I remember going on this with my lil sister back in 1976. She must've been scared shitless because she just didn't hug me back then because we were mostly at war lol. Great ride with excellent props. Sad to hear it's gone.
I remember riding this when I was 6 years old in 1989 and crying my eyes out. Scarier than haunted mansion or anything else in the park. I went back in my late 20s and rode it again and thought… well that wasn't so bad, what was I scared of? Well, I didn't realized they'd changed the ride and toned it down from when I was a kid. And now it's gone forever.
andrey vinicius vieira Wow, I wish i could've seen that. I actually enjoyed this version of the ride, as it was very intense as a kid seeing what was going to happen next.
Especially considering when they first opened it, there were absolutely no warnings whatsoever that this was a scary ride, in fact it used to be call "snow white and her adventures"
The most sadistic in all this is the passage of the house of the dwarves, you see it ,you FINALLY see something reassuring ... And when the door opens everything is cold, dead and furniture looks traumatized.
I think she is actually saying “have the apple dearie!” Meaning she is trying to poison you by putting poison in the apples? the sound quality sounds like my GoPro after I put it in the pool so idk what she is saying lol
She doesn't try to kill you, she SUCCEEDS. Note the explosion of starbursts in the room right after you go under the giant gem. That's Disney's way of saying "You have been murdered by an evil hag who split your skull with a giant diamond. Please step out to your left."
mildmannrdreprtr "Step out to your left, please. When the car stops, step out to your left." I heard that a lot on my vacation in 1995 to Disney World, like on Mr. Toad and Peter Pan.
The creepiest thing about this for me is how the animatronics get way too close and how the camera is something that would probably be used in a horror setting, since it's so old.
Yeah i agree with ya friend. That old disney ride back then was appsalotley the worst and it's the complete opposite of the original Walt Disney's Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs full length animated feature film classic of all time ever!
No offense but you do realize the original concept of this ride thru Walt Disney was that the guest was the main character in the movie. In this dark ride you WERE Snow White with the wicked stepmother chasing after you and trying to kill you. Peter Pan's flight had a similar concept as well.
HAVE MERCY!! Did they really expect children to ride this?? If I rode this as a child I would be scared shitless! When I was 12 I got scared of the new version lol
I went on this when I was four, and I was freaking out the whole time; I was in tears when I got off of it. When I was 21, I decided to brave it again...only to discover they'd replaced it with the phoned-in version; I...really don't think either version really captured Snow White properly, and the former version is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too existentialist. I know what they were going for, but...who's honestly gonna figure it out? I'm almost 32 now, and watching it again...it just feels like overkill. I even had nightmares from my memories of the ride years later; dead serious.
I rode this in 1990 I believe, so I was around 8, when it was still this version of the ride, and I never expected it to be really scary because it was Snow White after all . We went in the middle of a sweltering Florida summer so to go from bright sunlight into this ride was disorienting right from the start, then watching the witch pop out at every available turn, especially the last part where the witch asks if we enjoyed the ride, I about peed my pants.
Really? The one in Disneyland? Or is it DisneyWorld that closed? Cause i know i read it was replaced with A Disney Princess get together for kids or the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train roller coaster??
I miss this original version. It was more like the old ride-thru spook houses that were at every traditional amusement park for ages. They made great use of complete darkness with creepy things popping out at you while your little car twisted & turned around very sharp corners. A lot of them were found at seaside boardwalk-type parks like Coney Island or Wildwood. This version really captures the tone of those old spook houses.
yeah it is fun but apparently disney will change things to please the young kids and families that go there, so the fact it lasted 23 years was amazing itself. i didnt see tokyo version , ill look at that.
The mine train ride is really coo, but they're different...If I want a roller coaster I will go to Cedar Point or one of the many amusement parks that have thrill rides. Dark rides have so much more story and still keeps you engaged..Plus you don't need as much space for these rides.
My father went to Disneyland when he was ten and remembers a sign on the outside of the ride, warning that it may scare children. He was terrified to go on the ride, but his parents insisted. He remembers vaguely what occurred... so I showed this video to him, and he was shocked, considering (or I'm fairly sure), that this ride was in with the kiddie rides in the park.
InvaderPet Can we take a moment to notice she says "I am the fairest one of all!" when she's an ugly hag? I've seen the movie, and it was made pretty clear she was going to transform back after killing Snow White and THEN she'd be the fairest one of all. She wouldn't be it as soon as she becomes the witch.
Keep in mind, this was back when it was only called "Snow White's Adventures" no "scary" in the title, no warning in the queue. So most kids riding this back in the day had no idea what they were in for.
The imagineers said the reason why you don't see Snow White in the ride is because YOU are Snow White, you are seeing her point of veiw in the story. No wonder she looked liked she is drunk from carbon monoxide homegirl went through all of that 😂😂
I remember all my preschool friends warned me about this one. So when I went on the toned down ride in 1993 I wasn't sure what they'd been so afraid of. But yeah, this original version would've terrified me. Still, I'll miss it.
cruzcamel Same about the preschool thing, except I was in first grade! I guess they rode the updated version that added Snow White and wasn't as scary, though, because I went in 1995. The ride was updated in 1994, FTFY.
If I had to count the number of times I saw the wicked witch in this video pop out of nowhere with an apple in her hand yelling, "EEEE HAHAHAHA".... ....I'd be richer than Walt himself, lol.
😂😂😂😂 I know it is scary but I laughed at it at the same time like I wanna say STOP LOOKING AT WHOEVER YOUR CRUSH IS IN THIS RIDE, GET ANOTHER HOBBY what she's doing can eventually cause her SOAR THROAT or DRY COUGH but anyway THE REGRET COMES LAST and never BEFORE. Now look at the NEW ride, and you'll see what I mean. Hope she's learned her lessons 😂
My parents laughed cos they thought it was hilarious how scared I was of this ride, I still think this was scary as hell and I forgive my 6 year old self for hiding throughout most of the ride and not sitting upright :P
I would've loved it if it were still around in 1995. My neighbor taught me not to be scared of anything via the TV shows she showed me. Can you say Ren and Stimpy, 1970s episodes of Saturday Night Live, and Beavis & Butt-Head?
This was the one I rode. I was really young at the time, and after that one, we had to go back because I wouldn't stop crying. Snow White's scary adventures? More like Evil Queen's nightmare fuel!
Fun Fact: This was designed by an Imagineer who had also wanted to make The Haunted Mansion darker than it ended up being! I wonder if he also designed Mr. Toad's Wild Ride...?
Out of all the Snow White rides in the Disney Parks (open or closed) Snow White 1971-1994 is my favorite. It's actually my favorite Fantasyland-style dark ride.
Yes man! Same 100% I love how creepy this one is for the little kiddies. Really hammers in the message of be a good person and stay away from strangers
wow...I understand that kids need to see scary things, and not everything is rainbows. But this is like a fever dream. I'd imagine some kids would be traumatized.....let's have the queen kill them. What a good idea!
The queen is like a demon that give you strange drugs that make you see really dark, surreal things. The trees are her henchmen from hell. Then you get impaled in the head with a large diamond of crystal meth and you die from overdose.
excuse me Thats too bad , I would have killed to go to Disney World as a kid and would have loved this ride. I first went in 1991 but was unaware of the greatness of this ride. I am sorry I missed it.
I find it ironic that in the Disneyland Version, the Witch gets killed. But in the now closed original Magic Kingdom Version, your the one that gets killed.
God damn! That's exactly how I remember that right as a little kid in the late 70s and early 80s. That wicked witch would be laughing the whole ride and just popping up all over the place. The memories were so traumatic, that the last time I went to Disneyland in 2002, I was silently dreading going on that ride. But to my surprise, they had toned down the scary aspects of the ride and the witch didn't turn around from her mirror which was one of the scariest moments for me. LOL
I remember going on this ride as a 4 year old kid in the early 80's with my grandparents. I was so scared I cried. We went back a few years later and I reused to get on it. My younger cousin also came off crying lol
LOL I am glad to be able to compare this to the updated cheery version here on RU-vid. I rode this in 1990 at Disney World, and when I saw the cheerier more well lighted version here on the rides videos, I was like What The Heck? That's not what I remember. This is terrifying and I remember getting off this ridw with my 6 foot three male friend and both of us going " That's a kids ride? CRAP!"
I am 32 and I will NEVER forget the first time I rode this as a kid. It scared the shit out of me! I remember covering my eyes most of the ride because the damn queen kept popping out. As I got older, I was able to ride it without covering my eyes but it still scared me! I think what disturbed me most was that the queen kills you at the end. LOL
They used to have more fake fog pumped into that ride, when I was a kid my friend had an asthma attack and couldn't breathe in there until medical personnel got him an inhaler. He had to endure the entire ride unable to breathe, and my mom and I were panicking. The witch seemed even more terrifying as she'd emerge from behind the fog like something out of a horror movie.
This is scarier than most haunted houses I've been on. There's no soundtrack through most of it other than wind, screams, and the evil witch cackling. There's plenty of jump scares where she pops up or runs toward the riders. It's like you're in a horror movie being chased by this malevolent, supernatural entity trying to kill you. I've never seen such horrifying trees in my life. Even in the dwarves' home, they're scared, the animals are scared, and even the furniture is scared! The ending is a very "haunted house" one where it seems the witch wins by making the diamond fall on you, with no "happy ending". On top of that, the old Disney, analog, plastic feel of everything makes it especially uncanny. This VHS recording also adds to the creepiness. I'm actually glad they rethemed this ride. It followed the story of the movie more closely, still had the cool mirror reveal of the queen turning into the witch, and had a happy ending that leaves the riders on a high note. Yes, the original movie had some creepy parts, but nothing like the nightmare fuel of this version.
If your too lazy to watch here's a "guide" 0:11-cottage 0:22-door 0:25 mirror 0:28 "I am the fairest of them all!" 0:35 skeleton 1 0:40 skeleton 2 0:43 crow 0:47 witch with Apple 0:55 witch on boat 1:01 alligator 1:05 evil forest 1:18 creepy furniture 1:24 animals 1:27 dwarfs 1:31 witch 1:36 vultures 1:38 witch 1:43 mine 1:51 "enjoy your ride?" 2:01 minecart 2:09 witch with gem 2:15 strobe room
THAT WAS FOR KIDS??? I am 28 and would be freaked out on that ride. Hell, I was getting on edge watching the video. As a kid? I would be catatonic, due to my fear (which I still have to a much lesser extent)of being near audio-animatronics.
Parents:Bobby, Sarah, want to go on Snow White’s ride? Kids:Yes! Sarah:I can’t wait to see the pretty trees! Bobby:I can’t wait to see the cute animals! Parents:Okay, let’s go! (Ride Starts) (Ride Ends) Kids:(Come out crying)I never want to see Snow White or go on another ride every again! Parents:Well that was a mistake. And then the whole family had nightmares for a whole year and still have nightmares about it every once in a while! And they lived “happily” every after! The end! (Witch laugh)
I was 2 when this was taken. When I went, it was a year after they updated to the less scarier version. However, they still used Snow White's Adventures then; it was when I went in 1999 they added the word "scary."
I rode this ride in 1993 when I was only 5 years old. The wicked witch was so scary to me. I could not stop yelling whenever she popped up. But the final room with the stars was so pretty. I liked that room. By the time I went back in 2000 as a 12 year old, it had already been refurbished. To this day, I still prefer that original.
"Hey should we make the ride called The Haunted Mansion the scariest ride in the park?" "No let's make it eerie but fun. We should make the ride based on Snow White the real horror attraction!"
I consider this to be more of a Haunted House than a ride based on Snow White. I can see why they changed it. Though I still wonder to this day what the original Disneyland one was like that lasted from 1955-1981.
I'm eight months late, but I have all the information you can handle right here: discuss.micechat.com/forum/disney-theme-park-news-and-discussion/disneyland-resort/128807-anyone-have-much-memories-of-snow-white-peter-pan-alice-and-mr-toad-pre-1983?t=125696 i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz352/loaloauk/dlp%20encounter/New%20album%205/snowwiteplan.jpg~original Mr. Toad and Alice as well, if you're interested: waltdisney.org/blog/1955-2015-disneylands-mr-toads-wild-ride web.archive.org/web/20001217220700/www2.aros.net/~pov/issue03/rabbithole.html You'll have to look up pictures of the old Alice ride on Google, since there aren't any in the article.
Apparently the original one at Disneyland was a lot less intense than this version was. They also changed this cause this version of the ride was the least accurate to the movie.
This is FANTASTIC! Why did they change it? Why did they have to add Snow White, the original concept for the ride was that you were Snow White with the wicked stepmother chasing after you and trying to kill you. What a great ride
Because, with the exception of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, very few guests understood the concept that *you* were Snow White; the same applied for Peter Pan's Flight.
This version of the ride was absolutely genius, as it seems to focus a lot more on the impact of the movie on a generation than the plot of the movie itself. You're in the position of Snow White in a warped version of events, perhaps a nightmare where the queen and everything is hellbent to only kill you. You are now a part of the extremely emotionally charged aesthetics and setting of the movie, it's a thrill. The other versions of the ride are a disappointment. If I wanted to witness the movie's plot from a safe warm perspective, I'll watch the bloody movie. They really don't make em' like this anymore.
I like this sentiment, my fellow. A little bit of the Magic Kingdom died when they watered down Snow White. Fantasyland dark rides should never be one-for-one retreads of their respective films, as a themed dark ride is such a unique and novel format that it's a tragedy to not actually take proper advantage of it and be at least somewhat original. There's not even a vague chance that something as creative and brilliant as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, for example, ever could have come out of the Iger era, and I seriously doubt this current CEO will encourage anything of the sort either. The current Disney park motto is, "If it isn't safe, cute, and devoid of all creativity, then it's unmarketable and alien and bad." I can't tell you how much I despise this, but that's just the way it is now.
Dark rides have the potential to be really frightening, you're being thrown into this huge artificial world with no sign of the outside, and you have no clue what they'll throw at you at any given turn of a corner. I always felt some unease even on the more lighthearted ones. I've only ever been to Disneyland, so I wouldn't know of any parks that lean more toward scary shit and appeal less to kids but keep that same surreal feel to everything without going too over the top, y'know, but while that stuff terrifies me I really dig it lol.
Listen to the background... Terrifying. Just the witches laughter, static, screaming and other disturbing distorted sounds. This ride is clearly not made for kids. It shouldnt start so happy and stuff with singing and bright colors and legit call it "Snow White's adventure" This is freaking TERRIFYING. Imagine being a kid and going on this ride thinking its a fun ride with lots of bright colors and nice songs inside and this is the nightmare you get. I can't even imagine.. I honestly feel bad for any kid that went on this ride. It should be called "Snow White's Horror Show" tbh... Like- It's dark, theres creepy uncanny animatronics, jumpscares every 5 seconds causing constant anxiety, Terrifying and disturbing imagery- for example: The skeletons, The creepy uncanny furniture, The evil queen/witch, the trees especially... The feeling that you cant get out and dont know when it will end is even worse!!! With all the sounds in the backround, too. I might be overreacting but whoever made this ride and said its for kids is freaking sick in the brain. This is the most disturbing shit I've seen. My mom rode it as a kid and said it didn't scare her, which I don't really understand. Heck, I think I can even hear some cries and screams from kids in the background. And when the first jumpscare at the mirror happend i think a kid said "WHY DID IT DO THAT!?" Qhile in the middle of crying because they're probably now scared ro death, thinking it'd be a fun ride and now burying their face it their moms lap and covering their ears. Messed up.
The ride wasn't called Snow Whites "Adventure" like the Disneyland version. This one was called Snow Whites SCARY Adventure. A clear sign the ride was a scary dark ride. There were signs everywhere warning parents not to let small children ride. What's really messed up is they did anyway. Then those Karens complained and eventually got the ride redesigned though they were clearly warned.
@@Hervinbalfour This was the first video I watched of it, but after further research... They didn't have any signs at first. They put a sign warning parents that it "may not be suitable for young children", but originally, it didn't. So without the sign, everyone thought it was for small kids and that it wouldn't REALLY be scary.
I'm glad you noted your video was the "original" ride because I watched another version and was like, ".....ok, I know I was like 7 the last time I rode this, but I SWEAR the witch was trying push a big green gem onto the car, not a rock..." Thanks for clearing up my self-doubt!
I remember this...the first version at WDW,where the Dwarfs appear only once,Snow White doesn't appear at all,the Witch seems to be around every corner and the Dwarfs' mine,in which the ride climaxes and ends,appears to be unsafe.
A few of the scared animals, like the raccoon from the cottage scene now reside in the cottage at the end of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. They are behind the dancing dwarfs.
Lots of comments about how scary this was, but it was also awesome. First rode it when I was four years old and I loved it. The updated version was good but this version was superior.
I don’t remember when they did the refurbishment but I remember back in 1999 being 4 years old crying my eyes out... this brought back trauma I thought I’d never come across again. Lol
