Originally Posted By englishboy So to add to the bad news: Not only was the WRE attraction proposed and designed for Thunder Mesa at Disneyland--but after it was scrapped (for a low cost coaster with expensive scenery) it was later slotted for Walt Disney World, scheduled to open summer of 1972. Disney went so far as to develop and build many AA figures for the attraction, but once WDW opened in 1971, many people complained that WDW did not contain the Pirates attraction. So the funds set aside for WRE were slotted over to quickly build a smaller version of DL's Pirates of the Caribbean. The finished AA figures for WRE were put into storage, the idea shelved. But a decade later the AA bison and prairie dogs were pulled out of storage and slotted into the Land Pavilion over at Epcot. They are still there today. Aside from the concept art, models, and building designs, those bison and prairie dogs are all that's left of WRE at the American parks.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>Not only was the WRE attraction proposed and designed for Thunder Mesa at Disneyland--but after it was scrapped (for a low cost coaster with expensive scenery) it was later slotted for Walt Disney World,<< WRE was initially planned for MK. >>Disney went so far as to develop and build many AA figures for the attraction,<< They did not. >>But a decade later the AA bison and prairie dogs were pulled out of storage and slotted into the Land Pavilion over at Epcot. They are still there today. Aside from the concept art, models, and building designs, those bison and prairie dogs are all that's left of WRE at the American parks.<< It is inspired from WRE. Those AAs were built for the Land, inspired by WRE.
