Splash Mountain falling apart (literally?)

[Clamman73]

Take that frown, turn it upside down.

 

[case88]

Great news!!! Just 13 more days and I'll be riding!

 

[Paul jr]

Good new's!!! Maybe this will stop all the drama wrote on this tread

 

[ExtinctJenn]

Rode in the third log. All animatronics working. All effects working, audio I haven't heard in years, working. And best of all, that new car, I mean new Splash smell! Best refurb Disney has done in years. Took video but jumping on a plane back to Maine. I'll get it up tomorrow.

Looks a great refurb, audio, lighting improved, paint done everywhere, all AAs working apart from Bluebird at the end. Tarps removed from load area. Laughing place laminar jets all working

SOOOOO happy to hear all this! Now the question is... how long before posts start popping up that things aren't working again?

 

[Taylor]

Awesome! Now to try to eliminate the net problem for good and take it off of the tree of life

 

[wdw71fan]

Told ya (about the AA's) ..

Bluebird will be working shortly..

 

[dannyboyindc]

Thank you, thank you! Nothing of value to add here, but THANK YOU to everyone involved in restoring one my favorite attractions!

 

[djlaosc]

Nice to hear that (just about) everything is working.

Now, all they need to do is fix Bluebird, clean the logs, and maintain this level of quality!

 

[jt04]

Takes time to change corporate culture but as I have been saying for a few years things have changed. Takes time and funds to get to everything. More is involved than that needed to create a Happy Meal.

(And some of you still doubt me.)

 

[tissandtully]

Can someone post a video from today?

 

[GLaDOS]

maintain this level of quality!

That's the key, isn't it?

But for now, I'm happy we got a great refurb of a great attraction.

 

[WeekendGM]

Video of part one.

 

[openendedsky]

This is incredibly encouraging and hopefully they maintain it this time to keep it up to a level of quality.

Video of part one.

That was fast! Not working, though. Nevermind, it's still processing.

 

[ExtinctJenn]

Takes time to change corporate culture but as I have been saying for a few years things have changed. Takes time and funds to get to everything.

I've been saying for awhile now that I like the direction they are going and telling folks to be patient. I can see little things that give me an impression that there is a renewed focus on quality. There were the "dark" years where not only was quality sacrificed but some pretty bad decisions were made and those took awhile to be in place. The same is true of good decisions. You've got to figure that from the day a decision to do something (good) is made, it takes months for a budget to be approved and then months for the project to be drawn out on paper before there is even an announcement it's happening, let alone it has begun. I have faith that things are moving in the right direction. Just looking at the scope of how much is going on at any given time on property is an example of that. It may not be as in-your-face-obvious as an attraction refurb but if you sat down and listed all the work going on across property right now, that'd be a pretty big list!

 

[marni1971]

Indeed. Just had a first hand report from someone who knows his Chik-a-pin.

Hopefully it'll stay like this now too. Time will tell. With the state of other attractions the jury is still out.

 

[Figment2005]

On the parking tram to MK, will be seeing this first hand soon.

 

[WeekendGM]

That was fast! Not working, though. Nevermind, it's still processing.

Just uploaded it on the monorail might be a few minutes.

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

So excited! 49 days till I'm there!

 

[notnothin]

Video of part one.

The attraction looks great! Thanks for sharing your video.

 

[openendedsky]

Just uploaded it on the monorail might be a few minutes.

No worries, thank you!