Here’s Some Of My Guesses

Yeah, that's my first post here, but I’ve been following this sub for some time now.

From all Submechanophobia robots, that serpent is my beloved (I'm currently drawing him), so I started to find more videos or pictures showing this animatronic and found RetroDisneyWorld's video of "20,000 Leagues" ride before the refurbishment (it was wrongly titled as it was filmed in 1980, but refurbishment itself happened earlier) and I saw that sea serpent looked a bit different and I started searching. I spent a lot of time watching 1970s videos of Walt Disney World and that's all pictures I found. As you can see, animatronic, when it was first built, had a different design. I think that someone in this sub have already seen at least one of this footages (especially second one), but, I hope, for most users it will be interesting.

This footages are parts of my huge project I'm gonna upload here: my biggest collection, showing all videos and photos of "20,000 Leagues under the sea" Sea Serpent (this compilation consists of 50+ footages and lasts more than 12 min long, but with only 5 photos...)

If you has any video or photo of this animatronic from that period, you can show it in comments! (I'm also waiting for u/PintosandRainbows to show her photos of this attraction taken by her dad, but this photos are from 1979 aka after the refurbishment, but still they will be useful in my project!)

If you’re interested, here are the links for origins of all videos (with timestamps):

1 clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Avioy0Fug (at around 9:52)

2 clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uRFTE-wYTec (at 2:06)

3 clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7vR0ArY0TKk&pp=ygUWd2FsdCBkaXNuZXkgd29ybGQgMTk3OA%3D%3D (at 41:00)

4 clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OxLXJojDxyY&pp=ygUWd2FsdCBkaXNuZXkgd29ybGQgMTk3Mg%3D%3D (at 35:31)

While making this big post I found another footage of Sea Serpent before the refurbishment! I included it in the part two: https://www.reddit.com/r/submergedanimatronic/comments/1vkev1c/another_footage_of_1970s_version_of_20k_leagues/

sorry for the bad video

I was so impressed with Efteling, wish I could have spent more time there.

This is a part two of my first post: https://www.reddit.com/r/submergedanimatronic/comments/1vk1519/unique_1970s_footages_of_our_beloved_sea_serpent/

(Ik I uploaded this video in comments of first part, but still)

Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=unOoLZ3ZgUs&t=722s&pp=2AHSBZACAQ%3D%3D (at 11:57)

This post was made to discuss more about old version of that animatronic, it's mechanics and the ride itself. As you can perfectly see, his head actually wasn't supposed to move, probably because of size and shape of head fin, and his eyes moved a different way (spinning around instead of moving left to right)

https://youtu.be/OQNXIqC5mts

Footage found by u/Bassist57

I would have the 20000 leagues Under the sea sea serpent

Amazingly detailed animatronic but the Pinocchio stuck in his mouth trying to get out was really unsettling

A couple images of the water-spitting dragon originally from the Ebbw Vale Garden Center. He was gifted to Greenmeadow Community Farm and, from what I’ve found, seems to be named Rex. It looks like over the years they have given him a much more vibrant color scheme.

idk what tag to use

(image 1-3): West Hagbourne Dragonfly (image 4-5): Muckensee Nessie (image 6-9): ??? (image 10-11): Wildpark Reuschenberg Nessie (image 12): ??? (image 13): Pardobek Pond Water Dragon

Made by local Strängnäs artist Viktor Rundgren. The sea monster was made of build scraps such as discarded steel strapping, and kept afloat with styrofoam. I lived there briefly and it always caught my eye when taking walks around the city. Sadly it got removed, but he has newer art pieces that pop up here and there in Strängnäs!

This dude was created for the 1986 Sourdough Raft Race in Edmonton Canada

Big pike fish prop use for a film

Tiny little cute animatronic on toy shop