For now, our Fort is alive and well, with no rumors of changing over. I'll probably visit it a little more often now, just in case. I really do hope our Florida Tom Sawyer Island stays just that. I've got major childhood mojo going on out there. On the other hand, I'll have to be philosophical if it goes away, as so many other things have. (Loss of 20K subs and a real Tiki Room were much bigger bummers.)

I have fond memories of Florida's Tom Sawyer Island as well. There was the time we set sail to the Island and a sudden storm broke out, flooding the deck of the raft before we reached the other side of the river.

It was such a torrent that we took shelter in Injun Joe's Cave, and the rain went on so hard and so long, that my friend Jim actually peed in a cup found in the cave rather than run to Aunt Polly's or wherever the rest rooms were.

When the rain stopped, he chased us all over the island with that damn cup of pee!




Ah, good times :iSm:

I'm sad for the loss of the Fort, but I wouldn't mind so much IF they were replacing it with something GUESTS COULD USE.

I don't really blame them for tearing it down. Or, rather, I blame the people who let it get run down in the first place. I'd rather it be torn down than sit, run down, in such a visible location.

I am sad to see Fort Wilderness go. I used to have fun there "back in the good old days". My sister, on the other hand, HATED working there in the 80's when she was a CM

Currently it is a fort-themed CM use area. Based on one sentence of information, it sounds like when they're done it will be a fort-themed CM use area.

Status quo ante (ante being the last few years). Since there've never been any real plans to rebuild and reopen the place for public use it is hard to see any new loss other than the small window through which hope shines.

I just want them to make the executive ropes course on the back half of the island open to the public.

The really sad part is Disney will probably sell parts of it on Ebay. :( I would not put it past them.:mad:

Just what is the Columbia going to be firing it's cannon for now?

Guests could not crawl all over Cascade Peak either. It was simply a beautiful, waterfall-strewn mountain that was part of the Frontierland scenery.

Fort Wilderness may have been better as an interactive guest area, but it continued to serve as beautiful and unique Frontierland scenery after it was off-limits.


The mound of dirt or concrete bunker they replace it with will, I daresay, not be quite as evocative of Frontier America.