Disney's Abandoned Boat Ride: The Discovery River Boats
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Published 2024-06-14
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:52 The Cancelled Beastly Kingdom Land
4:41 The Original Plan for the Ride
7:01 The Ride We Actually Got
12:19 The Many Problems of the Discovery River Boats
15:59 The Radio Disney River Cruise
17:16 The Closure of the Ride
18:28 The Abandonment and Remnants of the Ride
All Comments (21)
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DISCOVERY RIVER BOATS VIDEO LET'S GO! My family gets so tired of me pointing out the rock bits
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I rode this when I was young during the Radio Disney re-theme. Even as a Disney-loving kid, I just kept thinking "Wow, this is bad" while riding it.
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I love how he’s roasting the ride mid vid and then the image pans to the animatronic dinosaur and he’s like “Your cool” 😂
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As someone who's done a ton of research into the history of cancelled Disney attractions this somehow completely passed me by. Great research on this! That scene with the mangled Knights is shockingly disturbing especially for 1990s Disney.
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Wanted to come here to add, the boats are neither in storage nor at Epcot. They were bought by the Magic Kingdom (yes they had to pay for them) and used for the pirate themed fireworks cruises, and then used as regular transportation after Covid. Afaik they aren’t being used at all right now, they are very slow and quite old. Source: you’ll just have to trust that I know
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The closest thing to a visible abandoned attraction I can think of is the tracks for the People Mover/Rocket Rods at Disneyland. I actually rode both attractions, and will always point out the abandoned tracks, and loading dock just out in the open.
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This video has cleared up so many questions I have had about what was on that river, why is it so wide and what about those "abandoned" barely used buildings along it's shores. Crazy how many things at Disney World are built and abandoned on their huge property, just barely visible under the overgrowth.
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I got to ride this during a park preview! It was my dad’s favorite attraction at opening. Next time we went to animal kingdom, we asked a CM about it and they repeatedly denied that a boat ride ever existed!!! It was wild! No pun intended..
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They just made the boat available in Disney Dreamlight Valley and it comes in two versions, the nice boat and the abandoned half sunk version 😅
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The failure of EuroDisney had so many weird knock-on effects, I wanna see someone do an alternate history story where the park succeeded
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I always wondered what the rock feature was at that walkway from Pandora to Africa in Animal Kingdom. Never knew it was supposed to be a "cave" for a dragon.
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Biggest Disney World let down as a kid was that dragon cave - I had been promised a dragon! Even had (still have) the promo Happy Meal toy of it!
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Such a lovely unicorn statue. I'd like to think it's just in someone's backyard garden somewhere, still being admired and preserved.
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Get onto this slow-ass boat and get a sunburn! Sights & sounds may vary. Also, really disappointed that the beastly kingdom was completely cancelled. Another reason to dislike Eisner, I guess.
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the knights death is the coolest part beside the dinosaur
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the radio disney renev... that was so comically disney... gotta love it (sarcastically)
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of course its forgotten even by explorers, because whats even there to explore? the one animatronic is gone, and the unicorn barely was there to begin with. thats already 90% of the attraction
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YES! My poor teen! I always point out the loading dock area over the bridge every time we enter AK as I quiz her on what used to be there. She was not amused when I got excited about this video! I absolutely loved it! There was so much history packed in it! Thank you for making my day/year!
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That would have been awesome if beaustly kingdom happened.
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Got to ride the original version and the radio Disney version. Too bad they still aren’t running. I remember when they started having cast members on the boat with small animals or insects in small containers and would educate guests about the creature during the journey.
