D23 Expo | Western River Expedition — Virtual ride-through
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Uploaded by DatelineDisneyland on Aug 23, 2011
On Sunday, August 21, Walt Disney Imagineers Tony Baxter and Josh Shipley lead a fascinating presentation of rare footage from 1950s and 1960s-era Disneyland for D23 Expo attendees. As part of the presentation, Tony and Josh took guests aboard a complete ride-through of the never-built Western River Expedition attraction, designed for the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida. Though never built, numerous conceptual renderings as well as a complete model of the attraction were built and have been preserved by Walt Disney Imagineering. This video is a ride-through of the attraction as guests would have experienced it, recreated with concept art and photos of the attraction model. Live commentary is provided by Tony Baxter and Josh Shipley.
This video was also shown at D23's Destination D: Walt Disney World 40th event at Walt Disney World in May 2011. Video recording of the presentation at the Florida event was prohibited, but there were no recording restrictions at the D23 Expo presentation.
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Fascinating online exploration of the history of the attraction and why it was never built, also good to read in the book on Disney "Mountains>"
Anynom 3 months ago
Disneyland's old Adventure Through Inner Space has been recreated with CGI;someone else is halfway through doing the same with the WDW version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.If only this attraction could get the same treatment.
....and NO,I don't mean some attempt with RCT3---as this shows,you need human and animal figures.
snarkus63 4 months ago
Yep It's still the greatest attraction never built. Too bad : ( thanks for posting this . It gives me the closest thing to riding it
whitelion44 6 months ago
It was a long wait, but I'm glad the fan community could finally see this.
ReesiePuffs64 6 months ago
Thanks for the video. It would have been pretty fun ride.
atomicbear 6 months ago