Epcot Power Outage 12/3?

[CatLady]

What happened at Epcot today? I was there at about 1pm and nearly everything in Future World was closed. The poor CM at the tip board was inundated with people asking why the times listed on the tip board had nothing to do with reality. At that point, all she could say was "Well, Seas with Nemo and Friends, Honey I Shrunk the Audience, and Living with the Land are open. And Test Track should be open soon." Another CM stepped in and pointed out that all of World Showcase "except America" was functioning, too.

From what I gathered from other CMs at other attractions, there had been a power outage. Why does it seem that Epcot more prone to power problems than the other parks?

 

[darthjohnny]

Wow, if this was a new power outage, it is the second in 2 weeks! I remember there was a huge blackout that took out Magic Kingdom and parts of Epcot last year on Christmas Day.

 

[Hakunamatata]

Does anyone remember any patterns to power outages in the past? Like certain numbers of outages while they were building parks? Could they be trying to tie in power to the fabled Fith Gate?

Sorry, I couldnt help myself. :lookaroun

 

[marni1971]

^ perhaps it was a brown out caused by the Worlds Reactor switching off? You know, what they have to do when they test the silo missiles...?

Seriously, any ideas what happened? Either these incidents are becomming better reported, or they are happening more often.

I suspect the former.

 

[Chape19714]

I was at Mousegear around 11 and the lights flashed quickly, but came right back on. I don't know what happened, I was at Animal Kingdom by 1.

 

[MrNonacho]

The power glitch occurred around 11:45 and took down pretty much everything. I was Body Wars tower at the time, and I thought it was just us at first. Then the radio activity started picking up... Fun!

 

[Tim G]

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Again it was the mrs. her fault using that darn old vacuum cleaner...


Again I told her what would happen and that she would shut down the whole grid... :lookaroun


Again she wouldn't listen... *sigh*



Women...


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[marypoppins68]

I was at Epcot today. I was eating lunch in Mexico at that time and didn't notice anything at all. Guess we missed it completely.

 

[Swamp Fox]

Maybe it was the father in the Carousel of Progress showing off all his new fangled gadgets using "snap on" eletric power, but instead of taking out his house and the neighborhood he took out EPCOT as well :lookaroun :hammer:

Swamp Fox

 

[figmentmom]

Hee hee, Universal strikes again. 'Course it took one heck of a mighty long extension cord, but they successfully ran their parks for a couple more hours on Disney's dime. Whatta company! :drevil:

 

[Frosty689]

Well, I'm going to try to use logic here, and be serious lol.. Well i think it probably has to do with the amount of lights that are now being strung in MGM, Magic Kingdom, and Epcot. Maybe? I'm not a very good electrician and i dont know where Disney world gets there power, but i bet that has soemthing to do with it.

 

[Tim G]

Well, I'm going to try to use logic here, and be serious lol.. Well i think it probably has to do with the amount of lights that are now being strung in MGM, Magic Kingdom, and Epcot. Maybe? I'm not a very good electrician and i dont know where Disney world gets there power, but i bet that has soemthing to do with it.

We changed history today...

From today we all say, it all started... by a vacuumcleaner...

 

[Chape19714]

Well, I'm going to try to use logic here, and be serious lol.. Well i think it probably has to do with the amount of lights that are now being strung in MGM, Magic Kingdom, and Epcot. Maybe? I'm not a very good electrician and i dont know where Disney world gets there power, but i bet that has soemthing to do with it.

Even with that sheer volume, Lighs don't pull an overly large amount of power. Not as much as you would think anyhow. Stage lights do pull some power, but not enough to bring down the resort.

 

[jrobb]

The power glitch occurred around 11:45 and took down pretty much everything. I was Body Wars tower at the time, and I thought it was just us at first. Then the radio activity started picking up... Fun!

Radioactivity started picking up??? Oh no! The fallout must have been horrendous

 

[mkepcotmgmak]

i just watched "SUPERMAN RETURNS" for the first time last night... WHICH ONE OF YOU IS MAKING A KRYPTONITE LAND MASS NEAR EPCOT??? THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW? :hammer:

 

[MrNonacho]

Radioactivity started picking up??? Oh no! The fallout must have been horrendous

Perhaps "radio chatter" would have been a better choice of words...

 

[Frosty689]

i just watched "SUPERMAN RETURNS" for the first time last night... WHICH ONE OF YOU IS MAKING A KRYPTONITE LAND MASS NEAR EPCOT??? THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW? :hammer:

haha i love all of the members here.. your all so funny .. u guys like to have a good time.. true disneyites!

 

[Pluto_is_my_fav]

There were also some problems at AK today. Expedition Everest was down for about 2 hours (right when we were getting in the cars) We got back on just before the park closed.

 

[darthjohnny]

i just watched "SUPERMAN RETURNS" for the first time last night... WHICH ONE OF YOU IS MAKING A KRYPTONITE LAND MASS NEAR EPCOT??? THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW? :hammer:

Really? I just saw it too for the first time! Funny! :lol:

 

[Big-Bad-Dave]

Really? I just saw it too for the first time! Funny! :lol:

I havent seen it yet, what did you think?