Indy_UK
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I think this will lay more with Josh D'amaro. Where Chapek is pulling strings on finance, I doubt he has much interest in P&R on a day to day basis
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News Expedition Everest refurbishment in 2022
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I think this will lay more with Josh D'amaro. Where Chapek is pulling strings on finance, I doubt he has much interest in P&R on a day to day basis
Bleed0range
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I thought Joe Rohde said in a video somewhere that it was incredibly hard to fix the Yeti. If they’ve been able to remove and put back the Yeti, what’s the reason they cannot fix him? What’s the major problem? Is it that the foundation is what needs repairing and not the Yeti itself?
ToTBellHop
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It isn’t an eyesore from inside the park. That’s always been the metric.
ToTBellHop
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Squishy
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Maybe it's an apartment built into the mountain where the Yeti's family lives.
DisneyCane
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I don't know why this is such a big deal but the back side of Galaxy's Edge isn't. At least there is some attempt to make the back of EE look like something.
ToTBellHop
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I agree. You don’t see this from the park. I find Pandora more distracting because you can’t possibly miss the rocks on sticks when you ride a WDW bus into the park. Plant some bamboo!
IIRC, there was discussion about how the yeti's arm reaching out over the track was some kind of safety issue.
ImperfectPixie
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My understanding was that the forces generated by the Yeti's movement 1) cracked the foundation he sits on, but 2) are also such that it was damaging to the Yeti itself. I could be wrong.
doctornick
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I've always thought that the back of the ride building was pretty decently decorated for something that isn't in a "show" location. YMMV
That's part of the safety concerns -- should the arm break, or the hydro fail, the arm might impinge on the track and its safety area, which, to quote Dr Peter Venkmann, "would be bad."
Foundation is fine. Politics and money.
lazyboy97o
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The problem was discovered during testing. The solution was a lot more labor intensive maintenance which exceeded the amount the park had agreed to perform on the figure. Nothing has happened because the park says Walt Disney Imagineering should pay for the fix because they delivered a figure that met operating criteria and Walt Disney Imagineering says the park should pay for the fix because they didn’t perform the maintenance they were told to perform.
ToTBellHop
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Such BS. A breakage of a major AA is not tolerated on any other rides. Allowing it here is outrageous. And refusing to use a 3 1/2 month refurbishment to fix it is totally unacceptable. If not now, they will clearly never fix it. It’s a pity because it is otherwise an excellent ride.
Tom Morrow
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It's not really that bad. You used to be able to see it from the parking lot but really can't anymore since the trees have gotten taller. You can only see this from certain hotels and Blizzard Beach now. I think the Avatar building is a bigger issue now as its blatantly visible for anyone who rides in on a bus. See also: Galaxy's Edge being blatantly visible from World Drive with no attempt to hide it.
EricsBiscuit
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$5 says the hair ties will still be there. #cheapek
comics101
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I have never understood how fans could believe the rumor that the Yeti figure was too far out of reach to fix or that it could not be removed from its chamber. Disney's construction/engineering units may take a really long time to build new projects, but they're not stupid lol. Of course they're not going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a massive animatronic only to realize after the fact that if it ever needed fixing, it would be unreachable.
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