More Bad News for Infamous Disney World

More Bad News for Infamous Disney World River Country Site

Disney built Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon -- two much more modern water park

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and River Country was left to rot (quite literally). Disney drained the pools and slides,

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and then only did whatever it had to do to stop the site from being dangerous.

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Disney slowly let the land reclaim its former water park and despite rumors of its return

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as a more-exclusive water park tied to a hotel, nothing happened to the site which became

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the subject of numerous social media memes. People shared pictures of the deteriorating

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eyesore and openly opined for different ideas for the property.

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