20k lagoon

[adr315]

U do not need a tetanus shot if u fall in the jungle cruise water, because i remember watching "Disney World Inside Out" on the Disney Channel, and they showed the night shift workers that clean the parks after closing. They showed scuba divers diving through Jungle Cruise looking for any problems...must be scary swimming in pitch blackness with all these fake animals around u.....

 

[Pioneer Hall]

Originally posted by adr315
U do not need a tetanus shot if u fall in the jungle cruise water, because i remember watching "Disney World Inside Out" on the Disney Channel, and they showed the night shift workers that clean the parks after closing. They showed scuba divers diving through Jungle Cruise looking for any problems...must be scary swimming in pitch blackness with all these fake animals around u.....

The scuba divers are also protected from the water. And it is only if you are completely submerged by the water.

 

[MGMBoy]

Originally posted by adr315
U do not need a tetanus shot if u fall in the jungle cruise water, because i remember watching "Disney World Inside Out" on the Disney Channel, and they showed the night shift workers that clean the parks after closing. They showed scuba divers diving through Jungle Cruise looking for any problems...must be scary swimming in pitch blackness with all these fake animals around u.....

As far as I'm aware the same applies to ANY of the water rides (PotC, Splash Mt., Etc.) Main reason is that the water is running over metalwork that is potentially rusty. If you submegre you're running the risk of getting rust particles into your system (similar to when you poke yourself with a rusty nail and that's why you need the tetnus shot.

 

[Fievel]

You can tell that the water in 20k is different...look at how CLEAR it is compared to bay lake, River of America, Jungle cruise

 

[ToTBellHop]

anyone know where the water comes from?

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

i belive the water in 20k, is self contained.
in fantasyland we are trained if someone falls in 20k we have to call reedy creek (emergency services) and they have to get a shot ......... i had a little girl fall in around halloween of this year

Erik
Toontown/Fantasyland Attractions/Opperations

 

[WDWsmith2001]

It's hard to believe they have left this spot vacant for so long. I can only imagine there must be some back story to it. That huge warehouse of a building and it's prominant placement in the park has anyone heard why over 8 years have passed? The money thing is only recently, heck they built DisneySea and Animal Kingdom in that time span? I'm pretty sure that new ADA laws pretty much doomed the ride. The cost of fitting a sub with accesible doors must have been enormous. I'm just puzzzled why they have neglected the site for so long. Also I'd love to see a picture of the inside of that warehouse before or after the shutdown.

 

[JeffJewell]

WDWSmith2001...

I'm pretty sure that new ADA laws pretty much doomed the ride. The cost of fitting a sub with accesible doors must have been enormous.

...there's some truth to this, and in the case of the SkyWay, too. There was a combination of the cost of the changes (in addition to possible ADA changes, the 20K lagoon was actually beginning to leak, and there were cast safety concerns with the SkyWay), the relatively slow load speed and relatively low hourly capacity of the rides, and the fact that neither franchise ever sold much plush that equated to "more cost effective to close than update" in the spreadsheets of the Accountanteers.

It's actually true that a big part of the reason that the lagoon has just sat there for so long is the structural instability that has developed around it. There is the very real possibility that completely draining the lagoon like they did twenty years ago could cause a collapse. It's not a sure thing, but the cost of draining the lagoon in such a way as to ensure avoidance of a collapse is more than they're willing to pay, right now... no one has been able to show that such an improvement would increase any kind of sales enough to justify it (this is why you hear basically the same ride rumored to be going up in different parks or tied into different movies... Imagineers are trying to save their projects and jobs by pitching them to any project that actually has a budget, at the moment. Sooner or later, someone will get a Soarin' clone approved [my personal bet is that it'll go in the Canadian pavilion... the O Canada film is nigh on to a national embarassment at this point, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if some Canuck Cartel ponied up the scratch], but I don't count on any ambitious coasters or dark rides anytime soon).

Jeff

 

[space42]

show building

Thanks DonickCo for those sat pictures. That indeed is the show building. There is a real video clip on the WDWMagic main site that shows one of the subs entering the building. You can see it here. http://www.wdwmagic.com/past_attractions.htm

Most of the attraction took place in the building. The trip around the lagoon was more or less the "pre show" The meat of the attraction took place once you went into the building. The effect was you were diving at that point (complete with bubbles ). It worked pretty good becasue of the darkness. At that point you went underneath the polar icecaps. Then saw a portion of the lost city of Atlantis. And last attacked by a giant squid.

The attraction was indeed dated but a true E-Ticket for its time. If you look at the pics from DonicCo, you can see just how much space this area is. It takes up almost as much space as Fantasyland!

I agree with Smee.. this location deserves a family style E-Ticket.

Hey, if we can dream it we can do it!

 

[ToTBellHop]

you don't count on any ambitious dark rides or coasters where 20K is? Well..I'll agree with the coaster argument, but I think this area deserves a big dark ride...but, they won't even be able to think about it until PhilharMagic opens...I highly doubt there would ever be two green-lighted E-Rides in Fantasyland at once...

 

[DonickCo]

Does anyone know how deep the water was in the building? Or if the props are still in there?

 

[DonickCo]

I found a sight with some under water photos inside the show building.

http://www.pansophist.com/twntyk.htm

-DonickCo

 

[mkt]

umm, quck thing about ADA.

It doesn't govern theme/amusement park attractions. The US Government or State of Florida currently have no safety, convenience, or comfort regulations for any of the rides. The ADA would fall under that. The reason behind this would be the possible threat of lawsuit via the ACLU (you know, the guys who defend Nazi's, but refuse to defend a black artist).

As for the water being drained. It hasn't been done in HOW LONG?

that's what I thought. In that time, lack of maintenance and shoddy repairs have rendered the walls crap. It is literally just compacted dict waiting to come apart

 

[Hurricane]

i have an mp3 of the ride soundtrack, you can proly get it from audio galaxy. its 8.30 long, heres a minute by minute account

0.00 - 1.30 -- cast off

1.30 captain speaking about the journey under the polar ice caps and to depths never seen by man, please refrain from smoking etc

2.00 description of the corny plastic fish on wires in the lagoon

3.00 listening to the "fish talk" (bad whale sounds and
bubbles)

3.20 weather alert, captain gives order to dive (i'm assuming this is where it enters the show building)


3.50 graveyard of sunken ships

4.15 - reach the polar ice cap, captain oders dive

4.30 - passing thru the north pole, blacklight effects

4.45 maximum depth limit, orders ascent

5.00 - giant squid dead ahead, captain orders repellant charge

5.30 - captain reasures that shhip has electric blocking measures

5.45 - mermaids and sunken treasure

6.00 - ruins of atlantis

6.30 - underwater volcano errupts, atlantis is destroyed

7.00 - out of disturbance, sea serpent dead ahead, emergency manuever

7.30 - surface

7.40 - approach home port

8.00 - docking procedures etc