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[MKCP 1985]

Why has the Yeti not been fixed?

The reason is: greed, money, laziness. Nothing more.

Quoted for agreement. Too many good Disney fans are giving Disney Parks management a free pass on the company's largest ever audio-animatronic.

In the unlikely event anyone in Disney Parks management is checking this thread: my family and I have skipped the Disney's Animal Kingdom Park on our last 3 Orlando vacations in favor of Universal Studios and/or Sea World and we are not going back until Avatar's World of Pandora opens or the Yeti is fixed, whichever comes first. Since we are not limiting our vacation exclusively to Disney Parks, we are not staying on property and we are using our own transportation. If you want us to pay for the over-priced Disney resort rooms, you have to pay to fix the major show effect on your roller coaster. It matters.

Universal has shown us that expensive things can break and they will make the effort to fix them because that is the right thing to do. Once upon a time the Walt Disney Company was the company that sent that message to the public.

The eternally broken yeti should be a warning to all of us that if something new and exciting is announced, it is best to get to Disney World as soon as it opens because if something cool breaks and is expensive to fix, don't count on it being repaired.

 

[BJones82]

Universal has shown us that expensive things can break and they will make the effort to fix them because that is the right thing to do. Once upon a time the Walt Disney Company was the company that sent that message to the public.

The eternally broken yeti should be a warning to all of us that if something new and exciting is announced, it is best to get to Disney World as soon as it opens because if something cool breaks and is expensive to fix, don't count on it being repaired.

This is so sad and true I really wish I could say it's not and Disney does a lot of things right but the Yeti isn't one of them... They should choose to fix it because it is the right thing to do not because it is cheep or people are complaining about it...

 

[FettFan]

Nah, still like Harold. I shall call this 'new Harold' Tim. Tim the yeti

Great, now I'm going to hear John Cleese every time I see him.

"There are some who call me....Tim."

 

[StageFrenzy]

Reports coming in about that other big finale effect that's been out of action.

Escape from Gringotts Kuka arm screen has apparently been replaced and is in show condition again.

Your turn DAK.

In another thread you seem to indicate that the reason it broke was some after hours shenanigans.

 

[marni1971]

In another thread you seem to indicate that the reason it broke was some after hours shenanigans.

I did, and it was. Nothing wrong design wise. It was human intervention and rule breaking.

 

[Doug Means]

http://www.disneyquestions.com/yeti-end-expedition-everest-broken/

 

[marni1971]

http://www.disneyquestions.com/yeti-end-expedition-everest-broken/

....is another fan site?

 

[Magenta Panther]

After seeing the video of Disneyland's new Matterhorn effects....I really wish they would replace the EE yeti shadow with an ice wall effect. The shadow always looked too much like a cartoon.

Exactly. So unimpressive and unconvincing. Especially when the Windows drop-down list shows up:



Pause it at 1:55...

 

[Cesar R M]

Exactly. So unimpressive and unconvincing. Especially when the Windows drop-down list shows up:



Pause it at 1:55...

hey! at least it wasnt a BSOD with the smiley!

 

[EagleScout610]

Exactly. So unimpressive and unconvincing. Especially when the Windows drop-down list shows up:



Pause it at 1:55...

They can't even keep a shadow working

 

[Cesar R M]

They can't even keep a shadow working

next at Everest.. Disco Shadows.. because they cant even make projection shadows work XD

 

[FettFan]

Exactly. So unimpressive and unconvincing. Especially when the Windows drop-down list shows up:



Pause it at 1:55...

Wow. But then again, I saw the same thing in the "wind tunnel" at Tron Track. I guess it's the new normal.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Someone posted a video of a bunch of animatronics from Disney in another topic, the yeti from EE was one of them. I wanted to extract the footage for a better and more individual look at this particular figure. It's useful because it has a clearer view than most ridethrough videos or the Discovery Channel documentary. Though I would assume this was taken under work lighting and doesn't convey the true atmospheric figure of the ride. It's a nice look at the figure's range of movement however-

The original video can be found here-


I surmise that the person who posted the video (John Cutry) was at least partially (if not entirely) responsible for the animation of the yeti as well as the other AA, CGI and sketched figures from that video. So all credit goes entirely to him.

 

[marni1971]

Let's look at that again

 

[HonorableMention]

I posted it a couple of months ago in this thread. Thank you for extracting that footage. i don't really know how to do that and now I don't have to skip to that part of the video.

 

[cjkeating]

Let's look at that again

First of all.. it looks amazing and the I don't think the scale of it comes across as nothing really puts it into perspective.

The question is... what can we see in this video that has broken so catastrophically that it can't move at all?! The face motion doesn't look too extreme, the arm looks risky over guests but the body doesn't seem to move too much,

Maybe it is again the perspective as I know in the Discovery channel video it appears to require a massive force and effort to move the Yeti but in the video it looks quite subtle.

 

[G00fyDad]

First of all.. it looks amazing and the I don't think the scale of it comes across as nothing really puts it into perspective.

The question is... what can we see in this video that has broken so catastrophically that it can't move at all?! The face motion doesn't look too extreme, the arm looks risky over guests but the body doesn't seem to move too much,

Maybe it is again the perspective as I know in the Discovery channel video it appears to require a massive force and effort to move the Yeti but in the video it looks quite subtle.

The back of that thing is massive. A huge "sled" that his back is attached to is damaged. That would need to be fixed. Unfortunately, TDO doesn't know how to fix him and keep him fixed. If they replaced the parts then his weight would just cause the same damage again.

 

[Cesar R M]

The back of that thing is massive. A huge "sled" that his back is attached to is damaged. That would need to be fixed. Unfortunately, TDO doesn't know how to fix him and keep him fixed. If they replaced the parts then his weight would just cause the same damage again.

solution.. redo the thing with better newer tech.
Pretty sure the 2010's has better lighter materials for animatronics that do not need to weight 30 tons.

 

[G00fyDad]

solution.. redo the thing with better newer tech.
Pretty sure the 2010's has better lighter materials for animatronics that do not need to weight 30 tons.

See. That's what I thought. I was thinking more of something like Carbon Fiber, but someone on here said that would not work.

 

[Master Yoda]

See. That's what I thought. I was thinking more of something like Carbon Fiber, but someone on here said that would not work.

Carbon fiber is not the end all be all material most people make it out to be. It can be very strong and very light, but stress can typically only be applied in one particular direction. Stress it in the other direction and crumbles like tissue paper.