The History of Disney's SCARIEST Ride

[@OffhandDisney]

BOO! Did I get ya? No? This is just text, making jumpscares pretty much impossible? And now I'm making it worse by talking to myself?

[@EPCOTNERDLovesDisney]

Don't worry, Offhand. You got me. What a perfect match, I'm watching the Haunted Mansion movie (2023) and I get scared by the literal master of the mansion :O

[@ConnorCampbell-ch5mk]

I jumped, that was almost as scary as the stitch burp in stitches Great escape… l can still smell it… gross

[@Sirmrcrab]

You terrified me shame on you ):

[@racheljackson4428]

Hated jumpscares. Laugh tracks in Sitcoms are always a Jumpscare to me.

[@MidwesternDiva]

Where did you get that cloak pin? My husband would love it for Renaissance Faire!

[@Delundon]

I went on the Tokyo ride this past summer thinking it was the current Disneyland version. To my pleasant surprise, it was the original, boulder and all! I loved it! And they have Pirates complete with the auction scene and the men chasing the women. That place is a museum.

[@benl5481]

I went on it too! Though I knew it was the original when I went on. They've kept their version in an immaculate condition!

[@r.osemary]

Right!! I only had a weeknight pass for TDL last summer so I had to make a beeline for Snow White, Mr Toad, Pirates, and Haunted Mansion to see all the original versions. It's so cool to see the rides' original concepts but PERFECTLY maintained and up-to-date. Tokyo Disney Resort is the best, idk if i can ever go back to the US parks after that 😅

[@Delundon]

​@@benl5481 @benl5481 I wish the American parks had the same maintenance as Tokyo. When I went on their Splash Mountain, I completely forgot they're used to be a fish jumping through the broken net of the fishermen. That effect was broken at WDW for the longest, along with the bees.

[@Delundon]

​@@r.osemaryThat park is what the Magic Kingdom was in the 90s and before when the company actually cared. It is weird to see Haunted Mansion in Fantasyland though, but I appreciate the tradition of having that ride in a different land every park.

[@stanfordite1]

Pirates will be restored to its original 1967 glory complete with auction and pirates chasing women again in time for its 75th.

[@atch300]

Wow this is horrific. It’s like a creepypasta version of the real ride where all the characters are in constant misery.

[@nathanielpeterson7026]

I am a survivor of the original Snow White's Adventures in the Magic Kingdom. It was scary and fun, and I remain slightly fascinated by that mine cart full of glowing gemstones that jump-scares ya. As a six year-old, I wanted to reach out and grab the gems right out of it.

[@kdusel1991]

Me too!

[@ctermaat]

I recently had to look up this ride to make sure it wasn’t a fever dream I had as a child.

[@andyb7808]

Same! And to answer you Dallin, as a kid I was honestly completely thrown off by how freaky the original ride was. I also didn’t really get why Snow White wasn’t featured in the ride. It wasn’t until decades later watching your videos that I even learned about the POV intent of early Fantasyland dark rides!

[@worldsmostaveragemagician2246]

Exact same thought

[@kdusel1991]

​@@worldsmostaveragemagician2246 I rode the disney world version as a kid and it scared the shit out of me. Hopefully they'll revive it for Villains Land!

[@auldthymer]

I was so scared that the witch was going to drop that diamond on us (only, I remembered it as a boulder). I was five.

[@ToastDeOtter]

Same! Was sitting here thinking: "why does this all seem so familiar?" Childhood memory unlocked.

[@lydiathompson7442]

The earliest memory I have is crying on Snow Whites Scary Adventures. My mom has a picture of it, tears streaming down my face while encountering the terrifying evil queen. That picture is still hanging in the hallway of our house. Still get shivers down my spine just thinking of that ride.

[@dancingghostgirl2291]

What the fuck is wrong with her

[@ThemeSnark]

I'm kind of in the camp of "why doesn't Disney want to scare anyone anymore," but I do enjoy how Enchanted Wish works in practice

[@someoneout-there2165]

Exterrorestrial was their best attraction and scarier than any ride at Universal.

[@avagallegos1085]

I grew up on Snow White’s Scary Adventures, and whenever I went on the ride my family and I would shout “No!!” Every time the evil queen (in the hag form) offered us an apple. I used to go a lot when I was 2-11 years old so that tradition carried over to my little sister and cousins. When I went on the newer version for the first time I still felt my two year old self preparing to shout “No!” At each turn where the witch no longer stood.

[@sir_theodore23]

Snow white's scary adventures is the reason I didn't ride haunted mansion for years. Went on snow white as a 6 year old for my first Disney trip and thought "if they made snow white that scary, a straight up haunted house ride must be terrifying"

[@araanimations]

Tbf I believe the queue of the haunted mansion traumatizes children until they're around 12 years old.

[@bingotheraccoon]

Okay, the man can pull off a cloak like NOBODY else. Please, Offy, consider making that a part of your everyday rotation.

[@RandyJames22]

The _really_ scary part is that the gemstones are all shaped/cut, _then_ placed back in the mine. What primordial being would do such a thing, and why?!

[@harwickbranch]

Even the revamped Disneyland version scared the hell out of me as a kid-the fact that it coexisted with this version for a decade is insane

[@Mr17051963]

The “horror” version is still running in Tokyo Disneyland. At least, it was ‘till very recently. 👻

[@PetProjects2011]

What happened to the Tokyo version?

[@mowerdan8133]

I loved the original version. It was more akin to those classic amusement park Pretzel Mfg dark rides from the '50s & '60s. It was very dark with fast, tight turns, jump scares, & loud noises. And it had a campy vibe to it.

[@AGBDYM]

I actually love this defunct ride so much because it’s hilarious how scary it was. I also love how the evil queen keeps popping out like “ta-da!”

[@skipbreakfast]

That ride scared the ever-living crap out of me as a child and I didn't ride it again until my 20s.

[@KRobinson-ko1ne]

I rode when I was like 3 or 4, one year before the refurbishment in 1994 I had to shut my eyes the whole time My mom told me “it’s okay: we’re at the dwarves house”. But little did we know this was not a mild moment

[@TheRatsCast]

At nearly 60, I can say, yes, I have been on the original right. Many times, in fact. Once, when I was young, and later as an adult. I even had a friend who worked in the park and grabbed one of the original apples from the witch's hands. I don't have that anymore. Wish I did. Once they changed the ride, you could no longer remove the apple. I had a piece of Disney history once.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I definitely went on the "nerfed" version of the ride that you mentioned, but even though I was at that age where I thought; "I'm a teenager and this is a kiddie-ride! Nothing can scare me!" --I still ended up feeling a bit creeped out, particularly by the "spooky woods" section. XD

[@araanimations]

The ending of Scary Adventure is very satisfying. That's the main reason it sticks out to me. I really really like the rearrangement of walls to allow Snow White to dance with the dwarves playing music, and the gem cave is even better. But even as a kid it was a gripping, thrilling climax to end the ride on the witch's death. I remember feeling so very let down riding Ariel's ride that the end didn't have a climax of defeating Ursula likewise.

[@Syrup-n3t]

The scariest Disney moment for me is when I went to Disney land and didn’t know they don’t have a people mover and I cried 😭😭 How do the people in California who never been to ether live without knowing the magic of the people mover, a damn shame

[@jaxdaggerthegreat]

The people mover was brilliant. An absolute must during the hot steamy afternoon followed by If You Had Wings.

[@jessierudolph4179]

Apparently we had one and it was turned into rocket rods. Unfortunately the speed of the new fast cars couldn’t handle the original slow moving track so it was closed and the skeletal remains of people mover stands in Tomorrowland. It’s an artifact of failed nineties/2000s hubris.

[@carolrios9216]

They closed the People Mover at Disneyland after a couple of fatal accidents. 😢

[@kdusel1991]

​@@carolrios9216 no they closed it cause of the damage to the track that rocket rods did. Luckily the peoplemover is still around in Disney World! It's my mom's favorite ride in magic kingdom.

[@powerpup97]

Still to this day, since I saw a video of the original version of Snow White's Adventures, I keep asking myself..."What were they thinking???"

[@ajitter89]

I remember the original version, that thing traumatized me as a kid, because I kept wondering, where is Snow White? Why is the Witch winning?

[@holbrooke7]

I never got to ride any version of this, but my mom, my uncle and my grandma did when they were younger. My mom told me my uncle did NOTwant to ride on any ride with my great grandma, so he rode this with my grandma instead. And my mom says my grandma got SO SCARED with the watch popping out unexpectedly and with the big gemstone nearly being pushed on them at the end. My uncle then decided he didn't mind riding with my great grandma after that.

[@palmermccall7309]

So glad to see you cover this. Snow White's Adventures *was* absolutely a magnificent scare-fest! There was *one* hint in the outdoor entry scene of the mayhem to come, and that was the evil queen opening the curtain to leer down upon you before entering. The noise, jerky and unpredictable track, and terror were amazing. Every appearance (jump scare) of the witch, the crocodiles, trees, and mine cart was startling. I'm so glad you reference Widen Your World...after bussing tables at at age 17 in the Crystal Palace during the summer of '87, I was in school with Mike Lee that autumn in Sarasota. Widen Your World is, I think, the most scholarly and complete resource out there, but I think that your channel, information, and analysis are very close. Alas, when I finally revisited the MK in 2010 with my sister and her 12-14 year-old kids, I had to really restrain myself from describing how great this or that was, before it was changed. Snow White's Scary Adventure was about as lame as anything could be, and not even reminiscent of the chaotic horror of the original!!

[@CatPianoClassics]

YOOOOOOOO, very glad you touched upon this one! Its absolutely bonkers that this was made and Disney was totally fine with it.

[@JacobLucasSorenson]

When i was small i was absolutely terrifed of the original matterhorn yeti lol

[@H3rnD1zzl3]

I was eight years old the first time I ever went to Disney World in Florida. This ride literally traumatized me for the rest of the visit there and actually skewered my vision of what Walt Disney World was supposed to be in general. I remember the first time the witch spun around and scared me at the beginning of the ride that I started to cry. I literally had my hands on my eyes, hiding the entire rest of the ride only to hear the audio that you played at the beginning throughout pretty much the entirety of the ride. When I finally felt like it had subdued, I took my hands off my eyes, only see the witch try to drop that gem, which in my mind‘s eye I recalled as a boulder. To which I then started to cry again. This frigging ride was so traumatizing and scary that I had to hide my eyes from it for at least half of it. Only to be scared one last time right as we were exiting. I don’t recall seeing any of the inside of the cabin or any of the other stuff because I was hiding the whole time. I’m sure my father thought I was a wuss, but I was literally traumatized. If I also recall correctly, it was not a large ride, but it had the essence of a roller coaster as well, which only made it harder for me to maintain my composure because I’ve never been on a roller coaster until then. To make matters worse as soon as we exited this ride, my dad got weak in the knees because of the heat and almost passed out in the middle of Main Street. I tell people about this ride and no one believes me. I’m so thankful that you actually have a video about this just to prove that it existed. Also I’m gonna blame you for my nightmares tonight. Lol!

[@waxifari5528]

Bro it does exist, Tokyo. And it’s opening day pristine upkeep. Loved loved loved duping my kids with that one 😂

[@ValkyrieVisits]

Snow Whites Scary Adventures scared me so much well up until I was 19, then COVID came along and they changed the ride into Enchanted Wish and strangely enough I miss it. Thank god for Mr. Toad for fueling my nightmares now!

[@MannyEmm]

I have been visiting Disneyland doe 62 years…..I am 66 now. I remember how scary the original Snow White was. It was kind of a thrill dark ride. I loved the attraction growing up. People said that Disneyland was supposed to be happy and magical, but just about every Disney animated movie had its element of fear or tragedy….I still cry over the loss of Bambi’s mom….poor Bambi….anyway, sniff, sniff, when the new version came out…the Enchanted Wish…it seemed boring, compared to the original….kind of a let down. It also seems shorter! I wish I could go on the coaster version at WDW. How similar is that coaster to Big Thunder? Thank you Dallin, for your usual outstanding reporting and information!

[@FemaleFullmetal]

I used to have nightmares about this ride. More specifically scary adventures, but we also had a vacation planning program that if I remember correctly featured the original iteration as it was published in 1994. I could be mistaken. Either way, there was a Hidden Mickey "game" within the program where you had to go look at everything on the disc and see if you could find them all. Well one of them was in the section of the ride where the witch turns away from the mirror, and it always scared the crap out of me. (Though I do also remember riding the ride and being scared too)

[@wdwnutjm]

This was such an awesome video! My very first trip to WDW was our honeymoon in 1987. I have kind of a funny memory of my first time on this ride (all in all I loved it, but SOOOO scary with the witch popping out every few minutes) The 2nd time we went on it (our 1st anniversary), the ride actually stopped part way through the ride and there I was stuck in the room with the witch popping out again and again and again!!!! (I was okay but still a little traumatized) It's a ride we think about all the time - I really miss it.

[@larryinfl80]

I went on this at 7 years old for the first time. They sent us through with the lights off by mistake so I had to ride it in pitch black darkness just hearing all the craziness. When we get back I wanted off but they sent us through again lights on..still terrifying.

[@lightningforesthd3446]

Which version?

[@larryinfl80]

@@lightningforesthd3446 It would have been the one in 87.

[@stooch66]

First went on this when I was four…and that hag always scared the heck out of me, as did all the atmosphere. But, I loved that ride and was really bummed when they got rid of it. The “Scary Adventures” version was then a let down to me, as it was slower (as I remember) and less scary. And, to me, Disney was about transporting me to other worlds and taking me out of the every day.

[@codypierson4739]

Had the pleasure of riding this and Exterrorestrial one evening at MK at the age of 9. I’m glad I got to experience these defunct attractions, but all I remember was the super loud witch screams and the trees…those freaking trees

[@jetsons101]

What..... Wait...... There were two Mr. Toad's Wild Rides at WDW. There were two separate and different rides, each on different tracks. They just shared the same show building, REALLY --- check it out. I was on both before the ride was removed "under protest" to make room for a Winnie-The-Poop ride..... UGH

[@ttintagel]

I always think of the last scene of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride as Heck rather than actual Hell. It IS a Disney park, after all! I'll never stop regretting skipping both Mr. Toad and Snow White on childhood trips in the 1980s because I wrote them off as "kid stuff."

[@jasonwilliams4456]

As a child of the 1970s, I can confirm how scary this ride was. You did not even mention one of the scariest things, there used to be a part in the front while you waited in line where the evil queen would peek out behind curtains, that’s still burned into my mind 46 years later.

[@carolezabe1555]

The Disneyland Paris version is the closest that remain to Snow White scary adventures. Here it's called 'Blanche Neige et les sept nains" (snow white and the seven dwarfs) and this scared the crap out of me as a child. First time i went with my parents, i was 4 (1995) and the position of this ride is vicious. It's located right behind the castle, so many guests at the time used to walk up main street and go under the castle to Fantasyland and snow white is the first ride in sight - that was my very first disney ride...and oh boy i will never forget it. We got stuck into the dungeon scene with the skeletons, one of them comes close to the vehicle and i would have sweared it touched the vehicle. I was frozen in terror and my mom tried to reassure me "don't be scared, it's ok". 30 years later, riding it still makes me uneasy, especially the forest scene because the trees are huges and menacing, bending closer at arm reach.

[@TayWoode]

Haha I worked on it in 1995. A lot of kids came off it crying and refused to go on Pinocchio next door. I loved the Florida version as a kid so I was surprised how toned down the Paris version was. Always had people asking if it was scary

[@Designing_Her_Legacy]

Thank you for this. I have even telling my kids for years how much trauma my mom put me through riding this ride. Best part is she would tell me to open my eyes bc I kept them closed shut. I swore for years it was not like the DL ride as well. Appreciate your reporting and storytelling!

[@thewrathofkaan]

Thank you for making me feel vindicated. Snowy adventures was a standup for me in 1990 when I went, scared the absolute crap out of me.

[@EPiche09]

Have you ever been on a carvial haunted house ride? Plenty of little jump scares. Those have been around forever. They inspired these dark rides. Snow White was the first animated feature. It was a scary movie.

[@edhieronymus3602]

I think I rode Snow White's Adventures when I was about 5 years old in 1978, and I remember being terrified by it like I was by The Haunted Mansion ( but I wanted to move in there too ) and Pirates of The Carribean. I rode Snow Whites Adventures again on my Senior High School Trip in 1991, and I thought it wasn't as scary as I remembered it being in 1978.

[@lightningforesthd3446]

Do you think they changed a bit

[@Daybreaq]

I went to WDW opening year. I was four. Growing up in the Miami area; I had multiple subsequent WDW visits throughout my childhood. I distinctly remember being terrified of the witch and her constantly jumping out in front of me. I don’t think I agreed to ride it again until I was 10 or so.

[@ashleighsmith4909]

This is my favorite video from Offhand Disney!! So fascinating!

[@richardmcconnell3169]

I rode the original SCARY ride as a kid and was infatuated with it 💖. Believe it or not, the jump scare that got me the most was the mine cart full of jewels that came out of nowhere 😱. It was a shock !!!

[@brendonneely9456]

My family went to Disneyworld back in 1992. I was pretty young at the time and we did ride Snow White's Adventures. I was fairly young and was terrified at the ride. But in response to your message about not having a warning about the ride, they had put warning signs out by the time we rode it.

[@DisneylandOrBust]

I've only ever gone on scary & enchanted wish at DL, but I LOVE enchanted wish! As a chronic Fantasyland dark ride defender, I really enjoyed Scary Adventures growing up. But I was so pleasantly surprised when I went on Enchanted Wish for the first time!!! Those twinkling lights are so lovely

[@DrDespicable]

The ride that got me was PINOCCHIO - going through the doors, and THERE'S MONSTRO THE WHALE, READY TO SWALLOW YOU! Scared me in the movie, terrified me on the ride, in my mid-30s! And I'm sad to hear that Snow White's Scary Adventures has been taken from us - that Queen/Hag transformation was amazing!

[@gd515051]

I remember riding this at Disneyland around 1978. That thing was scary.

[@yamihoole]

I was on Snow Whites Adventures once, and was completely terrified. Spent most of the ride with my eyes closed and hunched over. Never rode it again, even when it was redone

[@seandearmond519]

There's an interesting layer of the original ride that I don't see too many people talking about. When Walt Disney World was being built Fantasyland was originally going to have a Sleeping Beauty ride in place of the Snow White ride, which would 'tell' the story of the Prince's escape from Maleficent's dungeon. But somewhere in the early development word came from above that they were going to have to make a Snow White ride instead. Now that's as far as the information goes, but I don't think it's all that much of a leap to fill in a few details. It's possible that the Imagineers may have been far enough along in the ride design to feel using what they already had was a better option than restarting from scratch, and it's also possible they may have been very irritated, and more than a little rebellious. It's easy to imagine the mirror scene as Maleficent's sole appearance in fairy form where she becomes aware that the Prince (you) are escaping, and the witch's numerous pop ups would have been her goons. The famous staircase scene could easily have been the three good fairies seeing the shadow of Maleficent transforming into the dragon, all culminating into a showdown with the beast itself.

[@rviola]

I went on this as a kid in 1989, my first visit to Walt Disney World. I was familiar with a lot of Disney rides due to growing up with a number of Disneyland and WDW TV specials in the 80s, but I'd never heard of this - and my parents didn't seem to recall ever going on it before either. This was the only real black mark on an otherwise incredibly wonderful, memorable first trip to the Magic Kingdom. Like this video notes, there was nothing really indicating what type of ride this was, so people would just get in line (that was thankfully much shorter than Peter Pan) with no idea that this was the scariest ride at WDW. I was pretty terrified by that relentless witch that seemed to really just pop out from every corner from every angle. Really, while some of those old VHS camcorder videos do help understand that this was quite different from later incarnations of the ride, they still don't do the actual in-person experience justice. I didn't ride the thing again until maybe 1995 or 1997, and it was decidedly not the same attraction as it had been years earlier. For a minute, I was wondering "Am I remembering this wrong?" but pretty quickly concluded that something was in fact drastically different.

[@Cymorill8]

I went on Scary Adventures in DL as an adult and remember being really shocked at how scary it was! I was not expecting that level of intensity in a fantasy land ride and something I thought would be more geared to little kids. I was so disappointed when they changed it.

[@Continuingsourceofinspiration]

I saw a video on KZbin a while back (I can’t remember the account) about this ride explaining that the ride was so scary because the imagineer who designed it (who also worked on the haunted mansion at Disneyland) was annoyed that the haunted mansion didn’t end up as scary as he wanted. So he threw all the scary at Snow White. I don’t have any sources however so not sure how true this is.

[@lightningforesthd3446]

Is he alive?

[@yoplait3256]

Many have mentioned it before but this ride still exists in Tokyo Disneyland. When I went I was solo traveling so the castmembers boarded me alone on a cart and it was pretty surreal. The boat scare did in fact get me tbh. 😂

[@jadedk1tten]

def have flashbulb memories of the queen turning around into the witch in scary adventures as a kid bc it scared me SO bad

[@DonnyG02]

Great video as always! Have a great weekend!

[@amazingamphy7365]

When I was 3 they still had characters walking around WDW (only during extra magic hours IIRC), so I got to ride Scary Adventures with Snow White herself. I still have the pic of me cowering in her arms 😭

[@BlueSurf77]

I went on the original version, Snow Whites Adventures, as a kid and I can say it was pretty scary, lol The part that got me the most was all the faces on the trees in the woods scene.

[@meredithradig1902]

California girl here so my childhood Snow White ride was the one at Disneyland. I know it was a little different but in the late 80s it terrified me. I definitely remember those creepy trees that tried to grab you and the witch jump scares.

[@MrBegliocchi]

It would be cool if they made a version of the ride where you’re either in the perspective of the huntsman and the queen commissions you to track down Snow White to kill her. Or they could make a version where both the witch and the huntsman pop out and scary you a bunch of times

[@riviecore]

NEW OFFHAND VIDEOOOO

[@kevint5149]

“Why not just complete the whole thing and send yourself to hell?” 😂 hilarious…I love your channel you’re so weird and that is a HUGE compliment in my eyes 😂

[@kirabowie]

I remember going on Snow White's Adventures at the Magic Kingdom when I was younger & my main memory of the ride was having it stop for a few minutes during an alligator part (?) before the lights came on & we sat there for 10 minutes. The lights totally ruined the magic. 😭 I've been on rides that have stopped before and the scariest on was in the Haunted Mansion where the wallpaper has eyes and the doors knock. 😱

[@SebastianTheCrab]

I certainly went on all incarnations at WDW MK. I do remember being very scared on it as a kid in the 80s- but not so scared that I wouldn't ride again. When I went back in 2009 I was confused because it was so not scary - I didn't realize until later that it had been updated. That was a fun vlog

[@Princessmisery]

I went on the Snow White ride over at Tokyo, I feel they ramped up the scare meter even higher than DLR (before they changed it). The vehicle itself moved much quicker with sharp turns. Not to mention it doesn't even show the dwarves or Snow White herself till the very middle of the ride. Wild stuff.

[@CobraDBlade]

I got to ride the original version of this ride back when I was very, very, very, VERY young. My pre-preschool aged self was so terrified of the first scene that I covered my eyes for the entire ride. My parents were not pleased.

[@hollum1648]

I worked at Snow White’s Scary Adventures the last few years it was open. We did track walks solo and that dang forest was even creepier when completely silent and frozen, I felt like Snow White when I too finally reached safety at the dwarfs’ cottage 😂

[@TayWoode]

Did you ever do it with sound on? I worked at the Paris one and walking through with the sound on was great, you could hear all the crickets and frogs and there was a test animation button that made the trees come down and wail at you

[@MagdalenaRay61]

I actually liked snow whites scary adventures when I rode it when I was 5 years old in the early 2000s. I wish Disney world’s version hadn’t turned into a meet and greet spot. I wish it had turned into another dark ride.

[@MattMcIrvin]

I find that the warnings outside of attractions as Disney and Universal parks are largely useless because they err so far on the side of warning that one gets trained to discount them, and they might as well not be there at all. I saw a lot of little kids riding Dinosaur and being traumatized by it.

[@catwithafishbody]

I was kinda shocked when i saw this video lol but i was hoping you would talk about “Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour” It was a walk through attraction in i think the toyko disney park? You were promised a nice walk through in cinderella’s castle but are then sent on a scary adventure when villains take over At the end you see this evil dude and he talks about how hes gonna destory the whole world and stuff Then some person (usally a kid) points a sword at the villain and then the attraction ends cuz… you beat the guy ig i learned abt the ride from defunctlands vid I think it would make an intresting vid for halloween on ur channel :)

[@mathewhumvee]

The only thing going through my head on the ride was “THIS IS FOR CHILDREN!!!!”

[@Seantendo]

7:55 I remember seeing this picture in a Viewmaster I had as a kid. I always wondered about it.

[@beehatesyou]

I was very little going on this ride and once I saw the witch turn around in that one room it ALWAYS made me cry and I never wondered why. But I think this ride was just overstimulating for little me😭.

[@miranda7662]

Yep, rode it often when I was a kid at MK in the 80s-90s.

[@HuntressDarkmoon]

Fortunately, you can still get the original experience at Tokyo Disneyland! I remember the original when I first visited WDW in the 80’s and was disappointed when it was changed.

[@stabadaisy2]

The Tokyo version is definitely influenced by this version although it still has the silly song in The dwarves cottage

[@unbeatenlake790]

I remember when I was a kid, I refused to get on this ride because I had a feeling about it. My mom tried telling me it wasn’t scary but I still didn’t want to go. She went on the ride and as soon as she got off, she came up to me was like “Yeah, you wouldn’t have liked that.”

[@sinisterkyrin]

Fun fact: The imagineer who made the original ride originally wanted to work on Haunted Mansion, but was assigned Snow White. Also, two nickels? What was the other Fantasyland dark ride where you die LOL

[@eftelboy]

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

[@jaxdaggerthegreat]

I agree that the original Snow White was scary, but as a kid, driving through Hell in an antique car was more traumatic. Secondarily, It’s a Small World is only scary when the boats stop mid ride. “Don’t look into their eyes; no sudden movements….”

[@JazzyLnae]

I was a College Program cast member in 2006 and I remember riding “Snow White’s Scary Adventures” by myself right before park close. It was scary, but I loved it. Never knew that version was an updated version & the original was even scarier. Definitely wish it was still there. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is not an upgrade (in my opinion.)

[@GlenHallstrom]

That may have been scary but it's got NUTHIN' on the original Alice in Wonderland ride at Disneyland. I went on that one as a 7-8 year old and it scared me so bad I wouldn't ride it for about 30 years.

[@stephenharber5694]

I’ve seen the recreation on KZbin, does that do the ride justice? What is the scariest part?

[@GlenHallstrom]

@@stephenharber5694 got a link? I'd like to see it.

[@finland4ever55]

Dude you saying you're an old man now?

[@Orkunkadunk]

You have the chance to make a jungle cruise retrospective next month, heed my word offhand

[@danalexander6049]

I can appreciate the original ride now, but as a small child, I hated it. It seemed to promise a happy experience, but then it pulled a bait and switch. I really think the designers of Six Flags Over Georgia's Monster Plantation/Monster Mansion (1981) were inspired by the original Snow White's Adventures. It also pitches a cute adventure but then takes a dark turn in a swamp filled with menacing creatures and very similar monster trees.

[@inkwadnito966]

You forgot to mention that version at Tokyo Disneyland is still themed to be scary.

[@rainerja1959]

I seem to remember riding this, but I was 11. I may have been startled, but not scared.

[@Double-R-Nothing]

The video of the old ride legit looks like a snuff film you'd find in a sketchy MEGA file on the dark web. Whoever designed that ride hated children.

[@Bobopotamus]

Sorry, but Alien Encounters was THE scariest ride from Disney! Seeing the creature, hearing the cast member scream and his bones crunching and then have all the lights go out and suddenly you hear it breathing behind you!!! As an adult it scared the crap out of me, and my seat backed up to a wall behind me!

[@AdamNagy-ji6ne]

I wish I had the chance to get terrified by this ride.

[@KLGChaos]

I can smell the vanilla and cedar from thst candle. Mostly because I'm burning one now. 😂 I do regret all the cool rides I missed by not going to Disney when I was younger.

[@laurendouglas6452]

I really hope they make a similar ride to this in the villains land, the evil Queen/ old hag is my favorite villain and I'm still sad she's gone 😭

[@TjSamson]

The way I would do anything just to ride the original version.

[@ColoredBars]

The first time I went to Disney World in 2003 I went on Snow White's Scary Adventures. I was 6 years old, and from what I remember of it, nothing terrified me until the end when the witch looked like she was about to drop a boulder on us.

[@Darkflare_Omni]

I was on Snow White's Scary Adventures when it broke down once, lights on and everything, right outside the castle where the first witch came out. She wasn't making any noise, but it was scary sitting pretty much right next to her, especially with the lights on. I think they might have announced they were turning work lights back off, but I nearly jumped out of the ride vehicle when she started laughing and moving right next to us. I'm kind of sad I can't scar my kids with the same experience, but hey, both of my boys loved meeting Rapunzel and Tiana when we went this year, so I guess I can't complain lmao.

[@FrappeInsider]

Well there is surviving footage of a 2012 lights on from WDW snow white

[@U_N_Owen]

I went on the original when I was really young - a year or two before it was updated. It was great. I think there were updates in the 80's and 90's to make it scarier. You really hurtled through the dark and it was intentionally super dark so you couldn't see the track to know when something was going to pop out at you and you'd wrench in a different direction. You spent a longer period trying to escape the castle lab/dungeon, and you have some old-fashioned dark-ride barrel-doors where you slam into the doors and they go BANG. My favorite part was when you were fleeing down the dungeon corridor about to blast through a big barrel door at the end and right at the last second the doors BANG open and the queen slams out right in your face and SCREAMS and you lunge to the side and out another door into the forest scene. She also had more of a gotcha when she blocked you from running out the door at the dwarves' cottage. I was disappointed when they updated the ride. They lit it up and slowed it down so you could see all the jumps coming on the track. You still went down that corridor towards the doors, but they didn't open anymore. You just veered to the right for no reason.

[@Mrtfarrugia]

7:22 All I can think about when looking at this is "Is that Mrs Potts' husband on the table?"

[@FruitBrute]

I did ride Snow White’s Scare Adventure, I remember thinking the witch transformation scene was a really cool affect. The ride got replaced inbetween trips for me. I remember the new fantasyland walls being up, but I didn’t realize they’d also replaced the Snow White ride until I was looking for it on a trip afterwards. 🤣

[@stashmerkin9576]

I rode the original version back 1977ish by complete accident. I was 13 and wanted to get on Haunted Mansion and 20k Leagues. My little sister wanted to ride Snow White. I thought we'd see Snow frolicking in a glade with her woodland friends, the dwarves, and most likely the Prince. I was so, so wrong! Interestingly I recently spoke to Sis about this memory and she didn't remember it until I mentioned the trees. THEN it came back to her! On a related note, later that same day I was at the front of the line for Haunted Mansion when the doors were opened by the Headless f*cking Horseman! Disney scared the crap out of me multiple times that visit.

[@timschultz2806]

Let’s hope they add a scary dark ride in Villains Land.

[@ReddFourBirds]

I only ever knew the WDW version, since that's the only Disney Park my family went to when I was a kid. My mom had been going since the 70s and up until our last trip as a family in 2014 (because prices became outrageously high. I was probably 12 by that time and I remember a lot of extinct attractions from that period and before, like the Great Movie Ride, Ellen's Energy Adventure... yeah, I was a weird kid I guess, lol). I remember Scary Adventures terrifying me as a kid. Being a half deaf kid, loud noises threw me off. So that made it even worse than it already was. Keep in mind, even at like 4 or 6 years old, Winnie the Pooh's ride scared me too (the huffalumps and woozles scene in particular) because of the thunder noise. Looking back these rides were wonderful and I wish I could have ridden them now, with a new pair of eyes and a less scared mentality. I just miss the old school dark rides Disney did. Maybe one day I'll make a trip to Japan. I heard its a time capsule!