EPCOT Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

[Disgruntled Walt]

So more of this is broken?

I hope they bought the extended warranty.

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The article mentions that the finale had been neutered in some way prior to being blocked by walls. Did anyone see what was neutered about it?

 

[Disstevefan1]

So more of this is broken?

I hope they bought the extended warranty.

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We knew this attraction would have failures intermittently from the look of the complex, massive water treatment plant/pump station, next to this attraction, on stage, hidden by shrubs.

 

[lazyboy97o]

We knew this attraction would have failures intermittently from the look of the complex, massive water treatment plant/pump station, next to this attraction, on stage, hidden by shrubs.

No, your weird obsession with a standard sanitary requirement of any water recreation facility says nothing about the complexity or reliability of the interactive show elements.

 

[Disstevefan1]

No, your weird obsession with a standard sanitary requirement of any water recreation facility says nothing about the complexity or reliability of the interactive show elements.

OK.
We knew the complex show elements in this children's water walk through attraction would have failures intermittently.

 

[Incomudro]

So more of this is broken?

I hope they bought the extended warranty.

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[monothingie]

No, your weird obsession with a standard sanitary requirement of any water recreation facility says nothing about the complexity or reliability of the interactive show elements.

I don't think this should distract from the fact that it is broken...already. I believe there are other parts that are also already broken and disabled. It's not the first thing in the new Epcot that has quickly broken.

But why would it be ok for complexity and reliability to mutually exclusive? Has WDI gotten so bad that they can't produce anything complicated that won't fail after only a couple of months of routine use?

 

[eddie104]

They are fixing it and that is all that matters.

 

[MisterPenguin]

They are fixing it and that is all that matters.

Indeed. Other things which stopped working are already fixed.

It's easy to hear about things when they break, but getting fixed rarely gets the same attention. Then people think everything about it is broken.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Indeed. Other things which stopped working are already fixed.

It's easy to hear about things when they break, but getting fixed rarely gets the same attention. Then people think everything about it is broken.

Let's look on the bright side, its job security for the maintenance workers......... Until Disney decides its costing too much to keep going

 

[lightningtap347]

It was working yesterday

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

So more of this is broken?

I hope they bought the extended warranty.

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We can call it a FAILnale!

 

[mysto]

The article mentions that the finale had been neutered in some way prior to being blocked by walls. Did anyone see what was neutered about it?

Private parts.

 

[monothingie]

They are fixing it and that is all that matters.

Indeed. Other things which stopped working are already fixed.

It's easy to hear about things when they break, but getting fixed rarely gets the same attention. Then people think everything about it is broken.

The problem is Disney has a HORRIBLE track record on this. If they didn't no one would really care that it was down for maintenance.

 

[tparris]

The problem is Disney has a HORRIBLE track record on this. If they didn't no one would really care that it was down for maintenance.

Especially because many new things at EPCOT are breaking and have been broken for some time now, with absolutely no clear intention to fix

 

[eddie104]

The problem is Disney has a HORRIBLE track record on this. If they didn't no one would really care that it was down for maintenance.

Why do you guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs?

They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

 

[monothingie]

Why do guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs?

They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

 

[Virtual Toad]

Why do guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs?

They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

I can't speak for others, but to me the fact that the state of "show" at Epcot is so poor now, especially when compared to what it used to be, that lack of reliability among newer effects becomes a more glaring issue when so many other effects, new and old, remain broken or in b-mode months or even years after failing.

Ironic that a park systematically stripped of complex effects and moving parts over the past 25 years remains in relatively poor condition, and definitely below the baseline WDW show standards of the past, especially when there are fewer things to maintain.

 

[KeithVH]

Why do you guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs?

They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

Yeah!

And I bet as soon as they get the Yeti fixed, they'll straighten this brand new problem ASAP . . .

 

[DisCOT_97]

Why do you guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs?

They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

The problem isn’t that they’re trying to solve the issue, it’s that this park went through a multimillion multiyear “transformation” and some of the things promised don’t even fully function. That middle area has been behind walls for how long? And those new “lights” stopped working after night one…Moana isn’t even a year old yet and it’s already proving to be a maintenance workload.

 

[tparris]

The problem isn’t that they’re trying to solve the issue, it’s that this park went through a multimillion multiyear “transformation” and some of the things promised don’t even fully function. That middle area has been behind walls for how long? And those new “lights” stopped working after night one…Moana isn’t even a year old yet and it’s already proving to be a maintenance workload.

All of this.