he Walt Disney Company is reportedly deliberation a plan to build an whole universe dedicated to Star Wars during Disneyland. But sci-fi fans and Disney aficionados shouldn’t get too excited. The story of Disney’s thesis park growth is full of unprepared rides that were once high on a engineering team’s “to-build” list. Here, 6 deserted Disney theme-park rides:

1. Hotel Mel
When it non-stop in 1989, Walt Disney World’s Disney-MGM Studios, now famous as Hollywood Studios, in Orlando, Fla., was meant to contest head-to-head with a Universal Studios thesis park. Disney’s new park indispensable a star attraction, and a “Imagineers” suspicion a float formed on fear cinema would move in a crowds. However, Disney prided itself on being family-friendly, so a company concocted a reduction frightening theme that starred comedy actor, writer, and executive Mel Brooks. The float would have taken guest by an aged hotel that Brooks had presumably taken over to fire his subsequent picture. They would afterwards learn that a hotel was swarming with ghosts, ghouls, and monsters. Riders would house golf carts that took them by several bedrooms that showcased comedic set-ups. One room contained a vampire who keeps slicing himself as he shaves since he can’t see himself in a mirror. Another featured a sealed lavatory case with Frankenstein reaching for some toilet paper, usually to squeeze one of a Mummy’s bandages instead. The plan ran into problems when developers couldn’t come adult with a cohesive story for a ride, and Brooks left a plan to star in and approach a film Life Stinks. The hotel, however, was revamped and incited into a extravagantly renouned conveyor dump float “The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.”

2. The Great Muppet Movie Ride
Disney also wanted a Muppet attraction for a new park, and developers brainstormed an whole Muppet-themed ride. It would have taken riders by film sets for Frankenstein and Peter Pan with Muppets characters comprising a cast. The Frankstein territory featured a insane scientist’s laboratory, with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew conducting an examination left badly on his submissive neophyte Beaker. The Peter Pan reconstitute had a Muppets knocking over set pieces and view as they are dangling from cables and tossed around a room. The float was to have been partial of a special Muppets-themed area of a park, full with a Muppetvision 3D show. But usually a 3D captivate came to fruition.

3. Beastly Kingdom
WDW’s Animal Kingdom park brought wildlife into Disney’s immeasurable array of attractions. But one designed territory that was scrapped would have taken visitors on rides populated by wildlife that didn’t indeed exist. The canceled Beastly Kingdom was to have explored “animals of parable and legend,” such as dragons and unicorns. Some of a due rides enclosed a Fantasia-themed vessel float with characters from a iconic film, a dangling drum coaster called “Dragon’s Tower” that brought riders face to face with a massive, fire-breathing dragon, and a Gothic intricacy called “Quest of a Unicorn.” However, income problems prevented Disney from building such a large attraction. Instead, a association built a towering drum coaster Expedition Everest, in that riders are chased and roughly prisoner by a massive, snarling Yeti.

4. Museum of a Weird
The bizarre Haunted Mansion during Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., is one of a many dear and sacred of all a Disney rides. And it roughly had an adjoining attraction. Imagineer Rolly Crump came adult with a novel approach of gripping a guest entertained while they waited in one of Disneyland’s notoriously prolonged lines, devising several props and sketches for a Museum of a Weird that would have served as a pre-show to a categorical attraction. It was to have been filled with bizarre collectibles, such as wallpaper that seemed to glance behind during guests, a grandfather time flashy with tellurian bones, and a condemned organ played by a resounding skeleton. The plan folded after Walt Disney’s death, and several of a Museum’s ideas became partial of a Haunted Mansion instead.

5. The Enchanted Snow Palace
One of Disneyland’s bizarre rides would have taken a guest out of a prohibited California object and into a cold, snowy wonderland. Guests would have boarded boats, and sailed by an “arctic Jungle Cruise” plentiful with robotic animals, such as hulk walruses, frigid bears, and wolves. Then, as a boats trafficked underneath a Northern Lights, they would enter a some-more illusory partial of a ride: The den of a Snow Queen, finish with fabulous arctic creatures like fairies and giants. The Queen would ensue to hail a guests, and appreciate them for visiting by creation it snow. The skeleton were scrapped after park planners schooled that guest wanted rides that had some-more thrills and reduction chills.

6. Dick Tracy’s Crimestoppers
In what would have turn one of a park’s initial interactive rides, Disney-MGM Studios formed an captivate on a film instrumentation of a comic frame Dick Tracy. Guests would have been taken by a gritty, crime-riddled streets of Chicago, where they would fire it out with gangsters and members of Big Boy Caprice’s oddity collection of henchmen. Unfortunately, Dick Tracy achieved feeble during a box office, and a designed supplement never materialized, so Disney had no genuine reason to build a ride.