Part I of a tour of some places at Disneyland that hold interesting clues to the past at the park. My son and I will be cutting together several of these short pieces in a series--we hope you enjoy them.
When I went to Disney world in 09 I got to experience some great nostalgia with the country bears. It was nice to see that again after all those years.
I really miss my childhood now, watching this has brought back many wonderful memories that I can remember. And I feel kinda bad for the old Mine Train, abandoned like that and no one cares about it......sad:(
My grandpa went to this last year and was so sad and depressed to see the park changed so much and was tough to see all the old rides he remembered was, just remnents he was there on back in the 60's and 70's with my mom.
It's a bit creepy to see the heads inside of the Winnie the Pooh ride. They're there in the shadows, smiling. Finally saw them a few weeks ago. So cool.
There was a ride in the area of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad called Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland.Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opened in 1979. Since 1955 the area has been trails,the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train, Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland and finally Big Thunder Mountain. As Walt Disney said "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
Disneyland changes. It has to. It's part of what makes Disneyland so great but i've always admired that when they take out an attraction, there's always some nods to what used to be there. As long as Disneyland remembers it's past, it's never lost
The small screen within an already smallish screen was driving me nuts lol... but I really like the vid other than that! This was uploaded nearly 10 years ago now though :( Some of those forgotten Disney things have *really* been forgotten now.
By the way, does anyone find some of these to be "creepy" for some reason? Well, mostly the remaining heads in the Winnie the Pooh ride lol :/ Like... it's just creepy to have to turn around during a DARK ride and see them staring back at you, like it's a hidden, mysterious kinda thing... idk how to explain it.
the fact the such history is lost to time is truly sad. If they spent a little more money and brought back even half of what used to be there people would flood to see it to bring back sights and sounds from their childhood, hell even younger guys like me would love to see it just to take a trip back in time !
The crazy thing is that almost every one of the listed things are STILL in their original form at DisneyWorld. Looking at Disneyland vids, it makes me realize how much I take that for granted. Then again, i have never once been to disneyland. i was born, and live in orlando..
This music is soooo silly! I laughed. and I agree, I always missed the "old school stuff" in disneyland. Especially the three characters from the country bear jamboree. Anyway, great montage.
I remember Country Bears! But I was so little then. LOL How cool that the tree the Treehouse was based on still exists. I guess there's no reason it wouldn't though.
In the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, the counrty bear jamboree characters are in the room where pooh is eating hunny and there is hunny all over the walls. They are right above you right after you pass through the entrance to the hunny room and you leave the colorful hefalumps and woozles room. Every time I go I look up becase it is so cool to see.
Ha I saw the bear jamboree characters last year. I turned around in the Pooh ride to see what the backs of the scenes looked like and SURPRISE! There were some unexpected guests looking back at me.
Great video! The Swiss Family Robinson tree house was always one of my favorites as a kid. I'll always remember the real tropical birds they had, and the water machine that brought water from the base up to the "house." It was so fanciful and you could really imagine living there, which is something that "Tarzan" lacks due to the character diorama.
It was awsome.I hav been looking 4 the eyeore sign for years and couldnt see it cause it was so dark up there. Then the last time wewent wen my brother was trying to get me to see it, the guy working there shined a flasklight on it.I was sooo happy to hav finally seen it myself
I always wondered what happened to the Country Bears Jamboree. I vaguely remember the first time I went to Disneyland as a little girl. I could never find it after that first time going there though. I went on the Winnie the Pooh ride the last time I went a couple years ago too. Ah...memories. ='D
On a more recent note, There are also some subtle references to the old Star Tours ride in the new one, including C-3PO (who is the new pilot) saying lines like "I've always wanted to do this!" and "Brakes! Brakes!! WHERE ARE THE BRAKES!!!?," Several models that were used in the old ride, and a situation that very closely resembles the original ride.
I've been going to King's Island near Cinny, OH. since it was new. I've seen a lot of changes there in the last 40 years and I see so many things that are reused from old attractions and remants of past rides all around the park. Just have to know what to look for....well, and be old enough to know what to look for....LOL!
@CosplayCore Disney world got rid of Swiss Family Tree House?? SOOOO glad I took my entire family through it last year. That was always one of my favorite attractions.
I'm a military history buff and I get a big laugh at how the WWII German Army license plate on the truck with the "WH" (Wehrmacht Heer) prefix sticks out like a sore thumb. At least to me it does. The mining town at the Big Thunder Mountain ride is not the original mining town from the old Mine Train ride. I saw the current one under construction when the Big Thunder ride was built.
@SuperMore101 the bears may no longer in there, but Max, Buff, and Melvin still are. I was just there over Spring Break this last March. They still hang over one of the portals, since they are wall-mounted characters wouldn't be able to be removed without having to remove an entire wall. The wall they hang on used to be the exit at Disneyland's version of the Country Bear Jamboree.
Palanthol says: why do you even care what the past was of disneyland (?) I say: Some of us who grew up with these old things like to know that they remain in this way in the parks. Some of us, who are mature and still love the memories, appreciate learning history of the parks. My children love knowing about this stuff too. In my opinion, the past of Disneyland was, in many ways, superior to now.
Wow, WDW in Orlando still has it's Swiss Family Robinson's Tree House, Countyr Bear Jamboree, and Ft. Wilderness. Heck, one of our newer resorts over here at WDW is called the Wilderness Lodge
Its not depressing. Its a sign of renewal and change. A theme park, a good theme park anyway, is going to be around for a long time and its going to need constant updating, reinvigoration, and breaths of fresh life. As time goes on, Disneyland has to evolve and change to fit the demands of the times or you won't have a popular active park representative of the characters and themes everyone loves now, you'll just have long forgotten memories that are part of our history not our present.
OMG They're remodeling Tarzan's Treehouse AGAIN. I have a friend who works at Disney (used to fly as Tinkerbell during the fireworks show before only men were allowed to do it) and she tells me pretty much everything.
The old train ride was called nature wonderland and took over after they took out the burro and wagon tours. I believe they changed it because they wanted a more adventurous attraction for the guests. Not sure though, I would of loved to go on it.
Ok first of all le tme say this, i LOVE these videos. i first watched them about 2 years ago when i first found my interest in dsiney history and secrets. i instantly fell in love with these videos. Ive ben waiting soooo long for another so im excited to see that. also, what is the music in this one? thank you and i cant wait for more videos :D
tecnically the old rides still exist like the anamatronics from splash mountain were used in america sings! so it may seem like disneyland has changed , but small fragments exist in our memories and on rides
So the country bear show is still going,but the other part that is now Winnie the pooh still has the heads? I was wondering about those heads 2:05. I still remember spotting the train,and the log fence near thunder ranch,this info is a trip.
The truck in front of Indiana Jones HAS to be the same one from Raiders of the Lost Ark because its the same make, model, and is missing its hood ornament!
Tony Baxter of Walt Disney Imagineering (who oversaw the Indiana Jones Adventure) said in a presentation that the jeep in front of the show building was from the first movie. (I believe he mentioned that the jeep needed weatherproofing.) I still have a recording of this presentation somewhere.
These video's are great. I believe, however, that the steam pump train engines in the queue for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad were from "The Great Locomotive Chase". Though I expect they might have been used in "Hot Lead and Cold Feet" as well. There is a plaque under the engine that explains it.
When I use to go on tom Sawyers Island, we use to shoot the guns up top on the fort. Some idiots were messing around up there and removed there own fingers. -.- they should of kept the fort open and just took out the guns.
:( I liked the tree house better when it was the Swiss family one, that was one of my favorite films when I was a kid. Sometimes I wish they would just expand the park and build stuff instead of close down stuff to convert it to other things (the pooh ride)
literrally broke my heart this year going to tom sawyers island and seeing that the fort wilderness has been removedish...well just closed off... sad day.
if disneyland would have kept everything from the original 1955 park and never changed anything, the park would now be outdated, hokey and boring. I think they are doing a good job keeping some of the old and still updating. imagine in 2000 years if history is lost and people dig up this park. i wonder what kind of society they would think this was?
Still bummed they got rid of that little mcdonalds by big thunder. It was always nice to just grab some fresh fries and hang out by the smoking section