News Kali River Rapids to begin delayed openings starting today at Disney's Animal Kingdom

[jt04]

I think the move for this ride would basically be to go straight at the top of the lift hill, have a run off and another lift hill to reconnect to the existing track. Otherwise, I don't see a logical way to do it.

I think a better move would be to remove the attraction entirely, but only after they re-develop Chester and Hester's. The ride opened in 1999 and you could conceivably get 30 years out of it before they're ready to expand / re-develop that area.

I'm waiting for the day an underwhelming attraction like Kali gets turned into a pre-show of sorts. Not entirely unlike the shuttle at the first section of RotR. Or a simpler example, the train to planet watch.

There are several attractions on property that could be reconfigured in such a manner and give it new life. IMO.

 

[Bullseye1967]

One of the most anticlimactic attractions at WDW. And the deforestation theme is always a major drag. Of course, we haven't even done the attraction in the last few trips.

They could replace with a person lecturing you and then at the end throw a bucket of water on you. Would be about the same.

 

[Giss Neric]

Problem is I think Disney purposely adjusts how you get wet on a ride. They don't wanna soak riders. When you compare them to water rides at Universal, you will really get soaked, I mean head to toe soaked.

I personally think they should add more water at the bottom of the Splash Mountain drops to create more of a splash. Same with Kali and Grizzly River Run, they barely have any water at the bottom of the drops to create a bigger splash.

 

[Touchdown]

I like how Splash only splashes you, I don’t want to be soaked at the MK and I don’t want my shoes to get wet. However, by their nature raft rides will always get you wetter below the waist. Therefore, I only wear bathing suits and water sanders to ride them, so on raft rides when I ride them, I want to get drenched.

 

[celluloid]

It is a pretty weak raft ride even among the lesser ones of the world, and Florida's Raft rides (Universal and Busch Gardens Tampa) are among the strongest. The queue is great and the finale at least paid off a concept but with that dwindling, this thing is just there. The parts that are not drops are not even really rocking rapids.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

With the recent injuries and accidental death linked with the Intamin-manufactured rapids attraction at Adventureland Park in Iowa this past weekend is it fair to question if Disney's own Intimin-manufactured rapids ride will be inspected or closed for the foreseeable future?

Granted, Kali is ridiculously tame but would such an event trigger other parks to evaluate their own rapid attractions?

 

[peter11435]

With the recent injuries and accidental death linked with the Intamin-manufactured rapids attraction at Adventureland Park in Iowa this past weekend is it fair to question if Disney's own Intimin-manufactured rapids ride will be inspected or closed for the foreseeable future?

Granted, Kali is ridiculously tame but would such a tragic event trigger other parks to evaluate their own rapid attractions?

Not sure of the circumstances surrounding that particular event. However I’m pretty sure the original intamin manufactured rafts at Kali were replaced with non Intamin rafts.

 

[iowamomof4]

I believe it happened in 2012

When I rode it (the first and only time) in September of 2015, I distinctly remember putting my bag in the center thing under a cover. It was our first trip to WDW and I thought that center cover was really neat because I had never seen anything like it before.

Edit: Whoops, didn't notice this was an old thread!

 

[Touchdown]

With the recent injuries and accidental death linked with the Intamin-manufactured rapids attraction at Adventureland Park in Iowa this past weekend is it fair to question if Disney's own Intimin-manufactured rapids ride will be inspected or closed for the foreseeable future?

Granted, Kali is ridiculously tame but would such an event trigger other parks to evaluate their own rapid attractions?

It was another older version of that ride with 6 people per raft. Disney (and Universal) use a larger raft with a bigger base able to support 8 guests.

 

[Tom Morrow]

It was another older version of that ride with 6 people per raft. Disney (and Universal) use a larger raft with a bigger base able to support 8 guests.

12 guests, actually. Grizzly River Run's rafts at DCA hold 8 guests.

All the incidents of rafts flipping over seems to be the small 6 person raft versions.