By far the unrealized Disney idea I'd most want to see will always be Beastly Kingdom. The unrealized potential still depresses me as it's by far the most imaginative theme park idea in Disney history, among those never built.

Though I love Pirates of the Carribean and would never replace it, I would have loved to see this ride as well, not instead, but as well.

A lot of the elements for this project went to Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor, which also involved Tony Baxter I believe.

I would have really liked to have seen "Westcot" the Epcot alternative to California adventure that would have kicked the pants off of Epcot. There's a cool video about it called "Abandoned: Westcot" if you want to hear more.

I would like to have seen the steampunk-themed Discovery Bay at Disneyland, or the Roger Rabbit-themed land at Disney-MGM (Roger Rabbit's Hollywood/Maroon Studios).

RE-UPLOAD NOTE: Ironically, considering my last theme park video was about PC content changes, I had a backup of this video, as I was concerned using the term “Indian” (my intention being to stay within the context of how the particular scene was described at the time, thus leading to the eventual revisals for insensitive portrayals) without more context might offend and insight some negativity. That rather quickly proved to be the case, so I made the judgement call to re-upload, and leave this comment rather than pretend it never existed. Thanks for understanding, apologies for any inconvenience, and thanks for watching! Mark

I don't know that many scrapped Disney projects, but I LOVE the work of Marc Davis and think his contributions to Disney would make an interesting video in their own right.

I would have love to see Mt. Fuji Roller Coaster and the Soviet Union Pavillion in Epcot and Would Still Love to see Disney's America be created somewhere in the United States

I just discovered your channel and you are my favorite youtuber

Your channel is so good I love the history of theme parks especially the ones that were never built

There are some who've,as a personal project,recreated defunct Disney attractions using CGI...somebody recreated Adventure Through Inner Space,and I believe there's a still-unfinished WDW version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Since presumably every aspect of the Western River ride was completely planned,imagine if someone chose to bring this never-realized attraction to virtual life!

These videos are amazing. I've gone through and watched all of them on your channel and I'm in love with the series. Great work!

Oh goodness I've been loving your channel. It's absolutely astounding, and I implore you to keep doing these videos.

YES!! I love these vids so much~ your readings are soothing.

Addicted to this channel and everything it's about!!! Thank you and more more more!!!! :D

Keep making great content man! I love learning this stuff about disney!

I'm so glad your videos are becoming more and more popular! Keep it up! I love watching them!

Absolutely love this channel and all of these videos, most are things I've heard of before but could listen about again and again for hours but this was something I didn't know at all! Would've LOVED for this to be a reality

Love these videos! Please do more about unbuilt/planned disney park ideas! Keep up the great work :)

I really enjoy your content. Fabulous channel! So happy I found these informative and entertaining videos. Thank you for all the hard work you put into them and PLEASE keep making more!

Love these videos! I know they must be really time consuming to produce, but they're fantastic! Keep up the great content!

After a few videos this is now becoming my favourite KZfaq channel, loving the research you do and finding all of this classic footage!

ahhh i love all ur videos. I get so excited every time i see u've uploaded something new!

I love this channel! I never knew these things!

Amazing video! Keep up the great work!

Great content, script and voiceover. Keep on with good work!!!

I enjoy your videos very much. Well researched and informative.

I am so impressed with this video and channel, it is so well written and flows so well! The graphics in your first 15 seconds alone is impressive! You have to be more than one person working on this! If not I'm even more impressed. Huge props to you, your channel really stands out.. I just did my own attempt on covering Thunder Mesa, which is how I stumbled onto yours.. I hope eventually to use as much animation as you do eventually, though I have a ways to go until I get the professional final product you have on yours. You def have a new fan in me, GREAT WORK, KEEP IT UP!!!!

Great job as always

Quickly becoming one of my favorite KZfaqrs. Great content. Loved this episode.

Quality content! Keep up the good work.

Great Video As Always!!!!!!!

idk why stuff like this interest me but i looove this channel!

This is so cool! I absolutely love your videos. 😀

Great video, keep up the good work!

I'm glad some of Thunder Mesa elements were used in Disneyland Paris/Phantom Manor. Great video!

Your videos are great! Keep it up!

Love your videos!

This sounds awesome. I would have most liked to have seen this ride and Disney's America of course

buffalo's that were going to be used for that attraction ended up being moved to living with the lands Prairie scene

Thunder Mesa should without a doubt be built without delay. It's a part of our country's history. The "Wild Wild West" will rise again!.....

awesome

We got the mine and log flume rides, but I would have been okay with those not existing if we had gotten the expedition ride and a town that actually felt like you were in a Western.

Beastly Kingdom instead of Pandora!!

I love it!

Keep 'em coming, my friend. So much great lore here.

I love how when Disney's ideas don't work, they put a bunch of Easter eggs around. I think it's mostly to remind them though

This video is fucking incredible. Thank you so much for making it.

I would've liked to see this Attraction come to life. I bet it would be amazing!

I would have loved seeing this

Cool. While I'm sure this was in the pipeline already, I suggested this a few videos back. Awesome work.

I'd say I'd want Beastly Kingdom, but it did basically get built at Universal. So I'm going to browse your channel and see what else I can find. I'm glad I found this. My Disney World nostalgia has been high lately, and this is a great hold over

This would be worth a petition to Disney. What an incredibly cool concept.

Though I wasn't a big fan of the movie, I wish that I could've seen Frontierland's 2013 Oz expansion in Disneyland come to fruition. It would've served as a perfect transition from Frontierland (Kansas) to Fantasyland (Oz itself), and considering the Oz property's history with Walt I think it would've been amazing. He loved the world of Oz and it's characters, but they always seemed to be just out of his reach whether it came to movies or theme parks, so I think having Oz in the park would've been a nice way to honor the dream that he could never reach when he was alive. It's a shame the only other appearance of anything Oz related in a major theme park is relegated to two scenes based on the 1939 film in The Great Movie Ride in Florida.

Love this channel. one of my favourites. love the unknown history you dig up on theme parks and rides. any more universal ones coming soon? lets be honest its the best theme park ;P

Can you make a video about Expedition Everest? Love your content!

I'm hoping if either Canada, UK, Australia or New Zealand ever wanted a Disney theme park they're put this ride into one of them

I love this channel! I only wish you would make more videos and more often. Do you have a Patreon account? You should so that people can donate and help you make more videos. Keep up the good work.

Nice intro!!

You and Justin Scarred need to do a video together... And yes with cameos... I love it... Espectacular!

This would have been really cool! It would be a very interesting ride area.

please do more of these videos

I'd love to see all of the unbuilt Epcot world showcase pavilions such as Spain, Israel, Russia, Venezuela, Switzerland, Equatorial Africa, and many more.

This is Definitely one of those Theme Park Rides/Attractions I truly wish saw the light of day or never left us. I truly believe that, if it was built, it would have gone down as one of the Greatest Disneyland Rides ever to exist, right up there with all of the other Disney Classics...

I saw the miniatures for this ride on display at Walt Disney World in 1979.

It was also considered too expensive to build a Pirates in Florida for the Magic Kingdom (not the only reason for excluding it from the park at first) and yet they ended up building it in 1972-1973. Also, there were several weeks of debate in 1967 over the possibility of a Pirates ride in Florida and then we know the rest. However, Marc Davis altered the WRE concept to complement the Pirates after they built the WDW PotC.

2:23 so it would've been "what if Disney made Westworld"

Earned a "like" from that Grade A meme use at "Where was pirates of the Caribbean?" I love these videos. Great work. Side note: good call with switching back to Native American. Many use First Nation as well, but Indian, though used at the time, is still not appropriate now.

I would've liked to see Thunder Mesa as I love Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. But Everest will always be my favorite roller coaster. (Rockin' Roller Coaster is good too, though)

all these projects that never seen the light, like this and WESTCOT and Beastly Kingdom look SO COOL. Ughh

that land and attraction would have been amazing

Would have been great to see that part of the park though. All well.

I love your vids man and i know google ads are paying shit but please for for your eager viewers could you post more.

I feel like we truly lost out on the Dark Kingdom and, upon hearing about it, the Beastly Kingdom as well. I mean, I know NSSHP was a take on making the entire park into a sort of "Dark Kingdom", but I feel like a year-round section would open the door to a lot of fun with Disney Villains (who have been on the rise in popularity for years. My niece is a villain lover and would DIE for a villain themed park), including some nods to the VERY popular Disney Descendants as time went on for the park.

Good video and content with some funny editing and cut-aways. I would have liked to have seen this attraction become a reality, however then it opens up an entire conversation about would Big Thunder Mountain even exist at any Disney theme park. Also don't forget the "edited" version of POTC at WDW was because of time, money, and Florida. You mention the high water table in Florida at the beginning of the video, which is why Pirates only has one drop. The demand for a Pirates ride from the public caused Disney to do a rush job, and at the end of the day, the money for Thunder Mesa was used up from building Pirates. After Pirates was built, Disney execs decided W.R.E. was too close in style and theme to POTC, and with no budget, it was ultimately killed off. I often describe Western River as POTC but with cowboys instead of pirates. Yes it is similar, but I think it would have been neat for WDW to have it's own unique attraction.

how can you make a video about thunder mesa/dry gulch without even MENTIONING disneyland paris' frontierland?? it is literally the entire backstory and plot of the french thunder mountain and haunted mansion

Honestly if anything knowing about this ride’s history is interesting

I would have really liked to see Beastly Kingdom. The concept sounded interesting

I love big thunder mountain railroad

Can your next theme park video be a Universal Studios one? You only have one and that's jaws.

1:51 WHOA WHOA IS THERE ANY HISTORY OF THE ICHABOD CRANE DARK RIDE??? I wish that had happened!

Disney NEEDS to TURN THIS INTO A VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!

In Disneyland my favorite ride was Thunder Mountain. I would've liked to see the original though

If I could bring one unbuilt attraction to life, it would either be the Atlantis Fire Mountain, or something from Beastly Kingdom.

I like splash mountain too much to imagine it not being there.

The original alien encounter idea with the xenomorph. Let's get that

can you do one of the old Kong ride?

But we have Big thunder Mesa in Eurodisney (nicknamed « le train de la mine ») and a boat ride attraction where you circle the island the attraction is on and see some American/Canadian landscape. Sure we don’t have the time travel attraction but we got the other two.

I really thought that Disney would do something cool for WDW's 50th anniversary and give us a proper opening scene like the Bayou scene in Disneyland, but since it's in Adventureland and not in New Orleans Square it would be themed toward that land instead. It would then make the first of two plunges into a proper grotto scene. WDW's Pirates of the Caribbean got the shaft because of the Thunder Mesa project that never happened. I feel like the fans deserve an E ticket attraction like the original at Disneyland.

imagine if Disney built a park where they could give all of these unrealized ideas a second chance...

HOW do you not have more followers??

Could you do a video on extraterrorestrial alien encounter I want to know your perspective on the attraction

i would like to see beastly kingdom be built! although we have pandora now, and i do enjoy that a lot, i feel like i'm missing out because i've never seen avatar. i don't understand some of it. i think beastly kingdom would be more accessible for more guests.

I think it would have been awesome to have the thunder mesa instead, with a different water dark ride. It leaves the opportunity for a different experience, depending on which park you visit. I much prefer the idea of each park having its own theming and unique rides to just simply clones in every park.

I'm still stuck on the idea that Disney didn't think a pirates ride would be popular in Florida. Florida is incredibly pirate crazy, and has been for as long as I can remember.

Probably in the minority for this, but I would have loved to see the Dick Tracy-themed area at Disney MGM Studios come to life. Although I wasn't around when the live-action Dick Tracy film was released (was born a year later), I ended up enjoying the film years later, and felt that it would have fit in really well with the park.

Out of all the lands they were going to build at Disney World, I'd want Beastly Kingdom and/or the Muppet Studios :'(

0:18 I thought that man to the right was a RED Sniper 😂

I enjoyed the attraction and was disappointed with the Stitch replacement. It was a very different attraction for the Magic Kingdom but a good one full of that Disney Magic.

Now I wish that cowboys of moo Mesa was a big hit