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Splash Mtn Restraints
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WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
I happen to not mind the water cannon, and I to see faces of those who are not having a good time at WDW when they get the water cannon! :ROFLOL:
I think containing safety issues, the restraints me be a good thing.
Bender!
New Member
I think the big issue with the restraints is how restrictive they will be to larger guests. I don't think they're going to make much of a difference in loading and unloading.
Oddysey
Well-Known Member
I have seen this before. Once my wife and I were sharing the boat with a couple of young teenagers who were attempting to impress one another and us. After the big fall as we passed the briar patch the two decided to bail out of the boat. They both ran out to the left, and hopped the small wooden fence back into Frontierland.
The thing is when the second one hopped out, his feet hit the slippery pavement next to the boat and he fell very hard. He did a pretty good job of protecting himself with his hands, but the potential for serious injury was there. Especially if he fell back into the flume.
It may sound mean, but I was happy when they jumped out of the boat. My wife and I quickly grew tired of listening to the two of them cursing over and over, and the incessant high fiving. The kid fell hard, but at least the remainder of our ride was quite.
Bender!
New Member
Haha, karma can be a real pain in the doupah.I have seen this before. Once my wife and I were sharing the boat with a couple of young teenagers who were attempting to impress one another and us. After the big fall as we passed the briar patch the two decided to bail out of the boat. They both ran out to the left, and hopped the small wooden fence back into Frontierland.
The thing is when the second one hopped out, his feet hit the slippery pavement next to the boat and he fell very hard. He did a pretty good job of protecting himself with his hands, but the potential for serious injury was there. Especially if he fell back into the flume.
It may sound mean, but I was happy when they jumped out of the boat. My wife quickly grew tired of listening to the two of them cursing over and over, and the incessant high fiving. The kid fell hard, but at least the remainder of our ride was quite.
WDW FTW
Member
I have seen this before. Once my wife and I were sharing the boat with a couple of young teenagers who were attempting to impress one another and us. After the big fall as we passed the briar patch the two decided to bail out of the boat. They both ran out to the left, and hopped the small wooden fence back into Frontierland.
The thing is when the second one hopped out, his feet hit the slippery pavement next to the boat and he fell very hard. He did a pretty good job of protecting himself with his hands, but the potential for serious injury was there. Especially if he fell back into the flume.
It may sound mean, but I was happy when they jumped out of the boat. My wife and I quickly grew tired of listening to the two of them cursing over and over, and the incessant high fiving. The kid fell hard, but at least the remainder of our ride was quite.
HAHAHA funny story, i know ur post obviously wasnt directed at this point, but idiots trying to jump out of boats and standing up in "Jesus" stance at the top of the drop, doesnt mean disney has to add more safety precautions. It's not their fault, but then again people sue for their own stupid mistakes nowadays...
Phonedave
Well-Known Member
I am 6' 4" - I fit on all the rides, but I can tell you, some are not too comfortable.
The front seats of Space Mountain are bad (seats 2 and 3 are better)
BTMRR, I have to sit with my legs crossed in order to get my knees low enough. If I sit with them straight, the lap bar does come down, but it digs into the tops of my legs. What is really bad is when I ride something like BTMRR that is a side by side seat, but a single lap bar, and I ride with my kids. Either they are too lose and are sliding all over the place, or they are OK, and I have crushed legs.
-dave
Phonedave
Well-Known Member
That and the fact that it's a ride photo, with the water graphic on it.
I would think, that if they are doing work they would have the on-ride photo system off.
-dave
pumpkin7
Well-Known Member
i do not know why anyone would want to jump out. i fear the water, or more like, i fear what is in the water. all those little mechanical things working to keep boats moving? imagine getting your trouser leg stuck in a gear or something. i know the water isn't very deep, but it's what you can't see in the water.
Bender!
New Member
Don't forget that you're pretty close to "shore" on Splash Mountain while you're in those boats.
DisneyExplorer
Member
If you look at this photo vs the one with the water dummies, the one with the dummies has black "railings" next to each seat on the outside edge of the logs. Could those be associated with the new lapbars?Depends on how friendly you are with your fellow riders... ;-)
From one of Theme Park Review's trips:
As for the photo that's being posted on Stitch Kingdom, am I the only one who is wondering why they're being posted as evidence of lapbars when you can't see lapbars in the photo? (The presence of water dummies doesn't necessarily mean lapbars. You can't even see their laps, and the large brown things in front of each dummy are the "dashboard" pads that have always been there)
-Rob
pumpkin7
Well-Known Member
yeah i know, but it's if you say, jumped out the back or something. there's still water, and still gears, and still stuff pushing the boats forward.
POTC, now if i ever had to walk through any of that dark water, omg. it's dark, there's water cannons, there's stuff moving in the water.... shivers down my spine right now.
it's like when i look at old pictures of 20k. i never rode it, but i would have hated having to swim around in there while there was water in there. even walking around it with no water gives me the heeby jeebys. lol.
Yes that is the slot where the bar goes down into the mechanism.
Rob562
Well-Known Member
They're not railings, they're access holes to the interior of the log, but with the cover plate removed. I'm trying to do a photo search to see if there's always been covered holes there (perhaps with some kind of any-slip covering on top, and the removable panel is an easy way to replace it).
If they're new, then yes, they could be maintenance access to the lapbar mechanics, but they wouldn't be open on a regular basis.
EDIT: OK, I was able to find a high-resolution photo of a log, and it doesn't look like those panels were there before. So it's quite possible that this log does have lapbars that aren't visible. Now whether that's an indication that they're coming on ALL the logs, or if this is still the one test log that's already known to be in existence, who knows.
-Rob
Syntho_Magnetic
Member
Don't punish the real guests
People who get out of the logs need to be kicked out of the park - end of story.
If they did that, and didn't pander to these fools, there wouldn't be nearly as much problem. 99.99% of guests don't get out of the logs.
On Splash Mountain I wouldn't worry as much, but the few (and they are very rare) incidents of vehicles in water rides overturning and drowning people freak me out. As with the BTMR fatality at Disneyland, other types of rides have some danger too, but generally with them if you get stuck you get a bad sunburn or mess your pants waiting to get rescued. Water rides have a different element, in my opinion.
And it's just generally uncomfortable. I hate restraints. I'm on vacation, and I want to be as comfortable as possible and relax. If this does go through, I guess at least it's not the seat belts like on the new ToT. And I definitely will not go on a water ride where there at least isn't some way to wiggle out in the event of an accident (i.e. locked seat belts/too tight lap bars).
As for speculation on reduced capacity in this thread - the Screamscape article says "dispatch time between logs has been raised from 12.5 seconds to an estimated 15-20 seconds per log." That's not including the inability for 3 to ride per row.
Sucks all around.
People who get out of the logs need to be kicked out of the park - end of story.
If they did that, and didn't pander to these fools, there wouldn't be nearly as much problem. 99.99% of guests don't get out of the logs.
On Splash Mountain I wouldn't worry as much, but the few (and they are very rare) incidents of vehicles in water rides overturning and drowning people freak me out. As with the BTMR fatality at Disneyland, other types of rides have some danger too, but generally with them if you get stuck you get a bad sunburn or mess your pants waiting to get rescued. Water rides have a different element, in my opinion.
And it's just generally uncomfortable. I hate restraints. I'm on vacation, and I want to be as comfortable as possible and relax. If this does go through, I guess at least it's not the seat belts like on the new ToT. And I definitely will not go on a water ride where there at least isn't some way to wiggle out in the event of an accident (i.e. locked seat belts/too tight lap bars).
As for speculation on reduced capacity in this thread - the Screamscape article says "dispatch time between logs has been raised from 12.5 seconds to an estimated 15-20 seconds per log." That's not including the inability for 3 to ride per row.
Sucks all around.
thelookingglass
Well-Known Member
Well if you had actually read the thread, you'd know that the lap bars are to prevent people from literally getting out of the log (because people are stupid), not to prevent them from coming out of their seat.
jlg263
Member
I hate hate hate when they try to put me in a seat with 2 other people. I can see it with children, but I'm 24 and was with my 2 other friends of equal age and they put us in the same row.
I guess they were just trying to keep us together... but it was miserable. None of us are very big, but we're definitely not children either! Not to mention that my friends were newly-weds with "just married" pins on so that was a little awkward, haha. We thought maybe they did it for efficiency reasons until we looked behind us and realized the last 2 rows of the boat were empty! :lol: