Fying Saucer's

They also added an additional 45 seconds to the ride since it would take riders more time

to figure out how to make the tires move.

All this was done as an attempt to make the experience more livelier for the guests.

Only about 60 days after opening, Disney began receiving lawsuits regarding injuries from

impromptu games of beach ball dodge ball, so naturally they were removed.

They also never solved the problem of the ride vehicles moving too slow either, so there

would be many times when your tire would move at a snails pace or not even move at all.

On top of all this, people kept tripping as they were getting out of the ride vehicle

due to its bulky design, resulting in ongoing small injuries such as twisted ankles or scrapped

Disney's legal team saw this as a major lawsuit waiting to happen, so in February

of 2015, just 2 1/2 years after its opening and with very low guest satisfaction scores,

the ride closed to be reimagined into a trackless ride called Luigi's Rollickin Roadsters.

Number 3- Journey Into YOUR Imagination Now you might be saying, wait, Journey into

Imagination is still open at Epcot, and you're right, but we're talking about Journey into

So back in 1983, a little ride called Journey into Imagination opened in Future World at

The ride's two protagonist characters, The Dreamfinder and Figment, explored the power

of imagination in this one of a kind 12 minute omnimover dark ride, which also featured the

Sherman Brothers composed song “One Little Spark.”

The ride's characters became the ride; Epcot fans adored theses characters.

In October of 1998, Journey Into Imagination 1.0 closed to make way for what was to be

a substantial improvement to the original ride, but this was far from reality.

Journey into YOUR imagination opened in October of 1999 and was lacklustre to say the least

since the budget for the ride was severely cut.

The ride's new incarnation took riders in the Imagination Institute, where you'd be

testing out the Institute's new Imagination Scanner, capable of telling you just how creative

After traveling through a series of different experiments that test your imagination, at

the very end you'd learn you're a creative genius!

The new ride was VERY different from the 1.0 version.

Although it removed the problematic turntable issue the original faced, it also removed

about 40% of the original ride track length taking the ride from 12 minutes to approximately

Everything from the original ride was gone including the use of the Figment and Dreamfinder

characters and animatronics as well as the beloved “One Little Spark” song.

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