Parade incident in TOKYO - any ramifications here?

[brkgnews]

Tokyo Disneyland has canceled all of its parades after a large pillar toppled off of the Buzz Lightyear float during Disney Dreams on parade (no injuries)...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1fNhLD3pHZ6efqab7uaJLPhv1SwD8U2A9581

One wonders if there will be some type of review/change to any of the stateside parades.

 

[MainSt1993]

Chinese-made parade floats, perhaps? :lookaroun

 

[GoofyDadKB]

No wonder it weighs 650 lbs, what with all that lead paint.

But both of those incidents within a week? Somethings fishy.

 

[goofntink]

Screams heard from the crowd..."OH NO Godzilla!!!":ROFLOL::ROFLOL:

 

[bryPOD]

Good to hear nobody was injured...

On that note, image an entire universe collapsing on top of you?> Crazy man...

<note: I sound like a hippie for some reason... odd>

 

[urbanvegan]

Just to be safe, they should send it over to the Magic Kingdom for a few years so that we may monitor it.

 

[epcot85]

It was going to collapse anyway, they should just take the float and slowly destroy it in plain view of thousands of guest, then they can replace it with a cheaper less creative float. I'm not bitter about horizons.

 

[Dingle66]

Screams heard from the crowd..."OH NO Godzilla!!!":ROFLOL::ROFLOL:

I think you mean "Godzirra", and he lives in Japan, not China.

 

[ChrisFL]

I think you mean "Godzirra", and he lives in Japan, not China.

and Tokyo is in Japan, not China

 

[Enderikari]

It was going to collapse anyway, they should just take the float and slowly destroy it in plain view of thousands of guest, then they can replace it with a cheaper less creative float. I'm not bitter about horizons.

 

[Brwneyedgirl72]

It was going to collapse anyway, they should just take the float and slowly destroy it in plain view of thousands of guest, then they can replace it with a cheaper less creative float. I'm not bitter about horizons.

That was awesome....Thanks - I needed a good laugh!!!! :ROFLOL:

 

[eroyee]

All joking aside, thats too bad. Cant imagine being the guests by where it happened. that must have been awful. I imagine all the disney parks will be re-checking all the floats now for safety.

 

[brkgnews]

I saw video on CNN... the top of the float kind of looked like WDW's Astro Oribiter, but with one of the little green men from toy story on top. The little green guy crashed about two or three feet away from the sidewalk curb!

 

[sandicinderelli]

I saw video on CNN... the top of the float kind of looked like WDW's Astro Oribiter, but with one of the little green men from toy story on top. The little green guy crashed about two or three feet away from the sidewalk curb!

Is that video available online? I did a search, but no dice. Thanks.

 

[Captain Hank]

There's a picture of how the float appeared normally here: http://www.jtcent.com/disneyland/shows/pardop/index.html

Select photo number 39 from the drop-down menu below the pictures.

 

[Fun2BFree]

Deary me! Looking at the picture provided by the previous poster, the top half does look somewhat fragile and top-heavy. Maybe a better design might be needed to avoid events like this happening again.

 

[brkgnews]

Searching YouTube for the video - nothing yet.

On the photo, you see the space ranger (SR) shield... go up from that and you see a green ring, a white cone shape, and a smaller green ring. A wedge of that entire section appeared to shear off, letting the remainder of the top of the float fall over, landing the geren guy on the light blue planet head-first on the pavement.

 

[Spyne]

Aw man, that's too bad. Hopefully everything can be fixed in time and in an efficient manner. At least nobody's hurt, which is the important part.

 

[batman3101]

Here's the video of the accident on YouTube. If you watch the planet actually hits the curb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8YhP2IWGC0

 

[Glasgow]

Talk about bad show .. glad no one got hurt though. That could've been disastrous