Doesn't matter it seems. An alarm will necessitate a building evacuation.
Where I work there are several zones. I work somewhere not unlike the Avland show building. One zone alarm requires a full evacuation of the complex.
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Na'vi River Journey reviews, comments and questions
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Where I work there are several zones. I work somewhere not unlike the Avland show building. One zone alarm requires a full evacuation of the complex.
sedati
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I'm glad your place of business and Disney take them seriously. I have a side job in a large mall where the fire alarms have become a joke. Every time I arrive I usually spot a fire engine at one of the entrances. We seem to have an alarm go off in our zone everyday, and if not- if you listen carefully, you can usually hear one going off in the distance. No one, not even the customers, bat an eye. Children are usually distressed by this as they are the only ones who take it seriously. It took a shooting to actually evacuate the mall. Then, a month later, several large panes of glass simply fell out from a store distant to ours (no one got hurt luckily) and someone yelled "GUN!" This caused a human stampede the likes I had never experienced before (a busy Saturday afternoon.) For a place that is so slow to react, it took them only minutes to make announcements that this was a false alarm and begged everyone to come back inside and spend their money (the floors were absolutely covered in Starbucks and IceCream dropped by the fleeing masses- how nobody slipped and fell is amazing.)
Anyway, safety first, but hopefully there is something that can be done if this is a persistent problem.
Little Green Men
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I thought the ride is exactly what DAK has been lacking: a completely smooth, relaxing ride where you just take in the scenery. Sure the safari can be relaxing, but the speeding up of the safari vehicle can make it a bit intense. I wouldn't wait an hour but I'd definitely wait 15-20 mins.
RSoxNo1
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Aren't RnRC and Tower of Terror connected to the same power source?
As with any journey there's a reason for taking it; here there isn't one. The ride suffers from a few things but it's biggest setback IMHO is the complete dismissal of the destination; the reasoning for taking this point A to B boat ride in the first place. It's nice to look at but rather pointless. I'd compare it to Grand Fiesta Tour but in many aspects NRJ is worse. At least Grand Fiesta Tour establishes a storyline, intro and finale.
I don't recall a power issue to take both sunset attractions down simultaneously.
Prototype82
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Not sure how a voice over would make sense. It would sound like the voice was coming out of nowhere. Pandora strives to feel real and first person. I feel like it would spoil the illusion.
Yes, and for a brief time so was the (then-working) animation studio. (RnRC was built where Feature Animation's overflow trailers used to be). Every time the Tower elevators dropped in one of the two shafts it caused the animation rendering system to fritz for a moment. After a few weeks of lost productivity, the power was reworked.
That could be remedied by adding a speaker box to each boat; a themed add-on piece of tech provided by Alpha Centauri Expeditions.
WDWFREAK53
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I thought that ACE was for FoP but the NRJ was to be completely indigenous and free of human exposure.
:shrugs: that may be but I would argue that ACE could have helped to better establish the NRJ's backstory and ride narrative. I think it's absence diminishes the ride's potential and overall experience.
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Prototype82
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ACE is involved with both technically. The flora fauna plaques, the cast member uniforms, and the mental number plaques at the loading confirm this. I believe I read somewhere that ACE was involved in the creation of the boats.
This happened once, I think, in the two years I worked at Tower and had not happened before.
What did happen a few times at MK is the system that runs the compressed air for the park went down, which took down a handful of attractions at once.
Compressed air is a park utility? Like running water or, in New York City, steam?
Cosmic Commando
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I also remember reading that humans made the NRJ boats using Na'vi techniques.
Yes. Think animatronics.
peter11435
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Among other things. If the park air goes down most attractions go down with it including many with no animatronics.
From what I understand, the way the Magic Kingdom was built everything was designed to be operated centrally to streamline operations. The DACS facility under Fantasyland, for example, would operate automatic doors on the other side of the park and play the background music at hotels a mile away. Whether the issue was related to the compressed air itself or the system that monitored it, I can not tell you. I just had to deal with the outbursts of guests who were very unhappy half the park was down on several occasions.
The odds are stacked against us but I'm hopeful NRJ gets a 2nd look eval and possible redesign in the coming years to fine tune and give this ride more depth.