lazyboy97o
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They don’t want to. There is also fighting over whether or not the fix should be paid for by the park or Walt Disney Imagineering.
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The Grand Inquisitor
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That's just stupid. It shouldn't be that much to fix it.
lazyboy97o
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This is Disney, nothing is cheap.
They have to:
1. Build a new one that won't have the same internal problems the old one had.
2. Affix it in such a way that it meets the now more stringent guidelines for very heavy objects swinging over guests' heads.
3. Decide which other attractions get delayed while they put a team on this case.
Incomudro
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It seems to be a combination of cost coupled with there needing to be a redesign or reconfiguration of the Yeti for safety reasons concerning it's movement above people's heads and what might happen if it suffered a catastrophic structural failure - like if its arm were to break off and come crashing down on riders.
Which is well... A matter of cost.
Seabasealpha1
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I get that. All the more reason.
Seabasealpha1
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I say imagineering. If this were a car, GM would issue warranty repairs...
Along that same analogy, would GM honor the warranty if you never did the maintenance?
Seabasealpha1
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That the case?
Kind of. WDI discovered the problem early on and prescribed an increased maintenance schedule as a fix. Supposedly, the maintenance was quite difficult to do and was not done at the new increased schedule and the yeti eventually broke.
What we are left with is WDI blaming operations and operations blaming WDI and neither want to pick up the 7-8 figure repair bill.
Kram Sacul
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What about just talking about it? I wouldn’t have known about it if people on here weren’t making a fuss about why we shouldn’t view the video.
There should be a gofundme page for fixing the Yeti. It’s embarrassing.
SuperStretccch
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Rode it on Thursday and there was no yeti silhouette at all in the cave before the first big drop. Audio was just the ambient background noise, from what I remember. Never seen this happen before in the probably 100+ times I've been on this thing, and oh yeah, Disco Yeti was still in full swing.
Dragonman
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What about good ol’ bird on a stick
SuperStretccch
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Still there, being a bird on a stick!
Musicman20
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I was really shocked that the video came up on my YouTube feed. No doubt Disney will act on it.
I can't believe how he got to the Yeti! But considering he did it in the dark, whilst trespassing, you gotta wonder why Disney doesn't just fix it.
I can't believe how he got to the Yeti! But considering he did it in the dark, whilst trespassing, you gotta wonder why Disney doesn't just fix it.
Disney Analyst
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Just came here to see if that video was being discussed... showed up on my twitter feed.
I know it’s illegal, but that was so cool haha.
I know it’s illegal, but that was so cool haha.
Tom Morrow
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The rumors that the yeti is hard to access are 100% false and if anything, at least this video demonstrated that to everyone.