More Mouse: My Disney Top 5-Top 5 Attraction Rooms at Walt Disney World

[MousePlanet AutoPoster]

My Disney Top 5-Top 5 Attraction Rooms at Walt Disney World by Chris Barry

Chris Barry is back with his monthly Disney Top 5 list.

Read it here!

[mmorizio]

Terrific article. When I first saw it, I thought that the Imagineers outdid themselves with the addition of the staircase room in the Haunted Mansion. It's one of my favorite places as well.

"I think it's in the attic. I'll go downstairs and look." ...M.C. Escher

[danyoung]

While I enjoyed your list, my list would have to include the cannon fight scene from Pirates. I mean, what other ride in the world has a full blown ship doing battle with a city? Huge in scope and incredible in detail, it's the first thing that came to my mind when I read about your top 5 attraction rooms.

[mwalter]

Now I don't know if you consider this a "room", but the library in the Tower of Terror is my favourite. I like to check out the things on all the shelves before the lights go out.

[cbarry]

[QUOTE=mmorizio;1625190]Terrific article. When I first saw it, I thought that the Imagineers outdid themselves with the addition of the staircase room in the Haunted Mansion. It's one of my favorite places as well.

Thanks Mike. It really is one of the coolest things they've ever done.

[cbarry]

While I enjoyed your list, my list would have to include the cannon fight scene from Pirates. I mean, what other ride in the world has a full blown ship doing battle with a city? Huge in scope and incredible in detail, it's the first thing that came to my mind when I read about your top 5 attraction rooms.

It was tough to not include this room. Talk about immersing the guests into the environment. You're sucked into the pirate world right away when you come down that drop and catch a glimpse of that ship.

[cbarry]

Now I don't know if you consider this a "room", but the library in the Tower of Terror is my favourite. I like to check out the things on all the shelves before the lights go out.

I could include this as a room I suppose. Although it's really more of a preshow or part of the queue, but hey...it's certainly a room and it is pretty amazing isn't it?

[davidgra]

Yeah, this is a tough one to narrow down. Some I agree are tops -- the staircase room in the HM is fantastic, as is the London cityscape in Peter Pan. Others that I would include:

The hotel corridor/fade to stars room in the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Where the window comes floating off the far wall on your first "stop" on the elevator.

The Wizard of Oz room in The Great Movie Ride. This is about as immersive as Disney can get -- a full-scale recreation of Munchkinland.

My #1 favorite room in a ride in all of WDW is the domed greenhouse in Living With the Land. I might ride Living With the Land more than any other ride in all of WDW, mainly because I find those greenhouses so fascinating.

Runners-up include the new 1970s-era computer room near the top of Spaceship Earth, Figment's Upside-Down Open House and the auction scene in POTC.

David

[cbarry]

Yeah, this is a tough one to narrow down. Some I agree are tops -- the staircase room in the HM is fantastic, as is the London cityscape in Peter Pan. Others that I would include:

The hotel corridor/fade to stars room in the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Where the window comes floating off the far wall on your first "stop" on the elevator.

The Wizard of Oz room in The Great Movie Ride. This is about as immersive as Disney can get -- a full-scale recreation of Munchkinland.

My #1 favorite room in a ride in all of WDW is the domed greenhouse in Living With the Land. I might ride Living With the Land more than any other ride in all of WDW, mainly because I find those greenhouses so fascinating.

Runners-up include the new 1970s-era computer room near the top of Spaceship Earth, Figment's Upside-Down Open House and the auction scene in POTC.

David

Great choices David. Figment's house was on my family's list. I almost chose the "Steve Jobs" garage scene from Spaceship Earth. We also batted around some rooms in The Land as well. Tough choices to make.

Chris

[danyoung]

Runners-up include the new 1970s-era computer room near the top of Spaceship Earth...

While I like this room, I wish they'd done it with real hardware instead of the props they built. I'm guessing a lot of this big iron still exists in storage somewhere in the world. Heck, I'd bet IBM has lots of it in basements and spare rooms. To see those real tape drives busily chattering away would have been really cool!