This attraction should still be in WDW. The godawful Disney management of the 90s it seemed went out of their way to find an excuse to get it closed and stay closed. Was it showing its age? Unquestionably. But the underwater figures were no more out of date than the Jungle Cruise animals are. Probably a little sprucing up (like maybe add a couple LIttle Mermaid figures for the Atlantis scene and maybe a new narration track) would have helped but the ride needed to still be there. Disneyland is VERY lucky they still had their subs available to be able to bring their ride back after a decade's absence. If only WDW had been as fortunate.
I worked this attraction from 91-93... It was really worn out and outdated... subs leaked really bad so WDW had to reduce the waterfall to a minimum.. It would have been too costly at the time to replace all subs and update the attraction... sadly it had to go...
@@oakpineranch - Yet other rides didn’t fall into disrepair, not to the point of “needing to be scrapped” - and that’s because those other rides received maintenance, because management wanted to *retain* those other rides! You’re unfortunately falling for a common corporate trick, which is: 1) management want to get rid of something, whatever it is, and for whatever reason, but it’s wildly popular - so what they do is, they 2) deliberately skimp on maintenance (or on advertising, or on whatever it requires), and over time they 3) consciously let it fall into disrepair and obscurity, and then when it’s so broken and forgotten that no one goes near it, they 4) announce that “It’s beyond the point of repairs, plus it’s unpopular anyway, so we regrettably HAVE NO CHOICE but to scrap it!” … when what they wanted was to scrap it all along! Happens all the time, when some CEO gets a bee in their bonnet about some project that irks them, whether that’s a film project, a development, a curriculum item, a plant expansion, a health insurance plan… anything. They find a way to underfund and to break it, and then once it’s broken, they declare it unpopular, beyond repair, and often a bad idea to begin with. It’s very seldom true, so you need to gather data, and use it to peer beneath the façade which management erects.
