What Would Disney World Look Like After The Apocalypse? [Gallery]

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What Would Disney World Look Like After The Apocalypse? [Gallery]

In "Life After Disney", one artist recreated Walt Disney World with a distinct, post-apocalyptic light.

Time and time again humans prove to be obsessed about the post apocalypse, whether <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/13924-Mad-Max-Fury-Road-Review>we're gushing over Mad Max: Fury Road, <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/139657-Wasteland-Warriors-Take-On-Post-Apocalypse-Larp>designing fashionable end-times cosplay, or <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/134572-The-Pentagon-Has-a-Zombie-Apocalypse-Plan>writing up with detailed zombie plans. But sometimes the most sobering thing is simply to imagine what our world would look like once everyone's gone. Inspired by the History Channel series Life After People, deviantart's Michael "eledoremassis02" Feeney applied that show's logic to "the happiest place on Earth" - Walt Disney World.

It's not clear whether Feeney had a specific end time scenario in mind, or if humans were just raptured up and left Disney World behind. Either way the results are the same - without humans maintaining it, even one of the most popular theme parks slowly collapses. Main Street USA is quickly covered with trash and graffitti. Tomorrowland speedway is filled with abandoned cars. Somehow Epcot's Spaceship Earth caught on fire one evening, leaving behind smoldering ruins the next day. All the while, vegetation is returning to the landscape while metal structures rust themselves into disrepair.

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The strange thing is, if people were still alive I suspect they'd still visit this version of Disney World - if only to wear abandoned Disney costumes and recreate <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/962-Zombieland>Zombieland. Although speaking personally, I'd probably pass - even if I could get past the general creepiness, the second someone switches on "It's A Small World After All" might be the most unsettling experience of all time.

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[Barbas]

Oh my gods, I would explore every single nook and cranny of that place.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Oh my gods, I would explore every single nook and cranny of that place.

Me too, especially the underground tunnels. They'd be ever so creepy but interesting, having been down there once before I could honestly say that a post-apocalyptic tunnel system would be extremely creepy... its already freaky enough.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

So Disney World would end up looking like EuroDisney?

 

[lacktheknack]

even if I could get past the general creepiness, the second someone switches on "It's A Small World After All" might be the most unsettling experience of all time.

As someone who got trapped in the "It's A Small World" ride for about twenty minutes, I can fully endorse this viewpoint.

 

[Dalek Caan]

It looks like a setting for a really bad Indie Horror game.

On a slightly related note, if a nuke was set off underwater could it fry Ariel?

 

[songnar]

And concessions would still be overpriced.

 

[Scarim Coral]

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May I offer an alternative-
http://www.tofugu.com/2011/08/17/japans-abandoned-amusement-parks-creepy/
Seeing how Japan can be a tight for spaces at time, how the heck can they just abandom those themeparks? Those places are huge.

It looks like a setting for a really bad Indie Horror game.

I see it as a miss oppertunity. Seriously they got a few of them but no Silent Hill or some other horror games based on those places?

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

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May I offer an alternative-
http://www.tofugu.com/2011/08/17/japans-abandoned-amusement-parks-creepy/
Seeing how Japan can be a tight for spaces at time, how the heck can they just abandom those themeparks? Those places are huge.

Thats neat but I've a special connection to Disney World as my grandparents would take me there every summer for almost 10 years as a kid. So its weirdly appealing to think of what DW would look like post-apocalypse...

 

[CrazyGirl17]

This is neat and all... but at the same time it's both creepy and depressing. Though now I'm wondering if anyone's penned a post apocalypse-based story set around an abandoned theme park... Hm. There's an idea...

 

[faefrost]

Okay, no I am really wanting a 'Fallout: Orlando" game.

 

[Fox12]

Hey, I'm at magic kingdom RIGHT NOW, and I was just thinking about this. Because I'm demented. The carousel of progress made me laugh pretty hard.

On the plus side, you get to live in Disney Castle. On the downside, cannibal clowns. Probably.

 

[FPLOON]

Aw shit... Will Smith will have a field day at that place... He can even bring his dog with him and... everything...

Dammit... Even I Am Disney is going to hit me in the feels and then some...

 

[Saulkar]

Reminds me of like half a dozen Chinese amusement parks. Would be cool to book a ticket and explore them if you were allowed but I assume that you would not be or the danger would be just too damn ridiculous.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Oh my gods, I would explore every single nook and cranny of that place.

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Spoiler: Maybe you shouldn't....

Or if you do, bring some friends and maybe a laser rifle.

They should put something like this in an post-apocalypse game. Not sure if they could use Disney World itself, but I'm sure they could just change up the names and designs.

 

[Wiggum Esquilax]

More garbage, but less vomit? I see this as an improvement.

On a slightly related note, if a nuke was set off underwater could it fry Ariel?

Flambeariel? Only if she was very close to detonation. Most aquatic creatures killed by underwater nuclear blasts die from the shockwave or radiation, creating an ocean of mermaid chum.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Abandoned amusement parks have been a staple of post-apocalypse and otherwise creepy media for some time now, but yeah, I've never seen someone straight-up set one in a Disneyland spoof. Granted, until very recently that would have been prohibitively expensive to set up; it's comparatively easy to find a real abandoned amusement park somewhere in the world to film in, but you'd have to either build a mocked-up park from scratch or use CG and green-screen if you want it to look like something specific (miniatures would only work for distant backgrounds, so no close-ups of the castle).

Okay, no I am really wanting a 'Fallout: Orlando" game.

Hmm... Wouldn't even have to be set in Orlando, if they ever decided to take the series back to California. Disneyland opened in the midst of the very decade the series is inspired by, and it would be fun to see what sort of travesty the Fallout universe would have produced instead. I dunno, did either or both of the maps from the first two games overlap with the Anaheim area?

 

[Namehere]

Fallout New Disney! I want! Must have! Think of it, the wonders of wearing Mickey Mouse ears while cleansing the feral ghouls? I demand Fallout New Disney! Of course we all know that would never happen... its obviously under the strict control of the Enclave.

 

[Mortuorum]

Okay, no I am really wanting a 'Fallout: Orlando" game.

Definitely! And BethSoft should hire Feeney. His work is amazing.