History NightmareFuel / DisneyThemeParks

* Disneyland's original ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' ride featured [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/danolson/Blog%20stuff/ALICEFIXED-1.jpg a large figure of the Cheshire Cat]] that laughed manically at riders as they rode by.

** The terrors begin when guests head into the backstage area of Stromboli's puppet theatre and see him trapping Pinocchio in a cage, followed by the guests being locked in a cage themselves.

** The terrors begin when the guests head into the backstage area of Stromboli's puppet theatre and see him trapping Pinocchio in the cage, followed by the guests being locked in a cage themselves.
** Guests then travel though Pleasure Island. Even before the explicitly frightening stuff startsm they pass by a giant [[MonsterClown freaky-looking jack-in-the-box]] with a very unnerving laugh. Then in the pool hall, [[BalefulPolymorph Lampwick transforms into a donkey before our eyes]] while the Coachman sadistically looks on. After that is a scene with the island in ruins and more transformed boys locked in crates to be sold into slavery, [[TearJerker tearfully begging to go home]]. Jiminy Cricket then tries to lead guests to the way out, but the gates slam shut in their faces. Finally, the Coachman looms above us as he tries to trap us in a crate bound for the salt mines.

** Guests then travel though Pleasure Island. Even before the explicitly frightening stuff starts, there's a scene whey pass by a giant [[MonsterClown freaky-looking jack-in-the-box]] with a very unnerving laugh. Then in the pool hall, Lampwick transforms into a donkey before our eyes while the Coachman sadistically looks on. After that is a scene where we see the island in ruins, and more transformed boys locked in crates to be sold into slavery and tearfully begging to go home. Jiminy Cricket then tries to lead guests to the way out, but the gates slam shut in their faces. Finally, the Coachman looms above us as he tries to trap us in a crate bound for the salt mines.

** Guests then travel though Pleasure Island. Even before the explicitly frightening stuff starts, there's a scene whey pass by a giant freaky-looking jack-in-the-box with a very unnerving laugh. Then in the pool hall, Lampwick transforms into a donkey before our eyes while the Coachman sadistically looks on. After that is a scene where we see the island in ruins, and more transformed boys locked in crates to be sold into slavery and tearfully begging to go home. Jiminy Cricket then tries to lead guests to the way out, but the gates slam shut in their faces. Finally, the Coachman looms above us as he tries to trap us in a crate bound for the salt mines.

** Guests then travel though Pleasure Island. Even before the explicitly frightening stuff starts, there's a scene whey pass by a giant freaky-looking jack-in-the-box that makes a very sinister-sounding laugh. Then in the pool hall, Lampwick transforms into a donkey before our eyes while the Coachman sadistically looks on. After that is a scene where we see the island in ruins, and more transformed boys locked in crates to be sold into slavery and tearfully begging to go home. Jiminy Cricket then tries to lead guests to freedom, but the gates slam shut in their faces. Finally, the Coachman looms above us as he tries to trap us in a crate bound for the salt mines.
** Probably the scariest part of the ride is when Monstro leaps up and lunges towards the ride vehicle. (He also apparently had swallowed a thunder cloud.)

** Guests then travel though Pleasure Island,. Even before the explicitly scary stuff starts, there's a scene whey pass by a giant freaky-looking jack-in-the-box that makes a very sinister-sounding laugh. Then in the pool hall, Lampwick transforms into a donkey before our eyes while the Coachman sadistically looks on. After that is a scene where we see the island in ruins, and more transformed boys locked in crates to be sold into slavery and tearfully begging to go home. Jiminy Cricket then tries to lead guests to freedom, but the gates slam shut in their faces. Finally, the Coachman looms above us as he tries to trap us in a crate bound for the salt mines.

** The first scary moment occurs when the guests head into the backstage area of Stromboli's puppet theatre and see him trapping Pinocchio in the cage, followed by the guests being put in a cage themselves.
** In Pleasure Island, there is a moment where we encounter a giant freaky-looking jack-in-the-box that makes a very sinister-sounding laugh.
** Lampwick at the pool hall transforms into a donkey before our eyes while the Coachman sadistically looks on.
** Child slavery involving 2 Donkey boys locked in cages to be sold in the salt mines begging to go home.

* Just like [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} the movie it's based on]], Pinocchio's Daring Journey has its share of scary moments:

* Pinocchio's Daring Journey at Disneyland has its share of scary moments:
** The first scary moment when Pinocchio is locked in the cage by Stromboli

** Lampwick at the pool hall is going through a Jackass Donkey transformation.

*** The Gigabyte scene was actually, and wittily, lampshaded by the Pal Mickey interactive toy the parks offered at the TurnOfTheMillennium. If the user took the toy with them into this show, after leaving the theater Mickey Mouse would tell them how frightened he was! Gigabyte also appeared as an antagonist in one of the ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'' novels.

** If one needs an idea of how terrifying it was, the original plan was for the monster to be ''[[{Franchise/Alien}} the Xenomorph itself.]]'' When they couldn't use that due to management forbidding R-rated movie material, they came up with an expy that was just as frightening.

** If one needs an idea of how terrifying it was, the original plan was for the monster to be ''the Alien''. Yes, [[{{Franchise/Alien}} that one.]] When they couldn't use that due to management forbidding R-rated movie material, they came up with an expy that was just as frightening.

* Submarine Voyage, which would take riders in a cramped and rather claustrophobic sub through a small man-made lake. While one of the most enjoyable rides at the park, the lagoon mainly consisted of fake and somewhat creepy-looking plastic sea creatures, including a ''definitely'' creepy-looking giant squid that ''[[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea attacks]]'' your sub and is driven off with electric shocks. All the claustrophobic fun of the original is available in the much tamer ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' version (at Disneyland; the WDW version was completely dismantled). Luckily, the cute story takes your attention off how horribly cramped the small submarine is, and the fact that if the thing took on water, it would be a bunch of bodies scrambling desperately towards the steep, narrow staircase. And Tokyo [=DisneySea=]'s ride made the subs into tiny pods, easing congestion and making the inside more spacious.
** Even the ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' version is not devoid of scares. From "colliding" with an undersea mine (complete with an explosive boom, a sudden gush of bubbles and the submarine rocking from the impact while alarm bells and warning lights go on) to the eerie darkness right before a huge angler fish looms right in front of the riders' porthole, all teeth and lifeless glowing eyes, in a ShoutOut to the [[{{Kaiju}} giant squid]] of WDW, the ride definitely has its moments of terror.

* The Norway section of EPCOT's World Showcase featured Maelstrom, a boat ride with at one point a three-headed troll who yelled "DISAPPEAR, DISAPPEAR!" and sent your boat rocketing backwards through an Arctic landscape with a polar bear growling at you. The boat started approaching a waterfall so that you think you're about to go over it backwards. Thankfully, the ride didn't quite go ''that'' far. Still, people thought that tree stump was ''staring at them''. And some people could get scared when the ride went outside over the crowd briefly. It was replaced with WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} Ever After in 2016.
* "''[[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Crush's Coaster]]''" at the Studio's section in Disneyland Paris. At first it's fairly nice (even though you're mostly in the dark), going through some of the movie. Then, you get to the part with Bruce and the sharks. What's worse is that if you've seen the movie, then you know exactly what's coming when you see the rusty ship pipes, and the shadows of the sharks on the wall whilst they chant "Fish are friends! Not food!". Suddenly you're propelled upwards with Bruce 'chasing' you, and a sudden flash lights up this model of Bruce sticking out through the ship, ''and then you're plunged into the pitch black section of the ride, spinning every way known to man''.

* Even some of the merchandise can inadvertently be creepy. One example was the March 2022 Easter balloons. What was intended as a cute display of egg versions of Chip, Dale, Donald, Mickey and Minnie inside of a festive basket can come across as unintentionally creep due to facial expressing potentially feeling off, especially the characters with happy faces having almost a StepfordSmiler flavor to them.

* Even some of the merchandise can inadvertently be creepy. One example was the March 2022 Easter balloons. What was intended as a cute display of egg versions of Chip, Dale, Donald, Mickey and Minnie inside of a festive basket can come across as unintentionally creep due to facial expressing potentially seeming off, especially the characters with happy faces having almost a StepfordSmiler flavor to them.

** Also when the ride was new, right near the end when the doors opened to let you back outside on the elevated track, the riders' ears were [[ScareChord unexpectedly blasted with a loud, harsh scream]]: "HAAAA!!" This yell has since been replaced with a softer and sillier-sounding yodel.

* After riding through the [[SceneryPorn lovely scenery of Ornament Valley]] in [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Radiator Springs Racers]], you suddenly [[MoodWhiplash hear a loud truck horn]] as you almost crash into Mack.

* It's gone now, but the ''Ride/ExtraTERRORestrialAlienEncounter'' is often considered ''the'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UGxRYDc9xw scariest ride]] in Walt Disney World's history. The best part of this ride was shortly after the "maintenance" person got eaten, and the monster was walking around the station. You could hear its footsteps, its breath...eventually it came by your seat and you could feel its breath and hear it right next to you. If you sat back in your seat, a little "alien tongue" ''probed the back of your neck''. Note that this was an attraction where you were held down in your seat by hydraulic shoulder harnesses.

* While it is extinct now, the “Adventure Thru Inner Space” ride was scary on a metaphysical level. The idea of being shrunk down to the size of an atom amidst [[EldritchLocation an infinite black void]], really unnerved riders young and old.
** The conditions of the ride also made it rather uncomfortable, with smaller ride vehicles that would often cramp riders, little to no lighting, and so on.
*** To really drive home the feeling of infinite space, [[https://www.davelandweb.com/atis/images/70s/KTTSTS-4-70-N38B.jpg mirrors were placed around the molecule props]] to make it feel like they extended out into nothingness. Guests could only [[NothingIsScarier imagine what lay out in that vast emptiness...]]
*** The audio of the ride also contributed to its creepiness, with Paul Frees’s already deep and ominous voice narrating an erratic scientist [[GoMadfromtheRevelation seemingly on the verge of madness]] and contemplating whether or not he’ll make it out of the experience alive. The music didn't help much, with instruments playing a rapid and panicked soundtrack.
** A lot of guests were especially terrified of the giant scientist's eye at the end of the ride.

** Honestly, [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/11/d4/e7/11d4e78646dd387efb58d44a7bf9acdd.jpg the early costume concepts were even worse]].

** A costume for Clarabelle Cow looked [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/theverynk/30045440182 quite horrifying]], though she was updated to have a [[http://www.charactercentral.net/C95_DisneyCharacters_MickeyFriends_ClarabelleCow.aspx cuter and more kid-friendly look]].

** Lots of people wish that the parks would incorporate ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' characters and elements. They did, briefly, to commemorate the first game's launch. However, they decided to have Sora portrayed as [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sora_DLP.jpg a "mask" character rather than a "face" character"]].[[note]]To be fair, that's how they portrayed some other human characters, such as Captain Hook and Smee, until deciding to have them as "face" characters instead; it's quite likely that, if they still had ''Kingdom Hearts'' characters, they'd be "face" characters by now[[/note]]

* ''The Nightmare Experiment'' is a Hong Kong Disneyland exclusive Haunted House which is [[https://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Nightmare_Experiment Disney's answer to Universal's Halloween Haunted House]], only watered down. The maze features [[{{Grimmification}} twisted and creepy depictions of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roj5BGSzUPQ various Disney and Pixar films]]. The 2017 version gets special mention since there is one scene where you see a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXlYHXSqxw miserable Pinocchio]] forced to dance while locked in chains and is seen begging guests to help him, to only get interrupted by [[MonsterClown a clown]] who is working for Stromboli.