Lights, Motors, Action Extreme Stunt Show to permanently close in April 2016

[Pam Hates Penguins]

Has this been mentioned on another thread?

I don't think so.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Has this been mentioned on another thread?

Nope. It was kept quiet but eventually word leaks out.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Nice reference. Shame it went down like that.

Edit: I don't even live here anymore! I dont live/breathe/sleep Disney and *I* am the one who puts this out here first? Jeeezzzz.....

 

[ParksAndPixels]

So there's some really bad news out of entertainment about those cast members.

Everyone who jumped in the pool? Well word on the street is they fired everyone who was part of that.

I thought this was intended as a joke. Stating obvious...

 

[todd23]

So there's some really bad news out of entertainment about those cast members.

Everyone who jumped in the pool? Well word on the street is they fired everyone who was part of that.

Because they jumped in the pool?

 

[PhotoDave219]

I thought this was intended as a joke. Stating obvious...

I'm not joking.

Because they jumped in the pool?

I believe so, yes. I'm not 100% sure of the actual Disney reasoning but thats how a couple of people explained it to me.

 

[cjkeating]

I'm not joking.



I believe so, yes. I'm not 100% sure of the actual Disney reasoning but thats how a couple of people explained it to me.

Easy way to cut the wage bill... #ThanksShanghai

 

[jt04]

I'm not joking.



I believe so, yes. I'm not 100% sure of the actual Disney reasoning but thats how a couple of people explained it to me.

I thought that might happen. I doubt they cared much. Any other job would be comparatively mundane.

 

[DisneyJeff]

So there's some really bad news out of entertainment about those cast members.

Everyone who jumped in the pool? Well word on the street is they fired everyone who was part of that.

I thought they were losing their jobs anyway due to the closing of the show.

(Unless they were going to have the stunt drivers transferred to Disney Transportation.)

 

[olie64]

I'm not joking.



I believe so, yes. I'm not 100% sure of the actual Disney reasoning but thats how a couple of people explained it to me.

Since it was the last show weren't they all fired anyways? (honest question)

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I thought that might happen. I doubt they cared much. Any other job would be comparatively mundane.

Are you kidding? Is that how you think adults work?

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Since it was the last show weren't they all fired anyways? (honest question)

Disney tends to move people around when attractions close. It's entirely possible that many of them were guaranteed other positions within the company - though I'll admit I have no knowledge towards this specific situation.

 

[motox7]

I Doubt that is true that they fired those who jumped in. Basically every one of them jumped in, including this one guy I know who was a driver and is now is playing Indiana jones at the stunt spectacular. Also their manager jumped in the water with them.

 

[Mike S]

I thought they were losing their jobs anyway due to the closing of the show.

(Unless they were going to have the stunt drivers transferred to Disney Transportation.)

I would pay for that bus ride.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Since it was the last show weren't they all fired anyways? (honest question)

Nope. They would have been offered other roles within the company.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I Doubt that is true that they fired those who jumped in. Basically every one of them jumped in, including this one guy I know who was a driver and is now is playing Indiana jones at the stunt spectacular. Also their manager jumped in the water with them.

I've got two solid, independent sources on this that brought it to me. I'm comfortable with my sourcing on this.

 

[Herbie]

Ridiculous.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

I've got two solid, independent sources on this that brought it to me. I'm comfortable with my sourcing on this.

So somebody telling you that they saw someone they know, that jumped in to the pool, and is still working there, is lying?

 

[PhotoDave219]

So somebody telling you that they saw someone they know, that jumped in to the pool, and is still working there, is lying?

Where did I say that?

I didn't say anything about anyone lying. I simply was discussing it I was comfortable with the sourcing on when I put out there.

...... And I'm not the one who just had a fied a cast member to any corporate lurkers out there. That's a rookie move.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

Where did I say that?

I didn't say anything about anyone lying. I simply was discussing it I was comfortable with the sourcing on when I put out there.

...... And I'm not the one who just had a fied a cast member to any corporate lurkers out there. That's a rookie move.

The person had stated that they saw an alleged fired person working elsewhere after they were all allegedly fired according to your sources. Your statement that "I've got two solid, independent sources on this that brought it to me. I'm comfortable with my sourcing on this." contradicts what he saw with his eyes, so while you didn't come right out and call anyone a liar, it was inferred in your post that your sources have to be right, and what he saw could not have happened. That was how I took your statement. If I am completely off-base, then I apologize, but that is how it looked to me sitting at my computer and reading.

 

[JohnWD]

So there's some really bad news out of entertainment about those cast members.

Everyone who jumped in the pool? Well word on the street is they fired everyone who was part of that.

What's surprising to me is that there is a expectation they would stay on. I imagined that they had special skills to be stunt drivers and were paid accordingly, and when the show ended they would go their way. What type of positions would they have transferred to that would use the same skills and be paid the same?