Carousel of Progress refurb?

[ToTBellHop]

The historical significance angle didn’t save MV3D.

Nothing’s safe, ultimately. Other than the castles.

They did just refurbish the seating, suggesting a commitment to operating a rotating theater. This is similar to MV3D’s work that suggested a theater show would remain there, too.

 

[Advisable Joseph]

Please define “major overhaul”. Could one person call a week long closure a major overhaul? A month? A year? I mean it’s a motor, I bet they’ve replaced them at times over it’s long life right?

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If Disney were to fix this issue, they would have to redo the entire carousel. The catch is though, not enough people ride it per hour and management is looking to either replace it or remove it entirely. According to my source, nothing is set in stone and these are just talks.

Emphasis mine. I can't give a timetable.

 

[peter11435]

Emphasis mine. I can't give a timetable.

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

Motors can be replaced without redoing the entire carousel.

 

[Agent H]

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

Motors can be replaced without redoing the entire carousel.

That’s honestly great to hear. Carousel of progress is a lot like muppet vision where I think you can feel the soul of a certain person. In this case Walt Disney so I would hate to see it go.

 

[Advisable Joseph]

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

Motors can be replaced without redoing the entire carousel.

Are you sure of that?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Are you sure of that?

They’ve replaced motors in the past, somehow.

 

[Advisable Joseph]

They’ve replaced motors in the past, somehow.

Have they?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Have they?

The current functioning ones have not been working continuously for 50 years. It’s not that complicated. Not free, but they’ve already shown a willingness to invest in CoP in recent years.

 

[Advisable Joseph]

The current functioning ones have not been working continuously for 50 years.

Again, it sounds like you're making an assumption, not talking from expertise here.

 

[peter11435]

Again, it sounds like you're making an assumption, not talking from expertise here.

Motors can be and have been replaced

 

[FerretAfros]

We're talking about CoP, the attraction that never has a wait time longer than the next show...underutilized and ignored by guests for decades.

It's worth remembering that COP has one of (if not the) highest hourly capacities of anything in Walt Disney World, including famously high-capacity experiences like boat rides, omnimovers, and the resort transportation system. It's one of the few (only?) attractions that has adequate capacity for every visitor to the park to be able to experience it during a typical day of operations.

Even running at only 50% utilization (which, granted, does not happen very often), it still has a higher hourly throughput than recent headliners like Flight of Passage, 7 Dwarfs Mine Train, or Tron.

The short wait isn't a flaw: it's a feature, one that was central to its inception.