Motorboat Cruise
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Motorboat Cruise is a defunct Disneyland Park attraction.

The ride operated at the theme park in California
California
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 from 1957 until January 1993. Guests rode in a small boat
Boat
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 on a track around a pond somewhat connected to the Submarine Voyage lagoon
Lagoon
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. The ride was mostly popular with young children. When Disneyland renamed parts of Fantasyland
Fantasyland
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 to "The Disney Afternoon Avenue" in 1991, it received a short-lived Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears is an American animated television series that aired in the United States in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s...

"makeover" and was renamed the Motorboat Cruise to Gummi Glen. After the attraction was closed in 1993 it became a meet and greet/rest area and was renamed Fantasia Gardens. As of July 2007, the ride area was still intact and idle, with no replacement announced.
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