WDW Falling apart??

towerofterror8

towerofterror8

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i was there in august and was stuck on splash for 30 minutes rode big thunder at night and the lights were all off rode tower of terror and one of the elevator doors wasn't working and i left and figured they would have it all sorted out, but obviously not. Remember when it was WEIRD if something broke down?
 
GeorgiaPinesRJB

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FrankLapidus

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I don't see how the poster is a troll. I was at WDW in September and we were stuck on Splash Mountain for 25 minutes before we taken off the ride (that was our last day on the 15th so we were diappointed by that) and Big Thunder Mountain was down on three separate occasions over the course of the fortnight we were at the resort so I can empathise.
 
GeorgiaPinesRJB

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From the wording of it being "weird" that things used to not break down...seemed troll-ish to me. As with the overuse of question marks in the thread title. Smells like troll. Besides, there is already a list of things refurbs and mostly everyone is aware some things need to be fixed.
 
FrankLapidus

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GeorgiaPinesRJB said:
Because we all know Splash Mountain needs some work and going down for a refurb soon, tired of seeing posters acting like WDW is falling into complete and utter disrepair. Threads like this just feed the doom and gloomers...
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Fair enough, perhaps I wouldn't have titled the thread "WDW Falling Apart". In the grand scheme of things, there weren't that many rides this year where I noticed many maintenance issues but the problem is that the rides where I did notice such issues are the big attractions where such things seem more obvious and become more magnified: Splash, Big Thunder, Everest. I don't consider myself a doom and gloomer but you can't really gloss over the problems that do exist so in that respect I wouldn't call the OP a troll for addressing issues that are pretty hard to miss.
 
GeorgiaPinesRJB

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FrankLapidus said:
Fair enough, perhaps I wouldn't have titled the thread "WDW Falling Apart". In the grand scheme of things, there weren't that many rides this year where I noticed many maintenance issues but the problem is that the rides where I did notice such issues are the big attractions where such things seem more obvious and become more magnified: Splash, Big Thunder, Everest. I don't consider myself a doom and gloomer but you can't really gloss over the problems that do exist so in that respect I wouldn't call the OP a troll for addressing issues that are pretty hard to miss.
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I'm fine with people addressing issues, I understand not everything will run perfect and pristine forever. However, like I said, there are other threads like this and the way the OP worded both the title and his initial post...seemed like looking for attention and to start a debate that some people on this forum LOVE having. Ergo, a troll.
 
Goofyernmost

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towerofterror8 said:
i was there in august and was stuck on splash for 30 minutes rode big thunder at night and the lights were all off rode tower of terror and one of the elevator doors wasn't working and i left and figured they would have it all sorted out, but obviously not. Remember when it was WEIRD if something broke down?
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If this post is true, and I have no reason to think it isn't, then what you ran into was indeed a "weird" situation. It is, at least in my mind, I have never, in 30 years of visiting WDW been on a ride that broke down when I was on it. I did once have to wait for about 20 minutes to ride PoTC because of some problem, but when I did get to ride it...it went fine. In my case, perhaps some new CM forgot to say good morning to George. I visited the place last December and again in April...no problems either time.
 
The Empress Lilly

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towerofterror8 said:
i was there in august and was stuck on splash for 30 minutes rode big thunder at night and the lights were all off rode tower of terror and one of the elevator doors wasn't working and i left and figured they would have it all sorted out, but obviously not. Remember when it was WEIRD if something broke down?
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Yes, I too remember when it was uncommon for things to break down. Maintenance standards have definately slipped.

My last vacation was a forthnight, and over that time there were many days that Thunder and Splash had issues. When they were completely down, the effects were immediately felt all over the MK.
I had no major issues on ToT.

Thank for your excellent OP. :)
 
GoofGoof

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Not a troll. Also not news or a rumor. Things are broken, not news to anyone. Seems more appropriate as a trip report if you really want to start what seems to me to be a pointless thread. Just my opinion.
 
Bairstow

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I was at WDW from the 19th to the 22nd this month.
Splash, Space Mountain, and Rock n' Rollercoaster all went down for 15-20 minutes while I was either on them or waiting to board.
Splash in particular was down for a long time, closing for the rest of the day right after we rode it, supposedly due to falling rocks or fiberglass or whatever.

However, at no time did we miss out on an attraction altogether due to maintenance issues, and a lot of attractions, like Country Bears, the American Adventure, and Spaceship Earth looked better than I'd ever seen them.

Parks were also a lot cleaner than I remember them being the last time I was there, in '04.
 
scout68

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GeorgiaPinesRJB said:
From the wording of it being "weird" that things used to not break down...seemed troll-ish to me. As with the overuse of question marks in the thread title. Smells like troll. Besides, there is already a list of things refurbs and mostly everyone is aware some things need to be fixed.
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Seems to me (McCarthyism) you might be jumping the gun (get your pitchforks) a bit.
 
ParentsOf4

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marni1971 said:
Indeed. Not a troll. Reporting facts.

You want my list of what was broken?
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I agree with sweetpee_1993. If it's the list I recall reading, IMHO it's good to publish it periodically as a reminder of what remains to be done.

WDW is getting old and needs a lot of maintenance. Unfortunately, management's trend since the mid-1990s has been towards squeezing the maintenance budget. WDW is a great place to visit and I'm happy that FLE, Avatarland, and (probably) Carsland show that TWDC is willing once again to spend at WDW. However, these improvements can't hide the fact that the remainder of WDW is aging and, in some cases, in desperate need of TLC.
 
FrankLapidus

FrankLapidus

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GeorgiaPinesRJB said:
I'm fine with people addressing issues, I understand not everything will run perfect and pristine forever. However, like I said, there are other threads like this and the way the OP worded both the title and his initial post...seemed like looking for attention and to start a debate that some people on this forum LOVE having. Ergo, a troll.
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True, not everything will run perfect and pristine forever; the problem is that Splash Mountain has not run anywhere perfect or pristine for a long time now and nothing seems to be done about it so while that is the case, people are going to talk about it and list the problems there. I do agree that this probably should have been posted somewhere else in the forum beside "News & Rumours" but I don't think it was a post by a "troll".

Goofyernmost said:
If this post is true, and I have no reason to think it isn't, then what you ran into was indeed a "weird" situation. It is, at least in my mind, I have never, in 30 years of visiting WDW been on a ride that broke down when I was on it. I did once have to wait for about 20 minutes to ride PoTC because of some problem, but when I did get to ride it...it went fine. In my case, perhaps some new CM forgot to say good morning to George. I visited the place last December and again in April...no problems either time.
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I've only ever been taken off two rides that have broken down in my years of going to WDW. One was Splash this year the other was Haunted Mansion which was around eight years ago; that was actually pretty cool to walk through the ride with all the lights on and they gave us a FP for every ride that offered them to use that day. We got Splash FP's this year but didn't have time to use them before we left.
Splash is a ride in serious need of work, we all know that.
 

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