Too bad DCL management didn't operate WDW.....
Why don't they just use World Showplace as the festival pavilion? Makes more sense because it's in WORLD SHOWCASE!
wasn't the crazy reason posted earlier in this thread? How no department could agree who pays for it?
More people like this, please. Tell said CM there are people at WDI who would like to buy him/her a beer.
This is asinine. Old Disney: Would have just fixed it and pulled the money out of discretionary budgets. Fight about the cost later via memo or legal AFTER, but don't let it affect the show. New Disney: Let it sit with walls up for months, blame each other, no one takes the initiative to just get it fixed and argue later. Also, yet again - preventative maintenance lacking - that rockwork should have been treated every 1-2 years, and the underlayment replaced after 10. It was supposed to be - and used to be - turned off and cleaned thoroughly every year. Disney has the money, put it aside in the maintenance budgets to rebuild things, and have a contingency budget to make unintended repairs. This sounds like managers who are ill-educated to do their jobs, and are too young/scared to make the calls. In which case...replace them. Also, why are they repeatedly letting people who sound like they're inexperienced in dealing with wet environments or remediating old rockwork work on this over and over again if they screwed it up in the first place. Get specialized vendors in who know what they're doing.
Anytime mold is allowed to develop in an attraction, custodial should be in there all night remediating until it's gone. If it comes back, they should go back in every couple nights to remove it, then someone should get assigned to find out why it's coming back and then bring in a vendor to get it taken care of. Again, lack of oversight and lack of knowledge on the part of management to let it go as far as it has.
Nobody is mad. I don't think anyone is mad. Nobody said they were, anyway.
I can't believe they are even showing a movie. With Norway not sponsoring the pavilion...I know I probably were a bit to enthusiastic about this whole small refurb... But after spending severeal weeks on this forum reading about all the tragic state WDW is in, I had given up on this company and thought that nothing will ever be maintained and fixed like ever, especially not Maelstrom. When I found out that they changed a lot of small things and cleaned the ride a little with new fixtures, I was overly happy. I have sent an email to some of the Disney people Ive been in contact with to complain about the situation thanking them a lot.
As for the new storm effects, they are new, the old wave machine is not on full, they turned something on but not waves. There are new "cannons" that shoot water up on the oil rig and the mist effect is also new.
I can not believe the movie is still the some old ****, I do believe its been digitalized, because its SO much better now, the doors are also opening and closing now (not both doors, but one of them).
Yesterday the AC did not work, I heard they were doing some maintainance on it, but not sure.
They did remove the bright as hell light from the viking scene, but its been more bright "purple" lights so the scene is more visible, they also installed a new rune stone in the scene. The light on the viking man blowing the horn is also better. It seems like the "waves" on the departing ships is gone, atleast it was yesterday...
The trolls dont come up as fast as they use to do, so its more like a surprise. I hated to go in there and the trolls were already halfway up there...
I know this is how it should have been all the time, and its sad that they let it rot this much before anything was done, but this gives me hope and trust in the company again!
