Defunctland: The History of Disney's Worst Attraction Ever, Superstar Limo 

Defunctland a nice new flow more info this is a great idea hope to see more I have comment on the one I want to see

Defunctland Great video and I love the new intro!!

Defunctland Oh thank goodness.

Good idea, good to know we can get expanded updates!

Love the new update! Great work man

rkskrcVEVO muppet with a jackhammer is leviating towards you

an ironically bad disney ride would be kinda fun

Like hearing Fozzie Bear say, "and I thought my jokes were bad."

“And this time, it wouldn’t be Eisner’s fault” Not Eisner’s fault? I don’t think I’ve ever heard Kevin say those words before.

Waldorf: "So I hear they're turning this into a Monsters Inc ride" Statler: "Well, that's an improvement. It won't be as scary!" Both: "DOHOHOHOHOHOHO!"

Yo dawg, I heard you like California. So I put a California in your California so you can visit California while you visit California

The rides are fine. It's standing in line for 90 minutes before you get on that isn't fun. They just sell a ticket to anybody will buy one and nevermind that they don't actually have enough rides for all the people. It's more of a live-action line simulator occasionally interrupted by rides.

@@Arigator2 I would say that Tower of Terror is a saving grace...but they took that down because "Disney owns Marvel!".

And people say Texas has a big ego 😂

@@AtrocityEquine01 The Guardians skin over the ride is actually loads of fun. Even if I miss the Twilight Zone aesthetic, the random elements (one of twenty different '70s-'80s songs can play during the ride, the ending cinematic has several different tiny alterations) make it better for revisiting.

Prince Charles?

Uh cool, good for you, Champ

@@benb9151 You're doing great, kiddo

Same tbh

Ya think?

Honestly at much as I disliked him during those years at least he took chances and had his team under him have original ideas, until this current team.

If I had such bad ideas...I wonder what could possibly be the difference between him and I.. ..?

This one you really can’t put the blame squarely on him, if the unfortunate accident of Princess Diana didn’t occur this ride probably would’ve been really good for a simple dark room ride

@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra He was bad, but he was bold

@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra Super late to the game, but I'm rewatching Defunctland from the beginning and it's fascinating how much the (not-remade) S1 videos make jabs at Eisner that you wouldn't see in the newer ones. It definitely gives the impression of Perjurer gaining respect for Eisner despite -- and perhaps because of? -- his bad, risky, yet creative decisions, even if he did lose his guts there near the end of his tenure at Disney. It's been really cool, and shaped my own feelings about Eisner as the show's gone on. (edited for readability/clarity)

That’s a great idea

that's basically the concept of Rockin' Rollercoaster, which they should have adopted

Yeah, that sounds cool

That could have worked well.

Bout 20 years too late

And this is coming from the muppets.

The idea for Goofy’s Superstar Limo was also fairly good.

I would have loved to see that.^^

how many times have we been denied the Muppets at Disney?

@@Viking_Luchador a Marvel ride replaced the Muppet Theatre... 🤕

I know this is from three months ago, but I am literally in the comments right now because that segment is happening and it is too painful for me to watch. 🤣

The desperately hidden expressions of pain and disappointment; these guys can act.

The awkwardness and cringe were almost literally unbearable watching that lol

@@Christhreeonesix Yeah... Almost looks like something Chapek would have approved..... too soon? :)

Drew was so excited before and so visibly let down afterwards that if I were a slightly more cruel person it might be the funniest thing on earth to me. The underwhelmed “wow”s at seeing all the figures really sent me. And then Ryan saying Drew’s looked like Robert Zemeckis. Priceless

Have you seen Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser?

@@joaquindonoso5481 lmao!!!!! 🤣

@@joaquindonoso5481 it's funny because it looks like they made it without the rights to Star Wars when they actually did

Having something in your possession doesn't mean you understand what is it or what to do with it - that's why we've overthrown monarchies.

I would have been like "hey I think that's the guy from Rush Hour"

X to the Z: yo dawg, we heard you like commiefornia

Worst park at Disneyland!

@@robthagod4870 That’s not saying much considering there’s only 2 parks in disneyland But yeah, yeah its pretty bad

@@cheezbunni3530 yo 34 minutes ago, ig we all here now lol

🤣🤣

dragontatoes 90s to early 2000s were a magical time

dragontatoes 2001 was the start of a new era

Also they played beautiful stranger by Madonna at the beginning my heart 💔💔💔

My heart 💔

Big Boned Carey will always be close to my heart. Also, Drew Carey-era Kathy Kinney without the Mimi aesthetics is a rare gem.

Why would he be jealous at Chuck E. Cheese's?

I really regret he didn't follow his heart and leave in the phenomenally low blow 'dreamjerks'

Californiaception

@@brucesewing6183 i was gonna say that, but whatever take my like

That actually sounds like something that would make me interested in California Adventure.

That the idea of amusement park theme based on a kitsch vision of the locality is funny and maybe even a mind-blowing concept to some people seems much stranger to me than “California Adventure.” I mean, Disneyland has had a “Main Street USA” since it was built and has had a lot of Americana like “Rivers of America” for decades. “An America-themed attraction in an already America-themed America.”

Love me some recursive fractals.

Seeing Colin Mochrie at the beginning was so weird. I was half expecting him to start shouting at Eisner about how the scene was crap and that they needed to change something.

@Kaanfight I only just saw some clips from that show & realized it was him!

I can't believe they aired it - the way their energy just drops like an avalanche during the ride was amazing.

Rosie pretends to fall asleep and then has a look of someone who's been wrongfully imprisoned.

Drew couldn't even muster any genuine interest in the ride he APPEARED in. Admittedly, by that point he'd heard Ryan make the "Drew's got a lot of money" joke on "Whose Line" about a gajillion times, so it would take a better actor than Drew to fake any excitement.

I wish it was haunted, the only haunting thing was that you could hear your neighbors through the air ports. If Disney had bought the Queen Mary, the boat would be in better shape than it is, I wanted to feel like it was 1930's, not that the boats interior hadn't been fixed since then.

@@colleenschwab LOL accurate. I stayed overnight on that boat ten years ago it was....yeah

Yeah, I don't like imagining a bunch of kids going to a new Disney resort, only to have to deal with a bunch of ghosts. I'm glad that didn't end up happening.

Nicholas Cage bought a haunted house just cuz.

You make it sound like he wanted to buy the Titanic.

True but he also has those dead eyes in some of these promos. Thousand yard stare.

he seems weird and cloying to me

@@ThePondermatic where did i mention like, anything you’re talking about. i literally just stated my personal opinion of him

@@gothtechsupport2337 That's fair, I really did jump in with some weird opinions there. Sorry about that.

Eisner (somewhat reluctantly) also hosted the Wonderful World of Disney TV show and had to take acting classes to prepare for it. Apparently he was very awkward on camera during early screen tests but he got much better since then.

They should have done that, even if they weren't renovating it into a Muppets ride.

To be fair, we don't know if she's saying, "Oh Whoopi" or "Oh Woopy."

@@chimpwimp9407 haha I just saw that part

Chimp Wimp probably both. It’s both a commentary on “hey, it’s Whoopi”, and a sarcastic “oh, whoopie”.

I mean, two of the stars were people they could run into at the Comedy Store any time, and one was actually one of them. Probably not the most star-studded experience.

Lol yes their trip through the ride was probably more entertaining than the ride itself

watch Sunset Blvd instead

Unless it's Scream. If that counts. I think it kinda does, right?

It's one of the worst piece of s**t rides ever made. Even the Chamber of Farts are more fun than that!

Only exception to that rule is when it’s a really good film maker doing it. “Hail, Caesar!” by the Coen brothers is a great example, as (I expect) will be Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.

they never parody the rampant pedophillia and sexual assault thats in their business

They also chose what shortly after ended up becoming probably the most ubiquitous anti-Disney song ever. It's so ironic that it really did set the tone for what the ride was.

Seriously my nostalgia level was just bursting at the seams

It was immediately nostalgic

They can only afford to do that because of how profitable they were during recent decades (which was maybe _half_ because prior acquisitions turned out to be goldmines).

I mean that's just the way the mega corps do it now because monopoly laws are so weak now

I'm surprised there's no tap dancing. Oh Lord

I assume that's what they based the Rock 'n' Roller coaster with Aerosmith on, has a very similar feel

It's a shame they had to go with something else :( I understand why but man the original idea seemed really fun

tbh they could probably do it now without much backlash

@@justins340 Yes I'm sure they could

And even then, what's the extent of interest in him other than 'hey, there's regis philbin' and forget just as quickly you saw him?

So basically have historical figures as celebrities

The only knowledge i have of this guy is that, I THINK, he did a cameo on Wizards of Waverly Place

I only recognised two of the celebrities in this video.

I have heard of him as a British youth, he’s the Who Wants to be a Millionaire Guy, but I honestly thought it was David Hasselhoff.

Why not both?

He should’ve known that the prospects for success were anything but sunny.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

I like your funny words, magic man

Please tell me it wasn't a _paid_ cast & crew event.

That’s why I wouldn’t even go to DCA until after the renovation. I just couldn’t do that to Walt.

I also went on this ride when it first opened. We had no idea that there would be a photo taken of us while on the ride. (I remember vaguely the flash from the ride’s camera being masked within the multiple flashes of the cut out fans and paparazzi supposedly taking photos of you.) The unexpected photo they got of me and my boyfriend was hilarious as we both had our hands covering our mouths with a look of absolute shock on how bad the ride was. At that moment I wondered if corporate would see these pictures because it said everything. I really wish I would have bought that photo.

@@timothymclean Well, I was paid, but I did not pay to get into the park. I did not know that was a thing. Every cast & crew event I have ever attended was a "thank you" to the cast & crew. Not a grift.

Courtney (ProjectSNT) I love all the low-key Eisner roasts on Defunctland.

Courtney (ProjectSNT) Well, Farquaad from Shrek was based on him.

@Brother Malachai For real?

@DarkOmegaMK2 Yep!

@Brother Malachai Wow, that some crazy shit.

You can see him dying inside in the clip

That's why he claimed it was Robert Zemeckis lol!

Probably the same feeling after seeing Geppetto!

He was drunk in that clip

Not even an animatronic...a regular figurine...

At least the movies was about an alien monster learning the value of friendship and not the plane hijacking. The change didn't require _that_ much effort, just a bunch of animators working overtime to animate an entire new scene.

It's like one giant California-themed circlejerk that does nothing but alienate Californians.

My thought when It opened.

Who put pineapple juice in my pineapple juice?

Is that California times California or California squared?

No! NOOOO! (from joshua and the promised land)

I hope someone has come up with a list of every single Simpson’s episode you can find on Disney+ which takes the absolute piss out of Disney.

@@TachyonKing you have to wonder if they'll still be allowed to make those jokes now.

@@TachyonKing The Itchy and Scratchy Land episode ends with a french guy opening Euro Itchy and Scratchy Land and nobody shows up. "Helloooo! Itchy and Scratchyland is open for business! Please people! My children need wine!" Hahaha....

@@switchplayer1016 Well, The Simpsons used to criticize FOX all the time before Disney bought them, so I imagine it's fine.

@@HOTD108_ look ma! I’m the head of an evil corporation! Hu-ha!

I just. Yess.

This is genius

HECK YES!!! That would honestly be so fun

The movie is already a masterpiece, so why not re-theme it to that movie?

For some reason, Lester's Possum Party would be the perfect satire to the original ride.

Yup! Good ole Eisner

I mean There is the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor but that’s a horror attraction, not a family thing

Give it 20 years, they'll be buying the World Trade Center to turn it into a Tower of Terror

I mean other than those on that one ship that the Queen Mary collided with who were then cut up by her propellers, there's not much haunted about her. I personally don't care about the haunted stuff I'm just interested in her a ship. She's the last surviving Cunard Ship before the modern Cunard Queens and the last surviving connection to the White Star Line other than the S.S. Nomadic. The Queen Mary was only completed because the British Government gave Cunard funds to finish her on the terms that the WSL and Cunard merge. The Queen Mary's sister ship, the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth burned down in the 70s, so the Queen Mary really is the last remnant of the old Cunard. The art-deco style of her interiors is super cool and very interesting for an ocean liner of the QM's size.

Send over a Catholic priest and problem solved.

Californiaception? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, in Disneyland Paris, we have a French Area for the Ratatouille's ride so... Why not ? :)

Yeah, I was all "whut"???? Because why go to the knock off if the real thing is just around the corner.

CoderatheGreat exactly

I feel like a lot of people commenting about this aren't actually from California and don't quite understand exactly how big it is. Case in point: Driving from Anaheim to San Francisco is over 400 miles and takes about seven hours. Not exactly a day trip, and that only covers about half the length of the state with no time for stops. You'd need at LEAST two weeks (and a lot of money) to really get the full "California Adventure" the old-fashioned way.

As soon as it cut to black at 8:17 I thought, “It’s going to fade in on Princess Diana.”

you know its a dangerous path when it could easily be either the tragic death of british royalty, or the infamous screwup of the most tubular CEO ever

I watched this with my cousin, who didn’t know the story of Diana, and as soon as her picture appeared I just went “Oh NO-“

Caitlin Jenner?

@@cquiroz7874 Caitlin Jenner's Wild Ride might be fun.... I'm going to hell for that one, I just know it.

Yeah def one of the (many) problems with that is how much the big-name actors work together and know each other. For them, it was like if you went on the ride and one of the statues was of Chris, the accountant at your office. They can't laugh or be impressed or anything because (among other reasons) they've probably met a lot of the people they're being shown. The funniest part is the sudden cut to them leaving the building and immediately deciding to go somewhere else lol.

Mine is still "A powerful rat... named Charles Entertainment Cheese."

Poley23 Ah, one of the bait-and-switch comments Kevin has made.

That sounds hilarious!^^

If they did that they wouldn’t even have to bother trying to make the full ride, just keep it like that as a meta joke against disney

What about Pepe the king prawn? He wants to earn oscars in Hollywood so he's a perfect fit. Maybe he's trying to ask one of the celebs how they got theirs

I read "Statler and Waldorf get you off." That'd be... different.

@@theothertonydutch A surprise to be sure...

I believe you. A Poster said something like,"My boyfriend and I went on this ride shortly after launch and we saw a flash, but we just assumed it was one of the "Fans," in the ride taking a picture of you. After the ride, we realized our picture was ACTUALLY taken and we had our mouths covered in absolute shock in our photos on how bad that ride really was. I wish I had bought that photo!" 🤣

Who?

@@Sypaka *moronic grunting*

Hold your sides

"It's overly republican boomer Tim Allen!"

@@Foxontherun2 U R R G H

Maybe this would make sense in Florida, a state that is not California and tens of thousands of miles away from everything in California...but a California themed amusement park in California seems redundant.

@@TuesdaysArt by the excutives logic if they wanted to do the same in florida it would be disney's florida adventure

@@luma4902 What would be the Attractions? Stinking Swamp-Morass Gator Adventure? "Authentic Methlab House of Horrors"? "Leave Florida quick ride Coaster"? :P (and of course after 2020 the "get Covid and stay forever" attraction... )

Agreed! Like just why would you see the mock/fake thing when you can see the REAL thing for free!

yeah cause people would definitely want to see a miniature version of hollywood instead of the actual hollywood that's less than an hour away

I was just looking for a comment talking about this. I loved it

The Queen Mary!

And the When You Wish Upon A Star with the Arrested Development theme. Amazing.

It's kinda what our world has become though, hasn't it? Amusement parks in themselves are sad approximations of things that can (and should) be experienced in nature without so much effort. Or expense.

People dont go to theme parks for real stuff, they go for the fun things you cant experience irl.

@@icdisney1964 yeah I don't own a rollercoaster I'm not richie rich

MsNooneinparticular no???

honestly, the concept is sorta quaintly charming in a way. but, say, as a local place just in california, not, well, a disney park.

But you also have to pay your friends a million dollars to pretend to be interested.

@@Sashazur and even then they can't bring themselves to do it, because your project is just that bad

Sounds like a more fun ride.

As a California themed Californian, I'm inclined to agree.

TLDR: California.

You didn’t add anything to this

Say California again 👁👄👁

Synecdoche, California

I'm not sure which would have been worse: Mickey Mouse or a giant cheese wheel character.

@@blazerocker1734 You misspelled "better" there.

I'm still processing the part where Eisner apparently receives two real human people in the mail.

I just read that in Wayne Allwine's Mickey voice.

@HerooftheNexus 1992 Mickey is the perfect bourgeois feminist ally to write for the atlantic

Perfectly put.

extreme egotism

It’s supposed to be a celebration of California and the rides today are better than the original park in my opinion

That’s like building an American theme park in an already American themed America. ....Wait a minute?

@@xaviersaavedra7442 Eh, that makes a little more sense, since you can't find all of the US in one place. The problem with California Adventure as it was originally designed was that they had imitations of attractions that were less than a day's drive away.

It would be great, along with a attraction called Homeless Land...........

The funny thing is, they had the _actual_ Hollywood at home, in the already Hollywood-themed Hollywood.

@@timothymclean The actual Hollywood has very few Towers of Terror and most elevators don’t take you into another dimension.

@@williamlasl Most, but not none. Probably,

SavageGreywolf And pretend to act like it’s hilarious and enjoyable

SavageGreywolf terrible celebs

Nemegan how dare you

Drew be like, "I said celebrities..."

*quietly screaming*

Yup, that felt like a horror movie

I stopped the video there so I could go show it to someone else just to watch it dawn on them, too.

Why did this get 350 likes???

@@artdonovandesign because it's funny

No one really cared about Diana outside of England tho. Just some dumb brit who didn't deserve what she had

Damn Quinton, you watch this too??? I love when other youtubers I watch, watch the same stuff

Big fan of Defunctland!

Quinton Reviews Truly you do have the best taste for RU-vidrs.

_I wish I was the big cheese_

They’re just riding it and waiting for the check to clear the bank

spinningninja2 My thoughts exactly.

Literally me!!!

A simple "...oh..." would have been enough.

@@June28July ok?

@@June28July I think that was more of a shocked gasped "oh".

The Golden Ninja How ANYONE at Disney thpught this was good idea is something that still baffles me

A fake SF and LA in the middle of real California! It’s like putting a fake Miami Beach and Kennedy Space Center in Orlando!

Klonoahedgehog Everybody but Eisner knew it was dumb but he was the boss.

Speaking from the High Desert, I think the budget actually ran out before the entire state could be California-themed.

So it’s a California themed theme park in California in California themed California in California?In California :/

Michael Eisner is cringe-worthy.

You mean Z-grade celebrities taking a ride about C-grade celebrities? Cringe indeed

@@a.j2221 Cringe is a tired meme but this is actually just hyperconsumerist goo and once you see that about things, they become embarrassing to witness as a human being.

they didn't even seem to like it either

I used to like Drew Carrey. Not so much now.

In The Words Of Woody: “WHAT?! What Are You Talking About!?”

@@robertocontrerasjr1075 : Re “What Are You Talking About?”: My comment is in regards to the video to which it is attached. Isn't that obvious? My comment is written in clear English with no typos or other errors. I am not a remedial English teacher, so I cannot help you with that. I'm guessing that you are a Literal Person who cannot grok satire. I'm sorry, but I cannot help you with _that_ either; no one can; it's a life-long affliction; my condolences. The only thing I can suggest is, look-up the word "satire" in both Wiktionary and Wikipedia. More specifically, if you ave having trouble seeing why the original "Super-Star Limo" ride was a "horror ride", look up the term "uncanny valley". (Though, if you are a Literal Person, you may not be able to fully understand the concept. Naught I can do about that, though. One can lead a horse to water, but if the horse has no mouth, the horse cannot drink.)

Yup. He clowns on dude lol.

Maybe we would see more of Po than Mickey?

I am now imagining an alternate universe where DreamWorks (both live-action and animation studios) owns Marvel, Star Wars, and the entirety of 20th Century Fox, whereas Disney is a modestly successful but consistently struggling company owned by Comcast.

Bowen Orcutt a better one

Utopia

Comcast was trying to buy them

Lol, that was gold

Dude I can hear everything dying from where I am

It’s amazing how much emotion he can get across without showing his face.

Don't forget N-Sync.

And they're all trying desperately to act impressed.

Rod Bender I can picture South Park’s Mickey Mouse staring at them threateningly off camera

Beautiful stranger looks like that lady from Scrubs

How more early 2000’s can you get?

the park opened just a few months before Shrek came out - and they even based Lord Farquaad's design on Eisner

@@magicwindow6682 underrated comment

Not ironic as it is just weird sounding.

Imagine an alternate timeline where all star was associated with superstar limo rather than Shrek

NGL, Tsumugi sus.

Look it’s the best boy

It's almost like a modern Greek tradgedy, the decay of a once great company making way for a juggernaut that could keep up with the times

Hi.

@@dr.anderson1847 they seem to have fallen back into decay. This is not disneys decade

That's literally 2001 in a nutshell

@@PeruvianPotato the onyl thing that could make it more 2001 is a reference to 9/11.

Big Ugly Boy IV haha

Guess it really wasn't Wayne's line anyway,

I want to see them do improv jokes about how bad this was

Krispy JB I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING LOL

I know!!! Wayne knew when to leave!

eyyy is that a whose line ref I see 8D

METAPHOR

I think anyone working at Disney who thought that California Adventure was a good idea can get Shrekt.

Nice try Disney.. Smash Mouth only fits in with Shrek and DreamWorks You can't rule everything..

seemed like it was a time machine.

The irony is that it would become synonymous with Shrek, Dreamworks’ biggest franchise!

Flame Warp lol

Eisner was all about maximizing profits, spending as little as possible and still getting people through the gates, its a horrible business model but quintessentially 90s. Reality tv shows are the same concept, they cost nothing to make so as long as someone is watching its profitable. The idea of pulling displays from Disney stores to stick in a ride is so Eisner, he was that cheap. Most construction in the Eisner era was exactly what this was -- painted on plywood. My dad did some construction in MK, he did the original shopping village, which was kind of dated and not Disney branded, so Eisner's solution, put up plywood facades and paint Disney characters on it. Just recently it got a complete renovation, a little overdue, but at least Eisner's plywood is gone.

They should have called it the 1996 Hollywood Limo Experience, the fact it was still running in 2001 is beyond sad.

they did it in other areas - all of the attractions in the wonders of life pavilion either starred or were voiced by then-popular SNL cast members, like hans and franz, who were dated within a few years.

The ticker about *NSYNC live while All Star played in the background of this monstrosity was just too good

They must have known it would get dated, but they probably expected that they would have to replace some of the figures and references over time as those people became more irrelevant. But instead of that, the entire thing was a flop from the very beginning.