3. Tomorrowland Speedway

For some reason, we're sensing that the idea of closing the Tomorrowland Speedway might be the most controversial item on this list. We can totally understand why. Since 1971, generations of young people have forged the unthinkable memory of stepping behind the wheel of these roadsters and – for the first time in their lives  – driving. Like, really driving a sputtering car on a blacktop road. That's a whole lot of nostalgia to overcome!

But let's be honest – the Tomorrowland Speedway has really lost its reason for being. At least Disneyland's version of the ride (there called Autopia) lets guests drive through an elaborate park, over bridges, around roundabouts, along water, and even "off-road."

Since Magic Kingdom's version was built long after freeways were the stuff of Tomorrow(land), Florida's ride is instead stylized as a NASCAR-esque speedway: basically, a four-lane blacktop "race" in a grassy field. And we know it's useless to complain that the gas-guzzling race cars don't fit in Tomorrowland (really, not much in Tomorrowland is about the future anymore), but it's probably still worth saying that if the Speedway has to stick around, it should at least use electric cars. 

The Speedway has also seen its layout shrink multiple times as the rest of Magic Kingdom has filled in around it – most recently, with the opening of TRON Lightcycle Run. Most fans expected that TRON would replace the Speedway entirely. Instead, it managed to survive a fourth downsizing. We get it. It adds capacity, and family "filler," and lots of memories. But you have to wonder if TRON could've been scooted up into that spot with its canopy covering the walkway from Fantasyland.

4. Rafiki's Planet Watch

When's the last time you visited Rafiki's Planet Watch? Have you even heard of it? Do you think most casual visitors to Walt Disney World have? 

Of course, "Conservation Station" opened with the rest of Disney's Animal Kingdom in 1998. (Its name was changed to Rafiki's Planet Watch to drive interest around 2001.) But you can't get there on foot. Instead, guests are required to take a train from the park's Harambe Village, then trek through a short forest walk to arrive at Planet Watch, which is, for lack of a better way to explain it, a '90s nature center as you might find at a Metro Park or zoo.

For those who made the trek, Planet Watch had some interesting little attractions... we're talking windows into veterinary clinics with two-way radios to ask questions of experts; a gift shop; a petting zoo; meet-and-greets with Disney characters; interactive games and exhibits around conservation; even stages for animal encounter shows. But of course, the highly remote exhibit never stood out as a must-see, especially given how much effort it took to find it.

In 2018, it was announced that Planet Watch was set to close forever that October, leaving it as a backstage facility and ending the Wildlife Express train service. But the exhibit surprisingly re-opened in spring 2019. Most of its exhibits had been removed, and instead, the central lobby space of the outdated mini science center instead had roll-out TV monitors and meeting room chairs repurposed into an "Animation Experience" draw-along class.

You'd think COVID would've given Disney the "out" they needed to quietly kill Planet Watch (which must be incredibly expensive to operate relative to its draw and capacity), but nope. If you've got an hour to kill, you can still take a train to a walking path to a mostly-empty science center where you can take a drawing class and pet goats. It really begs the question, is it better than nothing? Or maybe more to the point, is it better than Zootopia? (Many fans say, "Yes!")