What's Happening With River Country?

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    Originally Posted By juicer

    Is it still sitting dormant and falling apart?
    When I was there last Feb 2007 - I took a look and it looked like it was all falling apart.
    Any plans for the area?
     
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    Originally Posted By MPierce

    It looks 2 years older now.
    There are always rumors about something going on with RC, and Discovery Island, but they remain just rumors.
     
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    Originally Posted By avro_imagineer

    ^^ I suspect they'll let it die. Disney seems to forget sometimes people want "simpler" things and not just characters and thrills...
     
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    Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt

    I loved Discovery Island! Those cute rat/rabbit (Cavy) creatures would run wild! most were very friendly!
     
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    Originally Posted By Fe Maiden

    My favorite were the slides that dropped you into the main pool. Being 8 years old it seemed you were falling off the edge of the Earth.
     
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    Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

    RC will sit and rot away in public view until some kids sneak in and drown or until some idiot at Disney Legal reads something like this and is able to comprehend (and them lawyers can be a slow group) that a rotting, festering ex-water park that is very accessable to any kid presents more of a legal liability issue that people touching horses or ponies or cows or goats at a petting zoo.

    Of course, RC never should have been allowed to just rot in full view of the public ... but that's another story.

    ~Pass the Pixie Dust~
     
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    Originally Posted By Mr X

    You can just walk in there? No fences or anything?
     
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    Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom

    You can just walk in.. its easy accessable there are short trails leading to that area from Ft Wilderness Camp Ground and the Wilderness Lodge Resort. I walked over to RC one day a couple of years ago and took some pictures.
     
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    Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

    There are few things as gloomy and depressing as a former theme park that has closed and been left to be consumed by decay.

    I saw some shots online of River Country taken back in 2005, and can't imagine four years later it still rotting away there.

    I never went to River Country, but I remember when it opened it was a feature story in the old Magic Kingdom Club magazine "Disney News." At the time, it seemed so cool. Here's a video of it in happier times:

    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ofV8vsk0U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...fV8vsk0U</a>
     
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