If something does not work during the opening ride through then it does not open until the problem is fixed. It's called a delayed opening... Your plan would work and I agree that more than one ride-through should be done, but neither you nor I are in charge of that so I don't worry about it. It just irks me when someone and moans about a problem, but does nothing except post pictures on the internet to try and humiliate, in this case, Disney.
Fair enough. But, due to the sheer volume of issues Disney has, they should feel humiliated. If it was just this, for a day or two, that's one thing...but, how long until it gets fixed?
This is a very small example, and in and of itself is forgivable (you are correct, things break, and it's not always easy to fix them on the fly, especially with animetronics or complicated mechanical systems)
All combined, issues like these (and countless others) are examples of how Disney management isn't supporting their teams and have lost their attention to detail. They should feel ashamed, and they deserve to be humiliated. Not the CMs doing the work, per se, but the attitude that permeates from above that has soaked down to their level.
A very tiny thing, but I wonder if Sally's hood emblem at AoA has been replaced yet. It was ripped off in August of 2012, and on my 2013 trip still hadn't been replaced. I wonder if it's still missing.
This should be something that the hotel maintenance manager, or at LEAST the General Manager should have noticed after a year of it being missing, don'tcha think? And it's easy to replace.
When I stayed at POFQ, a was missing on my bottom drawer making it hard to pull out. I called the front desk. For my 11 day stay, it never got replaced.
When I stayed Atrium level at Contemporary, someone broke the Magicband scanner to get to the Atrium Club level in the west elevator. I was only there two days, but it didn't get fixed during that stay...I wonder how long it stayed like that?
And, I haven't even gotten into rides...
As I said, it's a reflection of a general attitude that permeates.
When I'd take over a similar (granted much smaller scale) operation, PM scheduling was one of the first things I'd tackle. I'd put the tech on a PM schedule (which many didn't like at first) that forced them to touch every game daily (twice daily, actually), detail clean and PM the mechanics and electronics once a week, do a lighting and show check as well as an animetronics movement check (to look for broken cylendars, loose movements due to worn joints, etc...) once a week, and a teardown and PM of each character once a week.
This worked in a smaller scale, and would be harder to do at Disney, I grant. But, there's no reason why they couldn't tighten up what is obviously a very loose ship in this respect.
