A total of 999 ‘happy haunts’ – spirits, goblins and ghosts – appear and evanesce while you ride in a cocoon-like ‘Doom Buggy’ through web-covered graveyards of dancing skeletons. Despite its name, it's more hokey than scary, though younger, more sensitive kids may be spooked. FastPass accepted.


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1. Splash Mountain

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2. Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island

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3. New Orleans Square

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4. Critter Country

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5. Pirates of the Caribbean

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6. Mark Twain Riverboat

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7. Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

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8. Sailing Ship Columbia

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Take a slow boat on the Rivers of America in this replica of an 18th-century sailing ship.