Hopper missing from It's Tough to be a Bug.

[Captain Hank]

My Source? ME!! I have personally worked on everything in the Safari, including Safari vehicles, the dispatch lights and station gates at load, all the various audio triggers throughout the ride, the Tlilting Bridge, the smoke and water effects and the geysers, the Rabbit Rover (poachers jeep), Little Red, the pilot, Ms Jobson, the airplane, all the controls located in the Ranger's Station and even when Little Red was located where your break room is now.

Oh, didn't know that. Cool! In that case, I wonder how the weight thing got started. It's pretty much universally believed among safari drivers.

Continuing topic drift: I don't suppose you could shed some light on the reasoning behind "Magic Bus?" As in, was there any particular reason that song was chosen?

 

[Alektronic]

Oh, didn't know that. Cool! In that case, I wonder how the weight thing got started. It's pretty much universally believed among safari drivers.

Continuing topic drift: I don't suppose you could shed some light on the reasoning behind "Magic Bus?" As in, was there any particular reason that song was chosen?

I don't know how some of these rumors get started, maybe they are just assumptions and it gets spread around and soon everybody thinks it is the truth.

 

[Rob562]

Not that I have any insight to the real reason (not a CM here), but I've always assumed that Magic Bus was either the audio system Imagineer's favorite song, or if you think about it, the trucks *are* kind of a "magic bus". Free-roaming, blocklight systems, cue-able audio...

There's also the first two lines of the song that might have relevance:
"Every day I get in the queue,
To get on the bus that takes me to you."

(Then there's the line "Thank you, driver, for getting me here")

-Rob

 

[Mansion Butler]

I don't know how some of these rumors get started, maybe they are just assumptions and it gets spread around and soon everybody thinks it is the truth.

Years ago, when I was a shiny new CM, I took everything other CMs told me as fact, assuming everyone who works for the company knows everything about the company.

I now realize that we only know about our small spheres of influence, and outside of that, it's as much a mystery to us as it is a casual guest. :lol:

And every false story spread as fact among CMs is done exactly the way you describe: someone makes an assumption, spreads that assumption as truth, and it gains credibility through sheer inertia.

 

[Skipper Dan]

This is strange, the Hopp's has never not appeared for me. I'd be so p----d if he didn't work when I brought someone for the first time.

How does the show's story even play out, without him? Does his voice just appear ghost host style, and everyone just looks around in confusion. :veryconfu :lookaroun

 

[Ubermorph1000]

When i was at AK during Nov. 2010 i went on "it's tough to be a bug" i saw Hopper. After the show ended we where about to leave but i noticed something of where Hopper comes out of. His arm was sticking out of the hole but you could only see his hand hang off the edge. We decided to go on again because we enjoyed it. When it was his time to hop on stage he wasn't there. After the show ended i asked a cast member what happened to him she said he was broken. When we came back home i looked at the tape because i wanted my dad to record Hopper. Then i noticed in the recording that Hopper's upper right arm had gotten stiff after 5 seconds of him moving. This made me believe why he wasn't showing up during the day i was there...

 

[LudwigVonDrake]

Hopper was performing fine on Saturday 7/21. No issues when I saw him.

 

[Disneydreamer23]

I was there in november and he was working fine lol

 

[backinaction]

I find that hopper is hit or miss a lot of the time. He is one of the most complicated AAs in all of WDW, so there can be frequent problems.

 

[bethymouse]

Never seen Hopper not working. Just lucky I guess!