This month marks the 55th anniversary of Walt Disney World. I thought I would honor this occasion by sharing another Walt Disney World-related item from my childhood.
In the past, I've posted pics of my Walt Disney World Board Game, my Haunted Mansion Game, and even my Mad Tea Party Game. This is yet another Disneyland/Disney World-related game. It's the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Game, manufactured by Lakeside Industries (the same company that made the Haunted Mansion Game).
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This image is on all four sides of the box.
The three-dimensional game board:
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The rules of the game:
Here are the four Nautilus-shaped player pieces, and a couple of the gunboats, which are actually a part of the game board:
The Nautilus pieces come apart, in order to represent when the subs are "diving" down below the surface of the water.
As stated on the box, the object of the game is to "Race Your Nautilus to Safety Past the Moving Gunboats!" Turning that yellow tower in the center of the game board would move a turntable below, making the little gunboats move and rotate within their "tracks." If one of their guns touched your Nautilus, you were in trouble.
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The artwork on the sides of the game board:
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To round out this post, here are a couple images of the attraction that the game was based on. This first one was scanned from a GAF Pana-Vue souvenir slide.
Sadly, Walt Disney World's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea ride closed in 1994. In 2004, the lagoon was drained and removed and replaced by "Pooh's Playful Spot" (a small children's playground) which opened in 2005 and remained until 2010. Today, the site is the location of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride. I really wish that I had taken my own photo of the lagoon while it was still there, but here's an amateur shot taken in March of 1975. It's from the "Swanson Family's" set of Florida vacation slides, which I purchased on ebay over 15 years ago:
Happy 55th anniversary, to Walt Disney World!
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8 comments:
I like how they just slapped WDW on the board game and said it’s “inspired” by the attraction. I see no mermaids or silly serpent on the game at all so I would just say that it’s a game based on the movie pretty much lol. Pretty epic piece of Disney history you have there Tokyo, I love the board pieces!!!!! Not sure if you ever went on the Magic Kingdom attraction but I’m wondering if it was any better than our version of the ride. The interior and exterior of the 20K Subs are easily superior imo.
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Mike, I never thought about how the game is really themed more to the movie than the WDW attraction!
I never went on the attraction at WDW, so I don't know if the ride itself was better than DL's Submarine Voyage. But I agree with you about the exterior and the Subs themselves, looking better. I think the only scene I have seen (in pictures), that the DL version didn't have, was of a couple divers walking on the "ocean" floor.
The first two times that I went to WDW, the lagoon was still there, but the attraction had already closed. Then by the third time I visited, that stupid "cork" Pooh playground was there. And it took up only a VERY small portion of where the lagoon had once been. I thought I had taken a pic of it, but I guess it looked so bad, that I didn't!
I just now checked my email and I see your emails. Sorry that I missed them! I going to go respond right now!
I love the general appearance of the 20K game board. Colorful and interesting. Not sure I like the premise of the game though. First of all, four Nautilus subs? As mentioned above, the game seems to be based mostly on the movie, not the WDW attraction. In the movie there was, of course, only one Nautilus. Whereas the ride had four(?) subs.
A race to the center seems kinda thin for a game premise, especially when the game board looks as nice as this. I would have much preferred a 20K game where the Nautilus explores the ocean depths, finds treasure, etc., rather than trying to avoid being blown up by gunboats. Oh well, it is what it is.
Thanks, Tokyo! Oh, nice clear pics of the ride itself!
JB, I'm not sure how many vehicles the attraction used. But yeah, I never thought about that......how many Nautilus subs did Captain Nemo supposedly build?
"I would have much preferred a 20K game where the Nautilus explores the ocean depths, finds treasure, etc., rather than trying to avoid being blown up by gunboats."
JB, but A.I. tells me the lagoon at WDW was filled with real gunboats and that during the ride, guests were constantly under the threat of really being blown up. That sounds like a real "E" Ticket! ;-)
I'm sure that the 20K ride had more than four subs. Maybe ten? That game is fun, but as disneymike said, it doesn't have much to do with the ride at the Magic Kingdom. I'm not sure I would have cared when I was a kid, though maybe I would have! I love the cute game pieces. Have you ever actually played the board game? Is it the most funnest thing ever?
"I'm sure that the 20K ride had more than four subs."
Major, I'm sure you are correct about that. I did play this game when I was a kid, and I didn't care whether or not it was themed to the ride or the movie. Now having said that, I don't remember it being my absolute most favorite game ever, but I did like it. I liked playing the Haunted Mansion game more. And one of my favorite games when I was a kid, was a non-Disney game called "Which Witch?" And I still have that one, too!
Ok this is super cool, but I also wasn't seeing the WDW connection until I saw the logo on the box! I wasn't aware of the Haunted Mansion game. Those miniature plastic Doom Buggies are amazing. Thanks for showcasing another great piece of ephemera I wasn't previously aware of, TokyoMagic!
Andrew, I guess as a kid, I never thought about how the game didn't exactly match the attraction. The game did have Nautiluses, Squids, Giant Clams, and Captain Nemo, so I guess I thought, "close enough." Maybe instead of gunboats, they should have had squid "tentacles" coming up out of the game board. Then they could have had the centerpiece that gets turned be the head of the squid! Oh, well!
I did like the Haunted Mansion game more than this one, and I loved those Doom Buggy playing pieces.
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