Thanks for all the love on my recent Disney videos! These are so tough to get all the little details, but a lot of fun to make, so there will be more to come soon!
Why there is no more from hoot and chief is cause chief is an 😇 unsure of how long it been on there chanerk the last vieod sad it n it was posted in 2015
@@desiforbes7523 unfortunately Chief passed away a few years ago. Hoot was able to make a few recent posts with more photos that Chief's family had come across going through his storage.
My sister randomly stumbled across this video and our jaws dropped because we think our Dad is in this segment about the ImageWorks!! He passed away in 2011. Is there anyway to see more of the part you posted with the ImageWorks area?? Thank you!
Bro swiming to discovery island as a florida native sounds fuckin INSANE to me. Especially at night lmfao...kids have legit been eaten in that lake because their parents let em swim
I always admired respectful urban exploring. Abandoned houses, dead malls, and various abandoned company places would be lost due to the secrecy of companies and the uncaring greed of of urban sprawl planning, urban exploring is usually the only documentation of modern history. I really love channels that share this history of the abandoned places and can appreciate what it used to be with love and care. It really is a shame that Disney and other companies are content to leave things to vanish into the void and willingly let that history die without a trace.
I've never been to a Disney park in my life, but coming from the rural exploration scene this stuff is profoundly fascinating. We tend to be really respectful (probably because you'll get shot by a farmer/tweaker faster than you'll be arrested) and secretive about our favorite spots. Urbex and especially Disney is a whole different universe, and as important as it is, I'm amazed by the gall of some of these people. It makes these things harder to document in the long run, and the ones who do it to chase clout are yet another sign of this dying world of greed. :(
My dad and his cousin jack used to jump out of wdw rides all the time! Anything that didn't have a lap bar or could be escaped from, they were out of the ride vehicle and running around in the show scenes. The last time they ever tried it was on the people mover. Jack climbed out, the whole ride stopped, and the "Disney police" came and took Jack away 😂 my dad never ran so fast in his life, he got back to the hotel and just started screaming "they took Jack!!!!"
I totally understand why they got busted on the peoplemover- multiple people have died doing the same thing on that ride. Disney isn't taking any chances.
@Rob West Actually, someone did. Back in the early days, someone was playing a game on the people mover at Disneyland where you would jump from car to car, and they fell in a tunnel and got dragged
@@robwest5457 uhhh you know that Disneyland put cages around their peoplemover vehicles because people kept jumping out of them, right? "In August 1967, a 16-year-old boy from Hawthorne, California, was killed while jumping between two moving PeopleMover cars as the ride was passing through a tunnel. He stumbled and fell onto the track, where an oncoming train of cars crushed him beneath its wheels and dragged his body a few hundred feet before it was stopped by a ride operator. The attraction had only been open for one month at the time." " On June 7, 1980, an 18-year-old man was crushed and killed by the PeopleMover while jumping between moving cars. The accident occurred as the ride entered the SuperSpeed tunnel."
The early days of Disney exploring was so fun! It was just fans who were curious as to what goes on behind the scenes. Disney exploring got out of hand in recent years when theft became an issues. You summed it up so well at the end of this video.. It’s a clout chase by people looking for a clickable title rather than documenting history for fellow Disney fans.
Theft has always been an issue going back to Hoot and Chief. I know you defenders and glorifiers of urban exploration love to play down the severity of stealing before the "Evil Clout-chasing Urban Explorers" by minimizing what "fans" like Hoot and Chief did by stealing "just a couple small things", but stealing is stealing and being "a massive fan of the Disney Parks" doesn't excuse it.
@@austinjacenko3726 It's a matter of principle really, it's important to note that Horizons was already on it's way out the door by the time Hoot and Chief were recording footage. So for many people that was probably their first chance to ever see the ride. Hoot and Chief stealing stuff from the ride as it was still active, robs many people the to experience the ride as it was and love it, just as much as Hoot and Chief did. One can definitely argue the point about what a few missing props can do to a ride, but for Disney set design and theming are major selling points for their parks and rides. It's a different story when Hoot and Chief looted a Disney World dumpster for thrown away Horizon's stuff, as by that point the ride was closed and likely already demolished. The point that I and others are suggesting is not to feel bad for a big company missing a few things, but rather despise the effect gradual theft of important props can rob from a ride that relies heavily from it and was ultimately built to entertain the general public.
@@TheManofthefuture101 if they stole from the ride while it was active, then fuck them, but if they stole from a completely abandoned ride that was obvious was never going to be recovered, you should be able to take some things. After all, they were left behind so they're not really anybody's anymore.
I remember watching an urban exploration video back in like 2017 and one quote from the explorers stuck with me. It was something along the lines of "Take nothing, leave only footprints". I think that's what real urban exploration is. Just observing and documenting an abandoned or forgotten place. Leaving it as is. Sucks that theifs and clout chasers ruined the reputation.
But why? Why leave things to just waste away? A place where people have died, I can understand. Or destroying natural vegetation or animal life. Otherwise, the stuff is just littering the earth and serving no purpose. And companies like Disney will not remotely lose money if people take stuff that they've abandoned. Also, its "thieves."
The preserved snakes on Adventure Island still being there reminds me of the bodies on Everest. The people who get to see the snakes aren’t there to retrieve the snake jars, and taking anything is extra risky and makes the sheer danger of the trip that much harder. I mean it’s totally an apples to oranges comparison but it just struck a cord! Untouched and a little forbidden, but a trail marker for explorers.
You know what sucks is all those photos and personal possessions by cast members left behind. Like why weren’t they retrieved at some point? Also, who the hell preserves a snake in a soda bottle? 🤨
Hoot and Chief are models of what Disney needs to do for all closing attractions. Document, document, document. The passing of Chief a few years ago was like losing a friend. Mesa Verde Times inspired me to recreate graphics from Horizons and I was actually featured in one of their posts. I worked at Disneyland from 2005-2007, while working at the Opera House, a faulty projector in the lobby allowed us to discover the forgotten set of the WYZ Ol' Owl pre show from the Walt Disney story... everything was still in place, except for the Owl AA. Unfortunately, the set was destroyed when they remodeled for the return of "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln", however I took a couple photos and are posted at the Daveland blog.
it’s really a shame disney doesn’t document to preserve what uses to exist. it’s impossible to find the things i loved going to as a kid since they closed. limited to no images of mickey’s toontown area and innovations west
My favorite piece of "Disney Urban Exploring" lore is the rumor that Matt Sonswa was actually hired by disney to break in so that he could show them their weak spots in terms of security around the park. Its a win-win situation: Matt gets cool footage for his channel and then Disney knows where to increase their security to eliminate any future trespassers.
that’s a great theory, i have matt’s snapchat and he’s just a crazy florida dude, really got in trouble with disney but made crazy money from the videos. he posts a lot from his jet ski
This is known as "pen-testing", short for penetration-testing, and is an entire subset of the field of security. While it is possible that they hired Matt out for this role given his experience, it's probably more likely Disney would just hire a dedicated pen-tester for the work.
@@SissypheanCatboy Florida gators don't give a shit about human activity, they're used to it. They kind of have to be, there's not a lot of nature around - most of Florida is urban sprawl nowadays, especially around Disney.
Fun fact: My mom purchased a copy of Dark Side of Disney and had it lying around the house. I, as a curious 12-year-old and lifelong Disney fan,stuffed it in my backpack to read during a stay in in-school-suspension circa 2015, not knowing they were going to bag check me. My principal found it and threw it away due to the cover, and my mom was PISSED.
I’m not understanding. It’s your property? How could you just let him take it from you? Like yeah take it and give it back at the end of the day but like… throw it away? That’s stealing. And illegal.
Is it just me or does the part about dirt biking at night to get into animal kingdom sound like a perfect setup for a found footage horror movie. Like he makes it into the mountain only to find real yetis living there or something? Idk id watch it😂
I would be so afraid that a disney employee was watching me and would turn on the Yeti just to scare me which would also be pretty hilarious, to be fair
@ZeranZeran judging from the technical demo Joe Rhode made about the yetis ability to generate thrust like a jet engine in A mode, i highly doubt they would for safety reasons because if that guy falls due to being knocked down by it and dies, then disney has a wrongful death suit on their hands. Its stuck in B mode however, so other than the eyes turning on and fans blowing, i dont think it would scare any seasoned explorer
I just realized that the Kingdom Keepers book series is basically an official Disney fan-fiction about doing exactly this. Also the author got officially escorted by Disney through most the inside nearly every ride at Disney Land and World, so most of the details are presumably accurate.
I worked at Disney in 2011. Even then when not everyone carried camera phones, they were so strict about any video or photo-taking backstage. I remember during our orientation they told us there is a team of people who look all over the internet for leaked info or footage and get it removed.
I think urban exploration for the sake of documentation for the telling of history is important and I don’t think it’s bad, sure it’s “illegal” but I always consider the intent to be a factor in what is legal and illegal. Like Adam The Woo, I love his videos because he always gives a history lesson in the videos and doesn’t destroy anything in the process. I think what would honestly help Disney a lot in the fight against the clout chasing explorers would be to open up “back stage tours” of the old exhibits/attractions. It’s like with most things once it becomes “legal” the hype surrounding it dies
also not all urban exploring is illegal. if it’s abandoned, there’s a chance it’s not owned by anyone. like i live in the desert and there’s so many old mining towns that have either been bought and used for tourism purposes, or are just standing there in the middle of nowhere
It’s definitely illegal in the US, but the UK treats simple trespassing as a civil, not criminal offense. Most European countries don’t throw the book at urban explorers at all, I don’t know what it’s like elsewhere though.
i have a weird offshoot of submechanophobia that i can't find, so that footage of him climbing up and through big thunder mountain and expedition everest was honestly paralyzing to me. and then my man straight up touches the massive decaying yeti and i wanted to pull my eyes out
No fr. Animatronics FASCINATE me and I adore them. But they also scare the hell out of me lowkey. Like to touch one. One on, one OFF, it’s all the same. Little gears put together into an uncanny valley just waiting to snap ur fingers off 😵💫😵💫😵💫🤢🤢 ugh I cant. That goes for tracks, both in and above water. It all just SCREAMS safety hazard to me
I have never seen another person who has described what I feel so thoroughly. Massive objects that someone rarely touches- something that is known for moving but is sitting perfectly still- the way it’s fur is probably caked in dust and grime and residue. No thanks, I had to literally look away from the screen lol
Thank you very much for providing a video about an often overlooked topic of the abandonment of certain locations that are within the Disney theme parks. What I think is extraordinary, at least from my point of view, is how no attraction or place within Disney is above the certainty of not being abandoned when they longer serve a purpose for the Disney company and theme park.
I used to be obsessed with Disney urban exploration as a kid... Then I started working for Disney and kinda got to see everything I really wanted to see ((I had to pass through the utilidoors everyday and I actually hated them because they were loud, smelled bad, and my location was on the other side of the entrance lol)) aside from places like river country. Mad props to those who did/do it but I usually don't feel too bad when you get caught.
This. I think it's hilarious that people think cast areas are so interesting. You might see something unusual every now and then, but for the most part it's like if people risked getting arrested to break into and explore any other normal workplace. It's hallways and offices and breakrooms.
I was so excited to see the tunnels when I got hired but after the first day they lost their interest. Man they did smell so bad in certain spots too lol.
@@crystalisawesome why is disney so afraid to show people these areas? They should just record history of the parks better and upload it themselves, I bet people would pay to see "Abandoned and unexplored" Disney stuff
My first video I watched with "urban exploring" was Adam The Woo @ River Country. What fascinates me about these videos are they are a look into the past, or at least a look into what is "under the hood". Which is something we aren't allowed to see and something a lot of us are fascinated with, hence why these videos are popular. Why I never had an issue with these explorers is due to the fact that originally (or at least the people I watched) were firm on breaking the rules, however still respected the grounds and areas, simply looking and not touching. Not only would do it, but would explain on camera why to encourage that if anyone does urban exploring, to respect the area as well and not touch. And if it wasn't for Matt breaking into Cranium Command and filming Buzzy before he was ripped off and sold for parts, we never would have seen him again prior to that. So if anything I feel grateful for urban exploring. It's just a shame that other urban explorers ruin it by messing things up, or stealing.
This was fascinating. I remember seeing a River Country exploration 10+ years ago and thinking it was so creepy that the music still played. I had no idea it was part of such an interesting story.
I remembered recently some amazing footage I saw a long time ago of two people who went backstage and climbed the stretching room in Haunted Mansion. I couldn't find it for years and just about a month ago I found them again! The videos were uploaded by someone named Jonny L and they have videos from Pirates, Haunted Mansion and the river's native village. You should check it out because some of the shots they have are mind blowing.
Imagine training to swim long distances just to look at an abandoned island inside Disney World. The dedication would make me not even wanna be mad if I were a security guard catching them, I would just be impressed lmao
So basically the best way to stop it on Disney's part is just to have their own crews film these areas and make it available? Also: Swimming anywhere on Disney World property is CRAZY with the gators and water snakes down here. YIKES! Would not be worth it to me. Lol
@@Crow_Smith nah. One kid did fall victim to the amoeba but Disney didn’t close River Country until years after that when they had opened their other water parks and decided River Country was no longer performing well in comparison.
Imo for many people urban exploring is about actually being there and experiencing the atmosphere urself, so video wouldn't really be the same. Would maybe take away the internet clout tho
The Sonswa vlog on Everest was truly a landmark. I think that video honestly killed a lot of interest in Disurbex, because how much higher than that can you go? He got into the ride, got right up in the Yeti's grill and touched it with his own hands. What honestly could possibly top that? Most people wouldn't do that, let alone something even scarier.
8:12 My younger brother has actually been in the Disney tunnels! Disney World invited high school marching bands to perform in the parks for Mardi Gras, and part of that is traveling through the tunnels (also where they store the instruments) and he said it was pretty cool :)
They take you into the tunnels during the Keys to the Kingdom tour!! I went down them with a tour guide in the back of the Winnie the Pooh gift shop, and came out beside the emporium!
I recently asked my aunt about this and I was so excited to hear about it, she got this look on her face like "Ugh.." and she said "IT SMELLS LIKE TRASH. AND they didn't let us smoke down there anymore" - I had to laugh. I was not expecting that answer, but it makes sense.
if it wasnt for me randomly stumbling across the mesa verde times blog one day when i was like 13 or 14 i probably wouldve never been as invested into vintage disney parks [especially epcot] attractions and animatronics as i am today
were you that prolific amedot shipper on tumblr like 10 years ago? I see you around so often in comment sections of videos covering niche interests I can only assume we share, and have been too curious not to ask.
@@franknfurter5336 what? no i was never an amedot shipper lmao, i remember my tumblr name was amemethyst instead of memethyst for a long time since it mustve been already taken, maybe it was them?
I know they probably won't do it because it 'ruins the magic' but if they tided up the areas a bit to make it safe and did guided tours around these abandoned areas for a charge they would make a killing!
Some folks would for sure, but the average Disney guest I don’t think would care one bit. They are there to ride the rides, see the sights, and get their “magical” experience. I can’t see too many people who paid to get into the park wanting to throw down more money just to walk through an abandoned ride. That all being said, I’d for sure be into it!
As a fan of the "Abandoned by Disney" creepypasta, I was seriously expecting something strange like a random ass mascot outfit at Discovery Island and it's fascinating to boot but also scary as hell waiting for something to pop out or move in the shadows! This video was great overall and it's interesting to know that there are people out there who are as curious as I am when it comes to abandoned or just how a ride/attraction works in general!
I live about 3 hours from Disney. A friend and I drove up to explore River Country, we were relatively new to urbex. Once there we managed to get in and met two photographers who happened to be doing the same thing we were. It was a surreal experience and the timing was so odd, you feel completley alone in this overgrown abandoned place, and then suddenly find two other people. I like to think of urbex like going to a national park. Be respectful, and leave it how you found it for future explorers.
Yep keys to the kingdom did that. Well, to the parade storage area (Spectro magic at the time)It took us behind pirates, though, instead of haunted mansion.
one of my friends in middle school was from a family that were huge disney fans, and she was as well. when we were talking one day in 7th grade she brought up river country and started explaining it to me. i went on the internet later that night and became obsessed with it. it perfectly tied into the huge interest ive had in abandoned buildings, especially malls, since i was a really young child. always was interesting to see a place in a state you really shouldn’t be seeing it in, or to see something slowly decay over time
Thank you for covering this. The history of the Disney Parks is a deeply fascinating topic, and your voice and style are very easy-listening. Please, keep this up.
I remember watching Remain Seated Please- A Hoot and Chief story by Matthew Serrano a few years ago and being amazed at how much they could do. Not only being able to get on the scenes themselves but while it was still open and guests where on. I'd say its most Disney fans dream to be able to do that on their favourite ride, Its amazing and such a one of a kind thing that you know couldn't be replicated now without being worried about someone getting arrested. I will say the end of that video sucker punched me and its still one of my favourite videos. R.I.P Chief
I found myself in alot of back areas of Disneyworld in 2016. For personal satisfaction and curosity though. Not recording anything, and walking around like I belonged there. So it was pretty easy just walking past employees. This was enjoyable to watch.
Same, 30-35 years earlier. I remember how difficult it was to look as bored as everyone else, to fit in, when internally I was like, "Oooh! This is so cool! Oooh! What's over there?" etc.
The utilidors are actually the first floor of Disney world . The park is on the second floor. This is due to the swamp land and actually nothing can be buried.
Mesa Verde Times changed my life and opened up a whole new way of looking at Disney parks for me. I am so happy to see them getting recognition for their work.
Discovery Island sounds so cool. It’s basically just the premise of The Lost World minus the dinosaurs. I used to love going off the trail at the NC Zoo. We would find so much neat stuff like old trams, signs, retired exhibits, views of active enclosures from angles that aren’t available to the public, etc. One of the coolest things we came across were a handful of overgrown viewing platforms that were no longer in use. It still had a great view of the animals (I’m being intentionally vague here so people don’t repeat this) from a distance and angle visitors hadn’t seen in over 20 years (from the information I could find online at the time) when they built a major expansion onto the Africa exhibit. It never really crossed our minds to document it outside of a couple cell phone pictures that are probably lost to time at this point. It was a really neat experience though.
The only person it’s unsafe for is the explorer themselves, they know the risks and fully accept the potential consequences. I see nothing wrong with endorsing urban exploration.
Hearing the ride’s noises and characters in Horizons was such a wild experience for me after all this time. That ride has such an impact on me, it felt damn near magical at the time.
as a florida native, all i have to say about SWIMMING in a florida lake is.... ballsy. not bc of the gators, they wont bother u, but like we literally have reports abt brain eating amoeba every year 😭 theyre ALWAYS telling you to never put your head under in florida freshwater
As someone who does Urban Exploration myself from time to time, there was a sort of respect that explorer’s used to have that made them more likeable by both their audience and the public, which made their acts easier to forgive as they weren’t really causing any harm, but I completely agree, 99% of explorers don’t seem to follow that sense of respect for it anymore
Honestly I think Disney is missing out. This is so much of a BIG THING, Disney could earn some serious cash by offering "UrbEx tours" to these old attractions that are on their property but sit pretty much abandoned and unused. If Disney were to give some of these Urban Explorers permission to poke around things like Discovery Island or their other abandoned facilities, they could regulate who could go to the island, etcetera. That way they'd still have some control and the ability to screen out those that would be disrespectful. AND they could charge for it, resulting in them gaining money even for their abandoned properties.
@@Iron_Stigmata In a way, it's still magical. People have a fascination with these sites - old tombs, ruins of all kinds, etcetera - that gets people's blood pumping. Amateur archaeology is a thing, and that's what these Urban Explorers really are. Sure, they're not exactly Indiana Jones, but they like to think they are and there's really no harm in that.
Whenever I think of urban exploration I think of either those videos where people walk all around abandoned Toys ‘R’ Us shops or AdamTheWoo’s 2012 exploration of Nickelodeon Studios that eventually got him permanently banned from Universal Orlando. (That one’s still a classic.)
With the right looks you can go anywhere. I personally was able to access the employee tunnels connecting the Aria Casino and Park MGM in Las Vegas. All i did was wear a suit. I was even able to get back of house into the management areas without any security stopping me.
It's not like they can look through a gallery of people banned from Disney to see if this guy matches a description. Pay cash, wear sunglasses, act like you belong there. The cast members at the gate do not care that much.
Try it when you are 14 years old, wearing the $100 collectible America on Parade watch you bought with your paper route money, and realise this when you are 2/3 the way down the slide. :-( Pain of a different sort.
in 2019 right before the pandemic they where given a tour of the magic kingdom underground and we went thru the utilidors and we werent allowed to film for the sake of keeping spoilers from getting out
12:20 idk why **Nudes** being the biggest/boldest word in the “searched key words” while you show this article cracks me up so much, but it does 😂 Awesome video though man, always fascinated with this place and all the secrets it must hide. I’m not even a huge Disney fan, but I’m so intrigued by the parks and all the defunct and dated areas, and everything you can’t/they don’t want you to see. This video definitely scratched that itch a little bit 🙌🏼 solid ideas for some good creepypastas
If Disney wants to nix urbex, they need to do a final recording of the stuff they're getting rid of from here on out (and should have a long time ago). If people could relive the stuff that's gone without digging deep into the internet, they'd do it like that. DPS: Disney Preservation Society or some shit.
It's worth noting that Discovery Island exploring got so out of hand, Disney installed game cameras on the island and some of the often used paths to get there. Total FAFO.
"At Disney World, nothing is truly ever off-limits." For me, a Disney vacation is not complete without being picked up by a senior engineer, exec (yes, once it was the eventual President of WDW, although I didn't realise it at the time.... he was actually very encouraging of me and gave me a private tour of what he caught me, three times, trying to sneak into), or security and being deposited back at the Contemporary at least once. (I go back to the early 1980s.) OMG, I am laughing, I did the same thing in terms of matching the Disney Look and getting into various employee-only areas. At one point, I had a nametag sold in the parks, and no one seemed to recognise that it wasn't official.
I got to see the back stage areas of Disney World many years ago as part of a marching band. They had the "Disney police" come around and collect all of the cameras that people had brought into the back stage area and literally destroying any film or memory cards in the cameras (We were warned not to bring any cameras into the back stage area for this exact reason). I think Disney just REALLY doesn't want people to see their back stage areas. It was very interesting, however! They were unloading mass amounts of fireworks and repairing some of the parade vehicles while we were back there. It was sorta neat in a way to see what makes Disney tick.
Of course they don't want people to see them. It's about preserving the magic. The public face of the parks is all about never breaking character and never giving away just how Mickey Mouse can be at the gate one second, and on the other side of the park the next.
Good video, however I would add that Disney URBX has slowed down dramatically in the past few years simply because they went extreme and most of the abandoned areas don’t exist anymore. River country, wonders of life (cranium command gutted), image works, food rocks, inventions, and other long abandoned high touch areas are no longer standing. Something to think on.
Something I’ve seen a lot of urban explorers talk about is how they never like to disclose the location of really interesting places online since it tends to lead to people breaking in to vandalize and steal, it’s sad because Disney urban explorers don’t have the same luxury, everyone knows where they’re filming (though maybe they shouldn’t have told everyone how to break into these places lol)
I love these videos, especially of places i remember or have been to. I'll never forget the old imagination ride and the rainbow tunnel, body wars, and horizons... i dont remember world of motion that much. But these were classics and glad they got preserved. I love seeing how things used to be vs how they are now, even in places that arent abandoned. I wish theme parks did a "history" tour for the enthusiasts.
I fkn love this piece of history. Reminds me of the time me and a friend jumped off the Spaceship Earth ride while on a high school field trip. We walked around for a while but only found a locked service door so we decided to start scaring our classmates on the ride as they went by. Well, we also scared some guests who informed the park staff. We exited by jumping into one of the carts of someone we recognized but got busted on the way out cuz duh too many people in the cart. They notified our chaperones and the entire class field trip got pulled to the side and lectured. Surprisingly, we didn't get kicked out but did screw up field trips for the following classes. Sorry about that guys ; ;
Haha "general Disney mischief". I can verify that 90s Disney exploring was like that. You could park where New Fantasyland is now and just walk in the main utilidor entrance. "Just look like you work there" was our method too 😅
The thing about urban exploring in areas like Discovery Island is thatDisney, who owns it, has two options. Either keep people out or secure the safety of people entering. It is expensive to demolish and to have guards be present. So they close it off and leave it be. But if explorers, even if trespassing, get hurt or killed by roofing falling down or something similar, Disney will be held responsible. So of course they ban people who put themself at risk on Disney property. When it comes to Discovery Island I doubt stealing or defacing property is their main concern.
Risk management rings true. One of the Imagineers who interacted with me during an adventure specifically warned me against, call them activities A and B in a certain area. Although he'd advised me to stop poking around in general, he was only specifically stern about A and B. I didn't ask for details, but had the idea he knew of injuries involving those activities.
I reckon the urban exploring of Disney might get a resurgance in a few months when someone will want to be the first to explore an abandoned Starcruiser...
i love urban exploration but there's a rule to it. you can not take anything and you try your best not to break anything or leave anything. you're not exploring if you do, you're just being terrible.
I actually got to go into one of the vip sections when I was a kid! It was for mission mars I think, because my aunt used to be a high rank employee at HP, the company that funded the ride. It was a really cool lounge that overlooked the line for the ride, had a couple games to play, free snacks, and cool chairs. One of my coolest Disney experiences for sure. My aunt doesn’t work at HP anymore though, and idk if mission Mars is even still around, so I doubt I’ll ever see it again lol
Man i loved this video so much. It really gave me flashbacks from being a kid and being interested in abandoned places and stumbling upon adamthewoo’s river country video :,)) urban exploring will always have a place in my heart and i have high respect for the ppl who genuinely love doing this and aren’t being disrespectful clout chasers
Absolutely loved Disney quest I went in 2005 and would have been looking forward to go again even all these years later just to see how it compared to back then
Great job on the video. I have to say adamthewoo got me into exploring. It's fun to see some of the old rides I didn't get a chance to ride in the 90s.
Love this but remember the utilidoor isn’t underground, you can’t have that in FL. It’s the first floor, MK is built on the second floor of the massive building. Former MK CM here.
This is amazing! I was obsessed with abandoned disney. When the Discovery Island video came out me and my friends were obsessed, we planned our own trip to River Country / Discovery Island but we didn’t plan well enough and didn’t get far. I miss the Disney Urban exploring where they were respectful just curious
It’s pretty sad how now we have literal 4K cameras in our pockets, yet security cameras and CCTV security systems killed most of our exploration opportunities. Rip exploration.
I remember I was about five when discovery island had the animal sanctuary. My mom took me to see the animals and it started to storm and we were all stuck on the island with mean birds attacking us! Finally the big steamboat rescued us. I'm fifty two now and I'm still traumatized! I steer clear of peacocks.
Imagine wanting to see Discovery Island so badly that you decide to swim through a lake where gators live just to document it. That was pure dedication back in the day
I wish someone would do some URBEX once the Star Wars Hotel closes. I‘ve been dying to see some backstage footage from it. But apart from some construction blueprints no luck so far.
@GeorgesSpace I gotta admit, your documentary on this was one of the best I've seen on YT about this. TY for not showcasing yourself (so many want to film themselves talking)...instead, you did the research, brought the vids to back it up...great stuff!
It’s weird how ‘Boards of Canada’s album in 2013 used footage of abandoned water parks in their promotion at roughly the same time Disney urbex became popular. I kept recalling the music as the 5th segment played.
