Unbuilt: An Unrealized Theme Park Podcast

We conclude EPCOT Month with a look at the unbuilt WESTCOT Center, the west coast's equivalent of EPCOT with a condensed Future World and World Showcase, along with a 300ft variation of Spaceship Earth? Is Figment ready to start California Dreamin? Do the residents of Anaheim realize they may be shooting themselves in the foot with their protests? Do we play the DuckTales theme way too much? Find...

We head back to World Showcase and look at individual attractions proposed for various pavilions such as the Rhine River Cruise, an Italy boat ride, the Matterhorn (but not as you know it) and several ideas for Japan including a Mt Fuji coaster! May also contain a long argument about the DuckTales franchise! Aufiderzen!

Today we're taking you to the land, air, sea and... the bloodstream?! In this week's installment of EPCOT Month, we look at various rejected concepts for Future World pavilions such as the original plans for The Land, The Living Seas and the Life and Health Pavilion.

Habari, shalom, hola and hello to another episode of EPCOT Month! Today we sail to four different unbuilt World Showcase ports from Africa, to Spain, to Israel and even one you may not see coming!  Please consider donating to charity to help with Hurricane Ian rebuilding efforts in Central Florida: https://www.feedhopenow.org/site/TR?fr_id=1340&pg=entry https://www.redcross.org/about-us/n...

In our first EPCOT Month installment, we look at Project Gemini, a proposal to reinvigorate Epcot with a rollercoaster inside Spaceship Earth, an Autopia, an internet cafe and a whole lot of trees! We'll be back next week!

Cue the annoying laughter of Woody Woodpecker as Alicia Stella of Orlando ParkStop joins us to examine multiple never-built concepts to replace KidZone at Universal Studios Florida! We go into deep freeze with Ice Age, put on noise-cancelling headphones with the Smurfs, travel thru warp pipes at early Nintendo concepts, go on a safari looking for Pokemon and so much more!

Howdy, partner! Saddle on up to a wild new episode of Unbuilt where we take a deep dive into Marc Davis' long-lost classic Western River Expedition, which was slated to become the east coast's variation of Pirates of the Caribbean until guests asked... "hey, where's Pirates of the Caribbean?" Find out all about it with a side of cornbread, beans and uncomfortable racism!

Merry Julymas! I offered Dorman to force me to watch a movie so he chose the 2007 Walt Disney Pictures-co-produced Chinese film "The Secret of the Magic Gourd" with a really awkward English dub starring High School Musical's Corbin Bleu.  CHRISTMAS IN JULY SONG: Music and Lyrics by: Ryan O'Reilly Arranged and Produced by: Bing Glenn

Start your engines, y'all! This week we bear and grin it with a look at Critter Country 500: a plan by WDI in the mid-90s to salvage Disneyland's Country Bear Jamboree with a racing dark ride retrofit based on Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races! Plus we discuss Disneyland's 67th birthday!

Pull down on your over-the-shoulder restraint, today we take a look at several unbuilt roller coaster concepts, including a figure-eight loop, a gyro coaster, a surfing zipline and even a towering monstrosity named the PolerCoaster! Plus we chat about the recently (barely) opened Lost Island Theme Park!

What's up, doc?  We wrap up looking at the first version of Islands of Adventure by exploring an entire packed land filled with the wacky characters straight from outta Termite Terrace alongside a Popeye dinner show, a crazier version of Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls and... a Mr. Magoo bumper car ride?! I say, boy, I say, you better listen!

Travel in time with us to 2055, or more specifically, 1992 when Imagineers were planning on reviving Tomorrowland at Disneyland into a crystal-laden, alien-supernatural wonderland featuring Alien Encounter, the Timekeeper and an animatronic show full of bizarre extraterrestrials! Tyler Green joins us to discuss the never-made revamp Tomorrowland 2055!

May the Fourth Be With You! We celebrate Star Wars day by, well, looking at never-made Star Wars rides, of course! We look at a roller coaster that splits in half to take you either down the light side or the dark side of the force, an unmade Episode I version of Star Tours and some rejected Galaxy's Edge ideas! 

We take a trip to the middle east, Dubai in the UAE to be specific! Today we gander at three cancelled Dubai theme parks all from some of the top names in the industry... but not all created by them! We'll be exploring more cancelled Dubai theme parks in 2023! After today's episode, the show will be taking a brief hiatus for the rest of April, but will return in early May.

How else do you follow up a silly episode with some silly outtakes! Listen to us poke some fun at Disney's America, a topic that rest assured, we will get to someday, as well as briefly discuss Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2005 magnum opus CHICKEN LITTLE. We'll back with a new episode next week!

BY POPULAR DEMAND! We finally take a look at the sadly never-built Ursula from the Little Mermaid-themed spinner attraction that was to be at Disney's California Adventure. Join us as we get emotional and introspective over this heartbreaking loss of themed entertainment. Enjoy this exclusive, never-before-seen concept art of the attraction: https://imgur.com/sIpiD6r There also might be stuff afte...

Calling Dick Tracy! Head back to 1990 when Michael Eisner thought the yellow trenchcoat-wearing detective would be America's hottest new action hero, and was planning an E-Ticket ride that armed tourists with tommy guns!  In addition: we talk about the new immersive Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser experience! Today's episode is ad-free in solidarity with the current LGBTQ protests due to both...

Woo-hoo! TheRealJims (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealJims), Simpsons expert joins us today as we examine three different unbuilt Simpsons rides and lands! This brand-new cromulent episode is sure to embiggen your souls as we seek a Simpsons satirical dark ride, an alternate idea for Universal's "The Simpsons Ride" and even an entire unbuilt Simpsons land!

Howdy! We continue our Frontierland Expansion series with a look into Geyser Mountain, a Tower of Tower-style thrill ride that was going to tower over Disneyland and Disneyland Paris, where guests would take drilling machines deep into the Earth, only to rocket out via an enormous geyser!

Our Frontierland Expansion series continues as we look at Tony Baxter's unbuilt (masterpiece?) work "Discovery Bay"! A land with a literal mountain full of backstory and plethora of attractions, it includes a suspended dark ride based on "The Island at the Top of the World", an animatronic show with a magical man and his dragon, a river ride full of dinosaurs, roller coasters, and even a fireworks...

Happy new year! We start out the year with a prologue to our Frontierland Expansion series, looking at the land that was meant to serve as the transition between Fantasyland and a whole new land that we will discuss in our next episode. Dumbo's Circusland was going to be a wacky, joyful new area with multiple dark rides, an elevated Dumbo spinner and even a (gulps) clown-themed restaurant. (beware...

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and happy Winter Solstice! In our last episode of the year, we roll out the CRT TV into the classroom and do something different before our winter break: watch a bad Christmas movie and riff on it! This year, we endure "Jingle All the Way 2" starring everybody's favorite tow truck voicing comedian, Larry the Cable Guy! In this "hilarious" "sequel", La...

Happy holidays! Today we take a look at Imagineer Christopher Merritt's student portfolio concept for a suspended dark ride based on the 1993 Tim Burton classic "The Nightmare Before Christmas"! Is this concept better than Haunted Mansion Holiday could ever imagine? PLUS: we talk about how we enjoy spending the holidays in the theme parks, and even around our own homes!

We'll be back with our holiday episode next week, but for now enjoy a collection of outtakes from last week's extra-long Epcot-centric episode!

If you can dream it, you... probably still can't do it, but we're going to imagine! Today's episode takes us back to 1996, when a proposal was filed to turn Epcot's aging Horizons attraction into a brand-new experience based on space. Yes, that eventually happened, but nothing at all like this! Follow us onto the Speculator as we speculate about "Space: A Journey Beyond What Is Known" for an extra...