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The Great Movie Ride will be so missed!! My Disney “addiction” was started, and fostered by my grandparents who took me to Disney every year when I was growing up, they loved telling me all about the old movies like Casablanca, Singin’ in the Rain, etc and TGMR would be a must do every trip, it became our favorite ride to do together, mostly for the nostalgia… They are 91 and 88 now and can’t make it to the parks anymore but I will always remember that special time with them!!! It will be so missed.

I will most definitely miss The Great Movie Ride. That is such a classic and iconic ride. I love so many things about this ride because I love movies! I love the look of the Chinese Theater facade and hope that they don’t change that. That’s been there since the park opened. I would be terribly sad if they changed that and I don’t really see the need to. I loved all the movie previews playing in the queue line. It’s a great way to help pass the time and it makes the wait seem much shorter. The end of the ride when they put all the best parts of the movies together is my favorite part. The GMR is one of the things I remember most about my first trip to Disney when I was 6. The Alien movie scene scared me half to death lol. This ride will always have a special place in my heart.

The UOE was always great of a 40 minute nap in the A/C or heat if it was cold outside.
Ellen was a great host!

Out of the two I’ll definitely miss going on the Great Movie Ride. I grew up getting to experience that ride and I think it helped to contribute to my love for movies. I can’t think of one single thing that is my favorite because I loved the whole ride. I was even lucky enough to take my one year old on it last year and she loved it! I just hate that she won’t get to go on it when she’s older and can remember the experience. We also got to take her on UOE and she enjoyed that as well!

UOE…
I’ll miss cuddling with my husband through the slow, but funny, quick witted ride.
I’ll miss the time when my baby slept soundly on my lap
I’ll miss Willard Scott telling me that “It’s gonna be a cold one out there!”
I’ll miss the lady who had to “break” the ride, by getting up and leaving after the doors of the cars shut.
I’ll miss my boy being in LOVE with the dinosaurs as we journeyed back in time.
I’ll miss the dream sequence.
I’ll miss Stupid Judy.

Farewell UOE! I have many fond memories of you, and so happy that I was able to learn from you!

Very sad to see The Great Movie Ride go. My daughter and I loved doing this together….I think I will miss the memory of being with her and enjoying all the old Hollywood movies together. We would try to do both sides in a trip…the gangster side and the Western side….loved seeing the old movies on the big screen again.

You know what I’ll miss the most?
Stupid Judy.

The more I think of both of these closing the sadder I am getting. I know “Uncle Walt” said the parks would never be done, but it is so hard to let the attractions we all love so much go into history. I am so happy that I rode both twice when I was there in February. I never do that, I must have “known”.

I will miss Universe of Energy the most, the building is beautiful and the ride vehicles were unique ( I guess they somewhat resemble the ones in GMR now that I think about it). It is one of the last somewhat original rides, I am sure they will replace it with something awesome with newer technology but it’ll never be the way it used to be! I have fond memories of 80s Epcot, it will live on in my mind!

GMR’s older finale used to get me all choked up, the latest version not as much. Looking forward to what they will replace it with.

Let’s see what happens!

The bing bang? The piggy bank? The ding dang? Stupid Judy, stupid energy.