Yeppers, Snow White's Scary Adventures is going into the history books. The original is still, like Mr. Toad, at Disneyland in California, so it's truly not the end of the world. The new coaster promises to be at least as fun as Casey Jr., which I missed in Florida and really love in California. If you haven't ridden it in a while, please do! It really scoots in some places and the eye candy is great.
I still miss the Nautili plowing through the waters of Fantasyland, but 90% of the kids visiting WDW have never heard of him. It's a shame, truly, and was a really dirty trick of Ops to get it closed down (they hated doing all the maintenance work it required, so took newbie Mike Ovitz in a non-operational, broken-down leaky sub and told him all the subs were like this one, so he okayed the closure. He didn't know any better, and he's somewhere else now. We rode the last guest sub on the last day, and I drove number 8, so there's that.
Speaking of Discovery Bay (I always get there, don't I?) did you see the Circus area of the NFE? Does it remind you of anything?
Look over on the right side of the bottom photo. This is the Discovery Bay model; I permanently dented my nose from having it pressed to the glass covering this model as a child. That's Dumbo's Circus, a "buffer" land between Fantasyland and Discovery Bay. It was going to include a Dumbo's Circus dark ride (Bill Justice did some art for it, if I recall correctly). You know the saying: "No idea dies at Disney".
Jason Schultz, who knows everything (really!) had a nice post about the model last year, and The Neverland Files has two posts; here's the Dumbo's Circus one.
Look at the model at The Neverland Files, then look at the Dumbo's Circus area of the NFE artwork. See?
As for me, I have web design class today, that's all. See you at Fantasyland in 2012!
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