“Convincing customers that they had nothing to be afraid of - before it was revealed they created something they should absolutely be afraid of” is the best Perjurer line since "a California-themed theme park in the already California-themed California."
That shift from 1950s idealism to 1970s disenchantment gave me whiplash. I always love how Perjurer is able to turn what could just be a straight forward theme park facts video into such an engaging world history lesson.
That's what elevates Defunctland from the other themepark channels. Anyone could make a history of a specific themepark ride and give a story of the changes made to it etc. but Defunctland gives a broader societal perspective to it as well as adding a personal angle from those who created it. It doesn't just teach you about the ride itself it also teaches you about this period of history in general and the greater forces that dominated the history of this ride.
@@Masterhitman935 The episode has Samir Valle credited for "Music Orchestration and Mixing", so I assume that's who it was. There's a choir credited too, so it may have been recorded specifically for this episode too?
I do expect theme park buffs to gloss over the "this is a global entertainment monopoly with a ridiculous amount of power" but instead, these vids are using the parks as microcosms of societal issues at large, even back when Disney was a word associated with magic instead of capitalist domination. The polyester clothes thing was already ominous, based on the amount of plastic clothes waste being promoted like a fun thing, but wow, it got much worse from there!
@@nastyab8003 buddy. Vaccines are not agent orange. Implying these things are even remotely the same is both so laughably priveleged and so offensive that it makes me want to laugh at you like that little boy from the Simpsons
When my dad went to Disneyland as a kid he kept telling his brothers about this cool ride he heard about where they shrink you down, and got them all hyped up for it.. So he pointed out what he thought was the ride, and they waited in the long line and got on. Turns out he had instead led them to "It's A Small World" And boy...were his brothers pissed.
Miracles from Molecules being played over the montage of planes spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam is a radical recontextualization of the original ride and literally made my jaw drop. fantastic film-making
@@adora_was_taken Yah screw having Rudd do it Michael Douglas would be perfect for selling the whole audience shrinking shtick they could also have it play out more interactively like the Back to the Future ride how the whole idea was the audience was like time cops going after Biff but instead it would be the audience shrinking to go save Ant-Man from shrinking perpetually into the Quantum Realm and the whole time you'd have Michael Douglas character periodically checking in to see how the mission is going.
I was six when my grandmother took me to Disneyland. I rode the Adventure thru Inner Space several times and the science that it dramatized would go on to shape my life and the career I have chosen.
I called it the shrinking machine and thought the little people were real lol (I was a bit younger) and asked for a microscope for Christmas (I still have it in the attic to this day).
Yeah, I totally agree, I could legit see this being picked up by Netflix or something. In fact, it's better quality than a lot of Netflix content nowadays
SAME. You know what I've had enough of though? Monsantos control over food distribution and manufacturing as well as their control of the pharmacy industry. They're literally trying to get off of being responsible for poisoning the world with their agent orange roundup. Absolute. scum.
This video is a really telling look into how art and culture influence each other. I've always found 50s/60s sci-fi to be quaint but really interesting. It's hard not to look at Tomorrowland and Star Trek and the Jetsons and the like and think, "Oh, you had such high hopes for us." I wonder if and when we'll ever get a period of optimism and excitement in our science fiction again.
By now we should be working on the Moon and be able to ride back to Earth for dinner, before heading to Mars to hit the nightclubs. Flying Cars, Hoverboards...Robots...but nah, we just got NFTs. Wow, this is making me sad.
@@darthdangermouse1453 that for sure would not be possible even if everything ran smoothly the last idk 200 years lmao your just making yourself sad over nothing now
@@busterbackster1 why not? We had a ton of technological achievements during the cold war. Unfortunately when the Soviet Union fell we pretty much lost all interest in space and had massive technological stagnation when it came to that sector. I don't believe we'd be able to fly back to the earth in a night, but I do believe we might have been able to have bases on the moon if the space race kept going. The flying cars and hoverboards on the other hand were pretty much never feasible even by today's standards.
10 mins into the video: "the imagineers made an amazing ride that helped shape disney land forever :)" 20 mins into the video: "agent orange was used for chemical warfare in the war and killed hundreds of thousands of people" 30 mins into the video: "the imagineers made an amazing ride that helped shape disney land forever :)"
The “miracles from molecules” song playing over war footage was *Haunting!* I wonder if Disney lived long enough to see Monsanto fall if he would have stayed with them or distanced himself.
Interesting question. Probably stayed with them because the man could be stubborn as a mule, such as not liking unions and being ultra strict, even if his workers weren't happy. I can see him touting "Monsanto did nothing wrong!" rhetoric. If he ever did break the partnership with them, it would only be due to protests against Disney (just like what happened), not because he made the decison due to realizing they were unethical.
That's Paul Frees for you. He can give a dramatic, chilling, Orson Welles like performance, and then he can go on to be half the characters in Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Kevin it was genius of you to include the long helicopter shots to introduce Monsanto, alluding to their involvement in the war. You’re content continues to impress me every time. Keep killing it man.
@@crazyfire9470 The government didn't buy agent orange at wallmart, monsanto took that contract without clarifying the carcinogenic nature of the compound. It's no less horrifying than when dupont gave their factory staff free PFOA laced cigarettes to see what would happen to them.
I seem to remember that Disney once had regular VIP helicopter service to the park from LAX but the surrounding community made them get rid of it. That’s what I thought the opening shot was.
@BK Beatty Yah the problem with them calling it Tomorrowland is one thing they fought with through the entire lifetime of that part of the park which is that "tomorrow" is hard to keep up with and quickly just becomes the present and even faster becomes the past as certain ideals and tech become outdated then they gotta go through another costly renovation to catch up to the ideal of the future of the day.
I grew up with Disneyland, and I was two in 1955 when the park first opened. A attraction not mentioned was the submarine ride and lesser known the Cox flying circle where demonstrations of line control airplanes and slot cars were shown.
“Convincing customers that they had nothing to be afraid of...” Me: Makes sense, progress is always feared. “Before it was revealed they created something they should absolutely be afraid of.” Me: oh no “Vietnam War.” Me: OH NO
See, I was thinking Round-Up at first, but then he started talking about Vietnam and I was like "Huh, I wonder what they made for that" and then Kevin mentioned chemical agents referred to by color and I was like "Dear God no......"
I didn't even need to wait for that moment in the video, from the beginning the first time Monsanto was mentioned I was already "oh no". I think I heard about them in high school because of a pesticide, GMO, & proprietary seed scandal in India or something. They are the ghouls you think of when you imagine a chemical-based post-apocalyptic capitalist dystopia. They are IRL Umbrella Corp.
27:44 One semi-correction: Vietnamese babies are still currently being born with major birth defects including deafness, mutations like exposed spines and missing limbs, and stunted mental development. The legacy of American Agent poisoning will last for at least 200 years, maybe even longer depending on environmental conditions.
@@chancekahle2214 but that is not the definition of genocide. the definition is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group" when technically gent oranges use was a defoilant. I do not think it was right in any way shape or form, I just feel your usage of the word genocide is overstepping slightly. I firmly believe however that it was 100% an awful war crime that should have never happened.
@@shimakazef.7809 The Geneva Convention defines genocide in 5 different ways, one of them being “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”. It was genocide.
As soon as Monsanto started popping up earlier in the season, I wondered if they'd be discussed considering their literal crimes against humanity, multiple ecosystems, and extensive list of wildlife species. The scene of the planes dropping agent orange was gut wrenching and extraordinarily well done. Your episodes are always so good, but this one was something special.
Unfortunately, as Dean Rusk put it "[T]he use of defoliant does not violate any rule of international law concerning the conduct of chemical warfare and is an accepted tactic of war. Precedent has been established by the British during the emergency in Malaya in their use of aircraft for destroying crops by chemical spraying." So at the time the US government saw these and other operations such as Operation Popeye (weather mdification using silver iodide) as acceptable actions under the Geneva Convention. Guess you can't break a rule that's not in the rule-book. Ain't mankind great?
obviously. corporations/capitalism runs the United States government, not the other way around. the United States was always owned and operated by the rich for the rich since it's inception. we are a dictatorship of the rich
@@frednoyes6330 yeah but does it count as solely "use of a defoliant" when something known to be poisonous to humans too was included alongside? going "but the chemical weapon bit that hurt humans was just an impurity we knowingly neglected to remove!" is kind of hair-splitting as far as defenses against "you used chemical weapons go"
You can't show footage of Vietnam war scenes without playing "Paint it Black" - it's basically the law, at this point. Look at almost any movie with Vietnam war imagery INCLUDING "Kong: Skull Island" and you'll know what I mean.
Nice catch, Derick. It was different enough that I didn't pick up on it the first time, but after seeing your comment I listened again and I hear it now.
@@monstersociety3360 - I believe the closing credits to Kubrick’s 1987 release _Full Metal Jacket_ (probably the best film ever made about war, with Kubrick’s own _Paths of Glory_ coming in second) began that trend… which may now seem clichéd, but which was powerfully effective then. (It gave me chills when I saw it theatrically upon its release - yes, I’m a little old.) If you can find earlier instances in film of “Paint It Black” evoking the Vietnam quagmire, I’d be curious to know. But even if _Full Metal Jacket_ weren’t the earliest instance, I’d say it’s become the definitive one - and an especially needed one in the ‘80s, when Koch Donor Network money had installed Reagan in office to get everyone to forget the ‘70s and focus on shopping and entertaining themselves to death instead, and to get the USA excited about instigating wars of economic opportunity once more… invading Grenada, pffft. 😡
I am extremely impressed by the military-style cover of Miracles from Molecules. I legitimately thought it was an alternate version made during the ride’s lifetime, I didn’t think it was possible to recapture the exact style of 50s and 60s music, but I guess I was wrong.
I didn't notice until now that, during the sequence, the original band slowing fades out until it's just the singers and the marching. Adds a bit more horror to it.
"Guests enter[ed] the Mighty Microscope, shrinking in size just as they had seen previous guests do. In reality, the Atomobiles simply turned to the left." I was listening to the audio (no visuals) and almost choked at this.
Ah, and here I was thinking that Flight of the Valkyries was used as a joke, when really it was foreshadowing. Bravo on that level of storytelling in your videos.
"Oh neat! Fun trivia about an old theme park ride!" *Defunctland takes us to a dark place with the US's crimes against humanity* "Oh God. Yeah. That was definitely sombering..." Thank you Defunctland for not being afraid to talk about what really happened. Your tone of voice conveys exasperation, while also understanding the weight behind each thing that takes place even on the darkest points of our timeline.
I am thinking about dropping out of school to focus on my career as a star on UA-cam. I already make a lot of money on UA-cam. School bores me so much. I need more opinions and since I don't have any friends, I gotta ask you, rob
This was my favorite ride at Disneyland. I have pictures of me at Disneyland in 1967. Scared the crap out of me as a child. I honestly believed that we were shrunk and the giant staring eye at the end probably gave me nightmares. I rode it many times over many years and was so sad when it closed to become Star Tours. Yes, it became more clunky as I aged but it was still Tomorrowland. People Shrinkers, Peoplemover, America The Beautiful in the round and America Sings. I do miss those. I even remember riding donkeys through the Painted Desert. Memories!😌
At first I was surprised but then I realized you're a Minecraft Historian so of course you would watch a Theme Park historian's channel! Great to see you!
“Ride operators sped up the ride...which only seemed like a challenge.” You’ve heard of Homosexual Fast Dancing. Now prepare for... HETEROSEXUAL QUICK SMOOCHING
The same thing happened at Six Flags over Texas during "The Cave" ride in 1979...It got to where park workers would be stationed at several points along the very dark ride to make sure there were no "shenanigans" going on...I know...me and a girlfriend that year were caught making out during the ride...but because we were not doing anything "else", they ignored us...I can only imagine the other things they did catch!!!!!
hats off to you, Kevin. I go from "oh, new defunctland, this seems interesting." to a mini documentary about how the Vietnam War effected the public perception of big business and how that was all tied to one strange disneyland ride. Excellent job, as always.
ah. yep. My grandfather was effected by Agent orange, and through his issues passed down, I get chronic ill pains that are vague as h*ll. Plus my grandfather lived on a superfund site through a paper company that dumped the waste water into a well, so he and my extended family on his side got cancer multiple times. It sucks. God damn it, Monsanto.
I wouldn't stop at Agent Orange for an explanation. The evidence of epigenetic inheritance from it isn't terribly strong, and there may be another underlying condition. For example, depression or aging.
I'll never get over the fact that the response to Vietnamese soldiers hiding in vegetation was to wage an all-out war on the environment. Great job everyone, turned out fine.
Bringing a defunct theme park ride into the broader cultural and political issues of its day is quite a feat, but you’ve done it, and very compellingly. This is one of your best. Bravo!
I’ve never heard anything about most of the rides/attractions talked about in this series but he makes them so interesting to learn about.....very excited for this one
This was one of my favorite rides as a kid. Now that Disney is stewarding Marvel, the ride could be revived again as an Ant-Man attraction. With tardigrades, please! The gentle capybaras of the microscopic world. And of course, the uncertainty principle in the Quantum Realm. It always struck me deeply how the ride ended at the gift shop. And how the People Mover passed above, making everything in Tomorrowland feel interconnected.
Yep because he brought Disney back from Bankruptcy, made the parks about the best they've ever been and green lit the Disney renaissance of academy award winning animated films...Were all of his ideas great nope, just the majority of them... Unlike Bob EIger who did nothing but trash the parks, close attractions take years to open new ones in the locations the closed ones were, themes everything to a Marvel or other Disney owned IP rather than allowing the Imagineers to create something new and original....And led the way in constantly remaking all of their classic animated films into live action adaptations. Oh and priced out the poor people raising Disney tickets to over $100 bucks..... IF Disney could use anything right now it would be a Michael Eisner bringing back original creativity. But please feel free to keep crying for rides that were opened in the 60s closed in 85 and replaced by one of the most popular attractions in any of the parks.
Michael Eisner never really left, as to this very day, he is actually still intertwined with Disney and its Disney Plus streaming. Michael cleverly named his company Tornante which in Italian means hairpin turn and bought TOPPS and Eisner / Disney have been branding all of the Disney films / Star Wars, Marvel, Muppets, Pixar and 20th Century Fox films - as TOPPS - DISNEY --
@@lutherheggs451 I have no idea how to run a company so I can't really judge. I Agree Michael Esiner had a lot of good ideas and bad ones. I enjoy the Marvel movies so I can't really bash Iger.
Michael Eisner was probably the best that Disney had to run them after Disney himself died. So many of his initiatives brought the Disney name to the prominence it now is. Just one example, he had the wonderful world of Disney where he introduced every movie sometimes with a little skit. Half of them were old Disney films and half of them were films that he had done then and there. No CEO is perfect. Having two operate at that level to my mind implies a certain level of psychosis. At the very minimum, narcissistic disorder and a supreme level of arrogance. But after Eisner left, Disney seemed to Coast on its merits. Many of their films were sequels or direct to video. The quality of many of their films wer while not horrible, held to a much lesser standard. And as others have noted it was around this time that the cost of tickets started to Skyrocket. My family was never Wealthy by any measure. But in the mid-80s my parents were able to fund a week-long vacation at Disney World, staying on Park grounds. We were able to afford breakfast lunch and dinner as well as purchase plenty of souvenirs and we were able to see every ride in the park. That was for a family of five. Now by contrast, to do the same thing will cost you enough money to purchase a full size SUV, a tiny home, payoff a sizable chunk of student debt, or fund at least a Year's worth of chemotherapy for somebody with cancer. And you have absolutely no way in hell I'm getting on even half of the rides, thanks to the multiple initiatives to allow people to skip lines. Was that all because of Eiger? Likely not, a CEO is still just a figurehead. Was Isner the only one preventing what has come since? Unlikely for the same reason. Still I can't help but believe that if Michael Eisner was still in a position of power, Disney would be much more affordable and their output would be far more varied
@darrell holland shame it can't be sooner as right now since investors are calling for his and the other Bob (Chapek)'s heads over the LucasFilm debacle, nevermind the book cooking investigation ongoing
I remember riding this when visiting Disneyland in the early '80s. The "chills" created by the ride were less to do with the visual and audio design, and more to do with the refrigerated air that drifted down from AC vents in the ceiling at the giant snowflake zone. Simple, but pretty effective at creating immersion.
@@jamiethedinosaur869 That year's presidential election finished after the votes came in. A Republican, who would went on to become the 4th worst president in the history of the United States, would win that election. A man who came from the business side of America, in New York City, has no experience in the military, and is a media personality who had his last name for his organization, founded in 1923 by a German businesswoman and an American real estate developer. His name was Donald John Trump, born in June 1946, in Queens, New York, and was the president who became a reflection of what his party, the Republican Party, became now. Now, the Republican Party became anti-truth, and anti-democratic, a prominant feature of the party now. Trump would become president on January 21, 2017, and he would negatively change America forever.
@@connerrolofson1585 He took office on 20 Jan 2017 at noon. (US Constitution, Amendment 20) And the office left him at that same time & date, 4 years later to a vastly different America than the one he inherited.
I was reading that in KP’s voice I wonder if he would consider branching out to something like that On the other hand, his account would get swarmed by Trump defenders and the comments section would be as toxic as the waters in the early Disney Land boat rides
@@connerrolofson1585 Are you sure about that? If I remember correctly, it is the democrats who are ironically anti democratic and anti truth. We are talking about the same party whose candidates would degrade and belittle fellow Americans for having a different political opinion, writing them off as "Deplorables". These are the same people who never once condemned the violence and destruction antifa and blm rioters caused throughout Trump's presidency. These are the same people who go on about "Defund the police" and "All police are racist and violent", yet those same democrat cowards hide behind them whenever the opposite side gets fed up with their bullshit. These are the same people who want to take away your freedom of speech and your 2nd amendment, all in the name of "political correctness" and "security". Yes I will admit that the republican party has a lot of spineless cowards that don't deserve to be in office. But don't act like the democrats are fucking benevolent saints. The democrat party is everything you accuse the republican party of being but far more deranged and malicious in their agenda, they are to put it simply traitors. I don't intend to change your political opinion, believe what you want to believe at the end of the day. I'm just here to point out the hypocrisy of your anti-republican propaganda. In the end, as history has shown time and time again, when two sides cannot coexist peacefully or compromise, a civil war is inevitable.
The ride sounds wonderful, your description takes us there and it's mesmerising but then you don't gloss over the dark side such as Agent Orange. Your videos aren't just cool history of rides but you give a whole picture of the time, the circumstances, the consequences etc with as always excellent production value. Playing the miracles molecules song over that Vietnam footage is just haunting. Yet another excellent video!!!!
If I could time-travel, one of my top destinations would absolutely be various iterations of the World’s Fair... it always fascinates me to see visions of our past and future through the eyes of different generations. No matter when we look, those perspectives are always tinted with flavors of contemporary pop culture, art, philosophy, and ideology...and ultimately tells us more about the people in the mirror, rather than the reflection itself. Hopefully that makes sense. It’s a bit early for me to be so...meta.
I bet a World's Fairs tour would be very popular for a time-travel agency, partially because it would be one of the few sets of locations where anachronisms might be ignored by locals and historians! "Those weirdos? Oh, they're just French, ignore them." :P
In the early part of the Videopolis era, when I had a summer night pass, this ride also had the great redeeming feature of having about the most powerful air conditioning in the park. Since there was almost never a line, it was a great way to cool off after dancing like a maniac to "Rock Lobster" or "Two Tribes." I was definitely pretty scared by it when I first rode it as a kid, though....
So funny, that’s exactly the same reason that another DL attraction, cedar point’s disaster transport, was still getting riders in its later years. It was the only building in that entire half of the park that was air conditioned and the wait was only ever like twenty minutes.
Same for Gold River Adventure at Six Flags over Texas. It was ice cold in there. It's a shame it got flooded and destroyed a few years ago, it was my favorite as a kid. Even if the effects did start breaking down badly as I got older. I heard the new version of the ride was also flooded recently and shut down, which is a shame
With all the renewed conversation around American cynicism and its roots in the late 60s, especially the events of 1968, the riots, and the trial that resulted, this is kinda the perfect episode for the current moment.
@Thirsty Sexpert As a Jewish person whose family was impacted by WWII, don't tell me I'm ignorant. WWII and the Vietnam War were two very different situations. And once again NO ONE DESERVES TO BE A VICTIM OF INHUMANE CHEMICAL WARFARE!
Man sometimes defunctland can get quite depressing, I guess thats what history really is. I don't think I will forget the miracles from molecules song on the war footage that's so chilling I dont think theres another episode to have quite a moment like that.
"You want me to tell you the story of the Disney ride that shrunk you down? Ok, I'll tell you, but we need some background first. Our story starts after the Tet offensive where the Vietcong were gaining an edge on US forces in Vietnam..."
And, even then, you'd have it wrong. The Tet Offensive wound up being a disaster for the VC (and the attendant siege of Khe Sanh, an utter failure -- not the Dien Bien Phu that the NVA was hoping it would be). It DID serve as a justification for Walter Cronkite (and other "respectable people") to come out against the War (during the offensive), and it was THAT -- the advocacy that we abandon South Vietnam which secured victory for the Communists.
"featuring an animatronic named Tom Morrow" is THAT where tom morrow 2.0 from disney channel came from???? i always wondered what happened to the first iteration!
Just got to the part where it’s footage of the US Air Force spraying the forests in Vietnam with the echoey Sherman Brothers Monsanto jingle... Christ. It’s chilling.
It was a very convincing illusion! I remember staring at this thing when I was a kid, amazed at watching the cars going in and getting smaller. I knew it was a trick but I couldn’t figure out how they did it. Disney would’ve been proud, even if it was just fooling a kid lol
So cool that there is footage of people queing up, enjoying their time, and not knowing they were being filmed for footage that would make it onto Defunctland decades later, a lifetime later! Amazing
@@rosiehawtrey I'm not a scientist so don't know exactly what caused the birth defects that plagued Vietnam and American solders. But if you go to Vietnam you can still see people who have been affected by this part of the war. I miss travel.
So I last rode this ride when I was 8-9 years old in 1984/85. For the last couple of years I have thought about this ride. I couldn’t figure out how we went straight through the microscope. As a kid, I knew we didn’t shrink, but was baffled how we went straight through. I finally learned from this video today, that the car turned left. How did I not feel that? I wish this ride was around today for my 5 year old to experience. I think it would be so magical for her. Thank you for this video. Brought back my childhood.
It was used to mean more along the lines of "cute" or "adorable." Not that the speaker finds the children attractive in a sexual/romantic way. It's definitely a bit off-putting but it didn't have the same connotation back then
@@DarthWillSmith quite obviously yes, that's the result of profits being the ultimate motivation in this dying system, no matter whether you sell cartoons or weapons of mass destruction. I think this channel (intentionally or not) showcases the unavoidable internal flaws of capitalism in many ways showing how they are still present even in something seen as colorful innocent fun for children. but it is just a shiny exterior with a very bloody and heartless inside, from an obvious example like this one to everyday things like exploitation of workers in america and abroad, environmental pollution and also walt disney's fascistic worldview it is very obvious that like every american corporation ever it has blood on it hands, which is unavoidable in capitalism due to its inherent flaws and contradictions
@@giantmoth1287 blaming everything on "capitalism" is about as cool as wearing a fanny pack. Is it "capitalism" or is it decay? Is it "capitalism" or is it corporatism? Is it "capitalism" or corruption? Is it "capitalism" deviant warfare? Is Sally's lemonade stand also tainted by warmongering? Is an artwork any less beautiful if the artist makes a profit? The right of property and enterprise will inevitably lead to abuses, but you should stick to criticizing the abuses rather than cast everything under such an ill-defined and overly broad idea like "capitalism". Besides, Disney have also made plenty of dark room rides that WEREN'T produced in association with makers of fucked up chemical weapons.
@@DarthWillSmith yes it is capitalism (idk why you're putting it in quotes) it is also decay, corporatism and deviant warfare as they are unavoidable consequences of capitalism. As an counter example to capitalism's crimes you're giving a child and artists, that is not how most of the production that happens under capitalism looks like. Of course not every enterprise has war crimes on its conscience but basically all of big corporations (and ecpecially american ones) have in different ways.and you also have things like wage theft (in the sense of stealing surplus value) happens in every situation when someone eploys others. Sally's lemonade stand in itself is fine but capitalism needs more and more and never stops, monopolisation is written in the very core of capitalism. capitalism has clearly failed humanity, i think everyone can see it in some way in 2022, making climate change worse and worse, not being able to deal with a pandemic, resulting in imperialism and taking lives of millions whether through warfare or sanctions and all the awful results of the american empire being the world hegemon. it is however crumbling, its time has come. Rosa Luxembourg said "socialism or barbarism" i think today it's socialism or end of humanity.
I rode this in the early 80s. It left such an impression on me that i can still remember the awe of passing through a giant snowflake. It was a bit frightening but amazing. I wish the ride still existed.
Before I watch this... I’ve been a fan of this channel since it began, I’ve been patiently and silently waiting for a video on this ride. I rode it when I was 5 in 1980, It was like a dream and I had often wondered if it was. Thank you Kevin
Yes, same! I have had a long ago memory of being in a ride car and seeing a huge eyeball looking at me. And this vague idea that we were being studied. I couldn’t place it and questioned whether it was an old childhood dream.
Is this a theme park history video, or is this just a general history video with the caveat that everything is tangentially related to theme parks or amusement in some way? Either way, this is some great stuff.
26:22 the sound design of that entire little montage is so amazingly well done, it gives me chills every time. Even if you don’t know any of the specifics about what Agent Orange did and how it lingers, the imagery and audio makes it very clear just how devastating it was. This is exactly the type of craftsmanship I associate with Defunctland. The Disney channel theme documentary, the EPCOT film and its accompanying materials, all extremely well made with an insane attention to detail. And we get to watch these projects for free?! Can’t wait to be financially stable enough to become a patron❤
Can't even tell you how many times I DIDN'T see the ride for all the tonsil-hockey I played on that ride, and all to Paul Frees naration. Thank you, Walt for giving us all a place to break from the chaperones that were our parents.
I know other channels have done it, but I'd love to see your insight on the Jurassic Park ride at Universal. The original ride was adored and pretty much "Jaws, but good" with excellent animatronics and set design and pacing. Then they replaced everything with SCREENS that don't work right(they're visible as you enter, but before the video has begun, so the beginning of the ride is just watching still images of the sea creatures). Pretty much everyone hates the new version.
This suddenly made me think to the Tokyo DisneySea 20 000 League Under the Sea ride and its ENCLOSED ride vehicle and what could happen in those at times of low attendance...Thankfully they can sit around 6 people so it's probably rare, but still...
When I was a Disneyland cast member (post-Inner Space, though I grew up going on the attraction), I was told a story backstage about an obviously amorous couple getting on Adventure Thru Inner Space, and asking how long the ride was. The cast member, knowing what they were planning to do on the ride, told them it was 20 minutes long (as stated in the video, it was about six minutes long, and insert your own joke about bragg). The cast member let a few empty cars go by before letting them on, then quite a few empty cars go by before loading the next guests. Then they called all the other attractions in Tomorrowland and told them what was going on, and to send over anyone they could spare. Obviously, with the ride time being less than a third of what the guests were told, they got to the post-show room in...not exactly a "family friendly" state, and were met by a wall of cast members applauding them, and they were then escorted out of the park by Security. Now, obviously I don't know whether that story is actually true or whether it's just backstage urban legend, but I still laugh when I think about it.
I still find the playing of miracles from molecules over the war footage to be one of the most powerful shots in defunctland and I think it was the first moment that really hooked me in to this channel and these productions.
Star Tours has a special place in my heart. Back in 1990 my wife and I went to Disneyland for our Honeymoon. After the terrible breakfast at the Tomorrow Land terrace, the first ride we went on as Husband and Wife was Star Tours. Between Star Tours and that breakfast I spent most of the morning sick and dizzy. 30 years later we still laugh at that.
You make it look easy isn't a phrase id say to you because your hard work and attention to detail is evident in every minute of your videos your very good at what you do. Theirs a reason you don't spit out new videos every week and it shows. Love this channel ✌
The war footage with "Miracles From Molecules" over it could have been even worse. I saw pictures of Vietnamese kids who had Agent Orange dropped on them in high school history class and it's the kind of thing you never forget...
@@pseudotasuki No, many children born in areas where Agent Orange was used have been born with horrible deformities. I remember the video he's likely talking about.
My family went to Vietnam to adopt my little sister a decade ago; she lived in the second storey of an orphanage along with a dozen more toddlers, cared for by three doting employees. The first storey was a refuge for children born with severe deformities, the lasting effects of the US's chemical warfare. It was heartbreaking, seeing them still suffering from the effects of a war over half a century old. We visited the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City while waiting for some paperwork to be approved. The exhibits weren't shy with laying bare the brutality inflicted upon the soldiers, prisoners and civilians during the wars; it was a completely different experience from the Canadian War Museum I visited at a younger age, which would mostly display the weapons, vehicles and propaganda associated with certain wars. I suppose it's much easier to forget the price of war, when your land and children don't bear its scars.
@@pseudotasuki Agent Orange can have pretty serious effects from even short-term exposure, such as blackened skin and severe acne-like rashes called chloracne.
The one thing I primarily remember as a child of my first trip to Disneyland is going on this ride. For some reason it stuck with me more than any other ride.
“Convincing customers that they had nothing to be afraid of - before it was revealed they created something they should absolutely be afraid of” is the best Perjurer line since "a California-themed theme park in the already California-themed California."
Put them on a t-shirt!
And don't forget "A Powerful Rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese"
“Homosexual fast dancing” has to be an iconic Defunctland line as well
@@allistull24 What video is that from?
@@TwoCagedBirds I'm pretty sure it's the Videopolis video
That shift from 1950s idealism to 1970s disenchantment gave me whiplash. I always love how Perjurer is able to turn what could just be a straight forward theme park facts video into such an engaging world history lesson.
These Videos are so good!
That's what elevates Defunctland from the other themepark channels. Anyone could make a history of a specific themepark ride and give a story of the changes made to it etc. but Defunctland gives a broader societal perspective to it as well as adding a personal angle from those who created it. It doesn't just teach you about the ride itself it also teaches you about this period of history in general and the greater forces that dominated the history of this ride.
We never completely recovered from that disenchantment.
This video might be as perfect an example of mood whiplash as I've ever seen.
@@SirBlackReeds no, it just became warped, look who has faith in institutions now, the ever growing graduate priesthood who back the new cathedral.
Holy shit, that "Miracles from Molecules" segment overlain with the Vietnam war footage was an incredible gut punch. That was an incredible choice.
yeah, wow, it's really good. such a stern reminder of harsh corporate hypocrisy
Does anyone know who made that version?
That is going to stick with me for a long time.
Agreed. So good.
@@Masterhitman935 The episode has Samir Valle credited for "Music Orchestration and Mixing", so I assume that's who it was. There's a choir credited too, so it may have been recorded specifically for this episode too?
The "miracles from molecules" playing over them poisoning from Vietnam was haunting. Good job on really discussing that part of the ride
I do expect theme park buffs to gloss over the "this is a global entertainment monopoly with a ridiculous amount of power" but instead, these vids are using the parks as microcosms of societal issues at large, even back when Disney was a word associated with magic instead of capitalist domination. The polyester clothes thing was already ominous, based on the amount of plastic clothes waste being promoted like a fun thing, but wow, it got much worse from there!
That really was terrifying
Now you can be mRNA going into a little kids arm....
@@nastyab8003 buddy. Vaccines are not agent orange. Implying these things are even remotely the same is both so laughably priveleged and so offensive that it makes me want to laugh at you like that little boy from the Simpsons
@@twistysunshine sigh... VAERS enters the chat.. UK Yellow Card buys it a drink. Some sheep cry.
When my dad went to Disneyland as a kid he kept telling his brothers about this cool ride he heard about where they shrink you down, and got them all hyped up for it.. So he pointed out what he thought was the ride, and they waited in the long line and got on. Turns out he had instead led them to "It's A Small World" And boy...were his brothers pissed.
😭😭TRAGICCCC
this is hilarious, poor guys
I can attest its like hell in there
Honestly though....... The connection\mistake makes sense haha
Thats so sad
I truly do hope he played it off as a prank, because that is bloody legendary!!xD
"I will hide in the one place free from the corruption of Micheal Eisner..... INNER SPACE!"
Which is why he knew he had to remove it
Please tell me this is a Tim Curry reference
@@Laurel99 yes
Wow, that is impressively obscure and off topic.
I LOVE IT.
I understood that reference!
"A convincing illusion" is an understatement. This ride absolutely terrified me.
Nice to hear eyewitness accounts of riders!
Yeah I would have been terrified
I saw it when I was 8. I loved it. It was the one ride I asked to go on again.
Agree! Scared me, too! It was so real looking
It scared me a little also. The line(preshow) for Space Mountain really scared me. I turned back at the next to the last chance in line.
Miracles from Molecules being played over the montage of planes spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam is a radical recontextualization of the original ride and literally made my jaw drop. fantastic film-making
As weird as this is...
This ride concept could 100% be repurposed today on Avengers Campus for a Quantum Realm Ant-Man thing.
That’s actually a good idea, it would have to be narrated by Paul Rudd though
You would have to be inside Sam Wilson's body.
@@jonasquinn7977 or Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer ot Michael Douglas
@@CrabKFP Michael Douglas would be great for a ride like this
@@adora_was_taken Yah screw having Rudd do it Michael Douglas would be perfect for selling the whole audience shrinking shtick they could also have it play out more interactively like the Back to the Future ride how the whole idea was the audience was like time cops going after Biff but instead it would be the audience shrinking to go save Ant-Man from shrinking perpetually into the Quantum Realm and the whole time you'd have Michael Douglas character periodically checking in to see how the mission is going.
I was six when my grandmother took me to Disneyland. I rode the Adventure thru Inner Space several times and the science that it dramatized would go on to shape my life and the career I have chosen.
I called it the shrinking machine and thought the little people were real lol (I was a bit younger) and asked for a microscope for Christmas (I still have it in the attic to this day).
Working at Wendy's?
Did you create honey I shrunk the audience?
Kevin: "Teens would add to the ride's narrative with chemicals of their own..."
Me: LSD?
Kevin: "Hormones."
And LSD
@@Defunctland Oh good old Defunctland always making funny jokes.
Funny, I was going to say Jizz
Ngl, vividly hallucinating whilst being in a ride like that sounds pretty unforgettable. Probably not in a fun way, but definitely a way of some sort.
I thought weed or crack lmao
"15-20 minute videos from now on."
Thank you for being untruthful you beautiful man.
Couldn't be me
@@Defunctland wow a comment that defunctland himself replied to only has one reply and 233 likes
@@conman087 it has three now
@@PepsiMann2009 indeed
@@conman087 now six
Can't get enough of the production work of these
Yeah, I totally agree, I could legit see this being picked up by Netflix or something. In fact, it's better quality than a lot of Netflix content nowadays
SAME. You know what I've had enough of though? Monsantos control over food distribution and manufacturing as well as their control of the pharmacy industry. They're literally trying to get off of being responsible for poisoning the world with their agent orange roundup. Absolute. scum.
That bit around 25:30-26:00 was... yeah. Absolutely stunning production work, even by Defunctland's high standards
Holy crap, never expected to see Xycron here
he's a seasoned YT vet for many years on the microcosm focus of these D(L)ocumentaries
This video is a really telling look into how art and culture influence each other. I've always found 50s/60s sci-fi to be quaint but really interesting. It's hard not to look at Tomorrowland and Star Trek and the Jetsons and the like and think, "Oh, you had such high hopes for us." I wonder if and when we'll ever get a period of optimism and excitement in our science fiction again.
By now we should be working on the Moon and be able to ride back to Earth for dinner, before heading to Mars to hit the nightclubs.
Flying Cars, Hoverboards...Robots...but nah, we just got NFTs.
Wow, this is making me sad.
@@darthdangermouse1453 AI is cool tho
@@darthdangermouse1453
I am sad too
@@darthdangermouse1453 that for sure would not be possible even if everything ran smoothly the last idk 200 years lmao your just making yourself sad over nothing now
@@busterbackster1 why not? We had a ton of technological achievements during the cold war. Unfortunately when the Soviet Union fell we pretty much lost all interest in space and had massive technological stagnation when it came to that sector. I don't believe we'd be able to fly back to the earth in a night, but I do believe we might have been able to have bases on the moon if the space race kept going. The flying cars and hoverboards on the other hand were pretty much never feasible even by today's standards.
10 mins into the video: "the imagineers made an amazing ride that helped shape disney land forever :)"
20 mins into the video: "agent orange was used for chemical warfare in the war and killed hundreds of thousands of people"
30 mins into the video: "the imagineers made an amazing ride that helped shape disney land forever :)"
Lol
Human civilization in a nutshell
@@bigboysdotcom745”wow this is so cool!”
“We’re committing genocide”
“Wow this is cool too!”
The “miracles from molecules” song playing over war footage was *Haunting!* I wonder if Disney lived long enough to see Monsanto fall if he would have stayed with them or distanced himself.
Interesting question. Probably stayed with them because the man could be stubborn as a mule, such as not liking unions and being ultra strict, even if his workers weren't happy. I can see him touting "Monsanto did nothing wrong!" rhetoric. If he ever did break the partnership with them, it would only be due to protests against Disney (just like what happened), not because he made the decison due to realizing they were unethical.
Exactly the words I wanted to post! Wonderful editing on that section for sure
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley with screaming at anyone that crossed him a pinko commie.
I know, that was some genuinely masterful editing. Incredibly well executed.
Walt was a Nixon guy before Nixon was president
That's Paul Frees for you. He can give a dramatic, chilling, Orson Welles like performance, and then he can go on to be half the characters in Rocky and Bullwinkle.
But Florida's Answer to Inner Space (If You Had Wings) got The Real Orson Welles.
And alot of voices in the Rankin Bass specials too!
@@KendrickHarrisKenfinity Paul Frees was the Tony Jay of his time.
@@XJCherokeeBear I saw that when I was a kid!
@@Trainlover1995 EXACTLY!
Kevin it was genius of you to include the long helicopter shots to introduce Monsanto, alluding to their involvement in the war. You’re content continues to impress me every time. Keep killing it man.
Less that they themselves were involved more that the government was simply using their products
@@crazyfire9470 The government didn't buy agent orange at wallmart, monsanto took that contract without clarifying the carcinogenic nature of the compound. It's no less horrifying than when dupont gave their factory staff free PFOA laced cigarettes to see what would happen to them.
I seem to remember that Disney once had regular VIP helicopter service to the park from LAX but the surrounding community made them get rid of it. That’s what I thought the opening shot was.
1, 2, 3, foreshadowing...
29:20
Mosanto: *does morally repugnant things*
Mosanto: Why do people think we are evil?
Tomorrowland is one of those places where, if I had a time machine, I would visit. I _really_ dig the retro-futuristic vibe.
I lived within walking distance ..sort of.. and went often. It was that cool.
Watch out for the asbestos and led paint.
@BK Beatty Yah the problem with them calling it Tomorrowland is one thing they fought with through the entire lifetime of that part of the park which is that "tomorrow" is hard to keep up with and quickly just becomes the present and even faster becomes the past as certain ideals and tech become outdated then they gotta go through another costly renovation to catch up to the ideal of the future of the day.
Honestly to each their own, I hate retro futuristic, for some reason it always really creeps me out.
Star Wars excluded.
I grew up with Disneyland, and I was two in 1955 when the park first opened. A attraction not mentioned was the submarine ride and lesser known the Cox flying circle where demonstrations of line control airplanes and slot cars were shown.
“Convincing customers that they had nothing to be afraid of...”
Me: Makes sense, progress is always feared.
“Before it was revealed they created something they should absolutely be afraid of.”
Me: oh no
“Vietnam War.”
Me: OH NO
Hahahah, girl same
See, I was thinking Round-Up at first, but then he started talking about Vietnam and I was like "Huh, I wonder what they made for that" and then Kevin mentioned chemical agents referred to by color and I was like "Dear God no......"
I didn't even need to wait for that moment in the video, from the beginning the first time Monsanto was mentioned I was already "oh no". I think I heard about them in high school because of a pesticide, GMO, & proprietary seed scandal in India or something. They are the ghouls you think of when you imagine a chemical-based post-apocalyptic capitalist dystopia. They are IRL Umbrella Corp.
😂 exactly my reaction!
What about Roundup
27:44 One semi-correction: Vietnamese babies are still currently being born with major birth defects including deafness, mutations like exposed spines and missing limbs, and stunted mental development. The legacy of American Agent poisoning will last for at least 200 years, maybe even longer depending on environmental conditions.
Indeed. The US committed a genocide against the Vietnamese people.
@@chancekahle2214 but that is not the definition of genocide. the definition is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group" when technically gent oranges use was a defoilant. I do not think it was right in any way shape or form, I just feel your usage of the word genocide is overstepping slightly. I firmly believe however that it was 100% an awful war crime that should have never happened.
@@chancekahle2214 Ironic since Vietnam is now one of the most pro US countries in the world.
@@schneejacques3502 Having to fight off their even worse "Cousins in Communism" first in Cambodia then in border wars with China will do that.
@@shimakazef.7809 The Geneva Convention defines genocide in 5 different ways, one of them being “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”. It was genocide.
This man puts a mock WarnerBros logo in front of a Disney Project.
This man knows no fear.
He is on another level so far above the rest of us.
As soon as Monsanto started popping up earlier in the season, I wondered if they'd be discussed considering their literal crimes against humanity, multiple ecosystems, and extensive list of wildlife species.
The scene of the planes dropping agent orange was gut wrenching and extraordinarily well done. Your episodes are always so good, but this one was something special.
Unfortunately, as Dean Rusk put it "[T]he use of defoliant does not violate any rule of international law concerning the conduct of chemical warfare and is an accepted tactic of war. Precedent has been established by the British during the emergency in Malaya in their use of aircraft for destroying crops by chemical spraying." So at the time the US government saw these and other operations such as Operation Popeye (weather mdification using silver iodide) as acceptable actions under the Geneva Convention. Guess you can't break a rule that's not in the rule-book. Ain't mankind great?
@@frednoyes6330 I wish god exist
obviously. corporations/capitalism runs the United States government, not the other way around. the United States was always owned and operated by the rich for the rich since it's inception. we are a dictatorship of the rich
@@frednoyes6330 yeah but does it count as solely "use of a defoliant" when something known to be poisonous to humans too was included alongside?
going "but the chemical weapon bit that hurt humans was just an impurity we knowingly neglected to remove!" is kind of hair-splitting as far as defenses against "you used chemical weapons go"
Why blame the company for what its customers did?
"Miracles of Molecules" playing over chemical warfare gave me some serious "Full Metal Jacket" vibes. Excellent editing.
I heard because of the “extracurriculars” that would occur on the ride, cast members nicknamed the ride “adventure thru intercourse”
is there any other nickname you could give it really
Adventure thru inner blouse
Adventure in her pants?
😂🤮😷
"Adventure Through Inner Thighs" was another popular one.
Look, was I expecting a "Paint it Black x Epcot Center theme" remix in this episode? No. Do I want a full version now? Yes
Where in the video is that????
@@DrawciaGleam02 End credits
You can't show footage of Vietnam war scenes without playing "Paint it Black" - it's basically the law, at this point. Look at almost any movie with Vietnam war imagery INCLUDING "Kong: Skull Island" and you'll know what I mean.
Nice catch, Derick. It was different enough that I didn't pick up on it the first time, but after seeing your comment I listened again and I hear it now.
@@monstersociety3360 - I believe the closing credits to Kubrick’s 1987 release _Full Metal Jacket_ (probably the best film ever made about war, with Kubrick’s own _Paths of Glory_ coming in second) began that trend… which may now seem clichéd, but which was powerfully effective then. (It gave me chills when I saw it theatrically upon its release - yes, I’m a little old.) If you can find earlier instances in film of “Paint It Black” evoking the Vietnam quagmire, I’d be curious to know. But even if _Full Metal Jacket_ weren’t the earliest instance, I’d say it’s become the definitive one - and an especially needed one in the ‘80s, when Koch Donor Network money had installed Reagan in office to get everyone to forget the ‘70s and focus on shopping and entertaining themselves to death instead, and to get the USA excited about instigating wars of economic opportunity once more… invading Grenada, pffft. 😡
When the world needed him most...
*He returned!*
Defuntland is the avatar confirmed?!
Y u still subbed to callmecarson?
*return of the king*
@@Flome810 you can’t expect everyone to unsubscribe from Carson. But I’m not defending his actions those were horrible.
I mean he didn't really go anywhere, did he? He usually uploads around once a month or so.
I am extremely impressed by the military-style cover of Miracles from Molecules. I legitimately thought it was an alternate version made during the ride’s lifetime, I didn’t think it was possible to recapture the exact style of 50s and 60s music, but I guess I was wrong.
So did I!
i thought it was the actual song but with a marching sound effect playing on top and a sound filter thrown in at the end
I didn't notice until now that, during the sequence, the original band slowing fades out until it's just the singers and the marching. Adds a bit more horror to it.
"Guests enter[ed] the Mighty Microscope, shrinking in size just as they had seen previous guests do. In reality, the Atomobiles simply turned to the left." I was listening to the audio (no visuals) and almost choked at this.
Ah, and here I was thinking that Flight of the Valkyries was used as a joke, when really it was foreshadowing. Bravo on that level of storytelling in your videos.
CHARLIE DON'T SURF!!!
@@jewlovergibson2944 go home GI
"Oh neat! Fun trivia about an old theme park ride!"
*Defunctland takes us to a dark place with the US's crimes against humanity*
"Oh God. Yeah. That was definitely sombering..."
Thank you Defunctland for not being afraid to talk about what really happened. Your tone of voice conveys exasperation, while also understanding the weight behind each thing that takes place even on the darkest points of our timeline.
I was literally just wondering when the next Defunctland would be and here it is. Excellent. Now my next 35 minutes are set.
I am thinking about dropping out of school to focus on my career as a star on UA-cam. I already make a lot of money on UA-cam. School bores me so much. I need more opinions and since I don't have any friends, I gotta ask you, rob
Why are you trolling for opinions on your videos? If they’re good, people will watch, if not, they won’t.
Am I the only one who doesn’t immediately watch a video I really want to watch and “keeps it” until the right occasion?
@@mrsleakyshit I do that all the time lol
This was my favorite ride at Disneyland. I have pictures of me at Disneyland in 1967. Scared the crap out of me as a child. I honestly believed that we were shrunk and the giant staring eye at the end probably gave me nightmares. I rode it many times over many years and was so sad when it closed to become Star Tours. Yes, it became more clunky as I aged but it was still Tomorrowland. People Shrinkers, Peoplemover, America The Beautiful in the round and America Sings. I do miss those. I even remember riding donkeys through the Painted Desert. Memories!😌
I'm still angry at Star Tours for that. And I miss Primeval World!
I'm a simple man. I see Defunctland uploads, I click instantly
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At first I was surprised but then I realized you're a Minecraft Historian so of course you would watch a Theme Park historian's channel! Great to see you!
The oldest anarchy server smh
the jesus donut
Ah I see you're a man of culture aswell
“Ride operators sped up the ride...which only seemed like a challenge.”
You’ve heard of Homosexual Fast Dancing. Now prepare for...
HETEROSEXUAL QUICK SMOOCHING
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The same thing happened at Six Flags over Texas during "The Cave" ride in 1979...It got to where park workers would be stationed at several points along the very dark ride to make sure there were no "shenanigans" going on...I know...me and a girlfriend that year were caught making out during the ride...but because we were not doing anything "else", they ignored us...I can only imagine the other things they did catch!!!!!
This projection could fill an Imax theatre.
heterosexual quick smooching 😂
Not even an issue. When we were teenagers any sort of sexual encounter was usually very quick anyways. 😂
hats off to you, Kevin. I go from "oh, new defunctland, this seems interesting." to a mini documentary about how the Vietnam War effected the public perception of big business and how that was all tied to one strange disneyland ride. Excellent job, as always.
Defunctland's videos are higher quality than most tv shows nowadays.
ah. yep.
My grandfather was effected by Agent orange, and through his issues passed down, I get chronic ill pains that are vague as h*ll. Plus my grandfather lived on a superfund site through a paper company that dumped the waste water into a well, so he and my extended family on his side got cancer multiple times. It sucks.
God damn it, Monsanto.
great video. I'm just. bummed. My grandpa tried to help by joining the army and he got super cancer. :(
I wouldn't stop at Agent Orange for an explanation. The evidence of epigenetic inheritance from it isn't terribly strong, and there may be another underlying condition.
For example, depression or aging.
I'll never get over the fact that the response to Vietnamese soldiers hiding in vegetation was to wage an all-out war on the environment. Great job everyone, turned out fine.
Bringing a defunct theme park ride into the broader cultural and political issues of its day is quite a feat, but you’ve done it, and very compellingly. This is one of your best. Bravo!
Last time I was this early Defunctland was still a one-man VR Park Project
Last time I was this early Defunctland was still going to be a physical theme park
@@ShakeItLittleTina when was that?
What?
I’ve never heard anything about most of the rides/attractions talked about in this series but he makes them so interesting to learn about.....very excited for this one
This was one of my favorite rides as a kid.
Now that Disney is stewarding Marvel, the ride could be revived again as an Ant-Man attraction. With tardigrades, please! The gentle capybaras of the microscopic world. And of course, the uncertainty principle in the Quantum Realm.
It always struck me deeply how the ride ended at the gift shop. And how the People Mover passed above, making everything in Tomorrowland feel interconnected.
Kevin: "The People Mover"
Me, in my most Jenny Nicholson voice: YEEEEEESSSS
I THOUGHT THAT TOO
"What's a pie doi-"
It always, always, ALWAYS comes back to Michael Eisner!
Yep because he brought Disney back from Bankruptcy, made the parks about the best they've ever been and green lit the Disney renaissance of academy award winning animated films...Were all of his ideas great nope, just the majority of them...
Unlike Bob EIger who did nothing but trash the parks, close attractions take years to open new ones in the locations the closed ones were, themes everything to a Marvel or other Disney owned IP rather than allowing the Imagineers to create something new and original....And led the way in constantly remaking all of their classic animated films into live action adaptations. Oh and priced out the poor people raising Disney tickets to over $100 bucks.....
IF Disney could use anything right now it would be a Michael Eisner bringing back original creativity. But please feel free to keep crying for rides that were opened in the 60s closed in 85 and replaced by one of the most popular attractions in any of the parks.
@@lutherheggs451 Looks like I found Michael Eisner's secret alt. Nice try buddy, but Bob Iger is a business genius.
Michael Eisner never really left, as to this very day, he is actually still intertwined with Disney and its Disney Plus streaming. Michael cleverly named his company Tornante which in Italian means hairpin turn and bought TOPPS and Eisner / Disney have been branding all of the Disney films / Star Wars, Marvel, Muppets, Pixar and 20th Century Fox films - as TOPPS - DISNEY --
@@lutherheggs451 I have no idea how to run a company so I can't really judge. I Agree Michael Esiner had a lot of good ideas and bad ones. I enjoy the Marvel movies so I can't really bash Iger.
Michael Eisner was probably the best that Disney had to run them after Disney himself died. So many of his initiatives brought the Disney name to the prominence it now is.
Just one example, he had the wonderful world of Disney where he introduced every movie sometimes with a little skit. Half of them were old Disney films and half of them were films that he had done then and there.
No CEO is perfect. Having two operate at that level to my mind implies a certain level of psychosis. At the very minimum, narcissistic disorder and a supreme level of arrogance.
But after Eisner left, Disney seemed to Coast on its merits. Many of their films were sequels or direct to video. The quality of many of their films wer while not horrible, held to a much lesser standard. And as others have noted it was around this time that the cost of tickets started to Skyrocket.
My family was never Wealthy by any measure. But in the mid-80s my parents were able to fund a week-long vacation at Disney World, staying on Park grounds. We were able to afford breakfast lunch and dinner as well as purchase plenty of souvenirs and we were able to see every ride in the park.
That was for a family of five.
Now by contrast, to do the same thing will cost you enough money to purchase a full size SUV, a tiny home, payoff a sizable chunk of student debt, or fund at least a Year's worth of chemotherapy for somebody with cancer. And you have absolutely no way in hell I'm getting on even half of the rides, thanks to the multiple initiatives to allow people to skip lines.
Was that all because of Eiger? Likely not, a CEO is still just a figurehead. Was Isner the only one preventing what has come since? Unlikely for the same reason. Still I can't help but believe that if Michael Eisner was still in a position of power, Disney would be much more affordable and their output would be far more varied
playing the miracles from molecules song over the agent orange footage was *chef's kiss* so good
Why do I feel this season's gonna end with the Disney company hiring a certain CEO from Paramount???
Im still waiting on when Iger can get a right slagging
@darrell holland shame it can't be sooner as right now since investors are calling for his and the other Bob (Chapek)'s heads over the LucasFilm debacle, nevermind the book cooking investigation ongoing
All roads lead to Michael Eisner
The "Miracles From Molecules" over the American Invasion footage was chilling.
I remember riding this when visiting Disneyland in the early '80s. The "chills" created by the ride were less to do with the visual and audio design, and more to do with the refrigerated air that drifted down from AC vents in the ceiling at the giant snowflake zone. Simple, but pretty effective at creating immersion.
“A once optimistic America was suddenly cynical.” Man, we keep ending up in that cycle.
November 8, 2016... We thought progress would just continue onward and upward... and then...
@@jamiethedinosaur869 That year's presidential election finished after the votes came in. A Republican, who would went on to become the 4th worst president in the history of the United States, would win that election. A man who came from the business side of America, in New York City, has no experience in the military, and is a media personality who had his last name for his organization, founded in 1923 by a German businesswoman and an American real estate developer. His name was Donald John Trump, born in June 1946, in Queens, New York, and was the president who became a reflection of what his party, the Republican Party, became now. Now, the Republican Party became anti-truth, and anti-democratic, a prominant feature of the party now. Trump would become president on January 21, 2017, and he would negatively change America forever.
@@connerrolofson1585 He took office on 20 Jan 2017 at noon. (US Constitution, Amendment 20)
And the office left him at that same time & date, 4 years later to a vastly different America than the one he inherited.
I was reading that in KP’s voice
I wonder if he would consider branching out to something like that
On the other hand, his account would get swarmed by Trump defenders and the comments section would be as toxic as the waters in the early Disney Land boat rides
@@connerrolofson1585 Are you sure about that? If I remember correctly, it is the democrats who are ironically anti democratic and anti truth. We are talking about the same party whose candidates would degrade and belittle fellow Americans for having a different political opinion, writing them off as "Deplorables". These are the same people who never once condemned the violence and destruction antifa and blm rioters caused throughout Trump's presidency. These are the same people who go on about "Defund the police" and "All police are racist and violent", yet those same democrat cowards hide behind them whenever the opposite side gets fed up with their bullshit. These are the same people who want to take away your freedom of speech and your 2nd amendment, all in the name of "political correctness" and "security".
Yes I will admit that the republican party has a lot of spineless cowards that don't deserve to be in office. But don't act like the democrats are fucking benevolent saints. The democrat party is everything you accuse the republican party of being but far more deranged and malicious in their agenda, they are to put it simply traitors.
I don't intend to change your political opinion, believe what you want to believe at the end of the day. I'm just here to point out the hypocrisy of your anti-republican propaganda.
In the end, as history has shown time and time again, when two sides cannot coexist peacefully or compromise, a civil war is inevitable.
The ride sounds wonderful, your description takes us there and it's mesmerising but then you don't gloss over the dark side such as Agent Orange. Your videos aren't just cool history of rides but you give a whole picture of the time, the circumstances, the consequences etc with as always excellent production value. Playing the miracles molecules song over that Vietnam footage is just haunting. Yet another excellent video!!!!
I man a simple man, Defunctland uploads and i stop what I'm doing at the moment to watch it.
Same. It's my favorite youtube show.
If I could time-travel, one of my top destinations would absolutely be various iterations of the World’s Fair... it always fascinates me to see visions of our past and future through the eyes of different generations.
No matter when we look, those perspectives are always tinted with flavors of contemporary pop culture, art, philosophy, and ideology...and ultimately tells us more about the people in the mirror, rather than the reflection itself.
Hopefully that makes sense. It’s a bit early for me to be so...meta.
It absolutely does, I dig the retrofuturist vibe, and I’m sure I’m not the only one given how popular a setting it is for video games...
I bet a World's Fairs tour would be very popular for a time-travel agency, partially because it would be one of the few sets of locations where anachronisms might be ignored by locals and historians! "Those weirdos? Oh, they're just French, ignore them." :P
@@Chasmodius yes!!!
In the early part of the Videopolis era, when I had a summer night pass, this ride also had the great redeeming feature of having about the most powerful air conditioning in the park. Since there was almost never a line, it was a great way to cool off after dancing like a maniac to "Rock Lobster" or "Two Tribes."
I was definitely pretty scared by it when I first rode it as a kid, though....
So funny, that’s exactly the same reason that another DL attraction, cedar point’s disaster transport, was still getting riders in its later years. It was the only building in that entire half of the park that was air conditioned and the wait was only ever like twenty minutes.
Same for Gold River Adventure at Six Flags over Texas. It was ice cold in there.
It's a shame it got flooded and destroyed a few years ago, it was my favorite as a kid. Even if the effects did start breaking down badly as I got older. I heard the new version of the ride was also flooded recently and shut down, which is a shame
With all the renewed conversation around American cynicism and its roots in the late 60s, especially the events of 1968, the riots, and the trial that resulted, this is kinda the perfect episode for the current moment.
Understandable. It's like America didn't learn a thing from it...
A lot of Americans like myself learned a lot, sadly the loud, mostly younger ones feel like repeating it...
@@crazyfire9470 The younger ones learn and improve on the old yet the old do not want to progress.
@@novaangle2183 And sometimes people in my generation don't care to know the past and thus are doomed to repeat the cycle.
Having Miracles From Molecules play over Vietnam war footage is absolutely genius!
@Thirsty Sexpert The US should have never gone into Vietnam. It wasn't their war to deal with. Also, no one deserves what agent orange did to people!
@Thirsty Sexpert As a Jewish person whose family was impacted by WWII, don't tell me I'm ignorant. WWII and the Vietnam War were two very different situations. And once again NO ONE DESERVES TO BE A VICTIM OF INHUMANE CHEMICAL WARFARE!
@Thirsty Sexpert you are the ignorant one here.....
With added marching boots as well.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 I didn’t notice that, such a cool added detail
Man sometimes defunctland can get quite depressing, I guess thats what history really is.
I don't think I will forget the miracles from molecules song on the war footage that's so chilling I dont think theres another episode to have quite a moment like that.
Okay, but whoever voiced the scientist in the inner space ride slayed that to the nth degree
"You want me to tell you the story of the Disney ride that shrunk you down? Ok, I'll tell you, but we need some background first. Our story starts after the Tet offensive where the Vietcong were gaining an edge on US forces in Vietnam..."
And, even then, you'd have it wrong.
The Tet Offensive wound up being a disaster for the VC (and the attendant siege of Khe Sanh, an utter failure -- not the Dien Bien Phu that the NVA was hoping it would be).
It DID serve as a justification for Walter Cronkite (and other "respectable people") to come out against the War (during the offensive), and it was THAT -- the advocacy that we abandon South Vietnam which secured victory for the Communists.
"featuring an animatronic named Tom Morrow"
is THAT where tom morrow 2.0 from disney channel came from???? i always wondered what happened to the first iteration!
And Tom Morrow (voiced by Nathan Lane) in DL's Innoventions
And "Paging Mr. Morrow, Mr. Tom Morrow" from the WDW PeopleMover narration :)
Tom Morrow 2.0 is Disney's version of Cartoon Network's TOM.
@@crazoatmeal1854 When I visited Innovations I kept wondering why the robot was named "Tom Arnold" lol
Just got to the part where it’s footage of the US Air Force spraying the forests in Vietnam with the echoey Sherman Brothers Monsanto jingle... Christ. It’s chilling.
I feel like taking a journey.....through inner space!
That's it, that's the comment I've been waiting for lol
How about a virtual one?
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It was a very convincing illusion! I remember staring at this thing when I was a kid, amazed at watching the cars going in and getting smaller. I knew it was a trick but I couldn’t figure out how they did it. Disney would’ve been proud, even if it was just fooling a kid lol
So cool that there is footage of people queing up, enjoying their time, and not knowing they were being filmed for footage that would make it onto Defunctland decades later, a lifetime later! Amazing
So awesome to be a part of a Defunctland episode! Thanks for putting the choir together!
Thanks for being a part of it!
what if we kissed in the adventure through inner space omnimovers 😳😳
And more? 😳😳🤯🤯
haha yeah... unless?
That was such a great narrative turn. Agent orange's effects are still felt in the southern part of Vietnam. Fantastic work!
No they aren't - it's the Dioxin that is the major problem and that was caused by American cheapassery.
@@rosiehawtrey I'm not a scientist so don't know exactly what caused the birth defects that plagued Vietnam and American solders. But if you go to Vietnam you can still see people who have been affected by this part of the war. I miss travel.
So I last rode this ride when I was 8-9 years old in 1984/85. For the last couple of years I have thought about this ride. I couldn’t figure out how we went straight through the microscope. As a kid, I knew we didn’t shrink, but was baffled how we went straight through. I finally learned from this video today, that the car turned left. How did I not feel that? I wish this ride was around today for my 5 year old to experience. I think it would be so magical for her. Thank you for this video. Brought back my childhood.
Great memories.
This season has been about Epcot all along. To understand Epcot, we had to start with the White City and the farmer's son. MIND BLOWN.
The military rendition of Miracles Through Molecules was a really nice touch
And his attractive children....? The 60's, man.
Glad I wasn't only one who noticed that one haha.
lol
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attractive meant something else back then, but it is still kinda strange
It was used to mean more along the lines of "cute" or "adorable." Not that the speaker finds the children attractive in a sexual/romantic way. It's definitely a bit off-putting but it didn't have the same connotation back then
Proud of you for holding off till the 30min mark before mentioning Eisner.
Even with Disney's reputation in the gutter these days, it's hard to imagine them having ever worked with the makers of Agent Orange and Napalm.
i don't find it that hard, it is a grotesque example of how every bit of capitalism is interlocked with horrific violence
@@giantmoth1287 LMFAO yeah right, "capitalism" is what's wrong with this picture.
@@DarthWillSmith quite obviously yes, that's the result of profits being the ultimate motivation in this dying system, no matter whether you sell cartoons or weapons of mass destruction. I think this channel (intentionally or not) showcases the unavoidable internal flaws of capitalism in many ways showing how they are still present even in something seen as colorful innocent fun for children. but it is just a shiny exterior with a very bloody and heartless inside, from an obvious example like this one to everyday things like exploitation of workers in america and abroad, environmental pollution and also walt disney's fascistic worldview it is very obvious that like every american corporation ever it has blood on it hands, which is unavoidable in capitalism due to its inherent flaws and contradictions
@@giantmoth1287 blaming everything on "capitalism" is about as cool as wearing a fanny pack. Is it "capitalism" or is it decay? Is it "capitalism" or is it corporatism? Is it "capitalism" or corruption? Is it "capitalism" deviant warfare? Is Sally's lemonade stand also tainted by warmongering? Is an artwork any less beautiful if the artist makes a profit? The right of property and enterprise will inevitably lead to abuses, but you should stick to criticizing the abuses rather than cast everything under such an ill-defined and overly broad idea like "capitalism". Besides, Disney have also made plenty of dark room rides that WEREN'T produced in association with makers of fucked up chemical weapons.
@@DarthWillSmith yes it is capitalism (idk why you're putting it in quotes) it is also decay, corporatism and deviant warfare as they are unavoidable consequences of capitalism. As an counter example to capitalism's crimes you're giving a child and artists, that is not how most of the production that happens under capitalism looks like. Of course not every enterprise has war crimes on its conscience but basically all of big corporations (and ecpecially american ones) have in different ways.and you also have things like wage theft (in the sense of stealing surplus value) happens in every situation when someone eploys others. Sally's lemonade stand in itself is fine but capitalism needs more and more and never stops, monopolisation is written in the very core of capitalism.
capitalism has clearly failed humanity, i think everyone can see it in some way in 2022, making climate change worse and worse, not being able to deal with a pandemic, resulting in imperialism and taking lives of millions whether through warfare or sanctions and all the awful results of the american empire being the world hegemon. it is however crumbling, its time has come. Rosa Luxembourg said "socialism or barbarism" i think today it's socialism or end of humanity.
I rode this in the early 80s. It left such an impression on me that i can still remember the awe of passing through a giant snowflake. It was a bit frightening but amazing. I wish the ride still existed.
Before I watch this...
I’ve been a fan of this channel since it began, I’ve been patiently and silently waiting for a video on this ride. I rode it when I was 5 in 1980, It was like a dream and I had often wondered if it was. Thank you Kevin
Yes, same! I have had a long ago memory of being in a ride car and seeing a huge eyeball looking at me. And this vague idea that we were being studied. I couldn’t place it and questioned whether it was an old childhood dream.
Is this a theme park history video, or is this just a general history video with the caveat that everything is tangentially related to theme parks or amusement in some way? Either way, this is some great stuff.
Another great episode! I love how you give historical context outside if Disney to these attractions. Makes it so much more interesting.
26:22 the sound design of that entire little montage is so amazingly well done, it gives me chills every time. Even if you don’t know any of the specifics about what Agent Orange did and how it lingers, the imagery and audio makes it very clear just how devastating it was.
This is exactly the type of craftsmanship I associate with Defunctland. The Disney channel theme documentary, the EPCOT film and its accompanying materials, all extremely well made with an insane attention to detail. And we get to watch these projects for free?! Can’t wait to be financially stable enough to become a patron❤
the theme song + war footage combo gave me chills
That agent orange + Miracles from Molecules bit really hit different. As soon as Monsanto got brought up, I knew where it was going.
I hope Disney will create an "Ant-Man: Adventures Through Inner-Space" ride
Cross it over with Body Wars and have you go inside Sam Wilson.
Just thinking this!
They probably want to distance them self from the ride sponsored by a company that helped commit crimes against humanity
They WOULD go for that dick move of a title.
I don't. All Disney does now are cheap, soulless IP attractions, devoid of the magic of the original theme parks.
The opposite of farming is war crimes.
Not just that, but genocide, due to its lingering presence in the environment and teratogenic effects.
"Anti-seed. Plant it and watch the thing die."
Pretty sure the opposite of plant cultivation is plant removal (ie herbicides)
@@stephaniemeyer4549 so war crimes on an insect scale
Can't even tell you how many times I DIDN'T see the ride for all the tonsil-hockey I played on that ride, and all to Paul Frees naration. Thank you, Walt for giving us all a place to break from the chaperones that were our parents.
I know other channels have done it, but I'd love to see your insight on the Jurassic Park ride at Universal. The original ride was adored and pretty much "Jaws, but good" with excellent animatronics and set design and pacing.
Then they replaced everything with SCREENS that don't work right(they're visible as you enter, but before the video has begun, so the beginning of the ride is just watching still images of the sea creatures).
Pretty much everyone hates the new version.
You should check out the new version. Over the park closure they redid the ending and I think the ending is better than the original.
Here we experience the unique and fun journey through our inner dimension at our unparalleled theme park. Keep it up!
"Teens would add to the ride's narrative with chemicals of their own....hormones"
....well that suddenly gave a new meaning to the ride's name....
"hormones" Okay, that did not go where I was expecting it to go! :D
This suddenly made me think to the Tokyo DisneySea 20 000 League Under the Sea ride and its ENCLOSED ride vehicle and what could happen in those at times of low attendance...Thankfully they can sit around 6 people so it's probably rare, but still...
Coming and a-going I say.
The few, the proud, the Nanometer High Club lol
When I was a Disneyland cast member (post-Inner Space, though I grew up going on the attraction), I was told a story backstage about an obviously amorous couple getting on Adventure Thru Inner Space, and asking how long the ride was. The cast member, knowing what they were planning to do on the ride, told them it was 20 minutes long (as stated in the video, it was about six minutes long, and insert your own joke about bragg).
The cast member let a few empty cars go by before letting them on, then quite a few empty cars go by before loading the next guests.
Then they called all the other attractions in Tomorrowland and told them what was going on, and to send over anyone they could spare. Obviously, with the ride time being less than a third of what the guests were told, they got to the post-show room in...not exactly a "family friendly" state, and were met by a wall of cast members applauding them, and they were then escorted out of the park by Security.
Now, obviously I don't know whether that story is actually true or whether it's just backstage urban legend, but I still laugh when I think about it.
Hey just wanted to say that I hope you are doing well and staying safe. Thank you for the content and keep up the solid videos my man!
Genius ! All of them completely amazing creators!
I still find the playing of miracles from molecules over the war footage to be one of the most powerful shots in defunctland and I think it was the first moment that really hooked me in to this channel and these productions.
Star Tours has a special place in my heart. Back in 1990 my wife and I went to Disneyland for our Honeymoon. After the terrible breakfast at the Tomorrow Land terrace, the first ride we went on as Husband and Wife was Star Tours. Between Star Tours and that breakfast I spent most of the morning sick and dizzy. 30 years later we still laugh at that.
You make it look easy isn't a phrase id say to you because your hard work and attention to detail is evident in every minute of your videos your very good at what you do. Theirs a reason you don't spit out new videos every week and it shows. Love this channel ✌
I knew where you were going with that Monsanto thing, but when you played Miracles from Molecules over Nam footage, that hit hard. Well done.
I remember these rides - amazing fun and imaginative! Miss this Disneyland
This is amazing! Wish they still had the ability to create rides with this kind of elegance and artistry.
The war footage with "Miracles From Molecules" over it could have been even worse. I saw pictures of Vietnamese kids who had Agent Orange dropped on them in high school history class and it's the kind of thing you never forget...
You're probably thinking of napalm.
@@pseudotasuki No, many children born in areas where Agent Orange was used have been born with horrible deformities. I remember the video he's likely talking about.
My family went to Vietnam to adopt my little sister a decade ago; she lived in the second storey of an orphanage along with a dozen more toddlers, cared for by three doting employees. The first storey was a refuge for children born with severe deformities, the lasting effects of the US's chemical warfare. It was heartbreaking, seeing them still suffering from the effects of a war over half a century old.
We visited the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City while waiting for some paperwork to be approved. The exhibits weren't shy with laying bare the brutality inflicted upon the soldiers, prisoners and civilians during the wars; it was a completely different experience from the Canadian War Museum I visited at a younger age, which would mostly display the weapons, vehicles and propaganda associated with certain wars.
I suppose it's much easier to forget the price of war, when your land and children don't bear its scars.
Like when I saw the children who survived Hiroshima during high school history class.
@@pseudotasuki Agent Orange can have pretty serious effects from even short-term exposure, such as blackened skin and severe acne-like rashes called chloracne.
Well people, now you can see the correlation of the solders singing the Micky Mouse song in the Vietnam part of Full Medal Jacket.
The Remembrances is quite striking.
The one thing I primarily remember as a child of my first trip to Disneyland is going on this ride. For some reason it stuck with me more than any other ride.
Dude…I really wish I could have gone on this, I’d be blown away even as an adult
Goddamn that "Miracles from Molecules" reprise really got me.