Creepy cats that pop out of nowhere, will do that! Make you nuts! Love the Cat er pillar Transport! Love that the ride is part inside, part outside, like Cars. Al ice will always be one of my favorite rides.
The redesign doormouse looks terrifying I wish they’d just stick with the original doormouse and add a few adjustments instead of redesigning it completely 😧
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Honestly, Alice's adventures in Wonderland we're fairly off-putting. If, as a rider, you're supposed to be the protagonist, the first incarnation of the ride sounds like it captured that pretty well.
Truth be told, as awesome as it would be to still have this around today, it would probably be a massive failure among modern day guests, and would be deemed too scary, lackluster and outdated.
My cousin and I "discovered" the Alice in Wonderland attraction in 1975 and rode on it about three times that day, so I vaguely remember the original ride before the 1984 refurb. Yes, it was really, really creepy but that was part of the fun. The part I really hated was when the vehicle would crash through the three doors with Goofy screaming -we'd hold our ears when we got to this part, so glad they got rid of it. Strangely, the part that scared me the most was the return trip down the vine path, I always felt like the caterpillar was about to run right off the track!
Yesterworld Entertainment , so happy you liked it! I'm completely in agreement with you that the Alice attraction kept getting better and better with each refurb, especially the latest version with all the digital effects. Actually, the whole new Fantasyland of 1983-4 was a vast improvement on the original Fantasyland, in my opinion. The only dark ride that I never saw the original version of was Snow White; as you may know, the attraction was originally called "Snow White's Adventures" but in the little guide book that you got when you bought your ticket books it appeared as "Snow White's Adventures (scary)" So I never had the courage to go on it when I was a kid. Sorry for rambling on!
Yes, I, too rode thoat 1958 version in the 1960s...a door. Then another door. THEN another door. THEN ANOTHER door. And then..well, you get the picture..!
@@YesterworldEntertainment do you know galya peeva she was Alec's in wonderland movie made into store story about how they were all really story of TV in movie theater in new horizons room ride before making maze bank tower of power outage map money made movie maze
You can talk about the high praise the attraction received all you want at 15:00 but what we're really interested in is that *epoxy coated solid brass king sized bed priced at the low low price of $649 with an extremely low shipping time of only 2 days*
Some credit where credit is due: Kathryn Beaumont was the longtime voice of both Alice and Wendy for almost 50 years, up until her retirement from voice acting. Her voice can be heard on this ride, and she also did both Alice and Wendy for the very first _Kingdom Hearts._
I get the point. It's supposed to bring you out of Alice's world & back into the world of the park. The screaming would have been goofy enjoying the ride. But it sounds scary af lol
The original walkthrough sounds awesome and the original version of the ride sounds terrifying 😂 I do like the current version a lot, I think it has the best example of how to integrate modern technology (like projections) into classic rides
I like that in the sketches for the walk through, the little girl has her hands clasped behind her back while looking at the Cheshire cat...It's a nice little homage to the original illustration.
It’s a shame that this was never built. However I’m glad that at Disneyland Paris has the Alice curious Labyrinth that has some of these elements such as the hedge and card maze
So funny how they really thought leaving out the main characters was a good idea back then. I get that WE are supposed to be the main character on the journey, but having a main protagonist in the films as a surrogate for the audience clearly works just as well on dark rides as well. Just took them 30 years to figure it out I guess.
the maze at Disneyland Paris is in such poor repair at the moment, it's heartbreaking. Broken animatronics, dying hedges, chipped paint... the rest of the park is still beautiful but for some reason, that attraction specifically has been left to go quite shabby
My family is from Laguna Beach, I was born there but my parents moved away soon after. When my mom was in her late teens/early 20's she worked at the Laguna Ace Hardware. Sterling Holloway(voice of the Cheshire Cat and Winnie the Pooh) came there a lot. When you hear his voice in those to roles thats how he actually spoke. Kids would here him speak a couple of aisle over and most of the time assumed it was Winnie. They would run over and be confused asking where Winnie was, Sterling would always say Winnie's not here right now but I'll tell him you said hi. Thank you for your videos, my gram worked worked for Disney in the 50's as a secretary for the commercial toy department and took my mom to the park the year it opened.
Oh, that scene from "A Muppets Christmas Carol" made me remember that when I was a little girl I was TERRIFIED of the "Marley and Marley" song as a kid to the point where I would cry if I ever heard it. Seriously. For almost 10 years. I can admit that with zero shame now. But, anyway, back to the video... I literally love you, Yesterworld. I've been really hooked on watching videos on old Disney rides and other stuff because of quarantine. Keep up the cool work, man!
In case anybody was wondering, here's where each scene from the original version of the attraction was located: Down the Rabbit Hole / Occupied the same location as the current, furnished Rabbit Hole, although the crash doors leading into the Upside-Down Room were positioned slightly before the Doorknob's door in the current version Upside-Down Room / Occupied the same location as the forested area where Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum, and the White Rabbit are seen Through the Key Hole (Oversized Room) / Occupied the first stretch of the Garden of Live Flowers; the back wall of the scene (featuring the Doorknob and his keyhole mouth) was positioned a little bit before the track starts doing a wide U-turn (It's interesting to note that the small nudge to the right in the track where the Oversized Room used to be originally existed to swerve riders away from the downward-swinging silhouette Cheshire Cat.) Garden of Live Flowers / Occupied the same location it does in the current version, minus the space originally used as the Oversized Room, of course Tulgey Wood / Occupied the same location it does in the current version Mad Tea Party / Occupied the same location as the Royal Rose Garden, although it should be noted that the track was expanded slightly at the far end of the room during the redesign Crash Room / Occupied the holographic croquet game, trial, and escape segment
It'd be so much fun to have a time machine and be able to see this stuff the way it was when it first opened. But Yesterworld videos are the next best thing!
A few things to add. The reason the tea party's at the end is that it's supposed to lead directly into the teacups. And there's a "inspired-by" of the original ride still operating at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. I think their forced perspective room was probably the way Disney's forced perspective worked. I've made a comment on the park's video of the ride under a "did they copy Disney" thread. Now opinion on why the walk-through was abandoned: Before Disneyland there were little themed parks (mostly themed around Santa, but some were fairy tales) that featured walk-throughs, some of which were Alice in Wonderland. They were cute and sometimes quaintly creative (like a slide for the Rabbit hole), but mostly contained statues. Disney's walk-through would have blown them out of the water, but similar to how Walt was differentiating Disneyland from carnivals, I think he decided he didn't want to be compared to these fairy tale parks either.
EXCELLENT video. Loved all the vintage images and footage from the ride's earliest versions. Well done, as always. Thank you for the trip back in time!
Wonderful, please cover Mr Toad's as well (I know Pinocchio hasn't changed since it was added in the Fantasyland 1983 upgrade). I used to as a kid in the 90s love the E Ticket Magazines when they covered the dark rides.
Man, everything about your narration and style is inspiring. It's helping me in my dream growing as a filmmaker and content creator. It's so cool learning about the origins of Alice and Fantasyland. For the longest time I thought the majority of Fantasyland was the same as it was since 1955. How WRONG I was. SO MUCH has changed. Some for the better...some for the debatable worse (I'm referring to the pirate ship and Skull Rock, of course)!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! As a small child ( born 1958 ) in So Cal I was terrified by the early ride through. I have vague memories of things flipping down and popping up. That horn from the white rabbit was deafening. Everyone said I was crazy. Thanks for the proof I’m not. PS I’m a former 25 yr premium pass holder and 1 year cast member.
Honestly, I am old enough that I remember the Upside-Down Room quite vividly, and it was AWESOME! Very disorienting for a simple effect, and the best part of the ride at the time. Hard to describe, but you began to feel like you really were upside down, and going to black and resetting to right side -up probably helped from getting too queasy. I HATED when they got rid of it in the 80's rehab.
Why not put them in the "Cliff Hangers" game on the "Price Is Right" where a mountain climber falls off after you missed the price and the Goofy screams were added after he falls off and lost it.
@@Musicradio77Network I actually did a fan video like that where I added the Goofy Holler to a Price is Right video where the yodeling guy falls off. It got taken down though or copyright reasons.
I remember I got stuck on this ride as a kid, I was all by myself in the cart and I was stuck in the Cheshire Cat laughing part for about 10 minutes and just sat there crying cause the laughing track just kept repeating- it was traumatizing!
Well now that I've watched this I guess my memories were playing tricks on me. As I was born in 83, I would've never seen the original. I had a memory of this ride for years, I would recall a part where there was a giant Cheshire cat face which was a doorway you go thru into a dark room which looped around and came out the same way...and then on the next visit to the park a few years later, I recalled someone saying something was broken in that room, as the track just continued past it, instead of turning into the black room...now I'm like wth did that memory come from?
Yes!!! I’ve been waiting for the History of the Alice ride since you uploaded the Snow White one! Love all the detail you put in the video, it’s extremely hard to find anything of the ride’s past! Thank you!!!
I’m late on this but, I rode the 60s version many times. It was kind of creepy and weird but I loved it and really missed the upside down room when they removed it. Also the final sequence of three small rooms with the “Goofy screams” had crash doors with wooden doors painted on them that got smaller which gave the illusion that the rider was getting bigger.
Can we acknowledge how fast Yesterworld had to run and how long he had to keep up the pace to keep up with STITCH of all people!? The only thing more amazing was if he kept up with Dash... Or maybe... Yesterworld=Dash
I loved the 70's version! I wasn't scared at all, and the lines to use my "B" coupons were nonexistent. Sure, the current ride is great but I really miss those days of this ride being a walk on.
You sure? I got the 60th Anniversary Blu-ray version of Alice in Wonderland , and it's got bonus features. It's just some of them are games because kids so want to play something that's on a movie where you get the most enjoyment out of it via LSD?
What is up with their attempts at making every dark ride terrifying??? Anyway, I love your opening gags! they crack me up and I look forward to them in every review!
Another great video. More dark ride themed videos please, especially Mr. Toad and Snow White since their WDW versions are officially now in yesterworld.
Haunted Mansion: The first part of me and the hanging man in the stretching room is scary! Alice in Wonderland: Hold my tea! Phantom Manor: Hold my bouquet that I never dropped because I was forever waiting for my dead suitor on whom my dead father's ghost hanged on my wedding day!
I was a small child when Alice opened, and I never found it scary - it was my favorite ride within a couple years, and after the changes through the years, it still is.
I loved the original, and the 1984 (not 1994) update. I was lucky enough to be there the day it reopened, and was in the first car for the general public.
"Tell me a story about fantasyland first" Stitch is so hilarious in your intros. Interesting how in the 80's Disneyland got a new fantasyland and now Disneyworld is getting a new fantasyland...If I have that correct... These Alice rides and concepts look awesome I love all of them I hope I can visit the current one someday lol.
I'm digging the recent videos of classic Disney Land/World attractions- great work! Hope you will do one on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (especially the extinct WDW version) at some point.
Since you’ve done a video on all of the original fantasyland dark rides do you think you could do a video on the unbuilt Pinocchio square, Pinocchio walkthrough and London docks area from the original plans for Fantasyland?
I think the scary style kind of works for Alice in wonderland I mean the movie is honestly very dark and Alice, who’s a literal child, spends the entire time being tossed around by mentally unstable characters in a place she cannot figure out how to navigate. She’s literally lonely and horrified the whole time. I think it sounds like it genuinely encapsulates how stressful that movie was to watch as a kid but I get how that’s a lot to experience as a child on a ride lol
12:03 am I the only one who finds the new version of the mouse really unnerving??? Like I get he looks less scared but he looks SUPER uncanny and something about his face calls back to a deep childhood terror I can’t quite put my finger in
I love #AliceInWonderland! One of my favorite #Disneyland rides ever. Great recap! I love the combination of storytelling. It’s like the classic eTicket magazines come to life! I’m guessing you had those as a kid? I do have to mention: everyone seems to think that all these classic rides are so scary. You have to remember, before Disneyland, any ride would’ve been like the scary experiences at a carnival. There wasn’t such a thing as a happy ride. So comparatively, these were very tame! Also, regarding the Disneyland Paris version - I was so excited to experience the other attractions that when it came time to walk through Wonderland, I was disappointed to say the least. But it was still fun to see something unique! As a child, I was so influenced by this particular attraction that I made the ride at home. Designing caterpillar vehicles and paper cut out characters and taping them to the wall as a walk-through.
So, I had only ridden this in the 80's and had a WTF momeo when you mentioned the ride going outside to disembark when I remember it being a curve back into the building (this was before I truly fell in love with the story and Chesh, but my ADHD/Autistic brain still insisted we HAD to ride this at LEAST once a visit and given that we got free tickets yearly until I was nine...it was quite a few trips between paid and free). It's interesting to watch how things evolve and you can remember how you saw and felt vs how they could have been. I wouldn't have liked the darker, 0re-80's version as a kid, but would love it now. Would also love to see the updated one as the digital effects are probably great.
6:32 God, the old school mascots are absolutely terrifying. Not to mention that creepy serial killer rabbit. At least disney himself was in this clip so It's not as scary lol
some of my favorite alice memories back in 1995, everyday, after spending half of the day waiting in line for the indiana jones ride and the other half watching the 40TH anniversary shows "40 years of adventure, 40 years of fun", love that song!!!! I would go on the alice ride again and again and again at night till they had to close the ride, I had it all to myself, nobody else in there night after night (which made me the last person to get out of the park) it was always the same cast member operating the ride just for me and he once said "you're not from this planet" I take it as the best compliment ever HEAR THAT CAST MEMBERS,? sometimes you really make our day and you're not to be underestimated or showed disrespect
I do have to mention: everyone seems to think that all these classic rides are so scary. You have to remember, before Disneyland, any ride would’ve been like the scary experiences at a carnival. There wasn’t such a thing as a happy ride. So comparatively, these were very tame!
The original walk through sounds amazing! I feel like the Alice in Wonderland maze in DLP was inspired by it. In the original walkthrough there would be so many photo opportunities which is fun but also makes me think of all the congestion from influencers and such
Kathryn Beaumont(Alice from Alice in the Wonderland & she did the voice of Wendy from Peter Pan also) was my 2nd grade teacher, she was really amazing, she was so loving, warm & she really loved her students(myself included in 1996). I pray that all is well with Ms.Beaumont(I knew her by a different last name,{Ms. L is all I’m going to say}I don’t see the last name that I remember her by posted anywhere so I don’t want to expose something that may be private).
The original concept sounds so surreal and wacky, it reminds me of some sort of fever dream or crazy dream, not the good type of dream, but the one where you wake up screaming in a cold sweat in a bathtub with a toaster next to you and seven ounces of vegetable oil covering your body.
Anyone have a crush on Alice (at least as a kid), like I did..(PS Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, as when she says, "Goodbye Mother", reminds me of Janet Waldo, of Hanna-Barbera "Judy Jetson" fame, who (by NO coincidence) played the later, 1960s, H-B Alice!)
I noticed the screenshot of Alice with that astonished, glassy-eyed and terrified look on her face and now I’m beginning to think that she’s looking that way because she’s come to realize that Disney’s BURNING TO THE GROUND!
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Honestly the dormouse looked even more traumatized in the redesign. The dude looks terrified!!!
It was as if he had seen something narsty in the woodshed (props to anyone who gets this reference).
Alice mentioned who Dinah was.
Creepy cats that pop out of nowhere, will do that! Make you nuts! Love the Cat er pillar Transport! Love that the ride is part inside, part outside, like Cars.
Al ice will always be one of my favorite rides.
Derek in since aics in wonderland. Movd
The redesign doormouse looks terrifying I wish they’d just stick with the original doormouse and add a few adjustments instead of redesigning it completely 😧
Man, those costumes back then are some real nightmare fuel.
PrimalPolar Seriously! That White Rabbit is straight out of “Donnie Darko”. And Mickey? YIKES!
@@PorchPotatoMike Do you think that White Rabbit was the inspiration for the Donnie Darko rabbit?
PrimalPolar honestly i feel bad for the little kid who played Alice, i wonder how she managed to smile without being terrified of the costumes.
The White Rabbit costume seriously looks like it came fresh out of a dollar store during a Halloween event sale.
they re closer to the tenniel illustrations but if the movie had that look it would be a horror movie
Im not even a minute in and ive already lost it at Yesterworld walking into the field holding the "Mickey Needs New Friends" book.
Nuggetlover96 my favorite
Oh yes my favorite book XD
Ah yes. “Mickey needs new friends” a timeless classic coming of age story full of comedy, suspense, and great lessons.
It’s funny he just grabs his book and books it
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the original version actually sounds like a lot of fun, but a little bit dangerous. idk how it could work today with the increase in park attendance.
I think it'd be terrifying.
Honestly, Alice's adventures in Wonderland we're fairly off-putting. If, as a rider, you're supposed to be the protagonist, the first incarnation of the ride sounds like it captured that pretty well.
Truth be told, as awesome as it would be to still have this around today, it would probably be a massive failure among modern day guests, and would be deemed too scary, lackluster and outdated.
Original Alice attraction sounds fucking awesome. Especially crashing into things with the Mad Hatter and March Hare screaming at me lmfao
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So the Alice In Wonderland walkthrough was basically a fun house
I heard it was terrifying, not sure where though.
It sounds great in concept, maybe we can get it for one of the international Disney parks!
Love your Wander over yonder thing for your RUclips account
Bridget Mistry thank you
pinocchiofan that will be cool
Why is is that everything in fantasyland is absolutely terrifying but the haunted mansion isn’t
Except for the Changing Portrait in the WDW version.
Maybe because it's NOT IN FANTASYLAND.
They couldn’t decide if it should be scary or funny. So they decided to make it both. If you want scary see Phantom Manor
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Is what?
My cousin and I "discovered" the Alice in Wonderland attraction in 1975 and rode on it about three times that day, so I vaguely remember the original ride before the 1984 refurb. Yes, it was really, really creepy but that was part of the fun. The part I really hated was when the vehicle would crash through the three doors with Goofy screaming -we'd hold our ears when we got to this part, so glad they got rid of it. Strangely, the part that scared me the most was the return trip down the vine path, I always felt like the caterpillar was about to run right off the track!
Thanks for sharing your memories, I love hearing from people who personally rode these versions...and lived to tell the tale ;)
Yesterworld Entertainment , so happy you liked it! I'm completely in agreement with you that the Alice attraction kept getting better and better with each refurb, especially the latest version with all the digital effects. Actually, the whole new Fantasyland of 1983-4 was a vast improvement on the original Fantasyland, in my opinion. The only dark ride that I never saw the original version of was Snow White; as you may know, the attraction was originally called "Snow White's Adventures" but in the little guide book that you got when you bought your ticket books it appeared as "Snow White's Adventures (scary)" So I never had the courage to go on it when I was a kid. Sorry for rambling on!
Charlie Richards it’s like the moving walkway on many Disney rides scary
Yes, I, too rode thoat 1958 version in the 1960s...a door. Then another door. THEN another door. THEN ANOTHER door. And then..well, you get the picture..!
@@YesterworldEntertainment yeah, it’s pretty cool.
I still cannot get over screaming Goofy being a part of the Alice in Wonderland attraction not just once, but three consecutive times.
Yup, all taken from that one short...glad they left at least one scream as a tribute, despite how horrifying it must've been in the original version.
@@YesterworldEntertainment So they were all taken from "The Art of Skiing"? Neat.
It actually sort of makes it funnier,, You can hear it in "Cinderella" & "Lambert the Sheepish Lion".!
@@YesterworldEntertainment do you know galya peeva she was Alec's in wonderland movie made into store story about how they were all really story of TV in movie theater in new horizons room ride before making maze bank tower of power outage map money made movie maze
@@YesterworldEntertainment It was pretty nightmarish, I did a vr remake… yeah it was cool but horrifying.
You can talk about the high praise the attraction received all you want at 15:00 but what we're really interested in is that *epoxy coated solid brass king sized bed priced at the low low price of $649 with an extremely low shipping time of only 2 days*
I was so distracted by that too!!
Priorities, intact. I was wondering if they'd still honor that price.
It isn't a shipping time of two days, it was a closeout sale for only two days, which have now sadly passed. Sorry you missed out.
12:03 HOW THE HECK DOES HE LOOK LESS TRAUMATIZED??? THATS ONE OF THE SCARIEST DISNEY RELATED THINGS IVE EVER SEEN!!!!
Agreed
having to spend you r life in a teapot is scary in itself
Living with two nutjobs your entire life will do that to you.
Agree
It makes him more realistic than cartoony. He looks more traumatized tbh
The original Magic Kingdom's Snow White: I traumatize children.
The original Disneyland's Alice: Hold my tea.
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No Snow White's ride's still scarier
Popper must movie
I belive the reason that there are shoes on the mushroom is because the caterpilliar turned into a butterfly
100% the reason. All that was left of him after he collapsed was his hundreds of shoes
Alice:
The other side of what?
Caterpillar:
THE MUSHROOM, OF COURSE!
Gotta love nightmare fuel mickey and the serial killer rabbit from those old promos 😂
Glad that character costumes have changed for the better. Those were creepy, lol
Hahaha
That rabbit mask is going to give me nightmares. 😂
mickey doesnt look that bad buuuut the rabbit........
is the real stuff of nightmares
LOL
Some credit where credit is due: Kathryn Beaumont was the longtime voice of both Alice and Wendy for almost 50 years, up until her retirement from voice acting. Her voice can be heard on this ride, and she also did both Alice and Wendy for the very first _Kingdom Hearts._
The end with Goofy just feels random.
Just like The Wonderland (I mean everything in that world is strange)
I get the point. It's supposed to bring you out of Alice's world & back into the world of the park. The screaming would have been goofy enjoying the ride. But it sounds scary af lol
BUT DID YESTERBOY GET HIS BOOK BACK?
We'll find out soon enough...
Stitch, ya Little stealer!
See mr.toad and toontown videos! It pops up here!
Construction worker: “how traumatised you want the kids to be?”
Walt Disney: “yes”
and they didn't even get to the Queen of Hearts
if people didn't know this ride really existed, you could probably write a CreepyPasta about it
The original walkthrough sounds awesome and the original version of the ride sounds terrifying 😂 I do like the current version a lot, I think it has the best example of how to integrate modern technology (like projections) into classic rides
the walkthrough looked epic
I agree that would be an AMAZING fun house
I grew up riding the current versions of the fantasyland dark rides.
That White Rabbit looked like something out of the Shining.
"Here's JOHNNY!!!"
Blowjob scene
Blowjob scene?
Yess
@@michaelboydston313 Blowjob Scene.
Stitch doing a cartwheel with the Mickey needs new friends book really got me
Omg the Goofy screams while crashing through doors seems terrifying if you're little.
Katie Albitz , yeah, scared me and my cousin half to death!
When was this? In the video?
Yeah, they must have been on drugs when they came up with this ride.
Forgot about those..
I could see my younger self getting scar by that if I was on there back then.(─.─||）(´-﹏-`；)
I like that in the sketches for the walk through, the little girl has her hands clasped behind her back while looking at the Cheshire cat...It's a nice little homage to the original illustration.
I'm finding this series on cancelled parts of theme park Rides and history are really interesting
It’s a shame that this was never built.
However I’m glad that at Disneyland Paris has the Alice curious Labyrinth that has some of these elements such as the hedge and card maze
So funny how they really thought leaving out the main characters was a good idea back then. I get that WE are supposed to be the main character on the journey, but having a main protagonist in the films as a surrogate for the audience clearly works just as well on dark rides as well. Just took them 30 years to figure it out I guess.
6:32 Please, warn us before you show the original walk around characters!
Jackson DeStefano agreed
The music didn't help either.
Jackson DeStefano yes
Could you do a video on the history of Pinocchio's Daring Journey and other incarnations of it?
Oooohh it’s the ride with the word jackass
Alaina Schneider not the one that that goes to heck
the maze at Disneyland Paris is in such poor repair at the moment, it's heartbreaking. Broken animatronics, dying hedges, chipped paint... the rest of the park is still beautiful but for some reason, that attraction specifically has been left to go quite shabby
oh no 😟
My family is from Laguna Beach, I was born there but my parents moved away soon after. When my mom was in her late teens/early 20's she worked at the Laguna Ace Hardware. Sterling Holloway(voice of the Cheshire Cat and Winnie the Pooh) came there a lot. When you hear his voice in those to roles thats how he actually spoke. Kids would here him speak a couple of aisle over and most of the time assumed it was Winnie. They would run over and be confused asking where Winnie was, Sterling would always say Winnie's not here right now but I'll tell him you said hi. Thank you for your videos, my gram worked worked for Disney in the 50's as a secretary for the commercial toy department and took my mom to the park the year it opened.
Can you do a video on New Fantasyland 1983? Keep up the best work!
Also..
Man that first ride sounds like it became a fever dream..
Probly gave kids weird dreams well into adulthood
Oh, that scene from "A Muppets Christmas Carol" made me remember that when I was a little girl I was TERRIFIED of the "Marley and Marley" song as a kid to the point where I would cry if I ever heard it. Seriously. For almost 10 years. I can admit that with zero shame now. But, anyway, back to the video... I literally love you, Yesterworld. I've been really hooked on watching videos on old Disney rides and other stuff because of quarantine. Keep up the cool work, man!
In case anybody was wondering, here's where each scene from the original version of the attraction was located:
Down the Rabbit Hole / Occupied the same location as the current, furnished Rabbit Hole, although the crash doors leading into the Upside-Down Room were positioned slightly before the Doorknob's door in the current version
Upside-Down Room / Occupied the same location as the forested area where Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum, and the White Rabbit are seen
Through the Key Hole (Oversized Room) / Occupied the first stretch of the Garden of Live Flowers; the back wall of the scene (featuring the Doorknob and his keyhole mouth) was positioned a little bit before the track starts doing a wide U-turn (It's interesting to note that the small nudge to the right in the track where the Oversized Room used to be originally existed to swerve riders away from the downward-swinging silhouette Cheshire Cat.)
Garden of Live Flowers / Occupied the same location it does in the current version, minus the space originally used as the Oversized Room, of course
Tulgey Wood / Occupied the same location it does in the current version
Mad Tea Party / Occupied the same location as the Royal Rose Garden, although it should be noted that the track was expanded slightly at the far end of the room during the redesign
Crash Room / Occupied the holographic croquet game, trial, and escape segment
Those old Micky & Minnie mascots were nightmarish.
Too bad it doesn't have quality animatronics like the Little Mermaid ride.
It'd be so much fun to have a time machine and be able to see this stuff the way it was when it first opened. But Yesterworld videos are the next best thing!
Do the history of MUPPET VISION 3-D DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE (2001-2014)
I consider myself pretty well versed on Disneyland history but I learned a lot here, thank you!
A few things to add. The reason the tea party's at the end is that it's supposed to lead directly into the teacups. And there's a "inspired-by" of the original ride still operating at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. I think their forced perspective room was probably the way Disney's forced perspective worked. I've made a comment on the park's video of the ride under a "did they copy Disney" thread.
Now opinion on why the walk-through was abandoned: Before Disneyland there were little themed parks (mostly themed around Santa, but some were fairy tales) that featured walk-throughs, some of which were Alice in Wonderland. They were cute and sometimes quaintly creative (like a slide for the Rabbit hole), but mostly contained statues. Disney's walk-through would have blown them out of the water, but similar to how Walt was differentiating Disneyland from carnivals, I think he decided he didn't want to be compared to these fairy tale parks either.
EXCELLENT video. Loved all the vintage images and footage from the ride's earliest versions. Well done, as always. Thank you for the trip back in time!
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful, please cover Mr Toad's as well (I know Pinocchio hasn't changed since it was added in the Fantasyland 1983 upgrade). I used to as a kid in the 90s love the E Ticket Magazines when they covered the dark rides.
Take a shot every time Mark says "terrifying".
I don't personally recommend this as no doubt you'd wind up in the hospital ;)
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Man, everything about your narration and style is inspiring. It's helping me in my dream growing as a filmmaker and content creator.
It's so cool learning about the origins of Alice and Fantasyland. For the longest time I thought the majority of Fantasyland was the same as it was since 1955. How WRONG I was. SO MUCH has changed. Some for the better...some for the debatable worse (I'm referring to the pirate ship and Skull Rock, of course)!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! As a small child ( born 1958 ) in So Cal I was terrified by the early ride through. I have vague memories of things flipping down and popping up. That horn from the white rabbit was deafening. Everyone said I was crazy. Thanks for the proof I’m not.
PS I’m a former 25 yr premium pass holder and 1 year cast member.
Watching your videos never fails to put a smile on my face.
Honestly, I am old enough that I remember the Upside-Down Room quite vividly, and it was AWESOME! Very disorienting for a simple effect, and the best part of the ride at the time. Hard to describe, but you began to feel like you really were upside down, and going to black and resetting to right side -up probably helped from getting too queasy. I HATED when they got rid of it in the 80's rehab.
I think Disney today needs to bring back the Goofy screams on their rides
Why not put them in the "Cliff Hangers" game on the "Price Is Right" where a mountain climber falls off after you missed the price and the Goofy screams were added after he falls off and lost it.
Imagine being on a thrill ride like Indiana Jones and you hear goofy throughout the whole thing XD
@@Musicradio77Network I actually did a fan video like that where I added the Goofy Holler to a Price is Right video where the yodeling guy falls off. It got taken down though or copyright reasons.
I remember I got stuck on this ride as a kid, I was all by myself in the cart and I was stuck in the Cheshire Cat laughing part for about 10 minutes and just sat there crying cause the laughing track just kept repeating- it was traumatizing!
This is the best RUclips video I've seen in a while!! Informative, and it brought back things I'd forgotten about the pre-80s version.
So glad you enjoyed not only the video, but all the work that went into the research!
Well now that I've watched this I guess my memories were playing tricks on me. As I was born in 83, I would've never seen the original. I had a memory of this ride for years, I would recall a part where there was a giant Cheshire cat face which was a doorway you go thru into a dark room which looped around and came out the same way...and then on the next visit to the park a few years later, I recalled someone saying something was broken in that room, as the track just continued past it, instead of turning into the black room...now I'm like wth did that memory come from?
HHN: our fairy tale haunted house will ruin your childhood!
1950s Alice in Wonderland Ride: Hold my tea...
Yes!!! I’ve been waiting for the History of the Alice ride since you uploaded the Snow White one! Love all the detail you put in the video, it’s extremely hard to find anything of the ride’s past! Thank you!!!
This one was particularly tricky, even more so than Snow White, so thank you for the kind words :)
I’m late on this but, I rode the 60s version many times. It was kind of creepy and weird but I loved it and really missed the upside down room when they removed it. Also the final sequence of three small rooms with the “Goofy screams” had crash doors with wooden doors painted on them that got smaller which gave the illusion that the rider was getting bigger.
Can we acknowledge how fast Yesterworld had to run and how long he had to keep up the pace to keep up with STITCH of all people!?
The only thing more amazing was if he kept up with Dash...
Or maybe...
Yesterworld=Dash
I loved the 70's version! I wasn't scared at all, and the lines to use my "B" coupons were nonexistent. Sure, the current ride is great but I really miss those days of this ride being a walk on.
This was my FAVORITE ride. So trippy and such a relief to be back outside.
12:08 Door mouse looks more scarier than when the ride opened. Just sayin
He looks like something vibingleaf would make
Ever notice whenever they rerelease Alice in Wonderland on home media, they don’t do anything (bonus feature wise) with it?
Pastel Sparkles Yeah, but they’re all the same
What were you expecting?
You sure? I got the 60th Anniversary Blu-ray version of Alice in Wonderland , and it's got bonus features. It's just some of them are games because kids so want to play something that's on a movie where you get the most enjoyment out of it via LSD?
What is up with their attempts at making every dark ride terrifying??? Anyway, I love your opening gags! they crack me up and I look forward to them in every review!
To properly convey the dark scenes and dark undertones of the movie?
Another great video. More dark ride themed videos please, especially Mr. Toad and Snow White since their WDW versions are officially now in yesterworld.
I already did Snow White, but Mr. Toad is definitely going to happen in the near future...
@@YesterworldEntertainment might I also suggest Epcot's World of Motion.
Haunted Mansion: The first part of me and the hanging man in the stretching room is scary!
Alice in Wonderland: Hold my tea!
Phantom Manor: Hold my bouquet that I never dropped because I was forever waiting for my dead suitor on whom my dead father's ghost hanged on my wedding day!
Everytime I see a clip from "A Day at Disneyland" it brightens my day! Love the vid!
Alice in Wonderland is my FAVORITE! :)
Yep! The movie was good, but it was one heck of an acid trip.
mine too!!
Same! I even named my daughter after Alice
YAY. Love seeing yesterworld in my notification bar
I don't know, I thought it was pretty terrifying.
I was a small child when Alice opened, and I never found it scary - it was my favorite ride within a couple years, and after the changes through the years, it still is.
I am so grateful I did not have to experience the terrifying earlier version of the attraction. Probably saved me a lot of therapy. 😅
I loved the original, and the 1984 (not 1994) update. I was lucky enough to be there the day it reopened, and was in the first car for the general public.
"Tell me a story about fantasyland first"
Stitch is so hilarious in your intros.
Interesting how in the 80's Disneyland got a new fantasyland and now Disneyworld is getting a new fantasyland...If I have that correct...
These Alice rides and concepts look awesome I love all of them I hope I can visit the current one someday lol.
I remember riding this as a kid in the 90s. One of the few as well as POTC that were my absolute favorites
I literally started choking on my drink when I saw what Micky use to look like
I'm digging the recent videos of classic Disney Land/World attractions- great work! Hope you will do one on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (especially the extinct WDW version) at some point.
The old fashioned Mickey and Minnie are enough to scare you away! The white rabbit in the suit and mask doesn’t help either 😨
I can’t get over how high Chresure cat looks in the title picture
I am normally not a fan of digital dark rides but in Alice's case it was a match made in Heaven. It turned that ride into perfection!
at the end of the ride i loved it when you heard the white rabbit saying Maryann i know he said diff stuff too but my fav is when he yells maryann lol
Since you’ve done a video on all of the original fantasyland dark rides do you think you could do a video on the unbuilt Pinocchio square, Pinocchio walkthrough and London docks area from the original plans for Fantasyland?
OMG, the book at the begining says "mickey needs new friends" this is my 13th time watching this how did I not notice that. LOL
Wow those old mouse costumes are horrifying
OK, that scene from Muppet Christmas Carol at 8:58 scared the crap out of me when watching this the first time. :O
12:02 I think that the change is basically more creepy.
True
The new creepypasta looks great
I FORGOT ABOUT THIS RIDE TILL RIGHT NOW AND THIS AWOKE SOMETHING FROM MY CHILDHOOD
I think the scary style kind of works for Alice in wonderland I mean the movie is honestly very dark and Alice, who’s a literal child, spends the entire time being tossed around by mentally unstable characters in a place she cannot figure out how to navigate. She’s literally lonely and horrified the whole time. I think it sounds like it genuinely encapsulates how stressful that movie was to watch as a kid but I get how that’s a lot to experience as a child on a ride lol
12:03 am I the only one who finds the new version of the mouse really unnerving??? Like I get he looks less scared but he looks SUPER uncanny and something about his face calls back to a deep childhood terror I can’t quite put my finger in
He looks like those images people use for jumpscares back in the early 2000's.
I really miss hand drawn movies. The 3d animated ones just aren't the same.
I love #AliceInWonderland! One of my favorite #Disneyland rides ever. Great recap! I love the combination of storytelling. It’s like the classic eTicket magazines come to life! I’m guessing you had those as a kid?
I do have to mention: everyone seems to think that all these classic rides are so scary. You have to remember, before Disneyland, any ride would’ve been like the scary experiences at a carnival. There wasn’t such a thing as a happy ride. So comparatively, these were very tame!
Also, regarding the Disneyland Paris version - I was so excited to experience the other attractions that when it came time to walk through Wonderland, I was disappointed to say the least. But it was still fun to see something unique!
As a child, I was so influenced by this particular attraction that I made the ride at home. Designing caterpillar vehicles and paper cut out characters and taping them to the wall as a walk-through.
Who else can’t stop laughing at stitch saying “mine” and taking Mickey Needs New Friends😂😂😂
Me
So, I had only ridden this in the 80's and had a WTF momeo when you mentioned the ride going outside to disembark when I remember it being a curve back into the building (this was before I truly fell in love with the story and Chesh, but my ADHD/Autistic brain still insisted we HAD to ride this at LEAST once a visit and given that we got free tickets yearly until I was nine...it was quite a few trips between paid and free).
It's interesting to watch how things evolve and you can remember how you saw and felt vs how they could have been. I wouldn't have liked the darker, 0re-80's version as a kid, but would love it now. Would also love to see the updated one as the digital effects are probably great.
6:32 God, the old school mascots are absolutely terrifying. Not to mention that creepy serial killer rabbit. At least disney himself was in this clip so It's not as scary lol
some of my favorite alice memories
back in 1995, everyday, after spending half of the day waiting in line for the indiana jones ride and the other half watching the 40TH anniversary shows "40 years of adventure, 40 years of fun", love that song!!!! I would go on the alice ride again and again and again at night till they had to close the ride, I had it all to myself, nobody else in there
night after night (which made me the last person to get out of the park)
it was always the same cast member operating the ride just for me and he once said "you're not from this planet"
I take it as the best compliment ever
HEAR THAT CAST MEMBERS,? sometimes you really make our day and you're not to be underestimated or showed disrespect
I do have to mention: everyone seems to think that all these classic rides are so scary. You have to remember, before Disneyland, any ride would’ve been like the scary experiences at a carnival. There wasn’t such a thing as a happy ride. So comparatively, these were very tame!
Those Goofy screams are used in the Goofy cartoons and oh my gosh I didn’t realize how much I’d remembered them. I loved the old Goofy toons!
The original walk through sounds amazing! I feel like the Alice in Wonderland maze in DLP was inspired by it. In the original walkthrough there would be so many photo opportunities which is fun but also makes me think of all the congestion from influencers and such
your obviously painstakingly rendered animation gave me chills.
Kathryn Beaumont(Alice from Alice in the Wonderland & she did the voice of Wendy from Peter Pan also) was my 2nd grade teacher, she was really amazing, she was so loving, warm & she really loved her students(myself included in 1996).
I pray that all is well with Ms.Beaumont(I knew her by a different last name,{Ms. L is all I’m going to say}I don’t see the last name that I remember her by posted anywhere so I don’t want to expose something that may be private).
The original concept sounds so surreal and wacky, it reminds me of some sort of fever dream or crazy dream, not the good type of dream, but the one where you wake up screaming in a cold sweat in a bathtub with a toaster next to you and seven ounces of vegetable oil covering your body.
Anyone have a crush on Alice (at least as a kid), like I did..(PS Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, as when she says, "Goodbye Mother", reminds me of Janet Waldo, of Hanna-Barbera "Judy Jetson" fame, who (by NO coincidence) played the later, 1960s, H-B Alice!)
I noticed the screenshot of Alice with that astonished, glassy-eyed and terrified look on her face and now I’m beginning to think that she’s looking that way because she’s come to realize that Disney’s BURNING TO THE GROUND!
Do a small world episode
SMALL WORLD! SMALL WORLD!
yas ma favourite ride! IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL!!!!!
I'm almost 30 and just by watching this video footage, I've got terrified. Imagine this in real life, as a kid.
Same, dude.
When your childhood gives you nightmares. 🐭
I really enjoy your videos, but I especially enjoyed this one. I never knew anything about the ride's original concept! Thanks for sharing :)