@Prometheus labs CEO
 
I remember reading that story. It mixes elements from different abandoned locations though (including Discovery Island). Most of the images are actually from a much more obscure location called “Treasure Cay” which was an island owned by Disney in the Bahamas (not to be confused by “Treasure Island” which was the old name for Discovery Island).
 
In the times before the Disney cruises or Castaway Cay, Disney would have a deal with certain ships where they would stop on the island. There they would experience various entertainment including the costumed characters. But Disney abandoned that in the late 90’s when they made their own Cruise line.
 
Treasure Cay would remain abandoned until around 2010 or so when someone bought the property. In the years that followed they demolished every building that Disney built.

@Background Pony #208A  
Isn’t discovery island where Abandoned By Disney takes place

@northern haste
 
There’s River Country and Discovery Island. But after 17 years of being abandoned, Disney announced that they are going to demolish River Country to build a new hotel. Unfortunately it’s one of those Vacation Club hotels (so it’s just timeshares). I still wonder if/when they will do something about Discovery Island.
 
Abandoned 19 years ago, it’s so isolated (you have to get there by boat since it’s in the middle of a large lake) that few have ever snuck in there (unlike River Country which is probably the most documented abandoned location ever). Most recently someone made it there and the names that the previous guys (almost a decade ago) wrote on the chalkboard are still there (which shows that not even Disney goes there).

@Background Pony #208A  
I think Disney world even has an entire park that’s abandoned.  
Although I believe that areplans to actually build something on the remains of river country in 2019

@Beau Skunky
 
Disney World has always had way more abandoned locations then Disneyland. There’s a great need for space in Disneyland so there’s not much there. The only thing that comes to mind is the abandoned people mover/rocket rods tracks and the fantasyland skyway station (the latter though was demolished a few years ago because it’s in the new land reserved for Star Wars).

@thps48  
Y’know, Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob) guest starred in the episode where they go to an amusement park. He was the annoying guy dressed like a dog,
 
@Ardashir  
I think Strong Bad referenced that crocodile bit once.  
And yeah, I hear even Disneyworld has a few abandoned off-limits places.

@Ardashir  
Like That ‘70s Show says: If you don’t get caught, everything’s legal. (He might have quoted someone, but eh. X3 )

@Beau Skunky  
I have heard that employees who are on their last day at the park tend to pull some crazy stunts. Like the guy on the Jungle Boat ride who put a (fake) knife between his teeth and dove overboard to wrestle with the crocodiles.
 
That and the park has unused rides and attractions, some of them abandoned for years at a stretch. I think it’d be easy to slip inside and ‘liberate’ some unwatched property.
 
Though I also have little doubt that if you actually stole from them and get caught they’d land on you with both feet.

@Background Pony #208A  
I can see being easy to get it out of the building but not the actual park

@Beau Skunky  
You’re assuming they get caught, you can’t get fired if you don’t get caught

@Ardashir  
I don’t know, Disneyworld/land is very strict with it’s employees, so they’d likely be fired if caught doing that.
 
You should hear all the rules the costumed mascots apply to. If they remove their mask in public, it’s instant firing. They’d probably fire, AND sue employees who steal.

@Background Pony #208A  

 
I don’t know how true it is, but a friend of mine out in Anaheim says they’ve got one heck of a back market out thee in stolen-from-the-park Disney memorabilia, most of it peddled through these little local shops. Also supposedly the worst offenders are Disney employees.

Great, now all I’m thinking about is rarity and applejack going urbexing in the abandoned sections of the park

@northern haste
 
Well, getting in there is easy. There’s no security cameras and the doors don’t have locks. If Cast Members see you wonder in there, then you would get kicked out but no one is really actively looking at or guarding the doors either.
 
Unfortunately this is where the more innocent urban explorers attract worse people. Someone likely saw how easy it was on YouTube and well, this happened. The hardest part would have been taking it out of the park but it’s not like they check bags/containers when people leave the park
 
What Disney worries about is people taking in weapons into the park not something out of the park.

@Background Pony #208A  
I do have to wonder house somebody to actually steal something like that and not get caught.  
I know that building is abandoned but the actual park is in isn’t

@Beau Skunky
 
Yeah, you wouldn’t want that fate for a Disney theme park. Especially the most elaborate (at the time) of the Magic Kingdoms.
 
@northern haste
 
They were actually thinking of reusing Buzzy (that character in the photo) but some bastard stole it a few days ago. They just tore it out and there was hydraulic fluids everywhere.

@Beau Skunky  
Especially when there doesn’t seem to be much wrong was it hardware wise.  
Something like cranium command could be rethemed into inside out  

@Background Pony #208A  
I’ve seen some abandoned amusement parks on Youtube, they’re almost saddening.

@Beau Skunky
 
I’m glad that the park was able to recover financially around the time Space Mountain opened. If it had closed in the early 90’s, Disney would likely just leave the park in an abandoned state instead of demolishing it.
 
Six Flags New Orleans and Nara Dreamland were heavily vandalized and people were mostly indifferent towards those. And this would be a situation where people genuinely hate the park…

@Prometheus labs CEO  
Y’know, many French protesters actually tried to burn down EuroDisneyland, and attack workers back when they were building it.

@Ardashir  
That’s also how most human protests end come to think of it

@Prometheus labs CEO  
But that’s how every dragon protest ends!
 
Come to think of it, that’s how every dragon social event ends, period.

@Ardashir  
Prepare for dragon arson

Part of me hopes we get to see these two take the Student Six to Whinnyland in a future issue, only for hilarity to ensue when they see all the, ahem, humorously stereotyped rides and attractions based on non-equine races. Hey, remember the game with the dragon masks?

@Background Pony #C694  
Actually, that’s about what the real Disneyland costs…
 
 
@Ardashir  
Cloudsdale? C’mon! Everyone knows pegasi poop rainbows! 😉