20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Port Ride-through 1990

[Hebblewater1]

God, that damn kid going "SHOOAKS" kinda ruins in

[myevyn]

I wish this was still around!!!!

[universalnickelodeon]

wait-wheres is this..........WDW or disneyland?

[Hotshotmech38]

@DUDE22436 it's the same thing now..... If you haven't noticed........... Besides its not even this anymore.... It's Finding Nemo..............

[BigDipper80RCT]

@Hotshotmech38 Actually, 20k's lagoon has been filled in for years now, and the plot where the show building was is now home to Ariel's Undersea Adventure in the new Fantasyland. Nemo's over at EPCOT, which was a retheme of The Living Seas pavillion.

[SCE2AUX]

I remember the first time I heard about this ride: "20,000 leaks under the sea? Uh oh."

[romanticinsomniac70]

Thank You for sharing the video.It brought back great memories of me and my family's visit many years ago.

[andrewandlee]

Did any of the WDW Subs Survive? If so, where are they?

Great Video Though. Went on this twice!! Once in 1979, and again in 1989

[DUDE22436]

No wonder this ride closed...It acted like you were so deep but u can see the surface if u didn't notice watch it again and look at the top.the fish looked so fake.the giant squid wasn't scary.I'm sure they could redo this and make it better.Hey good video I enjoyed watching it.

[BarnabasFrid]

THAT'S NOT JAMES MASON!

[ChoolyBuzkill]

COLLISION SPEED, FULL!!!



[MartyMcfly4890]

in the nautilus

[pfwaterbender]

oh, i wish this were still around! it's better this way than the Nemo version.

[ADbowling2000]

wow, this is dated... but it was good for the time.

[Queenkt22]

Thanks for this video! I live in central FL and had season passes as kids, so I've been to MK a million times. But I'm claustrophobic and deathly afraid of water so this is the one ride I never went on. Always wondered what it was like though, and now I know! Awesome, thanks!!

[evilgrunt123]

this iz scary as shit to me

[NiCOLE030791]

lol i remember wen i was little me my grandma got on here.. an she actually thought we were under the sea 4real

[Thoralmir]

Rumor has it that one of these subs lies at the bottom of the sea near Castaway Cay.

[Weist96]

@Thoralmir it's true, u can find pictures of it on google images

[MrLamontSanford]

@Thoralmir Hey -are you referring to one of the islands in the Seven Seas Lagoon? Names? Beach Comber, Castaway Cay, Blackbeard's Island? I always remember these were the names -right?

[iMaxStephen]

@Thoralmir it is!!! and a few other artifacts from the ride, like the divers helmet. I want to see it so bad!!!!!

[Garlandfan94]

The quality of this video is outstanding, thank you so much for posting this! This is the ONLY video where I can see the farther back scene in atlantis (i.e - the smaller buildings, backdrop) Wonderful job!

[raideenj]

Many thanks for posting. Never got to see ride but always wanted to.

[ztslovebird]

Did port and starboard offer the same views (the sea monster, mermaids, Atlantean remains, and so on)?

[DeepSixed300]

@ztslovebird Yup. Not exactly a mirror image, but closer than I could certainly manage!

[kirbyks]

Thanks for posting! I first went there in '76- 20,000 Leagues was fantastic!

[Sharpshooter1456]

i never rode it but damn it bring it back, wdw is going in the wrong direction these days in entertaining,

[RichardLameo]

Video quality is amazing for something from the 90's.

Everything in the video brought back old vivid memories of my childhood... I was 4 when I was in that ride... 16 years have passed and I still remember all the little details of it.

My favorite ride from WDW.

[teamfol]

giant squid part scared the hell out of me as a kid, and makes me have chills when i think about it. i miss this ride

[denikedestructo]

ALSO F FINDING NEMO SCREW THAT MOVIE SCREW THE FACT THAT IT TOOK AWAY THE GIANT SQUID IT WASNT A GOOD MOVIE THE MOVIE IS GIVEN AWAY IN THE TITLE I DONT CARE ABOUT IT TOY STORY WAS THE ONLY GOOD PIXER MOVIE THE SMOKING CAP IS NOW ON!

[denikedestructo]

THE GIANT SQUID PART AS A KID BLEW MY MIND

[sminthian]

I rode this a few times when I was really young, but they closed it when I was about 10 years old. (And yes, I think there was always something broken on it...)

[DeepSixed300]

You know... I think this is the first video I've seen on YT where most - if not all - of the ride's effects are working

[danny3975]

I rode it back in the 70's, wish they would have kept it

[TheOfficialBlarg]

6:06 Looks like the beatles submarines!!

[fitasafiddle123]

Bring this ride BACK! Pure Disney for sure.

Loved it, glad i experienced it!

[silo267]

sad to think that this ride was closed only because the workers wanted less to do.

[SpookyAbductee]

This was an amazing ride, I enjoyed it very much when I was little!

Why did they remove it?? Who knows, that area was unused for years... you could see the lagoon and the tracks but now it's completely closed off. COMPLETELY.

How come Disneyland at least got to keep their submaries? Sure, they changed it to Finding Nemo but they at least kept their underwater submarine ride.. =(

[silo267]

@SpookyAbductee i read up on it, it turns out that the maitnence team were tired of all the effort it took to touch up the subs, take them out of the water, painting them and overal maintaining the whole ride, so one year when it was scheduled for a safety review they took the safety reviewer, a non disney employee, for a ride in the worst sub they could find, and purposely filled the bottom with water, they quote "pulled a mickey" meaning they put on a show, for the inspector.

[WDI2008]

Why for did Walt Disney World shut 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea down ?

[BrandonKY81]

I remember going on this ride in 1989 , me and my family had season passes .

As a young kid i didn't understand the point of the ride at all but it was fun !

[cmeza1985]

I loved this ride, but it scared the shit outta me every time

[HinataChick38]

@cmeza1985 I would have to agree.

[jkrak81]

I remember as a kid thinking all the fish were real, LOL what a tool, but I still miss it

[mrchickenwing98]

OMG If that son of a bitch kid dare speak another word on the ride I WILL FREAKING DROWN HIM/HER/IT! Yeah...

[TheCoolboy250]

why did they have to replace it

[DeepSixed300]

@TheCoolboy250 They didn't. They left it sitting for a decade hoping people would forget. No chance.

[rosaronova]

@DeepSixed300 the one in paris still stands but not used

[DeepSixed300]

@rosaronova There's no comparison between the ride in Florida and the walk-through in Paris. That said, the squid attack in Paris is an incredible sight!

[TheCoolboy250]

i wish i was alive to go on that

[Zilch79]

Always my favorite ride as a kid...I'm still sad it's gone. Thanks for posting!

Incidentally, I always thought the event at 3:38 was ridiculous, until I saw the now-famous Octopus vs. Shark video that's going around lately.

[ctdsnark]

With what they can do these days with flight simulaters,3-D---heck,even odor simulation---they could bring this back without rebuilding the lagoon.

Just a thought.

[ztslovebird]

Is this the Disneyland or Disney World version?

[silentbob8201]

nothing like a ride that smells like Mildew, BUt hey it was the shit back in the dayyyyyyyyy.

[graph180]

Ah, the fond memories...

It's too bad they got rid of this, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and the little water sprite boats.

It seems like the only ride left that I loved from my childhood is the Haunted Mansion.

Ariel and Pooh can kiss my hairy ass. How can you not love a ride about an anti-imperialist ship captain who goes around in a tricked out submarine fighting giant squid, ramming warships, and electrocuting cannibals? Now THAT'S a hero for children!

[qwertyboyo]

dear god, this brings back happy times at disney land for me :D

[juliovic]

OMG! I saw this as a kid and live it again it's just awesome!!! :D

Thanx 4 the uploading! 100/100

[Xenomorph237]

we have only gone down 1 mile of the sea. and 60,000 miles??? holy crap. unreallistic

[iscrapman]

This was one of my three favorite rides !

I still remember it like if it was yesterday !

[DeepSixed300]

The "leaking lagoon" is an urban legend, I don't know why people keep bringing it up.

[chazzer2309]

it wasn't friendly for people in wheelchairs trust me i had to be carried on to it and off of it and i was 7 i can jsut imagine if it was still around

[atomicswagga]

This ride kicked ass, last time i rode it I was around 16, and yea the squid did attack at the end! I wish they would bring it back.

[DisneyWorldVIP]

I wish that I could have experienced this ride once, but Disney did have valid reasons for closing it down.

The tank was leaking into the surrounding areas, the loading dock was impractical, and the large amount of water was expensive and difficult to maintain so it was clear enough to see through.

So yes, this ride will be missed, but it was closed down for a reason. And a new Ariel ride will fill its place in the Fantasyland expansion.

[blowme23]

well you can still go to the finding nemo one out in disneyland california. but yeah this was my favorite ride there.

My worst disney memory is the year before they closed it down I was bugging my family all day to go on it but my brother and sister didn't want to do it so my parents kept putting it off. Until finally when they decided we would go on it it was already closed for the night.

The next year it was closed. I was mad for the longest time.

[BrainsGambino]

I thought the Ariel thing was going to be a meet and greet, and I thought 20K wasn't actually under water, and that the illusion was contained in the windows. Where am I off on these two issues?

[DisneyWorldVIP]

There is currently an Ariel Meet and Greet in place, called Ariel's Grotto. But its closing down so that they can give Ariel her own ride in the upcoming expansion of Fantasyland.

You are right that the ride did not go completely under water. The "submarines" did not go under all the way. But the windows WERE under the water, so when you are looking into the water its not an illusion. If you look carefully you can kind of see the surface of the lagoon. It wasn't very deep.

[epaddon]

There is no "Ariel Meet And Greet" in the 20,000 Leagues spot any longer. The lagoon was bulldozed over in 2004 (after ten years of idleness) and now they put a "Pooh Playground" in the site. Bad enough that Pooh evicted "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" across the way from 20K with an inferior ride, that they now had to turn what was once the sole E-Ticket attraction of Fantasyland into a glorified playground. An absolute disgrace.

[BrainsGambino]

@epaddon agreed on all counts

[Clay3613]

Fuck Ariel

[AsToldByTammy]

What good quality! This video is truly a treasure. :) It made my day to come across it.

[powerpup97]

8:19 - Up close like that? That's freaking scary!

Some of the things on this version of the ride blow the Disneyland one away, but I think the sea serpent in this ride is not as good.

[marzli]

is there no giant squid fight?

[Prodozul]

Does anyone remember an oranged tailed mermaid in this ride?

[IslesDynasty]

I loved this ride too. I found out while doing the Keys to the kingdom tour the reason they took this ride out. It was not handicap friendly and too costly to maintain. And does anyone remember the squid actually attack your sub at the end too.

[ccleefe1064]

Ccleefe21064

Please bring this attraction back.I miss it very much

[deweytrux]

I went on this ride in the late '70's. It was so well done. What is the official reason for axing this precious ride?

[AsToldByTammy]

The reason was probably Michael Eisner being a prick. He seemed to get rid of all the best rides or alter them beyond recognition. He wasn't thinking about the people and the fact that they enjoyed them.

[FalconKPD]

I drew up plans out of boredom for a second 20K ride it included being attacked by a warship and ramming it.

[mediamadman747]

I remember pressing my face against the porthole at one point and shouting with glee after seeing that our "submarine" appeared to be gliding along a monorail running along the bottom of the "sea."

Mom seemed amused at my reaction. The wife, not so much.

[likemachinesdo]

This comment = WIN

Disney knows how to bring out the kid in us, that's for sure. :P

[Titan752]

This used to be my favorite themed attraction at DisneyWorld! I loved the Nautilus submarine replica that would take you beneath the surface of the lagoon.... and then, they had to go and replace it with... The Little Mermaid...

I hope that one day, they will bring this one back!

[ladiesman9499]

my dad used to work here

[FalconKPD]

...A ride I so wishto go on but never will...

(Cries in corner)

[BlackPearlGurl]

@FalconKPD A version of Jules Verne's vision is still up and running at Tokyo Disney.

[FalconKPD]

@BlackPearlGurl Yeah...In Tokyo

[onnawufei]

@FalconKPD I know exactly how you feel. And it drives me crazy that my husband rode it when he was a kid but he doesn't even really remember it. I would have remembered! (Probably.)

[zanpatch3]

@FalconKPD me too (cries in the other corner)

[ragingharlot13]

@FalconKPD lol that's how i was feeling

[Jencrest]

MAN I miss this ride. :(

[suspekt29]

I miss this ride

[bopjick3233]

hello epcot is in florida

[iambluebird]

Awesome video! Someone tell that obnoxious kid in the background to shut up, though. He's probably grown up to be that guy who talks on his cell phone through Haunted Mansion and Soarin'.

[watergale5]

does anyone know that they maed the nemo ride there

[loudog6969]

actually they did not put the nemo ride there. the nemo ride is at epcot, in place of this ride is winnie the pooh's playful spot

[watergale5]

then you haven't been to cali recently i went last week and

correct me if im wrong but dosen't water, yellow submarins

and a big sign that says nemo mean that there is a nemo ried there?

[XXXZEPHYRXX]

he means they didnt put it in the place this ride was on. this ride is now the winnie the pooh play area. the nemo ride was built in another part of the part, to replace this ride, unfortunately

[SpazticColin]

The Nemo Submarine ride is at Disneyland in California. The ride being showcased here is 20K Leagues under the Sea, at Walt Disney World. The ride at Disney World was completely destroyed, and removed from the park to be replaced by a lovely playground.

[watergale5]

i'm talking about the one in californa!!!! and they had 20k leaugs under the c there too!!!!!

[therau05]

watergale, you're right. Both Disneyland and Walt Disney World had 20,000 Leagues. Disneyland's is now the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, and Disney World's is now the Pooh's Playful Spot.

But this video is the Disney World ride.

[watergale5]

thank you for finnaly getting what i ment

[loudog6969]

right, but this video is for disney world, not disneyland

[SpazticColin]

The ride in California was not called 20K Leagues under the seas. It was called The Submarine Voyage. Similar rides, but slightly different in concept and execution. However, to answer your previous question the Submarine Voyage in California has been converted into a Finding Nemo attraction. The one in Disney World was destroyed and will never return.

[blowme23]

no they didn't. Disneyland had Submarine Voyage not 20k leagues under the sea. It is very similar but it is not the same.

[SCE2AUX]

I'd always thought the name "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was pretty ridiculous. 60,000 nautical miles? Dude - get a better navigator.

[scott75]

I just wish I could have experienced this ride one more time before they destroyed it. If only I would have known then what was going to happen to it. I hope they will bring it back someday.

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[Dragonrider1227]

My only problem with them taking out this ride is that they havn't really done anything worth while with the space. They just threw in a playground. I don't mind the playground, I think it's a great place for the young ones to blow off some steam after waiting inline for Peter Pan's flight for 45 minutes but there's TONS of space behind it they could use. I hear they're planning a Fantasyland expansion though. I hope that's true

[GonzosFilms]

The ONLY problem is they took out the ride! You know what should be done with the land?

20,000 Leagues should be there, nothing else!

WHAT THEY DID IS UNFORGIVABLE!

20K FOREVER!

[shurbitup]

haha i liked how you put that lol! "waiting in line for peter pan's flight for 45 minutes" lol soooo ture

[KablamBoom]

agreed,i looked on google earth of the former spot and there's plenty of land behind the playground

[RequiemBell104]

oh 1990, nevermind.

[RequiemBell104]

grrrreat quality!

Thank you!! Love the vid and your website!!!!

When was this filmed??

[disfigurehead]

The best WDW ride ever. I miss it.

[WWIIREBEL]

@disfigurehead Agreed!. I miss it terribly. i was just 10 yrs old last i rode it, but i remember it like it was yesterday,lol. I was saddened that they leveled it and left most of the subs to rot in the florida sun. Now the majority are in a landfill.Some were cut up and sold on ebay in parts and a few survived to be used for a few displays :( (sigh)

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