Expedition Everest broken track effect removed?

[ABQ]

Day 10 10/18/2013 Continued…

Yep…

Such an awesome ride with SO much to see. Especially when you get to the broken tracks.
To be continued…

I suppose it was rather easy to see how bad they are.
This is from @blackthidot 's trip report last October. Oddly, no one really noticed how the pieces were missing then, I guess.

 

[djkidkaz]

Rode Everest last night and steam was working, both waterfalls and they have replaced all the prayer flags at the broken track scene. The broken track is still gone and their is scaffolding right below it. Yeti still broke and no signs of anything being done with it.

I wonder if their were sight line issues with some of the changes coming to AK and they need to expand the mountain structure of Everest for show purposes?

 

[Alektronic]

But the Bird on a stick was never really sequenced with arriving and departing trains. I would take repeated trips on the ride and saw the bird would either retreat upon arrival or fly in while we departed, or fly in upon arriving. It always varied, and I thought that is why it wasn't a serious show element. The screeching was to make the bird not seem out of place.

Actually, there were 6 different profiles for bird on a stick so it would do different things each time a train was on the track.

 

[Alektronic]

Its hard to do orthographically without proper reference, but this is the rough position of the broken AAs platform within the building.

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Close, it needs to be further forward closer to the 2nd Roll up door.

 

[Alektronic]

There's not. The only way to get there is to climb those ladders on the outside that I circled in orange, and then follow that path I drew with the arrows INSIDE the building (you can't see the opening from there, though you CAN see the opening where the bird comes out). At least, I am 99% sure that how you get there.
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Edit: Or maybe you follow those stairs along the left edge and enter through that opening and THEN walk around inside...I can't remember now. Either way, it's ONE of those two ways for sure.

There is 2 maintenance stairways, each one going up to each trackswitch, from there you can either walk up along side the track and then climb on the mountain but the easier way is stay inside the mountain on the upper platform then go up the access ladder where there is another platform for the mechanism for bird on a stick.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Did Disco Yeti climb up there with a battery-operated circular saw to cleanly cut the rails? No, she tore them apart with her bare hands.
It's bad show.

I think this is a very rare case where "bad show" actually makes the ride better (from a thrill factor anyway)

 

[bhg469]

The most terrifying thing about that video is what the other people on the train probably wanted to do to motor mouth talking the whole time.. No one gives a damn about who manufactured the ride dude..

 

[Zac Skellington]

Rode Everest last night and steam was working, both waterfalls and they have replaced all the prayer flags at the broken track scene. The broken track is still gone and their is scaffolding right below it. Yeti still broke and no signs of anything being done with it.

I wonder if their were sight line issues with some of the changes coming to AK and they need to expand the mountain structure of Everest for show purposes?

Those prayer flags were way overdue. Have they also replaced the flags around the rest of Asia?

 

[natatomic]

There is 2 maintenance stairways, each one going up to each trackswitch, from there you can either walk up along side the track and then climb on the mountain but the easier way is stay inside the mountain on the upper platform then go up the access ladder where there is another platform for the mechanism for bird on a stick.

But there is no direct access to the bird from either one of those stairways. The trackswitches and brakezones, yes. The bird? No. Aside from the one stairwell which has the roof access halfway up, which leads you to the two ladders that I pointed out in the picture, like you mentioned. I don't think anyone would be allowed to "climb the mountain" to access the bird, even maintenance. At least, not these days with Disney's ever-increased safety protocols and procedures.

 

[TubaGeek]

I think this is a very rare case where "bad show" actually makes the ride better (from a thrill factor anyway)

Ironically, the other major instance of a ride being better due to a broken effect is in that exact same spot. I don't know WHY they insisted on fixing that embarrassing bird-on-a-stick...

 

[note2001]

In all my rides, I never knew where to look for the bird. Now that I've seen it in video I can say it certainly doesn't enhance the ride experience, nor does it detract. Certainly wasn't worth a CM climbing up there in the dark of the night to work on.

If someone's going to be out there climbing making changes to tall structures, I'd much rather see Tinkerbell's cable removed from the castle, but that's a whole debate to itself.

 

[NormC]

That's not bad show. No one gets a zoomed in look at that anyways and it's broken track...supposed to be broken track....there's not exactly a specific way to display broken track right? So even a broken broken track works

Yes, it is bad show. You see the projected Yeti pull UP the tracks. With nothing there the people near the back of the train miss out on the show. Yes, people in front will get a thrill when they see open space in front of them but it is still bad show. But then so is a static yeti with strobe lights.

 

[Cesar R M]

The most terrifying thing about that video is what the other people on the train probably wanted to do to motor mouth talking the whole time.. No one gives a damn about who manufactured the ride dude..

some people talk too much when excited or scared. just saying.

 

[doctornick]

Ironically, the other major instance of a ride being better due to a broken effect is in that exact same spot. I don't know WHY they insisted on fixing that embarrassing bird-on-a-stick...

Eh. While I don't think the bird doesn't much to enhance the ride, I don't see how it hurts it any. As minimal as it is, I'd rather it be present and working than removed.

 

[Rob562]

Those prayer flags were way overdue. Have they also replaced the flags around the rest of Asia?

Actually, prayer flags like those are supposed to be kept until they fade and fall apart naturally. If they wanted to refurb things to keep them fresh but still semi-authentic, they'd replace *some* of the flags with new ones, representing new prayers, and leave others in a semi-tattered state.

-Rob

 

[djkidkaz]

Those prayer flags were way overdue. Have they also replaced the flags around the rest of Asia?

Nope all the rest are still old.

 

[natatomic]

Those prayer flags were way overdue. Have they also replaced the flags around the rest of Asia?

Prayer flags are suppose to tatter and fade. As they are worn by the wind and other elements, that's the prayers being lifted up to the heavens. If there is even a piece of a prayer flag left, it is supposed to be left, because some of the prayer remains. Throwing away a partially-worn prayer flag is the equivalent of throwing someone's prayers away. Of course, the flags around Disney's Asia don't have actual prayers on them so as to not be offensive. They're just printed with animals and various symbols. Still, the tattered flags are correct show.

 

[FerretAfros]

IMO, the yeti will never be fixed. Never. Not after what happened in Paris.

I think the days of large moving parts or animatronics over the heads of guests with no protection in between is over. Mickey's lawyers won't have it.

I know there are a few attractions where that's currently the case... But none that I can think of with as much size and weight (and potential movement) as Everest's Yeti. I'd imagine those few remaining attractions would be grandfathered in.

Um, I can think of one with at least as much size, weight, and movement:

Not only is there the Indy AA directly above guests, but the large rolling boulder that the cars dip under. Plus all of the walls and ceiling move, in order to make it seem like the vehicle is backing up. Although the Yeti is big and menacing, DL's Indiana Jones has the potential for more to go wrong. I don't believe for a second that this is the result of over-zealous lawyers

 

[DManRightHere]

Maybe they will add an enhanced effect. Maybe the dead end track will move or something. I can't think of other reasons to take down on static effect unless it were not stable anymore/danger of falling.

It's strange there seems to be so much going on around AK.

Maybe their preparing for big attendance increase for Avatar? Or just the general upgrading of all the parks?

I hope they can fix the tree and take down the nets, they looked terrible and no one has been cleaning the debris on top of the nets.

 

[LAKid53]

Wow, that was one scary stop. At least you had the curved broken track that blocks your view. I wouldn't want to be in the first car while they are fixing that part of the ride - we'd have to add it to the list of rides my daughter won't due any more, like Space Mountain....