Cancelled - Disney World's Never Built Hotels
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Published 2023-06-16
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida has over 25 hotel resorts on property. Many of which stand as some of the greatest themed, hotel architecture in the world. But throughout the resorts 50 year long history, there have been a few notable hotels that never got the chance to see the light of day. Today, I want to shine some light on those propeties from the original Asian, Venetian and Persian resorts, to the lesser known stories behind Disney's Mediterranean, Venezia and Hollywood Hotels. All of which, were ultimatly Cancelled.
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All Comments (21)
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An anonymous viewer sent in a really interesting site plan for the eventually constructed, Boardwalk Hotel. Though, in this 1993 master plan, a curious dotted line depicts an intended monorail beam. It's something i've never seen before, and I posted it over on Twitter. Give me a follow while you're there to get updates on stuff like this! twitter.com/BrightSunFilms/status/1671234101217488…
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I’m glad you pointed out the horrible trend of Disney’s hotel “updates” removing theming.
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I hope to get to a point where I can throw out entire hotels like those socks I never liked 😂
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That white Mediterranean resort was STUNNING and so ahead of it’s time! I’m so sad it doesn’t exist
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I actually work for the architecture firm that designed the Dolphin hotel. Its weird seeing how many other architects designs were left by the wayside while Michale Graves got his over the finish line.
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Very interesting to see how many of the cancelled concepts such as the Mediterranean, Venice one, and Asian resort in comparison to today's more modern and bland hotels had a holistic theme to the whole building, and not just a regular design with some disney characters placed around as the theme. As said in the video, it just goes to show how before the 90's Disney had the architecture and experience in mind instead of Disney+ and other commercial expansions
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Disney has slowly lost its immense integration of theming over the years in various projects and it's really sad. I get it's a money problem, but just not as much magic going into projects as they used to.
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but the few places on Disney property that DON'T have IPs awkwardly shoved in, are the most magical. Iger NEEDS to go and they need someone in place who understands and respects the company history, legacy, and philosophies Walt and Roy had.
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I think the star wars hotel is a great example of giving the fans something they want, then pricing them out of it. I loved the concept and wanted to go, but when i started planning a disney trip i found it was way too expensive. if you want to cater to a niche fan group you have to make it so they can participate, pricing it at the same level as the top tier resorts makes no sense, and people will just choose to go there instead
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The Mediterranean Hotel was a beautiful design that would have given a lovely and eye catching scenery for Disney World.
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Fun Fact: Cast members who operate the transport boats on Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake to this day refer to the edge of shoreline where the Venetian and Mediterranean resorts would have sat as “Venetian Pointe” for navigation purposes.
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Say what you want about Eisner but there’s no denying that some of the best and most iconic resorts on WDW property were built because of him.
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With regards to Galactic Starcruiser, I'm amazed they haven't just designed and built a general hotel just with a Star Wars theme that wasn't ridiculously expensive. It doesn't have to have the big production value, but they could essentially blended the Venetian idea into a hotel styled after Naboo for example.
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It's refreshing to hear "the oil crisis of the 70s caused issues" instead of the running theme of this channel "the crash of 2008"😂😂
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Recently stayed at Pop. We visited the Riviera since it was on the skyliner, can't describe how disappointed I was in it. It was underwhelming. Pop on the other hand I found to be pretty fun, plus the food was surprisingly great!
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I NEVER get bored of these amazing productions. We even have viewing parties here in the UK. Top notch content. Keep it up mate!
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As a Defunctland regular, it's weird to see Michael Eisner in the beginning and not immediately go "what shit did he do this time"
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The recent regimes are making Michael Eisner look like Steve Jobs. He should receive much more credit than he does for reinvigorating the company, both in the animation studio and in the resort hotels. The current regime could learn a lot from him.
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I still remember the original video of the abandoned hotels! Used to listen multiple times at my old job. Jake, the amount of times I bring up these hotels, people look at me like I have a second head, they're shocked and it's thanks to you I get to experience those reactions, keep it up mate!
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That Riviera hotel sure doesn't look that distinct from a slightly more fancy interstate-side Hilton hotel.
