Whats even creepier is the fact there was a giant 2 or 3 floor slide built into the wall called "the cave of wonders slide". It got boarded up sometime during the buildings life and remained sealed in the wall until demolition. Part of me wonders if any kid got stuck in there cause the possibility of being sealed in scares me greatly
Former Epcot CM- I was so excited to see you mention innoventions during its end. We used to have to bring lost and found through there at night and it was always the strangest feeling walking alone down the “street” with most things walled off.
@@junetrooper I think it was the best way to get to GR without guest "interruptions" ...it was creepy af but I loved going back there it was nice and cold...
That pavilion was originally a showcase pavilion of future computer technologies when the park first opened with it being renovated into Innovations between 1994 and 1996! :)
@@Techno-UniversalI remember when I went in 1995 they had rows upon rows of Macs, PCs and Sega Saturns loaded with various software and games for you to try out :)
Here's a weird one. There's a bathroom in Cars Land, behind Flo's diner that has the EXACT architecture, color, and layout of the 50's diner at LEGOland in San Diego. Like I swear the wall pattern and tile is even the same. It doesn't really count as a backroom as it's always busy...but it weirded me out. I went to LEGOland and DCA very closely together a few years and it was just so odd.
The Wonders of Life pavilion one of the last times it was open was a real treat for my brain. I was the ONLY person there most of my experience. The cast member had even wandered away from the pre show area for Cranial Command and I was standing there alone for a good while just feeling like I had walked into a memory from childhood. It felt like I was dreaming. It definitely helped that I had been under the impression that the stuff didn’t even exist anymore up until I saw the signs that it was seasonally open and went in. That blew my mind to shit.
The MetLife lounge was Mary Poppins’ themed. It’s the chalk painting scene with the carousel. It’s mentioned in the Kingdom Keepers: Disney at Dawn book the first printing. That is where the Overtakers keep Wayne when they capture him. When Disney had Ridley Pierson rewrite the series to bring it up to date they changed the location in EPCOT.
I agree. though I make an exception for th entity that Kane Pixels created because it seems to add to the uncanniness of the backrooms without taking over it. All the other stuff like skinstealers, wretches, etc. make it too much like SCP.
I wish Disney was self aware enough to silently offer single-person reservations to freely explore these areas for a set amount of time with no outside interference until your time is up
This is such a fun topic to make a video on, I remember walking through an empty Tomorrowland terrace as a kid and feeling the same sort of vibes that would come to be known as “liminal” later on
I LOVE backrooms/liminal space lore. Not only does it tap into my hidden corridor, Wonderland fascination, but the unsettling factor this brings makes it more interesting. And of course, it's cool to see many people share this feeling. Disney backrooms are particularly creepy since most of them are unknown of existing, yet literally right behind or underneath the happy business of the parks.
The Rocket Rods queue area seen around 6:25 has indeed evolved - the room containing the giant blueprints, old Monorail and PeopleMover cars, that is - has been part of the Buzz Lightyear queue since 2005. A lot of those photos would’ve been from 2001 rather than 2010, as this area was gutted for Buzz. However, my understanding is that the narrow tunnel portion and series of stairs leading up to the Rocket Rods station platform do indeed still exist.
This is correct. I was in the tunnel in 2015 and can confirm that it exists. It has a giant Rocket Rods sign and the turnstiles (this video actually does a good job of capturing it). Then there's a stairway up to the old Peoplemover platform. It's creepy but very neat. I wish I got to go down there more than once.
It’s actually cool to see the Wonders of Life pavilion! I don’t know who read the original Kingdom Keepers books (before the author released updated versions), but Book 3 was mainly in EPCOT and a lot of the plot revolved around the Wonders of Life pavilion! I remember the characters having to balance on that mobile chandler thing and I could never properly imagine it. Now I can!!
In fact, if I remember correctly, they actually go into the lounge Offhand mentions. I think one of the characters hallucinates the carousel horses on the walls and they mention the circus theme of the loung
He released updated versions of the books?! Like it wasn't just updated cover art he just rewrote and republished the books? That series got me into reading idk how I feel knowing it's been changed.
I went into innoventions east for the first time when I was maybe 12, and this was near the end of its lifetime, but my family had no idea. There was no one else in there, not even a cast member in sight for at least 15 minutes, and it was eerie. There was nothing to do either. I’m glad you’ve addressed this liminal space.
I would blow literally $100 a paycheck at the Starcade when I worked at the park. This was 1980s money. Work, clock out, turn around in Harbor House and walk back into the park, taking the backstage "shortcut" to Tomorrowland, and ride the (WORKING) escalator up to the 2nd floor of the Starcade. I miss those days...Hell, I miss watching Halyx on Tomorrowland's Space Stage. I'm old, and I am wistful for my youth. If I went back, there would be only a few things I might change, but they all would end up having amazing fun in Tomorrowland after a full, very physical, day's work at Disneyland.
My parents hated taking me to Disney when I was younger because they knew the Starcade was MANDATORY. It had all my favorite games, so while they hopped on Space Mountain or the theater shows (Honey I shrunk the kids?) I'd be there for an hour just going in on the games.
I would consider both Star Wars Launch Bays (east and west coast) at this point as liminal space considering their rare usage. Also, the Alien Encounter/Stitch space at Magic Kingdom. And the grand prize: the former exhibit space behind the walls of the lounge on the second floor of Imagination pavilion at Epcot (where the rainbow tunnel was). I think this video might need a Part 2?
Coming from someone who worked multiple overnights in the Disneyland Star Wars Launch Bay this year, it's ABSOLUTELY a liminal space. Everything is pretty much how it looked when it was open, but walking through it alone at 2am with most of the lights off is creepy as heck.
15:30 there are still offices used on the second floor of wonders of life. there are a handful of conference rooms used for team huddles and then a few attractions/entertainment GEM offices
I’d be curious to know about the kinds of leaders that would hang out in there bc even world discovery attractions’ leaders office was recently in the GOTG building and then moved to the GR building. Like aside from attractions and merch (and VIP tours) there IS no one else in World Disco
This is the whimsical content I didn't know I needed to see, but I'm here for whatever you are offering to share with us! The Offhand comment on the week is the best chuckle I've had all week! Thank you for what you do here!
The Test Track post show. It is/was HUGE...and always seemed to have about five people in it. Also the Mission Space exit hall, full of mysterious doors, mostly devoid of people, and seemingly endless.
The mission space exit hallway doors are all just the attraction exits! There are 4 bays (2 green 2 orange) and all exit out into the same hallway but green has a longer walk out. My favorite part is all the open faced trash cans people can choose the throw up in 😂
The Test Track post show activities were honestly some of my daughter's favorite things at WDW when she was littler, so I never thought of it like that. But I suppose it was deliberately built like a car showroom, which are usually these strange cavernous spaces. Since they involved playing with the virtual car you'd designed in the queue pre-show, they had a single pre-show design console there so you could design a whole new car if you wanted to, take a second pass at it if you'd been frustrated by running out of time, or do the activity if you'd skipped it entirely by taking the single-rider line. I always thought that was a thoughtful touch.
the last time I went to WDW was in 2020 when they had all their covid precautions up so the test track showrooms were all shut down... that really added to the creepy empty vibe. nobody was sticking around in there and just passed straight through because there was nothing to see. my brother and i used to use the car customizing terminals in there to design our prototypes for the next ride through on the fastpass line since they didn't let you make your own there lol.
Communicore new giant hall is my favorite place in any Disney park. It's an amazingly imaginative place where guests could spend hours admiring the floor, walls, and bathrooms. Too many places at Disney have rides and things to see and do. Thank goodness for Communicore, a place to just stand around.
As a former entertainment CM, I can confirm that the parades department often uses the starcade as a break space for performers in between the 2 daily parades.
I used to work in the hospitality industry and of all the crazy things I dealt with during that time, what genuinely scared me the most was delivering room service in the middle of the night. Lots and lots and lots of empty, long, dimly lit hallways. So many empty hallways... I always felt like I was being watched. Still haunts me.
Every time I see Starcade I get a little bummed out. One trip I wandered in and found a motion sim rig running a PC racing game I had put countless hours into many years prior. So, on my planning my next visit, I practiced a bunch to relearn the cars & tracks. Sadly, it had been removed and was never there on later visits. It was a fully enclosed, white egg-shaped capsule sitting a couple feet off the ground. I have never seen pictures of the Starcade with it included.
I've always thought that the *unloading* area for Orlando's Space Mountain has a weird liminality to it. It's *literally* liminal: I think they've deliberately designed it not to be too interesting because it's a space where you're not trapped and they want to keep you moving out of there. So, at least under normal conditions, you're only in it for a very short time; you're attracted by the "Tomorrowland Station MK-1 Control Center" theming that draws you into the exit tunnel (which used to have a moving walkway). But if you look around you, the rest of the area has this sort of abandoned-cineplex-lobby vibe to it. The ceiling above you is just a drop ceiling. There's carpet with sort of a bowling-alley pattern on it. They've painted "Tomorrowland Station MK-1" on the curving wall, but there's no other real effort to theme the area outside of the metal barriers that define the unloading zone. I always get this uneasy feeling that it implies unexplorable empty interior spaces that you can't quite see the entrance to.
The simple fact that you can walk around and explore your Disney resort past midnight is fun and comfy. But when you accidently step into an endless hall or void-like area in the middle of the night during cold temperatures with no one around, things can get slightly creepy.
The contemporary convention center is so spooky! Before I became a local I remember my parents would let me walk around the resorts late at night as a teen and I remember it being so cool, yet creepy, yet calming.
I stayed at the Contemporary Resort as a little kid and for some reason I was outside of my hotel room when no other guests were really out. Maybe late at night or early morning. It freaked me out so much I remember it to this day. All those repeating doors that looked exactly the same and how quiet it was really struck a chord with me 😵
If you find yourself in the Starcade, you may hear the rumble of the People Mover going by in another room, complete with muffled audio loop. Whenever you rush towards the sound however, all you find are sealed up walls, and silence.
Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin in Disneyland, especially the que. I went to Disneyland for the first time a few years ago. This ride was empty. I went through the whole que all by myself. Its designed like some kind of Acme warehouse, tight turns. I legitimately thought at one point I somehow took a wrong turn in the que and was about to walk in some backstage area. Then I was only one on the ride, no other guests in sight. The mirror part was specifically creepy for me. Then at the end of the ride, they move one ride vehicle at a time in to some kind if small waiting room I guess so the loading area would not get backed up. This room was pitch black, they kept me in there for at least five terrifying seconds if not more. I thought the ride broke down. Not exactly liminal, but still creepy.....at least to me lol
I and many other people I'm good friends with think it would be very amazing if Disney brought back Innoventions and put it in the Wonder of Life pavilion. Take some of the more popular games and attractions from Innoventions, the old music, the old fiber optic pathways, and a smaller fountain of nations and put them in the old pavilion. A great way to bring back nostalgia and memories for the older guests and a great way to make new memories for the kids.
Heck Yeah! Love Disney Parks and The vibe of Backrooms with the weird but warm feeling. A great video to watch before work! Thank you Offhand Disney Man! :D
When the backrooms first started appearing online, I got a sense of deja vu, almost a dream-like feeling, as in I could vividly remember the space but found it difficult to explain to someone else. The pool rooms are another example of this type of subliminal space. I've watched pool room videos online, which give an eerie yet delightful feeling. I thought I was crazy for thinking of Disney especially Epcot when watching the backroom/pool room videos. I loved the video!!!
For me, its whenever I remember Pizza Planet in Disneyland Paris. It was a restaurant just behind Space Mountain at the back of Discoveryland and was themed to Toy Story. It was really tucked away, you'd have to go under the railway and had a little RC racer model you could take photos with. Anytime I see photos of inside, I always remember how low lit it was and it gives me Backrooms vibes. Like I never remember it being busy and very much like we shouldn't be there. My family probably have photos of inside somewhere
The Pizza Planet at WDW back in the very early 2000s was like that for me, mostly because of a combo of disappointment that it was just a big lofty brick building instead of that cool thing from the movie and the fact that when my family and I went to eat there, there was NOBODY in there. It was us and, like, two other people
Kinda off topic, but I think the new Epcot looks pretty alright. It's got clean lines, open space, nice foliage, and it's kinda classy with the lighting. I get that it's a cheaper, toned down version, but it looks nice.
Fun fact! In order to get to the MetLife areas, MetLife employees had to scan a special card on an ID reader! I was able to get my hands on one of those cards a few years ago! Such a neat piece of parks history to own as a former cast member and big fan of classic Epcot Center memorabilia!!
Current CM so you didn’t hear this from me: Allegedly, *sometimes* these spaces get rented out for meetings or weddings. If not, it’s *probably* storage, offices for leadership, or shortcuts for cast members to use if there are no tunnels, like Innovations. Allegedly. Actually, don’t listen to me. I am Jon Snow. 🧂
Went to Disney in 2017 and did colortopia during its dying days and when I tell you I felt so incredibly unsettled there. It almost had the vibe of feeling like I shouldn’t be there, despite it obviously being open to the public.
I've gone through the CM areas of both Rise Of The Resistance and Space Mountain. Rise feels so weird to walk through, it legit feels like you're walking through a never ending office hallway. If you've ever gotten somewhat lost trying to find the exit for Smugglers Run imagine that, but with no decor.
As a recent CM at Disneyland, I can confirm that the Starcade is now used as a fancy lounge for DVC members. Parts of it are now walled off, so the section that goes underneath the Space Mountain queue is unused and empty (to my knowledge). Now the Starcade is just a small lounge with soda machines and a snack bar for rich people lol. The backroom feel is all gone (imo). But!! Space Mountain has strong backroom vibes. I walked through the Space Mountain queue & backstage area with a couple other coworkers after the park had closed and it seriously felt like a never ending maze with a weird eerie feel to it.
A liminal space doesn't have to be creepy, it just means a transitory space that connects other spaces together. Like a hallway between airport terminals is a liminal space but isn't (necessarily!) creepy.
Indeed! Although this is referencing an aesthetic trend and subculture that is based in the concept of liminality but is very much it’s own thing. I find the whole non-academic uptick in interest in the word liminal to be fascinating!
I went to Epcot 3 days before this video was uploaded, I absolutely hated the new look. It’s something about that nostalgic look that I miss so much. I do love the new Walt statue though.
Hi! Current Cast Member Here! While I normally work in Hollywood Studios, some of my friends over at Epcot have confirmed that something is happening over in the Wonders of Life Pavilion! They can’t give me like any details, that’s really all I got-
I love this! I've often felt that kind of liminality in spots of the Disney Parks, particularly the abandoned areas you mentioned. And I think that is a key feature in all liminal spaces, abandonment. They are empty, devoid of people, yet clearly were built for people to enjoy. It's a post apocalyptic feeling, that without people, every space feels dead. Our grand buildings that we create, were only created for others like us. Without people, our creations become empty, dead, abandoned relics that no longer serve a purpose. It leaves a wonder of whether mankind's legacy is going to be these abandoned places when we are all gone... Great video! Would love to see more and I'm totally using this as inspiration for a Backrooms Level build in Minecraft. 😁😁
As I watched this I thought about a space I used in 2005 at Epcot but couldn’t remember the name of the room. It had a central court “mall” type feeling and windows that could overlook the first floor from the second floor. I worked at the parks for another company back then. We use the VIP room of Wonder of Life as an area for our students to stay during the day. Thanks for the memory flashback!
2:23 Former Disney Store CM. I feel like if I did no clip I would end up in an old Disney Store and each room would be the next generation of remodel and have more and more glitter on the floor.
hollywood land at dca gives me that vibe. I love monsters inc and philharmagic, but everything else in the area is so ominous and empty now that the nighttime shows aren't running anymore. especially whenever they open the hollywood & dine restaurant or the backlot 17/old frozen area for different events... that whole land is so empty and eerie lol
Former DHR Trader Sam’s CM: There are some scary ass places, and it’s terrifying to go into the park at night. You can hear snow whites well at the front gates and even in Tomorrowland, turnover and neglected areas lead to this a LOT. Cool video, and I have tons of haunted and creepy stories of some Disney parks. Very cool video!
one of my favorite liminal spaces is the Animation Academy in Dca, specifically the Sorcerer’s Workshop. It’s in a weird back corner of the building, and the theming of the Evil Queens castle and the Beasts castle give off an unsettling vibe. There used to be a third area themed to Ursula that was dark and creepy too. This area used to be more popular but i feel like Disney is paying less and less attention to it and it’s just getting more worn down and abandoned as time goes on. Last time i was at the park, it was just me and my sister in the Beasts castle. I don’t even remember any cast members around. The whole Animation Academy building has a strange vibe, it’s just so huge and a lot of times there’s not anyone around, especially when the drawing show or Turtle Talk with Crush isn’t going on.
It took me three visits to realize that the Sorcerer’s Workshop was 1) in that building, despite that building being my favorite place to sit and spend down time 2) still a thing that existed and not some shuttered extinct thing
Universal Orlando has their own creepy area that is NOT off limits. Head over to Sapphire Falls, and check out their convention center floor on a day when no convention is being hosted. You can walk around the area outside of the convention rooms and be the only one in the fully lit building. There’s escalators, your own massive bathrooms, views to the outside area where there are zero people. And no one will ever ask you what you are doing there. Beyond this is the back of the resort, where the hotel shuttle bus drops people off, and Uber drivers occasionally believe is the official Uber pick up and drop off location.
There’s a door at Disneyland Autopia in the round building on the right that has a preserved Michael Jackson dressing room from when he used to visit Captain EO. It was still there when I last saw it in 2017. It has musky shag carpet and a state-of-the-art 27 inch Sony TV. How do I know? I saw it.
it was called the universe of energy pavilion and was an opening day attraction at epcot on october 1st, 1982. it was closed on january 21st, 1996 to be rethemed as ellen’s energy adventure with ellen degeneres and bill nye the science guy. and while it was in the middle of this retheme, on june 14th, 1996, the original universe of energy ride briefly reopened because most of the other attractions in future world east were closed for refurbishment except for the wonders of life. and it closed again on september 2, 1996. and finally reopened as ellen’s energy adventure. and that overlay lasted until august 13, 2017 when the whole attraction was replaced with the guardians of the galaxy cosmic rewind coaster which softopened on may 5th, 2022 and opened to the public on may 27, 2022
@@Jake76667 Thank you so much. It's been so many years since I've been there, and nostalgia tends to get a hold of me when I see familiar places like this
former cm here: would definitely add any number of utilidoors areas to this, but I'm here to talk about "the jog" in potc. It's just. a weird place that few will ever see. honestly, all the cast areas for that ride are very strange and liminal. but that one sticks out
I used to work at Test Track and we would have to cut through Innoventions East after close to deliver lost items to Lost and Found. There would only be a couple of lights on and there was an eerie humming sound as I walked down the dim road on the floor. So haunting but it was also comforting to be in such an empty place after a long day of guests.
Tom Sawyer's Island at night, with no one around, Deff had the creepy vibs. Idk if I agree about the Inoventions area's quite fitting the liminal space as I think about it, Too many signs all over giving descriptions of things and such, even where stuff had been removed that carpet showed there had been things there, maybe its just me since I went through there a lot to get out of the heat during its dying days but never got the same vibe the back rooms gave me, but different people may feel differently. I do feel like Disney jumped the gun with making splash mountain into Tiana's Adventure, Like if you were going to get rid of Tom Sawyer's island, you could have turned that Whole area into Tiana's Bayou, and done something else with Splash Mountain. Something that did more to preserve the songs like Zip-a-dee-doo-dah and Laughing place.
the exiting area of star tours at disneyland! right before the gift shop next to the flight glasses return bins. i’ve stayed behind after everyone filters out, and it’s just an empty space with blue lighting and that music loop.
people still use the utilidoors all the time but parts of it feel really isolated and depending on the time of day it feels like the back rooms. the old signs of attractions and positive signs, some parts are not as updated as others. feels like you’re looking at the same place castmembers from the 80s were looking at.
This is some of my favorite parts working at the parks at night doing contracting work. Some of the places get super creepy. I remember one dry season we were working on the back end to one of the old parts of JP at Universal and there was this creepy looking toy ferris wheel that would randomly creek for a few seconds and then stop. Pandora at Disney looked creepy too until they put the rocks up on steel frames to make the mountains. Those or cleaning up the blood from parts of the rides where people throw up ulcers that ruptured.... It's crazy what all you will see at the parks at night.
I love what epcot was in the 90s...super liminal.❤❤ I miss those days in disney...up until the late 00s...then dark times...now..I don't like going anymore...maybe one day.
Yeah, when you don’t meet another CM (or a golf cart) for a few hundred feet it is literally the backrooms but Disney themed. I loved wandering around down there.
Weird question: what place exactly is the photo in 17:32? Is that an old disney store? One of the Disney MGM (now Hollywood) Studios shops boarded up? It can't be the old waiting area for Food Rocks at the Land Pavilion because that's where the entrance/queue for Soarin' is located.
Up until now I had no memories from my first disneyland trip when I was 5. But when you showed the fire safety exhibit from innoventions..... I thought that was a dream for real. That place was so bizarre!
Im a CM and occasionally picked up shifts in Tomorrowland, the soace where stitch's great escape used to be is definitely liminal. I loved having it as a break space though, so cool just to walk around.
As a cast member, I used to love opening up doors and going through hallways that I didn’t know where they led, just because I could. Glad I didn’t know about the Backrooms back then lol
Apparently for the entire life of the Met Life Lounge it was also used as a training space for new cast members that were manning outdoor stalls in the park. It’s most likely still is used for training staff today while by what I’ve heard it also had a focus on training staff on the specific Disney way of interacting with guests at the stalls and how to deal with unruly/aggressive guests.
The conference floor in the Contemporary gives me this vibe. Whilst there was something on during my stay I rarely saw anyone go in or out and felt there was a whole, empty, echoing space that you'd normally only see if you got the wrong lift/elevator
Spent some time in Starcade in the '80s. Good times. I wish they'd restore it as an arcade but with all proprietary 80's style games based on Disney properties. Include lots of neon, '80s music, and a Hotdog on a Stick and this would be quite popular I believe.
Disney Quest in 2015….holy baloney some critical Liminal Space vibes. I will never match that feeling of suffocation and displacement…which was so good. I cannot explain it
I’m not sure if it’s still used today, but back in 2016, the met life lounge was used for training for the festival cast members! I worked food and wine and spent my first week of festival training there! And wonders of life in general was often used for cast member events. I have videos of me dancing with Mickey and Minnie in there!
I used to work at Mission Space. Walking down the exit corridor from the far side of the building, especially passing a roll up door to the outside that radiated heat like crazy, was really weird. Inside the bays too. They're just big circles that seem to go on forever. Opening one in the mornings alone was so creepy. Strange ambient noises and always seeming like there was someone, or something, just ahead of you or behind you. Juuuuuuuust around the bend. It was a spooky place.
I would have loved to visit Wonders of Life when it was still open and quiet. I'm a sucker for places stuck in time, it really encapsulates the start of EPCOT Center. I'm also still mourning Buzzy, so just standing in front of the Cranium Command marquee would help significantly lol
One space that I used to love going to growing up was the Innoventions building in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Now it's used as a lounge for Vacation Club and it looks really creepy with no one in there. You can walk into the entrance to meet Darth Vader and see some other Star Wars stuff, but the rest of the building is for Vacation Club and it's still themed the way it was when it was last open to the public. Kinda sad to see it this way
I was a Fantasyland merchandise cast member but I got moved over to Tomorrowland for a few weeks when Tron opened and the former area of Extraterrorestrial/Stich is definitely a backrooms space.
The Epcot lockers that are blocks of color: orange, purple....our band marched at Epcot in 1984, and walked through the backstage space...seemed to go on forever!
Disney Quest was one of these, for sure. Imagine walking around those various floors, late at night, when no one else is around.
Theres a video of this
@@hollybabyyywhat is the video?
@ idk who posted it but someone literally walked around it in the dark. Maybe matt sonswa
Matt Sonswa did this
Whats even creepier is the fact there was a giant 2 or 3 floor slide built into the wall called "the cave of wonders slide". It got boarded up sometime during the buildings life and remained sealed in the wall until demolition. Part of me wonders if any kid got stuck in there cause the possibility of being sealed in scares me greatly
Former Epcot CM- I was so excited to see you mention innoventions during its end. We used to have to bring lost and found through there at night and it was always the strangest feeling walking alone down the “street” with most things walled off.
Came here to say this! Why couldn't they just let us walk around it instead of going through
@@junetrooper I think it was the best way to get to GR without guest "interruptions" ...it was creepy af but I loved going back there it was nice and cold...
That pavilion was originally a showcase pavilion of future computer technologies when the park first opened with it being renovated into Innovations between 1994 and 1996! :)
YESSS i always got so creeped out
@@Techno-UniversalI remember when I went in 1995 they had rows upon rows of Macs, PCs and Sega Saturns loaded with various software and games for you to try out :)
Here's a weird one. There's a bathroom in Cars Land, behind Flo's diner that has the EXACT architecture, color, and layout of the 50's diner at LEGOland in San Diego. Like I swear the wall pattern and tile is even the same. It doesn't really count as a backroom as it's always busy...but it weirded me out. I went to LEGOland and DCA very closely together a few years and it was just so odd.
Interesting
I just HAVE to look that up now
What if there was a tunnel between those two bathrooms
@DrStarlander You jest but people believe this
Ha! That used to be my secret bathroom spot (former CM)
The Wonders of Life pavilion one of the last times it was open was a real treat for my brain. I was the ONLY person there most of my experience. The cast member had even wandered away from the pre show area for Cranial Command and I was standing there alone for a good while just feeling like I had walked into a memory from childhood. It felt like I was dreaming.
It definitely helped that I had been under the impression that the stuff didn’t even exist anymore up until I saw the signs that it was seasonally open and went in. That blew my mind to shit.
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The MetLife lounge was Mary Poppins’ themed. It’s the chalk painting scene with the carousel. It’s mentioned in the Kingdom Keepers: Disney at Dawn book the first printing. That is where the Overtakers keep Wayne when they capture him. When Disney had Ridley Pierson rewrite the series to bring it up to date they changed the location in EPCOT.
Yes, I recognized the horses leaving the carousel as Mary Poppins.
Wait I had no IDEA they made him rewrite it to bring it up to date. I’m also almost positive I have the OG so now I feel like I need to go reread them
"The monsters detract from the point of The Backrooms"
Damn, Offhand being based.
Yes, monsters immediately turn the backrooms into a non-liminal space.
@@howtubeable The monsters turn it into discount SCP Lab
I've been saying this for years, it was so nice to hear someone else finally say it
@@imlegos2153 true
I agree. though I make an exception for th entity that Kane Pixels created because it seems to add to the uncanniness of the backrooms without taking over it.
All the other stuff like skinstealers, wretches, etc. make it too much like SCP.
I wish Disney was self aware enough to silently offer single-person reservations to freely explore these areas for a set amount of time with no outside interference until your time is up
This is an untapped market. I’m sure they’d charge thousands!
@ I’d pay it
“bUt iT wOuLd rUiN tHe mAgIc!”
This is such a fun topic to make a video on, I remember walking through an empty Tomorrowland terrace as a kid and feeling the same sort of vibes that would come to be known as “liminal” later on
I LOVE backrooms/liminal space lore. Not only does it tap into my hidden corridor, Wonderland fascination, but the unsettling factor this brings makes it more interesting. And of course, it's cool to see many people share this feeling. Disney backrooms are particularly creepy since most of them are unknown of existing, yet literally right behind or underneath the happy business of the parks.
I would love to have a coffee table book with beautiful unsettling art photographs of Disney's backrooms / liminal spaces
@@DrStarlander That makes 2 of us! Thank god for the internet at least 😅
The Rocket Rods queue area seen around 6:25 has indeed evolved - the room containing the giant blueprints, old Monorail and PeopleMover cars, that is - has been part of the Buzz Lightyear queue since 2005. A lot of those photos would’ve been from 2001 rather than 2010, as this area was gutted for Buzz. However, my understanding is that the narrow tunnel portion and series of stairs leading up to the Rocket Rods station platform do indeed still exist.
This is correct. I was in the tunnel in 2015 and can confirm that it exists.
It has a giant Rocket Rods sign and the turnstiles (this video actually does a good job of capturing it). Then there's a stairway up to the old Peoplemover platform.
It's creepy but very neat. I wish I got to go down there more than once.
It’s actually cool to see the Wonders of Life pavilion! I don’t know who read the original Kingdom Keepers books (before the author released updated versions), but Book 3 was mainly in EPCOT and a lot of the plot revolved around the Wonders of Life pavilion! I remember the characters having to balance on that mobile chandler thing and I could never properly imagine it. Now I can!!
I loveddddd kingdom keepers omg
I spent years searching for proper footage because the books referenced these areas, but there were no pictures anywhere!
I used to read Kingdom Keepers!!!
In fact, if I remember correctly, they actually go into the lounge Offhand mentions. I think one of the characters hallucinates the carousel horses on the walls and they mention the circus theme of the loung
He released updated versions of the books?! Like it wasn't just updated cover art he just rewrote and republished the books?
That series got me into reading idk how I feel knowing it's been changed.
I went into innoventions east for the first time when I was maybe 12, and this was near the end of its lifetime, but my family had no idea. There was no one else in there, not even a cast member in sight for at least 15 minutes, and it was eerie. There was nothing to do either. I’m glad you’ve addressed this liminal space.
I would blow literally $100 a paycheck at the Starcade when I worked at the park. This was 1980s money. Work, clock out, turn around in Harbor House and walk back into the park, taking the backstage "shortcut" to Tomorrowland, and ride the (WORKING) escalator up to the 2nd floor of the Starcade. I miss those days...Hell, I miss watching Halyx on Tomorrowland's Space Stage.
I'm old, and I am wistful for my youth. If I went back, there would be only a few things I might change, but they all would end up having amazing fun in Tomorrowland after a full, very physical, day's work at Disneyland.
My parents hated taking me to Disney when I was younger because they knew the Starcade was MANDATORY. It had all my favorite games, so while they hopped on Space Mountain or the theater shows (Honey I shrunk the kids?) I'd be there for an hour just going in on the games.
Gosh I can't imagine hearing halyx in person
I would consider both Star Wars Launch Bays (east and west coast) at this point as liminal space considering their rare usage. Also, the Alien Encounter/Stitch space at Magic Kingdom. And the grand prize: the former exhibit space behind the walls of the lounge on the second floor of Imagination pavilion at Epcot (where the rainbow tunnel was). I think this video might need a Part 2?
Stitch is FILLED with black mold on the inside from what I've heard
@@Valentine-kx7fknot at all true lol
It’s a series of break rooms and they’re fine. Really weird to eat lunch amongst the corpse of the attraction tho
Coming from someone who worked multiple overnights in the Disneyland Star Wars Launch Bay this year, it's ABSOLUTELY a liminal space. Everything is pretty much how it looked when it was open, but walking through it alone at 2am with most of the lights off is creepy as heck.
15:30 there are still offices used on the second floor of wonders of life. there are a handful of conference rooms used for team huddles and then a few attractions/entertainment GEM offices
But does it still look like that? I've been up there but it's been about 10 years now.
I’d be curious to know about the kinds of leaders that would hang out in there bc even world discovery attractions’ leaders office was recently in the GOTG building and then moved to the GR building. Like aside from attractions and merch (and VIP tours) there IS no one else in World Disco
This is the whimsical content I didn't know I needed to see, but I'm here for whatever you are offering to share with us! The Offhand comment on the week is the best chuckle I've had all week! Thank you for what you do here!
The Test Track post show. It is/was HUGE...and always seemed to have about five people in it. Also the Mission Space exit hall, full of mysterious doors, mostly devoid of people, and seemingly endless.
The mission space exit hallway doors are all just the attraction exits! There are 4 bays (2 green 2 orange) and all exit out into the same hallway but green has a longer walk out. My favorite part is all the open faced trash cans people can choose the throw up in 😂
The Test Track post show activities were honestly some of my daughter's favorite things at WDW when she was littler, so I never thought of it like that. But I suppose it was deliberately built like a car showroom, which are usually these strange cavernous spaces. Since they involved playing with the virtual car you'd designed in the queue pre-show, they had a single pre-show design console there so you could design a whole new car if you wanted to, take a second pass at it if you'd been frustrated by running out of time, or do the activity if you'd skipped it entirely by taking the single-rider line. I always thought that was a thoughtful touch.
the last time I went to WDW was in 2020 when they had all their covid precautions up so the test track showrooms were all shut down... that really added to the creepy empty vibe. nobody was sticking around in there and just passed straight through because there was nothing to see. my brother and i used to use the car customizing terminals in there to design our prototypes for the next ride through on the fastpass line since they didn't let you make your own there lol.
Communicore new giant hall is my favorite place in any Disney park. It's an amazingly imaginative place where guests could spend hours admiring the floor, walls, and bathrooms. Too many places at Disney have rides and things to see and do.
Thank goodness for Communicore, a place to just stand around.
As a former entertainment CM, I can confirm that the parades department often uses the starcade as a break space for performers in between the 2 daily parades.
I used to work in the hospitality industry and of all the crazy things I dealt with during that time, what genuinely scared me the most was delivering room service in the middle of the night. Lots and lots and lots of empty, long, dimly lit hallways. So many empty hallways... I always felt like I was being watched. Still haunts me.
Every time I see Starcade I get a little bummed out. One trip I wandered in and found a motion sim rig running a PC racing game I had put countless hours into many years prior. So, on my planning my next visit, I practiced a bunch to relearn the cars & tracks. Sadly, it had been removed and was never there on later visits.
It was a fully enclosed, white egg-shaped capsule sitting a couple feet off the ground. I have never seen pictures of the Starcade with it included.
I didn’t visit the Starcade much when it was around, but I still kinda miss it…
I've always thought that the *unloading* area for Orlando's Space Mountain has a weird liminality to it. It's *literally* liminal: I think they've deliberately designed it not to be too interesting because it's a space where you're not trapped and they want to keep you moving out of there. So, at least under normal conditions, you're only in it for a very short time; you're attracted by the "Tomorrowland Station MK-1 Control Center" theming that draws you into the exit tunnel (which used to have a moving walkway).
But if you look around you, the rest of the area has this sort of abandoned-cineplex-lobby vibe to it. The ceiling above you is just a drop ceiling. There's carpet with sort of a bowling-alley pattern on it. They've painted "Tomorrowland Station MK-1" on the curving wall, but there's no other real effort to theme the area outside of the metal barriers that define the unloading zone. I always get this uneasy feeling that it implies unexplorable empty interior spaces that you can't quite see the entrance to.
I totally agree!
"But we're not gonna talk about that because I've moved on" ... none of us have, D. None of us have.
Perennially true!
Horizons 😢
The simple fact that you can walk around and explore your Disney resort past midnight is fun and comfy. But when you accidently step into an endless hall or void-like area in the middle of the night during cold temperatures with no one around, things can get slightly creepy.
I got lost at Coronado by the conference rooms and it felt like this
@@queenbean2016 I'm glad you're okay.
Happened to me at the Beach Club resort. 😂
The contemporary convention center is so spooky! Before I became a local I remember my parents would let me walk around the resorts late at night as a teen and I remember it being so cool, yet creepy, yet calming.
I stayed at the Contemporary Resort as a little kid and for some reason I was outside of my hotel room when no other guests were really out. Maybe late at night or early morning. It freaked me out so much I remember it to this day. All those repeating doors that looked exactly the same and how quiet it was really struck a chord with me
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If you find yourself in the Starcade, you may hear the rumble of the People Mover going by in another room, complete with muffled audio loop. Whenever you rush towards the sound however, all you find are sealed up walls, and silence.
Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin in Disneyland, especially the que.
I went to Disneyland for the first time a few years ago. This ride was empty. I went through the whole que all by myself. Its designed like some kind of Acme warehouse, tight turns. I legitimately thought at one point I somehow took a wrong turn in the que and was about to walk in some backstage area. Then I was only one on the ride, no other guests in sight. The mirror part was specifically creepy for me.
Then at the end of the ride, they move one ride vehicle at a time in to some kind if small waiting room I guess so the loading area would not get backed up. This room was pitch black, they kept me in there for at least five terrifying seconds if not more. I thought the ride broke down.
Not exactly liminal, but still creepy.....at least to me lol
Yep, that’ll do it… lmao
Never experienced this on that ride lol its rarely empty
I and many other people I'm good friends with think it would be very amazing if Disney brought back Innoventions and put it in the Wonder of Life pavilion. Take some of the more popular games and attractions from Innoventions, the old music, the old fiber optic pathways, and a smaller fountain of nations and put them in the old pavilion. A great way to bring back nostalgia and memories for the older guests and a great way to make new memories for the kids.
The old stitch animatronic lives back there somewhere… And Jean Lafitte!
I read the title as "Bathrooms" and was like okay I guess
if you're brave enough
id still watch that tbh
I almost did.
@@greygoose8803 real
I hoping to find new Bathrooms. You weren’t the only one. Who got the title mistaken
Heck Yeah! Love Disney Parks and The vibe of Backrooms with the weird but warm feeling. A great video to watch before work! Thank you Offhand Disney Man! :D
When the backrooms first started appearing online, I got a sense of deja vu, almost a dream-like feeling, as in I could vividly remember the space but found it difficult to explain to someone else. The pool rooms are another example of this type of subliminal space. I've watched pool room videos online, which give an eerie yet delightful feeling. I thought I was crazy for thinking of Disney especially Epcot when watching the backroom/pool room videos.
I loved the video!!!
For me, its whenever I remember Pizza Planet in Disneyland Paris. It was a restaurant just behind Space Mountain at the back of Discoveryland and was themed to Toy Story. It was really tucked away, you'd have to go under the railway and had a little RC racer model you could take photos with. Anytime I see photos of inside, I always remember how low lit it was and it gives me Backrooms vibes. Like I never remember it being busy and very much like we shouldn't be there. My family probably have photos of inside somewhere
The Pizza Planet at WDW back in the very early 2000s was like that for me, mostly because of a combo of disappointment that it was just a big lofty brick building instead of that cool thing from the movie and the fact that when my family and I went to eat there, there was NOBODY in there. It was us and, like, two other people
Kinda off topic, but I think the new Epcot looks pretty alright. It's got clean lines, open space, nice foliage, and it's kinda classy with the lighting. I get that it's a cheaper, toned down version, but it looks nice.
It feels SO BIG and there’s SO MUCH SEATING AVAILABLE 🤩 I think it’s great.
Fun fact! In order to get to the MetLife areas, MetLife employees had to scan a special card on an ID reader! I was able to get my hands on one of those cards a few years ago! Such a neat piece of parks history to own as a former cast member and big fan of classic Epcot Center memorabilia!!
Current CM so you didn’t hear this from me: Allegedly, *sometimes* these spaces get rented out for meetings or weddings. If not, it’s *probably* storage, offices for leadership, or shortcuts for cast members to use if there are no tunnels, like Innovations. Allegedly. Actually, don’t listen to me. I am Jon Snow.
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the innoventions area loop slowed is giving everything i need back in my life
Went to Disney in 2017 and did colortopia during its dying days and when I tell you I felt so incredibly unsettled there. It almost had the vibe of feeling like I shouldn’t be there, despite it obviously being open to the public.
The tunnels of magic kingdom creep me out so much it feels like you’re going to get lost. Also the stairway up to cosmic rays feels for weird
I've gone through the CM areas of both Rise Of The Resistance and Space Mountain. Rise feels so weird to walk through, it legit feels like you're walking through a never ending office hallway. If you've ever gotten somewhat lost trying to find the exit for Smugglers Run imagine that, but with no decor.
As a recent CM at Disneyland, I can confirm that the Starcade is now used as a fancy lounge for DVC members. Parts of it are now walled off, so the section that goes underneath the Space Mountain queue is unused and empty (to my knowledge). Now the Starcade is just a small lounge with soda machines and a snack bar for rich people lol. The backroom feel is all gone (imo). But!! Space Mountain has strong backroom vibes. I walked through the Space Mountain queue & backstage area with a couple other coworkers after the park had closed and it seriously felt like a never ending maze with a weird eerie feel to it.
The Tower of Terror boiler room feels liminal and creepy but I don't know if that counts because it was designed to be that way
A liminal space doesn't have to be creepy, it just means a transitory space that connects other spaces together. Like a hallway between airport terminals is a liminal space but isn't (necessarily!) creepy.
Indeed! Although this is referencing an aesthetic trend and subculture that is based in the concept of liminality but is very much it’s own thing. I find the whole non-academic uptick in interest in the word liminal to be fascinating!
I went to Epcot 3 days before this video was uploaded, I absolutely hated the new look. It’s something about that nostalgic look that I miss so much. I do love the new Walt statue though.
backrooms at the contemporary resort are top tier tbh
Hi! Current Cast Member Here! While I normally work in Hollywood Studios, some of my friends over at Epcot have confirmed that something is happening over in the Wonders of Life Pavilion! They can’t give me like any details, that’s really all I got-
All I wanna know is, Is it a current IP theme , or a new idea?
I always felt like they could open their own movie theater in there
Imagine a horror game set at Disneyland
I like that idea
There is Five Nights at Treasure Island which is based on the Abandoned by Disney Creepypasta(s)
@@LeonardoDaVinci_1452 You just gave me a nostalgia flashback. I remember watching markiplier play that game.
Don't forget about HappyFunLand and Indigo Park.
I love this! I've often felt that kind of liminality in spots of the Disney Parks, particularly the abandoned areas you mentioned. And I think that is a key feature in all liminal spaces, abandonment. They are empty, devoid of people, yet clearly were built for people to enjoy. It's a post apocalyptic feeling, that without people, every space feels dead. Our grand buildings that we create, were only created for others like us. Without people, our creations become empty, dead, abandoned relics that no longer serve a purpose. It leaves a wonder of whether mankind's legacy is going to be these abandoned places when we are all gone...
Great video! Would love to see more and I'm totally using this as inspiration for a Backrooms Level build in Minecraft. 😁😁
As I watched this I thought about a space I used in 2005 at Epcot but couldn’t remember the name of the room. It had a central court “mall” type feeling and windows that could overlook the first floor from the second floor.
I worked at the parks for another company back then. We use the VIP room of Wonder of Life as an area for our students to stay during the day.
Thanks for the memory flashback!
2:23 Former Disney Store CM. I feel like if I did no clip I would end up in an old Disney Store and each room would be the next generation of remodel and have more and more glitter on the floor.
Former Swiss miss cadet here. Yup I truly did slurp it down didn’t it, great cocoa so far this season.
I recognize the Disney Store in there! Looks creepy with just the shelves there.
You should do more videos like this of behind the scenes stuff and like history, it makes Disney even more interesting
hollywood land at dca gives me that vibe. I love monsters inc and philharmagic, but everything else in the area is so ominous and empty now that the nighttime shows aren't running anymore. especially whenever they open the hollywood & dine restaurant or the backlot 17/old frozen area for different events... that whole land is so empty and eerie lol
Former DHR Trader Sam’s CM: There are some scary ass places, and it’s terrifying to go into the park at night. You can hear snow whites well at the front gates and even in Tomorrowland, turnover and neglected areas lead to this a LOT. Cool video, and I have tons of haunted and creepy stories of some Disney parks. Very cool video!
epcot future world loop _[slowed + reverb]_
Has anyone ever told you that your voice sounds like Jerry Trainor? 😂 I love it! I was imagining Spencer Shay was explaining Disney Lore to me
one of my favorite liminal spaces is the Animation Academy in Dca, specifically the Sorcerer’s Workshop. It’s in a weird back corner of the building, and the theming of the Evil Queens castle and the Beasts castle give off an unsettling vibe. There used to be a third area themed to Ursula that was dark and creepy too. This area used to be more popular but i feel like Disney is paying less and less attention to it and it’s just getting more worn down and abandoned as time goes on. Last time i was at the park, it was just me and my sister in the Beasts castle. I don’t even remember any cast members around. The whole Animation Academy building has a strange vibe, it’s just so huge and a lot of times there’s not anyone around, especially when the drawing show or Turtle Talk with Crush isn’t going on.
It took me three visits to realize that the Sorcerer’s Workshop was
1) in that building, despite that building being my favorite place to sit and spend down time
2) still a thing that existed and not some shuttered extinct thing
This one makes me think of the Normal IKEA SCP. Talk about a place full of liminal spaces and potentially hazardous situations.
1:49 THANK you! That's what I've been saying!
Universal Orlando has their own creepy area that is NOT off limits. Head over to Sapphire Falls, and check out their convention center floor on a day when no convention is being hosted. You can walk around the area outside of the convention rooms and be the only one in the fully lit building. There’s escalators, your own massive bathrooms, views to the outside area where there are zero people. And no one will ever ask you what you are doing there.
Beyond this is the back of the resort, where the hotel shuttle bus drops people off, and Uber drivers occasionally believe is the official Uber pick up and drop off location.
as a CM who works in MK and goes through the utilidors every day, i can confidently say i am always worried ill get lost in there forever 😂
There’s a door at Disneyland Autopia in the round building on the right that has a preserved Michael Jackson dressing room from when he used to visit Captain EO. It was still there when I last saw it in 2017. It has musky shag carpet and a state-of-the-art 27 inch Sony TV. How do I know? I saw it.
That’s neat.
This is reminding me of that horror story set in the small world ride, the one where the ride never ends and loops until the people on it go crazy
This might be my favorite video you’ve ever done!
What is the ride at 1:10 called? I think I have a memory of it from 30 years ago
it was called the universe of energy pavilion and was an opening day attraction at epcot on october 1st, 1982. it was closed on january 21st, 1996 to be rethemed as ellen’s energy adventure with ellen degeneres and bill nye the science guy. and while it was in the middle of this retheme, on june 14th, 1996, the original universe of energy ride briefly reopened because most of the other attractions in future world east were closed for refurbishment except for the wonders of life. and it closed again on september 2, 1996. and finally reopened as ellen’s energy adventure. and that overlay lasted until august 13, 2017 when the whole attraction was replaced with the guardians of the galaxy cosmic rewind coaster which softopened on may 5th, 2022 and opened to the public on may 27, 2022
@@Jake76667 Thank you so much. It's been so many years since I've been there, and nostalgia tends to get a hold of me when I see familiar places like this
former cm here: would definitely add any number of utilidoors areas to this, but I'm here to talk about "the jog" in potc. It's just. a weird place that few will ever see. honestly, all the cast areas for that ride are very strange and liminal. but that one sticks out
I used to work at Test Track and we would have to cut through Innoventions East after close to deliver lost items to Lost and Found. There would only be a couple of lights on and there was an eerie humming sound as I walked down the dim road on the floor. So haunting but it was also comforting to be in such an empty place after a long day of guests.
Lots if scary stuff on RUclips this week
At least you offer a touch of whimsy...
I have heard that Tiana's at Disneyland when you are off the ride but in the maintenance pathways is a maze of backrooms.
Tom Sawyer's Island at night, with no one around, Deff had the creepy vibs. Idk if I agree about the Inoventions area's quite fitting the liminal space as I think about it, Too many signs all over giving descriptions of things and such, even where stuff had been removed that carpet showed there had been things there, maybe its just me since I went through there a lot to get out of the heat during its dying days but never got the same vibe the back rooms gave me, but different people may feel differently. I do feel like Disney jumped the gun with making splash mountain into Tiana's Adventure, Like if you were going to get rid of Tom Sawyer's island, you could have turned that Whole area into Tiana's Bayou, and done something else with Splash Mountain. Something that did more to preserve the songs like Zip-a-dee-doo-dah and Laughing place.
the exiting area of star tours at disneyland! right before the gift shop next to the flight glasses return bins. i’ve stayed behind after everyone filters out, and it’s just an empty space with blue lighting and that music loop.
people still use the utilidoors all the time but parts of it feel really isolated and depending on the time of day it feels like the back rooms. the old signs of attractions and positive signs, some parts are not as updated as others. feels like you’re looking at the same place castmembers from the 80s were looking at.
This is some of my favorite parts working at the parks at night doing contracting work. Some of the places get super creepy. I remember one dry season we were working on the back end to one of the old parts of JP at Universal and there was this creepy looking toy ferris wheel that would randomly creek for a few seconds and then stop.
Pandora at Disney looked creepy too until they put the rocks up on steel frames to make the mountains.
Those or cleaning up the blood from parts of the rides where people throw up ulcers that ruptured....
It's crazy what all you will see at the parks at night.
That last bit is different than the rest lmao
I love what epcot was in the 90s...super liminal.❤❤ I miss those days in disney...up until the late 00s...then dark times...now..I don't like going anymore...maybe one day.
There was always something creepy about the MK tunnel even if there were people down there.
Yeah, when you don’t meet another CM (or a golf cart) for a few hundred feet it is literally the backrooms but Disney themed. I loved wandering around down there.
Weird question: what place exactly is the photo in 17:32?
Is that an old disney store? One of the Disney MGM (now Hollywood) Studios shops boarded up? It can't be the old waiting area for Food Rocks at the Land Pavilion because that's where the entrance/queue for Soarin' is located.
Up until now I had no memories from my first disneyland trip when I was 5. But when you showed the fire safety exhibit from innoventions..... I thought that was a dream for real. That place was so bizarre!
Im a CM and occasionally picked up shifts in Tomorrowland, the soace where stitch's great escape used to be is definitely liminal. I loved having it as a break space though, so cool just to walk around.
As a cast member, I used to love opening up doors and going through hallways that I didn’t know where they led, just because I could. Glad I didn’t know about the Backrooms back then lol
Yessss taking my break and just walking around is one of the best CM perks.😊
That's how I wound up in Club 33 (accidentally)!
we had WDW passes when my son was 9/10 and spent many fun hours at EPCOT. He really enjoyed Innovations and I enjoyed it with him.
Awesome video, im a big fan of the backrooms lore
Apparently for the entire life of the Met Life Lounge it was also used as a training space for new cast members that were manning outdoor stalls in the park. It’s most likely still is used for training staff today while by what I’ve heard it also had a focus on training staff on the specific Disney way of interacting with guests at the stalls and how to deal with unruly/aggressive guests.
The conference floor in the Contemporary gives me this vibe. Whilst there was something on during my stay I rarely saw anyone go in or out and felt there was a whole, empty, echoing space that you'd normally only see if you got the wrong lift/elevator
me: a cast member who frequently attends events wherein the Starcade is utilized, still loving this video!
Spent some time in Starcade in the '80s. Good times. I wish they'd restore it as an arcade but with all proprietary 80's style games based on Disney properties. Include lots of neon, '80s music, and a Hotdog on a Stick and this would be quite popular I believe.
I miss the StarCade so much!
Disney Quest in 2015….holy baloney some critical Liminal Space vibes. I will never match that feeling of suffocation and displacement…which was so good. I cannot explain it
The Land’s got a couple good ones. The old abandoned sponsor lounge there and the space behind the screen in the Harvest Theater
I’m not sure if it’s still used today, but back in 2016, the met life lounge was used for training for the festival cast members! I worked food and wine and spent my first week of festival training there! And wonders of life in general was often used for cast member events. I have videos of me dancing with Mickey and Minnie in there!
The inside of Wonders of Life is completely gutted right now. Everything has been torn out and it’s essentially just a dome surrounding nothing
That sucks.
U think anything is gonna end up there?
I used to work at Mission Space. Walking down the exit corridor from the far side of the building, especially passing a roll up door to the outside that radiated heat like crazy, was really weird. Inside the bays too. They're just big circles that seem to go on forever. Opening one in the mornings alone was so creepy. Strange ambient noises and always seeming like there was someone, or something, just ahead of you or behind you. Juuuuuuuust around the bend. It was a spooky place.
That 1st picture was taken in Oshkosh WI, at a hobby store. You can visit it lol.
I would have loved to visit Wonders of Life when it was still open and quiet. I'm a sucker for places stuck in time, it really encapsulates the start of EPCOT Center. I'm also still mourning Buzzy, so just standing in front of the Cranium Command marquee would help significantly lol
6:47 sounds like an excellent plot for a horror film
i look forward to your videos every week, keep up the good work! 👍
One space that I used to love going to growing up was the Innoventions building in Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Now it's used as a lounge for Vacation Club and it looks really creepy with no one in there. You can walk into the entrance to meet Darth Vader and see some other Star Wars stuff, but the rest of the building is for Vacation Club and it's still themed the way it was when it was last open to the public. Kinda sad to see it this way
I have a soft spot for liminal spaces that have a nostalgic vibe to them like these ones do. Quite possibly my favorite type of liminal space, TBH
this was great.
I was a Fantasyland merchandise cast member but I got moved over to Tomorrowland for a few weeks when Tron opened and the former area of Extraterrorestrial/Stich is definitely a backrooms space.
The Epcot lockers that are blocks of color: orange, purple....our band marched at Epcot in 1984, and walked through the backstage space...seemed to go on forever!
This video was a lot of fun! I've never seen a disney related video like this!