Just in time! I'm about to release a video of my own like this! Great stuff, folks! The more submerged machines the merrier!

This doesn’t scare me per say, but it does make me uncomfortable

The fact that they’re underwater doesn’t freak me out, it’s the fact they could be deteriorating underneath their own attraction. They’re rotting and basically dying out, animatronic wise.
It’s so unnerving to see so many underwater things/attractions. Especially all the ones that are from old rides

The thing that freaks me out the most is not under water man made objects but mechanized ones. I am afraid I will fall in and get caught in the machinery.

When the animatronics aren’t realistic and fluent then that’s what disturbs me

The only time I find it scary is when they’re fully submerged in water and they’re not supposed to be there. Like they’ve been abandoned and are rotting away...feels like they’d come alive any moment and snatch you away

Animatronic:
Everyone: Cool!
Animatronic: What if I—
Everyone: Don’t.
Animatronic: goes underwater
Everyone: THEY DID IT.

I'm honestly more scared of seeing the unkempt animatronics underwater, slowly rotting away.

the scariest thing about this all isnt the animatronics/statues themselves, it’s the fact theyre just underwater, rotting away where you cant see it and if you were to be in that same water as it- 😳

it’s like going into a haunted house; its not the actual people/things scaring you (well at least for me), it’s what theyre doing or the setting their in

Mickey and Minnie were the ones that broke my heart. It’s not exactly the fact that they’re simply underwater. It’s the fact that they’re down there alone. Separated. Cold. Looking very lonely and so worn out. But they’re still smiling because they know we will try to get to them. Minnie’s pose suggests that she welcomes the company. Mickey clearly is reaching out. They’re smiling but time is too unkind to them. They would look less lonely and heartbreaking if they were in diving suits or something.

I watched this and I’m like “what a weird phobia”
And then I realized I don’t like seeing underwater animatronics.
It makes me uncomfortable, because I hate thinking about electronics underwater, especially the muck water.

Always disheartening when you hear of brilliant unique ideas that never came to light in favor of trendy cash grabs. A ride with mythical creatures would be classic and still cool to this day.

Guy: "Oh no! It's a hippo coming out of the water! What should we do??"
Also guy: "So anyway, I started blasting"

everytime i see robots in water my skin crawls- imagine falling in the same body of water as these. eww

The giant squid from The mysteries of the Nautilus sure is scary but it's actually not submerged. The iris windows is composed of an inner and outer pannel with water between them, a device below produce the bubbles to give the illusion we're underwater. The animatronic is in a dry, dark room behind that windows. I'm still sad that it no longer work well because it's one of my favorite disney animatronics.

So no one is gonna talk about that on the Jungle cruise someone shot a hippo?

It was only a matter of time before my oddly specific phobia got discovered and exploited. We live in exciting times, indeed.

My fear has always been falling into the water, hitting one of them, not knowing what it is and looking down to see a giant animatronic staring directly back at you. I think I’d faint dead away if that happened

It scares me because I’d imagine if I fell into the water. I couldn’t see anything below the surface and couldn’t see the tracks and gears moving the things. Plus the water always looks dirty with machines in it.

Animatronics that you can see in darkness and are turned off. That is truly terrifying to me. But I still like animatronics.