Debunkedland: The Conspiracies of ExtraTERRORestrial: Alien Encounter
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- In this inaugural episode of Debunkedland, Noah discusses the rumors and conspiracies surrounding Disney's most infamous extinct attraction, ExtraTERRORestrial: Alien Encounter.
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I used to work on Stitch’s Great Escape and had a coworker who had been there since Alien Encounter. She told me that the Catwalk position was everybody’s favorite. Not only did they walk across the catwalk with the flashlight, but they also had water guns that they squirted at guests to simulate blood hitting them as they were “killed” by the monster. Apparently Alien Encounter was THE attraction to work at back in the day!!!
when i was 9 in 2012 my mom took me to disney world on that stitch ride and when the animatronic popped up i was scared as fuck and my mom was too, us being from Turkey and all we didn't know animatronics were a thing. We both were traumatised and got out immediately lol
So basically it's your job to fuck with people. No wonder everyone loved it.
I wish I were able to go on that ride. I just found out about it through this video and I would love to try it! Though I know it doesn't exist anymore.
Love Defunctland and this new series!! As a former cast member working at Alien Encounter, this takes me back working the catwalk position upstairs with the flashlight in our hands doing the hand moves. There was even a bed up there between the 2 two chambers if we got tired. We even had a bunch of us on the catwalk pouring water and scaring the guests on the last day of the attraction! We closed this ride with pride and was a blast working at Alien Encounter! Thanks for the great memories and keep up the amazing work!
P.S. - Kevin please do Timekeeper!!!!!
Nice
Did you ever get up close to the giant alien.. i cant ever see it clearly in any videos
@@austinmoore818 yes I did. I know when they were closing the ride I saw them take out the alien and saw his arms on the floor. It was huge.
@@madaction9373 Holy cow you are so lucky! I wish I could have seen it. I always hoped that the animatronic still existed someplace somewhere but it sounds like it was completely dismantled...
Nice looks like a lot of fun.
I HATED this ride when I went on it as a kid. I cried. I was so so scared. The effect of the tongue on your neck was too much for me and I slid out from under my seat and got half stuck between the seat and the bar screaming lol
IT WAS AWESOME!!
Yes, it was awesome and scary. They should bring it back and make it even scarier by putting the Xenomorph in the room with you
Excuse me the effect of WHAT??????
@@allien.777 they hag a thing in the neck of the seat that flicked out to make you think it was the alien. Freaked me out too.
Teratophiliacs be like...tongue on the neck you say? 😏
The Lava Monster more than likely shared the same moulds as the Alien animatronic. Outside of Splash Mountain, it is quite rare for a figure to be reused. Instead, many share common moulds, ie. CoP characters in Spaceship Earth, Dreamfinder and the Mayor in Phantom Manor, Old Figment vs New Figment, etc.
That's what I'm thinking, too! I love that figures from removed attractions can live on in a sense this way.
Ooh, a new series, and with a pun name! I can't wait for the next ones:
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xingcat When are we gonna get a Lil John ride?
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Yes! I second Dedrunkland :)
I third Dedrunkland
Deflunkedland: for attractions that never made it past the concept stages
I want this made into a movie. Seriously. Disney is at its BEST when it goes dark. Heck, you could ether make a movie based off the ride or about the making of the ride. The backstabbing in its creation was NUTS!
I don’t think I was older than 11 when this ride opened in WDW, and I thought I would have time to go on it when I got older. Sadly it closed before the next time I visited the park. Never take for granted a chance you’ll have to ride something, you never know when you’ll get the chance again.
The Defunctland team is so delightfully and detailed in their nerdom. I love the depth of research and how it opens the culture of Disney devotees to people outside that world.
A new defunctland series!!!? This just made my afternoon. Great work on the narration Noah, loved it. Still not sure whether you or Kevin has the sexier voice. It's close.
Oh, it's definitely Kevin.
i vote noah for best voice
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
The Skull and Bones above the head on POTC in Disneyland are REAL human bones, and when the park opened, they had many more eal human skeletons. True or false?
Alejandro Diaz I don’t think it’s true or else it would be considered graverobbery
nope could have just been donated cadavers from local medical schools. I dont think they had that high quality replica bones back when DisneyLand was being made.
Meir Teichman: Thats exactly what I heard. None of the fake bones they made looked real enough so they got skeletons from medical schools. Then they were replaced over time with real-looking fake ones. Except, of course, the skull on the head board.
In Disneyland, some bones are real, including the head board. In any subsequent park, they are all fake. The presence of the bones in California has led cast members to think of the ride as haunted, even going as far as to say goodnight to the ghosts once they close.
Yes anyone can buy human skeletons. I had heard back in the day many came from India.
www.boneroom.com/store/c46/Human_Skeletons.html
FIRST!!! Love love love this new series. Looks really fun!
Noah, this is a great new series! You did an awesome job! Can't wait to see what other stuff you come up with! (Great editing Heath!)
Nice collection of talent you are assembling there Kevin. haha
Disney Dan seems like you where the third or fourth...
Disney Dan is always #1 to me.
A team assembling, huh? I just came off a podcast called What’s the Attraction? As TAP-G. Hit me up if you need a new voice or something!
LOL DISNEY DAN, YOU'RE EVERYWHERE. XD
Disney Dan hello
RIP skippy, gone from Disneyland and this Dimension, but forever alive in our hearts
press f to pay respects
@@fullofbarkingdogs F for respect
F for Stitch he got pretty screwed up too.
Meme Scrub yah his animatronic got jacked up
Any other great defunctland show, I’m going to die because this channel produces too many good videos!
Alex the Historian and Matterhorn Matt make great videos if you're into Disney stuff. Brightsunfilms if you like defunct things :)
Please don't die, we need your viewership! ;)
Noah Randall
Great video, Noah!! Did you write the script for this one? Really well written. Love the structure of the vid. Very easy to watch. (Also nice mouse ears illuminati Easter egg)
skiier04 I am a frequenter of bright sun films
I am the writer for this series, yeah! Heath is responsible for the Illuminati cameo, it cracks me up every time.
Defuntland just officially became my favorite channel on RUclips
I wanna know where that giant alien animatronic ended up. Great first episode! I’m always here to learn more about Alien Encounter.
E.A. Cackowski agreed I really want to know too I'm very interested in the ride but also terrified of it as well
Love this! The only rumor I know of is that once when Space Mountain was closed (no idea of it was after hours or renovations) the employees found a few glass eyes on the floor. But this was in the late 90's so who knows.
Prism Quartz that is too specific to not be true
I can confirm this most certainly should be true. The first time I rode this ride I lost my glasses on Space Mountain. The second time (as my family visited every other year for a period of time in the late 90s), I had my mom hold my glasses in fear of this happening again. It has since been one of those things I'm always worried about happening on rides because of that first ordeal. I've never lost glasses on any other rollercoaster, but Space Mountain has this one little up-down that caused my glasses to jump up and off my face.
This was one of Disney’s best attractions. They need to bring this or something better back. Not everyone goes to magic kingdom for pixie dust.
I find the video of Eisner talking about alien conspiracy's with soldiers behind him with guns a hilarious idea. Who thought that would be a good idea for a disneyworld promotional video
He keeps showing up in every Disney video
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This was the only ride I didn’t go on in Magic Kingdom when I visited Disney as a kid and after watching the footage here, I’m glad I didn’t. My aunt, who took me and my father, forced me to ride every ride once and checked them off as we went (even if I didn’t want to… I’m looking at you Dumbo ride!) but this is where I put my foot down. I had a severe phobia of aliens as a child and even though I had to be about 10 at the time, i started crying in the happiest place on earth! I must have been the only kid at Disney having a tantrum because I DIDN’T want to go on a ride and the adults I was with wanted me to. What horrible memories this ride conjures for me of that trip! Good riddance to this ride I say!
OH MY GOD. Defunctland serving up more ExtraTERRORestrial content?? Sign me the FUCK up, this is definitely my #1 fave defunct Disney ride of all time and any lore/background story on it is welcome news
Sadly no theories for defunct rides. However I’ve never been able to get a straight answer from cast members if the puppet at the end of the tower of terror can turn his head or not. Sometimes if you look at him while the vehicle is turning towards the exit door, it seems that he moves his head. I could never tell if this was an illusion from the metal gates on the side of each vehicle or is his head actually turned. Every time I’ve asked a cast member they said that some people say his head does turn, some people say it doesn’t. I guess not super relevant to this series of defunctland rides but it is a theory I’ve always wondered about!
We're going to expand this series to more than just defucnt rides, so keep those Tower of Terror rumors coming!
omg I thought I was the only one who noticed that-
More defunctland content? Yes please. Love the channel.
I'm glad Noah got her own show! listening to her on the podcast is always fun.
2:41 is that a sci-fi midi version of If You Wish Upon a Star?
I noticed that too!
Yes lol 😂
Ha, at first I thought Debunkedland was a misspelling.
ha!
I have a theory that they closed Superstar Limo because it was stupid and terrible, can you investigate?
Aw, heck yeah more defunctland content! I'm so glad you guys are able to branch out like this and make so many great shows.
This has been a pretty great new Defunctland experience! It's a pretty awesome idea, and Noah makes a really cool host. Funnily enough, her voice and narration fits this format quite well.
Looking forward to more Debunkedland videos! Keep it up, guys :D
*sees a brand new series* well hello there beautiful
a Pastor From My Church Told Me He Use to Work in Alien Encounter And He Also Said He Was “The Guy With The Flashlight”
I love your pfp
@@anth636 thanks man!
I’ve been watching this channel for a while now. Love the new series. Keep up the work!!! Look forward to the new episodes in this series, podcast, and any future planned content!
Love this new series!!!
I have something that I want researched (I’ve tried myself but couldn’t find the original footage...) Back in the 90s the Disney Channel had a mini series called “Imagineer That!” starring Tom Morrow who would “interview” Imagineers about things in the Disney parks. This particular special was about roller coasters having loops and the physics involved. There was a short shot of a Disney coaster in a darkened place and the ride vehicles looked like something they were from a version of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, but the footage was of them going through a loop. What I want to know is what this ride is and where is it? From all of my research I haven’t found a BTMRR having a loop!
You channel is growing so much this is awesome! Keep up the great work Defunctland team!
This was one of my favorite attractions of all time. So good. Miss it.
And very interesting to learn that the flashlight was wielded by a real person -- I had thought that, but was never sure.
"At first I thought it was mental illness." Ockham's razor, lady.
This was great! I loved it and love how much effort is put into all of the videos on this channel. Can’t wait for the next Debunctland video!
Are pirates of the caribbean and haunted mansion connected through Jean Laffite?
I need answers to this!
ytctc 1 Jeen Lafeet
I always get excited when I see that you uploaded! AMAZING video like always! (the intro is also great!!)
Edit: It would be nice if this was longer ;)
I'm absolutely loving this and i love the variety in hosts! Defunctland is really coming along
watching micheal eisner get blocked off my swat guards was the funniest thing ive seen all week
Universal Studios should rip this ride off and give it a Metroid theme for when they do the Nintendo World thing.
Hell yeah! A new series!
Why is every video on this channel so good? I can’t get enough of this stuff
I went to Alien Encounter when I was at Disney World! I loved that attraction! I remember a little kid freaked out at the water splash and his mom had to cal him a bit, telling him it was just water. I still have the plush my mom got from that.
Finally a new show! This is the only channel I have notifications on! This channel is so amazing! Keep up the great work!
Where did the alien go? The thought of that creature just sitting idly and deactivated somewhere in Disney’s archives is just terrifying to me for some reason. They really should repurpose it at some point.
I rode Journey to the Center of the Earth without knowing anything about it... that Lava Beast was one heck of a sight to behold! And the rush afterward was crazy! Such an amazing ride!
Wait... Did Michael Eisner start the "storm area 51" meme?
Disney creating a fake documentary for an up and coming attraction is actually pretty smart.
This is a fantastic idea for a series. For some reason, my family is convinced that originally, Mission: SPACE was longer -- that is, before the first person with health problems got on the ride to ruin it for the rest of us, they claim that, after your X-2 deep-space shuttle has skidded to a stop past the runway and the ground beneath it collapses, rather than pitch back (which violates the laws of physics), they claim you DID fall forward and the final "crew prompt" was to quickly push the flashing button to re-ignite the engines before the craft crashes at the bottom of the canyon. Please set them straight.
Best series ever
This is the high-quality youtube content my body craves
Awesome! I love the time, quality, and love everything about your shows! You did an amazing job on this!
I miss this series, it was a fun little thing to look forward to. I really wish I could have gone to alien encounter it looked really cool and I love the aesthetic. I was born in the very late 90’s so when I went to Disney in 2004 or 2005 it was gone. I went on Stiches great escape and I absolutely hated it lol, I was still scared of it and the burp smell almost made me throw up. By far the worst ride I ever was on and I rode Superstar Limo.
Very excited to see more of this series!!
I remember the breathing on the back of your neck was terrifying as a kid.
love the shiny new graphic! and of course its always fun to see more content about extra terrorestial.
Way to expand the channel. Really great content and cool to see everyone in the genre on RUclips working together.
Is the telescope at the end of the Gringott's ride at universal orlando really made up of old scrap parts of the shark from the Jaws ride? I wanna Debunkedland on Jaws for sure!!!!
This channel can do no wrong. I don't care for the podcasts, but this new main show is great!
I'm so glad I got the chance to experience this attraction! Videos of attraction truly don't do it justice.
Wow is this a new series? I hope ya’ll keep making them, this was so cool!
Ooh, I love series like this, that investigate rumors and theories. I'd love to see an episode investigating the rumor that they used real human bones in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I guess the story is the fake bones at the time didn't look real enough, so they used actual human skeletons, which were later removed and given a proper burial when fake skeletons were finally realistic enough. But some people claim that they're still there; that they never got replaced, or that parts of them are still there. And of course some people say Disney never used real bones. It's a good mystery I think.
I've done a lot of reading into Extraterrestrial because of the controversy/scare level of the ride, but my favorite by far is how Wisner tried getting ALIEN for the ride, which would've helped market it in and of itself, which they had already used at GMR.
Also, how Sparky (or whatever the name of the pre-show alien) is reskinned for Stitch's Great Escape. How kids will never know.
AWESOME video! Usually with these type of videos it’s always stuff we know but i genuinely didn’t know these things!!
Woooo! Always up for more defunctland.
Yes!! So awesome that you're expanding the shows on this channel. I love Noah! Thanks for getting them on board
I went on this attraction several times and the main thing that stood out was how loud it was. It wasn't just loud it was uncomfortably loud. You could feel the noise
Noah! This is awesome! Great work and welcome! 😊
What a fun series! I don't feel like there's many theme park DEBUNKING series out there. Really digging it!
I remember when this ride 1* came out! I LOVED it!
I absolutely love this channel and this just makes it thatuch better. Thank you for all your awesomeness!
Awesome new series! Can’t wait to see the new installments.
Hated this ride as a kid. So friggin' scary.
As soon a this started I went "Isn't this from Stitch's Great Escape?" I had no idea this was a thing!
Alien Encounter was basically Stitch if it was actually scary (pretty much tiptoeing the line between PG-13 and R), and also actually good. Wasn't perfect, but it was light years beyond what replaced it.
This is a really fun show! I'm excited for the coming episodes!
So many people have such great memories of all this stuff. I remember some of the promo shows that were shown on Disney Channel when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. Sadly, we could never afford to visit. :(
I remember going on this ride as a kid. My parents did not think it was going to be that scary since it was Disney World. My brother was like 7 and it terrified him! He was crying the entire time, especially when the "blood" from the killed guy dripped on you. It pretty much ruined the entire trip because he was too scared to go on anything else for fear it would be like that ride. I remember him always going "will this ride be like that alien one? Cause I don't want to go on it".
The beginning already shows that it will be an f*cking good video! Thumbs up👍🏼
The year was 1996, I was 12-years old and my mum and grandma pulled me and my younger sister out of school so go to Disney World using the 5-day hopper pass. As a mature and already very cynical tween I was not excited about going, I'd have preferred to go see wildlife at a nature reserve, or take in some Roman ruins at Italy and already saw this as more about my mum and grandma living out a fantasy. I did my best to indulge them, smiling at the right times and saying what I thought were the right, appropriate things and I can't deny that I had a little fun here and there.
The one ride that I was genuinely excited by though was Alien Encounter, rather than appealing to some Disney childlike wonder I had already outgrown, this was speaking to the science fiction nerd I was and made it very clear this was the right I was most looking forward too.
Alas, I had underestimated just how much this really was about my mother and grandma, while stringing me along in the months leading up to the trip, one day we had assigned for the Magic Kingdom, using the other 4-days for Epcot, MGM Studios, Typhoon Lagoon and that old River Wild one, it was made very clear that we would NOT be doing that ride. It clear that even wanting to go on it was killing their 'vibe' as they so desperately wanted to live out their 'dream' of taking 'sweet,' 'innocent,' 'wonder eyed,' children to Disney World and my interest in a ride like this, rather than say getting excited about riding the Dumbo flying elephants, was a sign I was growing up that they just wanted to ignore.
To say I was disappointed was an understatement, I had put in so much effort to play the part they wanted, the element of sincerity behind the act was that I did love them deeply and wanted to show my appreciation for all they did for me rather than say drag my feet around and constantly roll my eyes while making bored, sarcastic comments. I hadn't asked them for anything the entire trip and I was struck by the disconnect between how I seen them acting in the months leading up to it in front of friends and family, talking about how much they were doing to give me and my sister the holiday of a lifetime, that they wanted to give us the best childhood memories and the trip itself where me and my sister were dragged around to the rides they decided we should go on and they attempted to make me feel guilty for asking to go on the one ride I was genuinely excited by.
Seeing all this footage of the old ride brought all this stuff to the surface and made me feel a little melancholy for a childhood memory I never got to have and seeing now what the ride was like I know my 12-year old self would have been utterly blown away and would have been buzzing about it for weeks afterwards,
For those who got to experience this as kids, your lucky barstards! :P For anyone reading this who is thinking of taking your own kids to Disney World, please, talk to them and find out what they really want and don't make this all about you.
I don't know what is more terrifying...
The fact that Michael Eisner is standing around a bunch of dudes holding M-16's, or that Disney has a bunch of 'prop' M-16's laying around...
I love this show so much! I'm going to promote it in my Disney group on Facebook!
Alien Encounter is so mysterious I get so excited when any new (old) info gets out!
Very nice video! I hope you guys continue to make more of this series.
this is a really interesting beginning to a series, and i hope it continues, i like it a lot!!
7 year old me will never forget the terror this ride brought. But it was also awesome.
Great job Noah! I look forward to hearing more from you. You've just gained a subscriber
kat.espe Thank you so much!!
First things first love this new series.
Also there's two rumors I've always heard growing up in the Orlando area wine is that someone died during the construction of Haunted Mansion in Florida. And to someone died when they fell into the Jaws pool in Universal FL.
Awesome, more bonus episodes like this!
Wow! Great intro! I like this series! Great job guys! Always excited for a new upload!
First Defunctland I watch is about one of the few things I remember of going to Disney World as a kid. Stereo sound of the alien making noises in your ears, and WARM, HUMID air in "stereo" breathing on your neck as the alien panted and made noises. Fricking awesome. A guy above on a grated platform who gets attacked by the alien. You hear a crunch and get hit with something warm and wet.
This ride scared the hell out of me as a kid. Now that I’m an adult, I don’t think it would bother me as such. I might be the only one who thinks this but, the original concept of having the xenomorph from Alien, I don’t think it would have been as scary. That would’ve been awesome.
Alien encounter is one of the best attractions in Disney world..To bad is gone .I was lucky to experience this ride 👌
The monster from YTTCOTE could still be a reskin of a *spare* animatronic.
A. spares allow attractions to stay open while key animatronics are being repaired.
B. Some 2-theater attractions were originally designed as 4-theater (the 'spare' could have been intended for theater 3 or 4)
So excited for this new series!!! Please keep it going!!!!
Holy shit I'm so happy. Another great series on an already great channel?
The animation for the title sequence is awesome!
This was amazing! I just wish it was longer! Keep them going! I know there must be thousands of Disney Rumors :) Thanks!
I'm so excited to see this video!!! I absolutely love the alien and its great design and always wanted to see what happened to it!!