Major 2015 Pirates of the Caribbean Refurbishment Watch/Rumor.

[dstrawn9889]

lets just speculate here... 105 days... first two would be drain the flume days... and then the last 5 or so for refill, boat loading, defoaming and de-focculant, chemically treating and PH correction... so 97 days of work... concrete work(if any) takes 25+ days to cure... so any flume leaks would have to be tackled FIRST, demo of concrete creating a goshdamn mess of dust and crap in the air, so likely no other work inside to be done while demo is on (they would have to be removing textiles from the ride while it is draining, and any AA's that need extensive work in shop. exterior would be pump PM/replace, valve repair/replace, boat modification(say fill any bilge with minimal expansion foam for buoyancy, mod the undersides<keel reduction to minimize bottom-outs>) pressure wash the boats and install drain check valves(to rid boats of standing water). the interior space would have to be cleaned to spotless(no crap in flume for the water to stir up), which means pressure wash flume area, and probably leaf blowers to remove construction dust.
::::EDIT:::: these would be what i would look for, if say i was in charge of the refurb, and had minimum time to return the ride to basic functionality, where all the set dressings could be worked on/ swapped overnights after the ride opened again later.

 

[The Mighty Tim]

Just as an aside - I'm curious. How do they go about draining the ride and refilling it?

 

[dstrawn9889]

i would expect it to go to a holding basin, like the one for splash... but being the ride is so much older, it may not have one; dumps into RoA?

::::EDIT:::: after looking at Google earth, i see no basin, so it would have to dump into JC or RoA (controlled ponds, since no fish are supposed to be in them anyway), they wouldn't(well shouldn't) discharge treated water into SSL or the canals

 

[RSoxNo1]

Just as an aside - I'm curious. How do they go about draining the ride and refilling it?

2 sump pumps.

 

[dstrawn9889]

as you can see below, no retention pond

 

[dstrawn9889]

2 sump pumps.

well to begin with i would say they (if they had a valve bypass) use the flume flow pump to discharge overboard, until the water level was below the pickups... then they would have to run a main drain or sumps dropped into the low points

 

[dstrawn9889]

its like a swimming pool... writ huge

 

[aladdin2007]

so phil holmes gets his way again

 

[minniemickeyfan]

Hooray for moving it back to .june 8th! Now I can catch it right before!

 

[unclejay1960]

Quoted for truth! And I believe it was a certain person who said:

"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."

-Walt Disney

yes but walt never had to buy a ticket everyone else should just enjoy

 

[imagineer boy]

yes but walt never had to buy a ticket everyone else should just enjoy

..... What?

 

[Next Big Thing]

as you can see below, no retention pond

Is it in anyway possible it uses the Splash retention pond? That one is HUGE, it's just a little far away.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Is it in anyway possible it uses the Splash retention pond? That one is HUGE, it's just a little far away.

No. Maybe it has a retention pond inside its ride building?

 

[Next Big Thing]

No. Maybe it has a retention pond inside its ride building?

Possibly. Someone like @marni1971 may know.

 

[marni1971]

Possibly. Someone like @marni1971 may know.

So far as I know, no.

Splash was built in 92. PotC in 72. So no sharing either.

 

[Figment2005]

Just as an aside - I'm curious. How do they go about draining the ride and refilling it?

Lots of pumps. If it works anything like Kali, it can be completely drained and refilled in a matter of minutes.

 

[Incomudro]

All the higher ups and imagineers that I personally know and talk to genuinely enjoy it and don't ever leave because they love it so much they can't see themself working for any other company. Obviously it's not perfect, the place is the size of San Francisco it's NEVER going to be perfect no matter who's running it.
Its really silly how people keep insisting that Disney World is so terrible. I live in Santa Ana, i've been going to Disneyland and Walt Disney World for 30 years. I went on Pirates at WDW tonight and nothing visually seemed wrong with it, all the AA's were working and even the mermaids and blackbeard looked fine. I'm not stupid I know there are a lot of things that need work to keep it running well for years down the road (one of my good friends had the pleasure of riding it over 10x between 2-5am recently, tracking exactly how wet she got after every ride so WDI could do their study of how the bumper size affected the splash on each boat), but to say riding it in its currently state is terrible show and it's a big disaster is just not true. The park in general was just extremely pleasant tonight: clean, friendly staff, FP+ worked great. I have been to almost all of the theme parks in the country and DLR/WDW still blow all of them away. Disney is so much better than all of their competition its not even a discussion.

So keep posting how terrible WDW is, i'm not stupid, I have "in's" just like anyone else here and keep up with what's going on. Disney is going to do what they have to do to make money and have strategies on how to allocate their capital like any other business. Was talking to a friend recently and he was telling me how they have their attendance projections mapped out for DHS leading up to 2020...and that attendance looked a LOT higher than it is now. They don't spend it all at once, it's spent over time like any business. I guess I should be so grateful on how many experts there are here to tell me why I should not enjoy the parks anymore.

It seems that many people on these boards believe it is their duty to find all the flaws and report them.
I've got a father in law and brother in law like this.
Buy a new car, and they believe it is their duty to look it over 'till they find something wrong with it.
Do a job, like paint a room for instance and they'll point out to you the spot you missed.

 

[ChrisM]

Just as an aside - I'm curious. How do they go about draining the ride and refilling it?

Approximately 7 thirsty camels.

Then they bring in Rick Moranis after a few days at the Elsinore Brewery to refill it.

 

[WelshBatman]

Then they bring in Rick Moranis after a few days at the Elsinore Brewery to refill it.

Take off... you hoser...

heh nice strange brew reference

 

[RSoxNo1]

I still think they use two sump pumps