Building Splash Mountain

[Punzle]

Hi everyone. My sister used to work at Splash Mountain and she told me that the Splash in Magic Kingdom has an extra mini hill that the Disneyland Splash does not have. She said this is because they started building Chick-a-Pin Hill from opposite ends and when they met in the middle the tracks for the flume didn't meet up. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this or if she has just been spouting nonsense to me all these years?

 

[earlthesquirrellover23]

Could it be the little drop right before the final scene? If not that I think your sister is lying...

 

[Tom]

I don't know how many drops Disneyland's has, but the one in Florida certainly does not have an extra drop because of a construction/design error. You don't build something like that and find out halfway through construction that things don't line up.

Besides, there are no double-drops in the ride. Every drop is around a bend of some kind.

 

[Punzle]

That is why I always thought it was so amazing that they could mess up that bad. But now that I am older I decided to do some internet research and found it fishy that there was no info about it. So they've never screwed anything up on a large scale like that?

 

[lazyboy97o]

That is why I always thought it was so amazing that they could mess up that bad. But now that I am older I decided to do some internet research and found it fishy that there was no info about it. So they've never screwed anything up on a large scale like that?

If they ever did it would not just be jury rigged to work.

 

[marni1971]

Nonsense I'm afraid.

 

[worldfanatic]

Don't know if it's due to construction error, but the Magic Kingdom version definitely has an extra drop.

 

[Tom]

That is why I always thought it was so amazing that they could mess up that bad. But now that I am older I decided to do some internet research and found it fishy that there was no info about it. So they've never screwed anything up on a large scale like that?

Well, there's the yeti......

But no, they haven't screwed up construction on that kind of scale, or if they did, it was fixed.

 

[Hakunamatata]

Well, there's the yeti......

But no, they haven't screwed up construction on that kind of scale, or if they did, it was fixed.

Depends on who you ask. Some say Disney can't do anything right. For example they recently screwed up a highly successful Star Wars sequel.

 

[Tom]

Depends on who you ask. Some say Disney can't do anything right. For example they recently screwed up a highly successful Star Wars sequel.

Good point. I still can't figure out why Captain Kirk was in it.

 

[Hakunamatata]

Good point. I still can't figure out why Captain Kirk was in it.

To hunt down the Cylons.

 

[Tom]

To hunt down the Cylons.

Oh, that's when I left the theater to pee

 

[dizda]

To hunt down the Cylons.

It was Clangers, not Cylons.

 

[Hakunamatata]

It was Clangers, not Cylons.

Arent those the things that go around yelling "destroy!destroy!" with that dentist flying around in the photo booth?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Well here's the Blueprints if you need to see them....

Magic Kingdom's

Disneyland's

 

[Brad Bishop]

I don't know how many drops Disneyland's has, but the one in Florida certainly does not have an extra drop because of a construction/design error. You don't build something like that and find out halfway through construction that things don't line up.

Besides, there are no double-drops in the ride. Every drop is around a bend of some kind.

Kind of.. I'm not engineer but I've watched some TV .. I've seen the shows where they're putting something like a roller coaster together and they put that last piece in and have to kind of work it into position. It's not like it's a 100% perfect fit. It kind of makes sense based on the weather and manufacturing factors. That being said, I don't think that they'd be several feet off on the last bit. It'd be fractions of an inch, at most.

One that is well worth a watch on something like this is Modern Marvels: The St Louis Gateway Arch. Here they have the two sides wanting to collapse inward (they put a huge brace on as they built it) and the Sun beating down on one side making that last piece kind of touch. They used firehoses to cool it down and eventually got it in. Pretty amazing.

Of course.. NASA did send a probe meant for, I think, Mars or Venus, hurtling into space because one team used Imperial and the other team used Metric.. So dumb things do happen.

 

[dizda]

Arent those the things that go around yelling "destroy!destroy!" with that dentist flying around in the photo booth?

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) narrates the U.S. version of the BBC children's show, Clangers. The Clangers are basically pink space elephants. Daleks are the ones trying to kill the orthodontist in the toll booth. Cylons hate Pa Cartwright because he wouldn't let them take over the Ponderosa, which he had stolen from Luke Starkiller. You should watch the movie again.

 

[Csmith041177]

Splash Mountain is my absolute favorite attraction in all of WDW. I have done a lot of research on the ride, and I have never heard that one before (which certainly does not mean that it is not true). Now, there are certainly a lot of different hills and false drops in the attraction (which is one of the reasons I love it). But again, never heard that a mistake led to one. By the way, I love the attraction so much that I did write a 2 part article on the history, backstory and review of the ride for my blog if any of you are interested. http://www.disneykidagain.com/splash-mountain-history-backstory-and-review-part-i/.

 

[Victor Kelly]

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) narrates the U.S. version of the BBC children's show, Clangers. The Clangers are basically pink space elephants. Daleks are the ones trying to kill the orthodontist in the toll booth.

EXTERMINATE

 

[dizda]

EXTERMINATE

Resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated.