Disney World-If You Had Wings (Ultimate Edition) 

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That song has been stuck in my head since the late '70s

Wow...just WOW!!!

Thats beautiful. This kind of thing is exactly why the parks are so important and beautiful. You never know what experience will inform the rest of a visitor's life.

omg that is awesome

It's a Bahamian cop!

@@trubenstudios4063 Who knows it may well have been, since he did do a movie for Disney in this era! ("The World's Greatest Athlete")

I was nine in 1973..yes I'm 60...

I loved that Ride and I still love the Song!

Same! Loved this ride.

Same here

I too had such fond memories of this ride, I was so disappointed to see it go.

Yes! I was 5 on my second trip to Disney World (first trip I was under 2 yrs old and remember nothing) and this ride always stuck with me. Loved it!

Indeed it does.

BTW a very cool ride. Imagine if U took acid and rode this!!

The Circle Vision theater was a free ride, too. I still have some of those A-E tickets with me. Good memories!

Thanks for your kind comments! That was a special era of WDW history. I'm so glad that these video tributes can help keep our memories of them fresh in our minds instead of going dormant, as you say.

YES! When it was REALLY hot outside, we'd make a beeline to this ride and it felt SOOOO good!!

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sharing your memories of the ride! I remember so well Eastern's identification as the "official airline of Walt Disney World" in those days.

I just read an article that Eastern Airlines is going back into buisness. With the hub at JFK, and 777 service to the Caribbean,and Asia

@@pip12111 ugh, don't get me started on that. It's a company called Dynamic using Eastern's name and intellectual property, except they're going in a whole different direction with new logos, branding, etc. and may as well leave the Eastern IP alone.

Are you freaking kidding me!!!??? That is so awesome

I think the difference is this ride isn't like a modern ride where you're looking at one giant screen in each room essentially. It had sets and everything else they use smaller screens within it Maybe the substitute for animatronics. The ending projections all over the ceiling and the walls are just cool. If a modern ride did that again with the 180° screen all around you I'm all for that.

@@michaelhoffman4470 I agree!

Now I know why there are many firm believers in nostalgia being a virtue instead of just being treated like one.

The Delta Airlines version sucked!😮

Us, too!!! We went in 1975 on our honeymoon and rode this so many times. We could sing that song in our heads forever. So thankful to RU-vid for letting us relive it😍

Same! I absolutely loved it! I can't believe I'm watching this in 2020, and remember the details of this ride. I really miss it.

Loved it! Step in from the hot sun into cool AC, no line usually, and so much fun

I feel the same way 😢

You just got older, that’s what happened.

Because there's more people in the world and they're visiting in droves. Used to be there were certain months to avoid Disney. Now its year round

You're welcome! That was a great time to visit WDW. I wish that version was still around today.

@@epaddon Yes definitely! I look back fondly at the 70’s and 80’s as the height of dark ride excellence. Peter Pan’s Flight and Mister Toad’s Wild Ride are other good examples of high quality imagineering along with every future world dark ride at EPCOT. Universe of Energy blew my mind with those giant trackless vehicles. Only recently with Ratatouille, Rise of the Resistance, and Runaway Railway are we seeing worthy implementation of the U of E trackless technology along with improved visual surroundings to see a resurgence in high quality dark rides. I hope to one day get to enjoy them in person, but for now am grateful that others post videos that allow folks like me to ride along! Cheers!

Couldn't agree more. The Disney World of 1975-1993 was the prime period.

@@epaddon Our family made 6 trips to WDW from 1979 to 1989 and we always had the time of our lives while staying there. I started going back again after a 17-year absence from 2006 to 2020 and noticed it was getting way too expensive and much less enjoyable with every visit. All the small details that made WDW a special place was being taken away and over time all those small things turn into one big thing. It's so sad what WDW has become, younger people have no idea how much more wonderful this place once was.

@@Dave711701 That was a great period. My last "classic" visit was May 1993 (my twelfth overall since 75) and what was great was that only "If You Had Wings" and the Mickey Mouse Revue had disappeared from the original attractions but everything else was still intact and had been supplemented with Splash Mountain while EPCOT was still in its original prime and MGM was still largely new and exciting. Little did I know that I had visited just in the knick of time before ill-advised closings and makeovers took place to destroy that starting with the Hall Of Presidents one month after I'd been there, followed by the Tomorrowland overhaul misfire, the loss of 20K Leagues and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. EPCOT lost its uniqueness and MGM became neglected and not very distinctive any longer. My one time back since was in 2004 and so much had changed by that point and since then what I've seen on video of other changes hasn't been an improvement. New rides aren't geared toward the whole family since they usually involve violent motion and shaking until you get sick (which is why I didn't dare do Mission Space in EPCOT). "New Fantasyland" was a wasted opportunity that ended up costing us another classic Dark Ride in Snow White. Thank goodness these classic rides lived long enough into the age of camcorders because even though they're not HD quality they still are good enough to make the memories endure.

@@epaddon You summed it all up perfectly and the latest thing they're doing right now is turning Fort Wilderness into a homogenized DVC resort. Glad you liked the If You Had Wings attraction and thanks for posting the video. I actually worked for Eastern Airlines out of Logan Airport in Boston as a ramp agent from 1988 until the end of 1990 right before they closed operations forever. That was my first real job I had right out of high school and got a couple of free flights to Orlando as a benefit, oh how I miss those days!!

Indeed there were only a few times a year that you'd see little lines at Disney, nowadays I don't think there are hardly any slow times.

I mean to be fair, this ride was never popular, even on busy days it almost never exceeded a 15 minute wait

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Well... it had promotional items tied in, there was Eastern Airlines merch for sale back in those days at Disney. And nothing in the 70s was bright, it was all dull beige and brown, a roll back from the psychedelic 60's... To assume Disney NOW has interest in character tie-ins is pretty ignorant.. fucking MICKEY MOUSE????

This whole ride was literally one long commercial that Eastern Airlines paid for lmao

When we took our daughter in 2000 it seemed that every ride ended in a gift shop. They didn't do that back in the 70's

The only 2 that is still here without a character tie in that you can think of is Mission Space and Test Teack

A sponsorship tie in isn't quite what I was talking about jackoff.

That experience when you passed from the Speed Room to the Mirror Room always created a false sensation that you'd just dropped and were free-falling and then as you say the mountain projections also added to the illusion (plus I recall how the air conditioner was even cooler in the Mirror Room to accompany the mountain visuals).