Defunctland: The History of Disneyland’s Adventure Thru Inner Space
Special Thanks to Steve Wesson (TheMightyMicroscope.com) and David Oneal for letting me use their photos/videos.
In this episode, Kevin discusses the history of Disneyland’s Adventure Thru Inner Space, a ride that shrank guests to the size of an atom and was sponsored by an infamous company.
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@Inkstinker
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Of course Monsanto wanted the ride to focus on one of their chemicals instead of water. That's the most Monsanto thing I've ever heard.
@Wyrmfemme
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
God I wish Americans still hated corporations and patriotism.
@robblaster9556
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
This ride was way before my time but it was cool to hear a snippet of the narration in the Remember Dreams Come True fireworks show a while back. MAG-NIF-ICAY-SHUN!
@Hillary_Jean
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
@15:44 I have a partially used ticket book around here somewhere. My first Disneyland memories are from this cool ride and the terrifying Lincoln animatronic in the late 70s or early 80s.
@lightlaserstarwars
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
The ride was a boon on hot days. Air conditioned, even the line, and cheap or free.
@TheBritomart
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Country music intro?🫤
@Anhedonis
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Paul Rudd would have pushed through. I wonder if he ever rode.
@burgermaster17
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
M A G N I F I C A T I O N
@jordanteasdale8281
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Did the narrator say “his attractive children”!?
@jonmartinson6830
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Address all complaints to the Monsanto corporation!
@SnaketheJake87
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
This is the kind of society you get when your population is 95% white.
@chano6555
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Usually I don’t really feel the need to experience whatever ride is the topic for the video, but man, I do wish I got to go through this one
@algator55
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Monsanto is just one of the company's hell bent on killing the entire population of the planet very very slowly just like DuPont and their miracle Teflon
@TheOtherBradBird
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
25:50
Unlike you, I refuse to sympathize with communists. Clearly, we didn't drop enough defoliants and incendiaries. If only we'd dropped 100 times more, Vietnam might be free of the commie filth.
@omegaflowey9932
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
32:30
Mighty microscope: Where am I?! How did I get here?!
@VerisimilitudeFilms1
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
This ride scared the shit outta me when I was 4.
@yea9725
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Beem binge watching since the latest episode and this has better pacing and quality than most Netflix documentaries that do long interviews to do the explaining
@emmaobrien1376
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Ugh, I hate that the very-cool concept of a microscopy-based dark ride was fouled by Monsanto corporatism. Every step of "isn't chemistry amazing?" is paired with a statement of "look at this new plastic clothing that will create an endless volume of microplastics!" Like, really? We're gonna undersell the beauty of the natural world with CARPETING? Absurd. They should've rebuilt the dark ride with a greater focus on microfauna and flora like tardigrades, nematodes, diatoms, etc.
@rdhunkins
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Wow. An alliance between Disney and Monsanto today sounds like a marriage made in hell.
@Jokoko2828
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Monsanto desperately trying to whitewash themselves will never not be funny.
@PvtMurphy
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Anyone know what the outro song is?
@kashdaddy1
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
question- the music score for the first 40secs of this video, is it from something or was it created specifically for this video. I love it!
@rickpontificates3406
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Disneyland's new theme for the Carousel Theater in neglected Tomorrowland; "It's a great big broken down tomorrow!"
@rickpontificates3406
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
MAGNIFICATION! (Echo echo echo echo)
@MrJerrycampbell
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Loved Tomorrowland and the innerspace ride as a youngster. Did not know about monsatans nastiness until later after the moved on from agent orange to the even more widespread longterm poisoning of life with humancide forever chemicals.
@bw6347
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Man Monsanto was a creepy messed up company even then…
@mrmarmellow555
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
#MONS🅰️NT🅾️ IS ALWAYS #BAD👎 #MOKAY
@misternathanfowlkes
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
Why is it so horrifying 😢
@bettestruble7887
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
I started watching you back around 2016 or 17 and I’ve gotta say, this is extremely impressive and your growth gives my sad heart a shred of hope. The way you’ve been weaving your narratives has been really enjoyable. It’s gotten to the point where I just trust you to make the weave worthwhile— which is a big deal on YouTube, where they will weave nonsense forever without any point just to keep viewers on the hook. Not you. If he’s on a roll about Vietnam, agriculture and war crime, I can rest assured that, some fucking how, leads back to that weird molecule ride thing in old Disney 🫠
@drinmer1
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
USA Should pay 1 mio. USD for every liter of agent orange sprayed… It's hard to feel sad for a country destroying another country's generations to come and celebrating the people doing it as heroes.
@West-Views
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
This shows people do have the power not institutions or govts. 29:58
@West-Views
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
When that escalated quickly. I had a feeling the video was gonna go here but wow great job. YouTube channels are literally the best journalism!! I love yall keep it up.
@amandahugankiss4110
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
sounds like monsanto made exactly what was asked of them.
we, the public, are fucking morons.
@ericneilson1198
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
You failed to mention the GOAT of Imagineers, Ward Kimball.
@danielsmokesmids
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
there are still people in vietnam being born with birth defects from agent orange that was sprayed over half a century ago. what we did to vietnam wasn’t a mistake, it was a crime
@reaps2197
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 pm
I'm the product of 2 different agent orange victims 2 generations later. My mom has a few issues tied to the chemical, but due to her illegitimate nature, she's unable to get compensation.
@Wig4
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 pm
iS THIS YOUR own REAL REALITY voice? OF YET another FAKE bot voicing put on top of a text ???????????????????????
I really hate this monotonous scandation style .. Whatever it wzs.
@christophersmith5485
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 pm
As the son of someone who has been battling several different kinds of cancers due to agent orange exposure for decades, the agent orange pivot was a welcome and meaningful one.
@shaider1982
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 pm
Imterestingly, Veritasium has a recent video on Monsanto trying to convince regulators that their Round-up herbicide was safe but was actually a carcinogen.
@manoharan989
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 pm
I first rode Adventures Throug Inner Space as a 9 year old. It was a mystical experiace for me. My favorite all-time ride. Well, The Enchanted Tiki Room also gave me wonder and joy, but that debued a few years later, and this joy and wonder were enhansed by my smoking a doobie on the Sky Ride
@Buy_Sugarbee_Applës
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 pm
My uncle is still battling cancer he got from agent orange exposure during his time in 1st cav during the Vietnam war. Great video
@veerchasm1
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 pm
Monsanto= cancer causing monsters
@SD_Marc
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 pm
I loved that ride when I was a kid.
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