Did you notice the change?

[MaxPower]

Another post on here made me realize that many times with Walt Disney World attractions, subtle and not-so-subtle changes are made to different rides and attractions for various reasons.

Also, it seems that the changes usually have an overall negative effect rather than positive - here are some examples:

1) White doves used to fly over the heads of the audience during the finale of the Beauty and the Beast show. The doves are long gone.

2) On Test Track, during the ride, you would watch a ride vehicle with crash test dummies smash into a wall just before they showed you an identical wall that you yourself were getting ready to crash into. Now you just see the already smashed vehicle siiting empty, rather than watching it crash.

3) Pterodactyls used to scamper over you with sound effects in Dinosaur--now they just barely flash a light on them.

4) Although we HOPE it's only temporary, the now motionless Yeti at Expedition Everest used to move and swing at your train as you flew by.


Does anyone have more examples of existing rides or attractions that have been victims of change?

[SBETigg]

Spaceship Earth. I'm not crazy about the changes in the last half of the ride. They need to do... more. Something more there.

[cer]

I am hoping this was not a change, just one of those things that wasn't working....

BUT the last time I rode Splash Mountain (and is has been a while because it was being refurbished on our last trip).....I really REALLY missed what I call the "spitting fountains" in the Laughing Place. They are fountains that shoot a stream of water over the path you are traveling in your log - like the ones they have outside the Journey to Imagination building in Epcot.

Do you remember these? Anyway, can anyone verify if it is an actual change or just something that was not working when I was there in Feb 09?

[PopPhan]

I am hoping this was not a change, just one of those things that wasn't working....

BUT the last time I rode Splash Mountain (and is has been a while because it was being refurbished on our last trip).....I really REALLY missed what I call the "spitting fountains" in the Laughing Place. They are fountains that shoot a stream of water over the path you are traveling in your log - like the ones they have outside the Journey to Imagination building in Epcot.

Do you remember these? Anyway, can anyone verify if it is an actual change or just something that was not working when I was there in Feb 09?

Those are sometimes turned off if the weather is a bit cool....Maybe that is what happen to you.

[cer]

Those are sometimes turned off if the weather is a bit cool....Maybe that is what happen to you.

I believe it, it was frigid that year. Thank you for the update!

[DizneyRox]

Oh so many...

1. Clean Plate Club at 50's Prime Time
2. First scene in The Great Movie Ride used to be animated, with a bubble machine.
3. Dinosaur was a whole different ride really.
4. Kilamajaro Safari used to have a jeep with poachers that would shoot at you, etc.
5. Discovery River used to have gysers, etc up by Africa.

The list goes on...

[Tick-Tock]

On my last trip, at Pooh I looked for the picture of Mr. Toad handing a deed to Owl, but couldn't find it again. Is it gone?

And I won't even start on the recent changes to TTA...

[TinkerbellsMom]

We just got back and I couldn't find the handing the deed over to Owl either...I hoped I missed it...the fountains in the Laughing Scene were working.

Does anyone know what changed with RnR when it went down this month. It went down after we left.

[Zippy 1]

And yet with all the changes we do not like we still continue to go. They msut be doing something right!

[mjm12000]

I am hoping this was not a change, just one of those things that wasn't working....

BUT the last time I rode Splash Mountain (and is has been a while because it was being refurbished on our last trip).....I really REALLY missed what I call the "spitting fountains" in the Laughing Place. They are fountains that shoot a stream of water over the path you are traveling in your log - like the ones they have outside the Journey to Imagination building in Epcot.

Do you remember these? Anyway, can anyone verify if it is an actual change or just something that was not working when I was there in Feb 09?

Was just there last week and the jumping fountains were all working, in fact it seemed that every singel animatronic and effect was working perfectly, I think they just rehabed it and it looked great.

[deedeenmickey]

Alien Encounter - I HATE Stitch's great escape!!!

[lala71474]

Alien Encounter was AWESOME! I miss it so much.

[Ms. Mode]

- I HATE Stitch's great escape!!!

Amen

[Fastpasssteve]

I'm with Deedeenmickey -

It's not so much that I hate Stitch's Escape...

It's just that Alien Encounter was so much more intense...cool! I don't think kids get too scared...I think their overly protective parents THINK their children get scared. And when you're young, is there anything better than getting scared??? Rides like that are allegories about how life can have dangerous things in it...yet it's a safe way to expose them to this truth.

[everyonesmadhere]

On my last trip, at Pooh I looked for the picture of Mr. Toad handing a deed to Owl, but couldn't find it again. Is it gone?

And I won't even start on the recent changes to TTA...

I saw it in September...

[i'm grumpy]

I think owl was there last week. I did notice Splash needed a bit of attention. Some flowers were broken off and there was something else. Didn't get to ride EE or Dino since they closed at 5!

RNR was just spiffed up, no changes I believe. Didn't get to ride it either.

[Rekenna]

TTA! The whole ultra retro part that made it so perfect-they completely destroyed it.

Also, I'm gonna get flamed, but POTC-DH and I so wish they would go back to the original.

Obviously these are not so subtle-but changes IMHO that were so not needed.

Also, ever since the refurbed HM, it just seems off somehow, I can't quite put my finger on it. It's still my fave and I like what was changed, but I find it hard to remeber what was there before....Maybe I have been to WDW too many times! Shhh, don't tell anyone, especially DH.

[slegrant]

I was there in January and did not notice anything with TTA, I will be there again in July so what changed???

[sorcerer fan]

when AK opened there was a ride in a boat down the river, explaining what was going to happen later on. there is a lot of stuff built along the river you never see. I too agree that stitch stinks, bring back alien encounter. and I too miss ' Paging Tom Morrow. and all the funky retro stuff they used to say on TTA.

[Spang88]

From reading the posts here and other posts I am already missing the retro TTA for my next visit. I can't believe there's no Tom Morrow.....