This is a bit of a random doodle from yesterday I decided was nice enough to post. Does anyone recognize this from a long gone Disney ride? I used to watch videos of this ride in the early 2000s, enchanted but mostly horrified if I'm being honest. I'm glad I can point to 'submechanophobia' (specifically of submerged animatronics) as an actual term to articulate this fear of mine, but the two versions of this ride in California and Florida both make me deeply uncomfortable and unsettled to my core, but in a morbidly fascinated way. Which is why I wanted to draw my take on this part of the ride, to pay tribute to this specific fear of mine haha. If you're not familiar with this ride, it's called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage where guests inhabit a submarine that takes them through a lagoon that features various sea animal animatronics, shipwrecks, a giant squid, and the ones that effectively target the fear trigger in my body - a sea monster animatronic accompanied by mermaid animatronics. The ride was shut down in the 90s but for whatever reason, wasn't completely demolished for at least ten years save for the lagoon being drained, but all the animatronics remained in tact, rotting during that time. There's some now famous photos online of the attraction which look like absolute nightmare fuel (to me). It's not actually meant to be a scary ride, and the way that the characters are designed are meant to be endearing and friendly, but if you look up images of this part of the ride, when combined with dark lighting and camera flash, it easily creates some really spooky shots of these underwater animatronics, so that's really what I wanted to do my interpretation of.
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