Do you think Disney will finally fix the Yeti after Universal opens their new King Kong ride?

lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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DisneyJunkie said:
And my point, which was clearly lost on others, is that it also doesn't change the fact that we're talking about something possibly seen within a split second of time.....whether anyone sees it or not, it's hardly something to get upset about. It changes nothing about the ride experience itself. It's not as if we're talking about a stationary object like Cinderella's Castle that, for example, could have a very noticeable bad paint job on it and is just left that way. That is something everyone would notice and so would need to be fixed.
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And you did the surveys and studies to figure out how much people saw the figure?
 
networkpro

networkpro

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Yes
IMHO the shadow animation is more effective that the physical prop even when it worked. It displays a fuller range of motion than the Yeti arm ever did. Its a few seconds out of the 2 minute and 50 second total ride duration.
 
Prototype82

Prototype82

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TP2000 said:
Not a Yeti, but an Abominable Snowman, but they are both big guys from the same genus and on the same payroll...

Matterhorn Bobsleds just reopened today from its 5 month refurbishment to update the Abominable Snowman (3 Animatronics of the same guy appears in the ride actually, and the CM's call him Harold). Harold also now appears digitally, as a projection behind ice walls on the lift hill.

Pretty impressive for an update to a 1959 attraction that was nothing but steel framing inside when Walt opened it!



Similar work could easily be done on Expedition Everest and its Yeti. All it takes is a few months of refurbishment and a WDW executive team that knows they are in show business first and foremost.
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Holy smokes...That digital effect through the ice is gorgeous.
 
erasure fan1

erasure fan1

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DisneyJunkie said:
Couldn't disagree more, though I'm certainly fine that you're entitled to your opinion. I've experienced EE both with the working Yeti and without (mostly without) and nothing at all is missed by it not working. It goes by so fast that there isn't any "full glory" to be seen. It's a "blink and you miss it" moment out of the entire 3+ minutes of the attraction.
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I guess I must be a Jedi or something because it was always very noticeable to me.;)

DisneyJunkie said:
Disney has no reason to be embarrassed over it. What they SHOULD be embarrassed over is letting garbage like Dino-Rama exist anywhere in its parks.
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Now this I couldn't disagree more with. If I remember correctly didn't Everest cost over a 100mil to build (most expensive coaster ever built) and was planned over 6 years? And isn't the Yeti the largest and most complicated AA Disney has ever built? So in my eyes no matter how you slice it, Disney should be embarrassed. Either for the fact that it hasn't worked for most of the rides life, or people like yourself who don't notice something that expensive and supposedly integral to the rides story. Either way that equals embarrassing in my book. All the effort that went into how Disney promoted this thing was "encounter with the Yeti.....!" I get you don't care because it's not a long enough exposure, but to say Disney shouldn't be embarrassed, I can't agree with.
 
LAKid53

LAKid53

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If they do, I hope it grabs the obnoxious kid I had to ride with yesterday. "Have you ridden this ride before? I've ridden it like 30 times [is this going to be one of those my **** is bigger than your **** contests? Because you look like you're 12]". "Yes, at least 50 [beat you]". Then had to endure him screaming all throughout the ride, "I'm gonna die [oh, if only that Yeti WAS working, because you just might get your wish. 'Gee, I don't know what happened to that kid - I remember something reaching down and then he was gone.']." Then his screams to his older brother/friend as the ride stops, 'Did you hear me?" Yeah, we heard you. Walt in his grave could have heard you. And thanks for ruining the ride for the rest of us with your stupid antics. I was seriously tempted to ask the CM if I could ride again because the spoiled brat ruined the experience, but it was a 70 minute standby time by then and I didn't think it was fair to other riders.

BTW, the bird was missing at the broken track. And riding in the first row is a little scary when you get to that point - I usually ride in the last row. "Gee, I sure hope the brakes on the track are working."
 
DisneyJunkie

DisneyJunkie

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lazyboy97o said:
So people are just lying about what they see to make you look bad?
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No, they're lying to make themselves look bad and to simply give them an excuse (regardless of how lame) to get upset over nothing.

And the lying isn't in the sense of not having ever seen the thing move. That's not it at all, because I've seen it in action myself. The lying is in the way it's projected to be some huge major issue that makes or breaks the ride.....it's not.
 
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NormC

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The Yeti is a huge part of the show and needs to be fixed regardless of how long some people perceive it to be visible. It is all about putting on a great show versus a good show. Without the show it is just a coaster.
 
DisneyJunkie

DisneyJunkie

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NormC said:
The Yeti is a huge part of the show and needs to be fixed regardless of how long some people perceive it to be visible. It is all about putting on a great show versus a good show. Without the show it is just a coaster.
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No it isn't......not by a long shot. It's a split second of the entire show that doesn't need to be fixed, regardless of how many people absurdly make it out to be the greatest thing in the history of mankind.
 

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