Defunct ride vehicles from DisneyQuest and Magic Kingdom donated to coaster museum
Disney donated defunct ride vehicles from DisneyQuest and Magic Kingdom to the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives, currently under construction in Texas.
Fans of two closed Walt Disney World rides — Snow White’s Scary Adventures at Magic Kingdom and Buzz Lightyear’s AstroBlaster at DisneyQuest — will be able to see ride vehicles from both attractions on display at the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives when the facility opens in Plainview, Texas.
“Our partnership with Disney parks has been incredible over the last several years,” said Jeff Novotny, chairman of the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives. “We started with a Matterhorn vehicle, celebrating the birth of the modern steel roller coaster. With this Snow White vehicle and unique AstroBlaster car, the museum collection is expanding assets that showcase the importance of storytelling in the theme park industry.”
Snow White’s Scary Adventures was an Opening Day attraction at Magic Kingdom in 1971 and retold the narrative of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” It closed in 2012; the Princess Fairytale Hall character greeting location now stands in its place. Versions of Snow White’s Scary Adventures remain open and decidedly non-defunct at Disneyland (where the ride was recently reimagined and renamed Snow White’s Enchanted Wish) and Tokyo Disneyland, as seen in this video:
Buzz Lightyear’s AstroBlaster was a bumper-car ride themed to Buzz’s outer-space exploits in “Toy Story” (not to be confused with Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, the Disneyland equivalent of the Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin dark ride at Magic Kingdom). The Buzz bumper cars were part of DisneyQuest, the five-story “indoor, interactive theme park,” as Disney advertised it, which operated from 1998-2017 at what is now Disney Springs.
The National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives is under construction and has not set an opening date. Its website states, “The museum will fully open once fundraising allows us to complete construction.” Patrons can donate online; fundraising has been in progress since 2016 to build the public museum facility for what has been a private collection since 2009.
The museum’s collection also includes defunct ride vehicles from Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s original version of The Big Bad Wolf and Silver Dollar City’s classic iteration of Fire in the Hole, among others.
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