Disney's Cancelled Theme Parks
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Publicado 2023-09-25
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There are a ton of great stories surrounding cancelled plans for future Disney parks. From an expansion to Disneyland with WestCOT, to the controversial Disney's America, or the precursor to Walt Disney World, Riverfront Square. And while you may have already heard plenty of stories about Disney's Cancelled Hotels and Resorts, I've never seen the theme parks covered in one place. So, in this video, let's take a look at these cancelled and abandoned theme park projects over the years, and the many rides, attractions, and crazy plans that might have come with them.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:00 Walt Disney's Riverfront Square
5:44 DisneySea & PortDisney
10:06 WestCOT
16:10 Disney-MGM Studios Europe
19:06 Singapore Disneyland
20:18 Disney's America
28:46 Remnants of the Cancelled Parks
Todos los comentarios (21)
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"then CEO Michael Eisner..." is like the theme park worlds equivalent of "On September 11th, 2001...", in that it never precedes anything good
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damn, i definitely understand why Westcot was never built, but man it looks like it had would have been incredible. havent been a fan of what theyve been doing at CA adventure in recent years, and just seeing the plans for Westcot really makes me wish they went through with it lol.
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As someone who has always lived extremely close to Disneyland, that Westcot park sounded amazing! SpaceStation Earth would have been visible from anywhere in Orange County! I mean a huge gold golf ball, no way you could miss that.
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You can say what you want about Michael Eisner, but during his reign as CEO, Disney parks reached their zenith. I met the man once, late at night, on the monorail. He was silent and looked grumpy, and had a muscular bodyguard by his side. So, not exactly Mr Congeniality. Nevertheless, the Disney parks were totally magical. His imagination and drive were responsible for that magic. I miss the old Eisner days. Bob Chapek nearly drove it into the ground!
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We actually met an “imagineer” vacationing with his mother at River Country in the very early ‘90’s, who told us they were working on an animal park. My son who was 12 years old returned to the U.K. from our holiday with pneumonia and spent a while in hospital,so our memories of this park are slightly jaded !
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Ive been really enjoying your theme park videos! Its such a rarity to find a channel as informative and fun as yours. Please keep up the great work! Your efforts are deeply admired <3
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Wishing WestCOT would play a part in DisneylandForward and the $60 billion investment plan (which sadly is very unlikely would happen at this point). And if Disney for some reason builds a third theme part resort in the USA which more than likely would be southern Texas, they should again explore having Disney’s America as a theme park option. If Disney World recovers from the recently low park attendance, I would love to see DisneySea become the 5th gate.
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I think what we need now is a video just on Michael Eisner!
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Can you do a video on Disney’s standalone hotels? Like the one in Hawaii. It never quite made sense why Disney decided to build unthemed hotels in random locations
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As a historian, Disney’s America is like my holy roman empire…I think about that concept on the daily so thank you for making a video on it!
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It's been really interesting to follow what's been happening in the former site of River Country. It was going to be a major DVC (Disney Vacation Club, Disney's version of timeshare) resort, but apparently they got as far as beginning the foundations. And stopped. The site remains empty. Disney has applied for permits and extensions of permits around the site, but it is till in limbo.
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Lots of channels cover similar topics but your video style and how informative you are makes you stand out, keep it up!
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The Long Beach project was never seriously in play. Disney spent a few bucks developing it for a while just to try and leverage more concessions out of Anaheim’s political leadership, who were supposed to be worried that Disney might choose Long Beach over them. Disney had tried a similar tack with a proposed park in Burbank’s old Golden Mall district a couple years before.
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Great video! It’s tough to provide info and visuals for stuff that doesn’t exist, but you nailed it. Very interesting.
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If WestCot did come to fruition, I imagine the "Ride the Dragon" ride would be re-themed to Raya and the Last Dragon! I would so ride that!
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Beautifully done brother, thanks for making the video ...and I'm sad Westcot never became a thing
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Probably no correlation, but Westcot looks a lot like Vegas now, especially with the pyramid and big sphere
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Even as a teen I wondered why EuroDisney wasn't planned for a spot in Spain. I often wonder if it would have been more successful there. I was also REALLY looking forward to Disney America and am still bitter that the NoVA snobs stopped it dead.
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disneysea and portdisney wouldve been awesome. someone should try to pitch some of these concepts to disney again
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It's fun to think that in alternate universes these parks exist and the ones (other than Disney Land) that do exist in our universe don't exist in theirs.
