KBLovedDisney
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Ha! no worries.Ahhh... leave it to me to look right past humor. My bad.
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News Haunted Mansion To Remain Closed For Unknown Reasons
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Nick Garrick
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I was just there for a 2 day escape. Just came back
Very sad to see the Mansion not working & empty.
It’s my favorite ride.
Very sad to see the Mansion not working & empty.
It’s my favorite ride.
Pepper's Ghost
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I was just there for a 2 day escape. Just came back
Very sad to see the Mansion not working & empty.
It’s my favorite ride. ❤❤
Sorry for your loss... sincerely. I'd be ill if I went for 2 days and couldn't go on my favorite ride.
Maybe they can set up a little kiosk outside the ride and give away some free bread as a good will gesture.
TrainsOfDisney
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I would imagine those kinds of parts are custom made at a machine shop. Either on property off.
peter11435
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The parts they need are manufactured in house at central shops.
smooch
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See, last time I was at WDW I remember thinking to myself how much steeper it was going down from the attic than I remembered. I can't imagine going down it facing forward while being unprepared for it. If I thought to myself and noticed I was facing the wrong way and braced, I have no doubt I wouldn't have had a problem bracing myself until evacuation as I am young and physically health and have strong leg muscles from skateboarding. However, if someone who wasn't familiar with the ride / it was their first time on the ride, and they didn't know you're supposed to be facing backwards, I could see a situation where something could have happened. Of course, if you talk about what "could have happened" about things, we'd be here all day, but if someone was disabled, even just mildly injured, or something like that, it could have become a problem staying in that position for so long. Even if it's a 1 foot drop off the side, I feel like most guests would remain seated, if anything out of fear of exiting the track then the vehicles moving again, which I know wouldn't happen due to safety precautions but still. I'm glad nobody got hurt and this whole situation is terrible but like others have said, they've been incredibly lucky that these ride malfunctions haven't had serious consequences, like nobody on Jungle Cruise slipping and falling into the water. And even the People Mover had that problem where carts ran into each other I believe? Imagine something on this level happening on something like Space Mountain. Like imagine two carts colliding at a high speed, that could cause serious injury.
I am mainly a DLR guy but watch WDW news and this side of the forum although not as intently, but I really hope they figure out all these issues going on throughout the park. It really is amazing how Iger quit and immediately so many things went wrong, such weird timing. I'm not saying it's Chapek's fault in any way, it's just amazing to me. The problem I see is that with all this happening, Disney needs to invest in proper maintenance like they've been neglecting, but with all the financial impacts of Coronavirus, I don't see them investing much into maintenance past what they already do. And if they did, where would they cut corners to make up for the cost of maintenance.
You know I don’t generally stick up for the company but what’s happened that didn’t happen when Iger or even Eisner were in charge?
I used to work at a large regional theme park that has a very problematic ride (it would go down at least 5 times day...literally). Sometimes the ride would stay down for days but management still wanted the ride fully staffed. By the end of the summer I knew the entire maintenance team really well.
Best part is all the guests already know the ride is always closed so the greeter position was basically a mini-vacation as well.
AdLib cross training would generally disperse cast.
I'm sure WDW knows how to schedule staff and which and when to cut/lessen staff schedules.
Well, a Jungle Cruise boat sank. But that's not really fair. 'Cause after all the Gullywhumper did capsize in Rivers of America. So, I'm going with: Bob Chapek was named CEO.
JC boats have sunk before. WEDWay cars have bumped before. Ride systems have failed before.
MrConbon
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This is an unforeseen issue. The schedules were already made in advance. I’ve worked at rides that have been down all day, management would still want all the positions fully staffed even if it’s not running currently. They likely also rescued extra people out as well to other greeter locations if another attraction is understaffed.
And Monorail doors have flung open mid-ride. - Three words: "Brain Eating Amoeba". - A dragon lit itself on fire. - etc, etc, etc,
I see your point. I just like blaming Chapek.