Jurassic Park River adventure has reopened.

[ThemeParkJunkee]

Rode today using Express. Slight delay. Everything is working except one Dino in Hadrosaur Cove and the dramatic door opening effect as you enter.

 

[Tom Morrow]

It never actually closed. The hurricane damage looked bad but was just cosmetic.

 

[lazyboy97o]

It never actually closed. The hurricane damage looked bad but was just cosmetic.

Losing part of your building envelope is not “just cosmetic”.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Losing part of your building envelope is not “just cosmetic”.

Then why didn’t the ride ever close?

These are just panels that cover the support structure to make it look like a building.

 

[Rob562]

Then why didn’t the ride ever close?

These are just panels that cover the support structure to make it look like a building.

And it was only around the drop out of the building. From a building envelope standpoint, I'm sure once you're beyond the crest of the hill you're probably considered "outside" even if there's a shell of a building around you. There's likely a lot of cast-off moisture from the drop trough and boats, so it's not like they're worried about keeping it dry.

Ripsaw Falls has been closed since Ian, but I haven't heard what happened over there.

-Rob

 

[lazyboy97o]

Then why didn’t the ride ever close?

These are just panels that cover the support structure to make it look like a building.

There’s a whole spectrum between cosmetic damage and unsafe to occupy.

It’s an actual building.

And it was only around the drop out of the building. From a building envelope standpoint, I'm sure once you're beyond the crest of the hill you're probably considered "outside" even if there's a shell of a building around you. There's likely a lot of cast-off moisture from the drop trough and boats, so it's not like they're worried about keeping it dry.

Ripsaw Falls has been closed since Ian, but I haven't heard what happened over there.

-Rob

Being a building envelope is because it’s the exterior wall of a building, not the location of riders.

 

[Tom Morrow]

There’s a whole spectrum between cosmetic damage and unsafe to occupy.

It’s an actual building.


Being a building envelope is because it’s the exterior wall of a building, not the location of riders.

People are riding the ride, it's not "unsafe to occupy." The structure has not been deemed unsafe in any capacity.

 

[marni1971]

Ripsaw Falls has been closed since Ian, but I haven't heard what happened over there.

A lot of water damage.

JP was certainly open October 6th when we rode it.

 

[lazyboy97o]

People are riding the ride, it's not "unsafe to occupy." The structure has not been deemed unsafe in any capacity.

Go back and reread what I wrote. The ride being open was not evidence of your claim that there was only cosmetic damage.

 

[My95cobras]

Go back and reread what I wrote. The ride being open was not evidence of your claim that there was only cosmetic damage.

Ok then…. Other than cosmetic damage, what else was damaged?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Ok then…. Other than cosmetic damage, what else was damaged?

The building envelope was ripped off the building. Multiple points of attachment failed. You wouldn’t describe a hole in the side of Forbidden Journey or Cosmic Rewind as cosmetic damage.

 

[Tom Morrow]

I think we might be using the word differently. You seem to be using "cosmetic" as "light damage". I'm using it meaning "damage that affects the look of something but not the function".

 

[Frankenstein79]

I wish they would redo it like the Hollywood version. The animatronics are so clunky, it makes the whole attraction look halfassed.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I think we might be using the word differently. You seem to be using "cosmetic" as "light damage". I'm using it meaning "damage that affects the look of something but not the function".

My point was that your assessment that the wall serves no function is incorrect. It has a function and the ride not staying closed is not evidence of its lack of function.

 

[ToTBellHop]

My point was that your assessment that the wall serves no function is incorrect. It has a function and the ride not staying closed is not evidence of its lack of function.

Yes. That wall keeps guests in the WWoHP from seeing the ride building for Cosmic Rewind.

 

[marni1971]

I wish they would redo it like the Hollywood version. The animatronics are so clunky, it makes the whole attraction look halfassed.

That was a plan. Then JW was to feature in Epic. Now it isn’t (yet) I’d hope for a good rebuild of the older parts at least. It’s one of those with so much potential with not a lot of outlay.

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

That was a plan. Then JW was to feature in Epic. Now it isn’t (yet) I’d hope for a good rebuild of the older parts at least. It’s one of those with so much potential with not a lot of outlay.

That's news to me that JW could have been in Epic. I'm assuming with the Beijing dark ride? Was it replaced by one of the lands being built now or just scrapped entirely?

 

[marni1971]

That's news to me that JW could have been in Epic. I'm assuming with the Beijing dark ride? Was it replaced by one of the lands being built now or just scrapped entirely?

Pass.

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

Pass.

Fair enough haha