Oh man, I must have blocked that memory. Silver Springs was keen.
I may be wrong, but I think @What_Exit once wrote that he’d been there.
Personally, I never visited Action Park but remember seeing commercials for it on the New York television channels. (We were in Connecticut so it was close enough to visit but I didn’t.)
And I’ll bet you still have all your limbs!
I went and did some reading about “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience” and discovered it used the same theater as Captain EO. I also saw Captain EO on my first trip to Disney in the early 1990s, so I’ve actually been to two defunct EPCOT attractions in the same theater.
The Lodge on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Oh yeah, there was a crappy little amusement park on I-5 between Eugene and Portland called the Enchanted Forest. Even as a child I found it distinctly underwhelming,
I don’t remember if Captain EO was 4-D or not but it seems like they revamp and/or close their 4-D attractions more often than their other ones. Not only Honey I Shrunk The Audience, but also Bug’s Life in Animal Kingdom has been reworked into a Zootopia theme, and in Hollywood Studios, MuppetVision 4-D is being rethemed also. MuppetVision is the most unique 4-D attraction I’ve been on since they did truly ground breaking things that other places didn’t do, like have a cast member come out at one point, and have the 3-D on the screen interact very convincingly with an animatronic Statler and Waldorf.
It seems like other 4-d places tried to accomplish the same thing but not as seamlessly and also tried to make everything so dark that your mind filled in the blanks rather than took the time to create a convincing experience.
I don’t think it was. In my memory it was just a 3D movie with a lot of special effects. I’m guessing they revamped the space into a 4D theater after Captain EO closed.
Went to these growing up in Southern California: Marineland of the Pacific, Jungleland, Santa’s Village. Alligator Farm.
On the topic of bygone Disneyland rides, mention needs to be made of the Tomorrowland Murder Carousel - AKA Carousel of Progress and America Sings.
On July 8, 1974, nine days after the attraction opened, an 18-year-old hostess named Deborah Gail Stone was accidentally crushed to death between two walls of the building…One of the audience members heard Stone’s screams and notified park staff. Others thought it was a part of the show. By the time the audience member and the staff got to her, she had already died from her injuries.
I rode the carousel with friends many times before and after the accident. After, mostly to sate the morbid curiosity of 11-year-olds.
Given that the accident happened in nearly the first week of something that ran for decades, nearly everyone who ever rode it, rode it after.
Whether they knew that or not is a separate issue.
The Carousel was there for seven years before the accident as the Carousel of Progress. The accident happened nine days after it was re-dressed as America Sings. Same “ride”; just rethemed, Even as a 10 year-old I knew that set up was an accident waiting to happen.
Oh. I screwed that up. Thanks for setting me straight.
I recall riding it several times as Carousel of Progress, but I doubt I did as America Sings. And yeah, that giant set of scissors as those two walls passed each other looked like a dangerous idea. Which is probably why by and large there were no live cast up on stage.
You didn’t miss anything; just a bunch of animals singing corny old songs. We wouldn’t have ridden it more than once if someone hadn’t died there.
Which was right across the lake from Sea World Ohio, too. Both were a lot of fun.
Do now-replaced stadiums count? I went to Municipal Stadium three or four times, before it got torn down and rebuilt.
And if individual amusement park rides count, Cedar Point had several that are now gone. Avalanche Run got enhanced and turned into Disaster Transport, before that got removed entirely to make room for Gatekeeper, and there was another small roller coaster called Wildcat that’s also gone, that I don’t know what they put in its place.
We stayed for a week-end at a private recreation area in Maggie Valley, right across the road from a long-abandoned amusement park. My brother-in-law remembered going to it years ago, and explored the ruins while we were there.
When I was around 6 or 7 years old my parents took me to a local amusement park here in Ohio called LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park. I remember riding the small rollercoaster.
When I was a preteen my aunt took me to Marineland of the Pacific, which has already been mentioned.
Ouch, good one.
I never visited them, but the Georgia Guidestones got blown up.
The Love Locks on the Pont des Arts were removed by the city because the weight was destroying the bridge.
I’m sorry to hear that. It was one of the highlights of visiting Toronto. I’ve been at least three times that I can remember: once while in high school in the late 70s, again in the late 80s as a newlywed, and then in the late 2000s with my kids. It ranked up there with the Boston Science Museum.