Disstevefan1
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This is obviously fake news.
Factcheck: WDW is "The most Magical place on earth" NOT the "Happiest Place on earth"
Factcheck: WDW is "The most Magical place on earth" NOT the "Happiest Place on earth"
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What has happened to the place we (used to) love?
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EricsBiscuit
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Give WDW maintenance all the gate you’d like but I find that rides break down at DLR far more frequently and it’s not even close. The two best rides at the resort are down very often: RSR and Indy.
CaptainAmerica
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With the exception of weather. The frequency of lightning at WDW in the summer is a problem, but obviously that's not Disney's fault.
EricsBiscuit
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I’ve been at DLR for the last week and it rained Thursday. The lightest of light rains. Everything grounded to a halt. I asked on the RoA a CM if they were still doing F! And he said in the five months he’s worked there it had never rained! Both F! Showings and fireworks canceled. Meanwhile at MK, I have been on Main Street in the middle of an absolute deluge with wind so strong that firework shell cartridges were landing on MSUSA!
Edited to add:
I had to take a picture of it because I couldn’t believe my eyes!
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Grumpy4196
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Only if you bring our own "Magic" apparentlyThis is obviously fake news.
Factcheck: WDW is "The most Magical place on earth" NOT the "Happiest Place on earth"
Clyde Birdbrain
Unknown Member
From the article:
Is that not on purpose, and always been this way, because Ursula's eels have different colored eyes?
Andrew25
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Dinosaur, Imagination, would beg to differ.
Love the parks, but there's no denying that maintenance/upkeep has been severely impacted at the parks.
Are you saying the article is not true?
Regarding covid, Disneyland Paris was closed an awful lot longer (and twice) than the Orlando parks - closed for around a year in total - but the maintenance and upkeep both after the reopenings and ever since has been amazing. I’ve posted elsewhere I’ve seen effects I didn’t even know existed working.
We need to remember to differentiate between “breakdown” and down time.
It’s more likely to not be “broken”. Broken suggests something broke.
wdwfan22
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Maintenance is definitely slipping in the parks. for example a couple of days ago at Hollywood Studios, Tower of Terror, Toy story midway and Millennium Falcon all were operating at Reduced capacity for extended periods of time. At toy story only 1 track was operating for about 3.5 hours.
bryanfze55
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Disneyland was the worst I’ve ever seen it this past June. Ride closures were more rampant than I’ve ever seen on either coast, and the park was littered with trash to the extent that it genuinely looked like Six Flags.
I rode Splash Mountain first thing in the morning, and there was already an empty water bottle at the bottom of the first lift hill. Ok, whatever… I told the ride attendant when I got off the ride. I rode it again at 9 PM and it was still there.
Honestly, nobody cares. The suits definitely don’t care, and I question how much some of the CMs care. But I won’t blame them, because the tone is set at the top.
It’s still a better overall experience than a typical amusement park, but it has fallen so far from just a few years ago. This is Chapek’s legacy.
I rode Splash Mountain first thing in the morning, and there was already an empty water bottle at the bottom of the first lift hill. Ok, whatever… I told the ride attendant when I got off the ride. I rode it again at 9 PM and it was still there.
Honestly, nobody cares. The suits definitely don’t care, and I question how much some of the CMs care. But I won’t blame them, because the tone is set at the top.
It’s still a better overall experience than a typical amusement park, but it has fallen so far from just a few years ago. This is Chapek’s legacy.
castlecake2.0
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Not making excuses, but it is very difficult to clean trash in a ride during the middle of an operating day while the ride is in motion. It’s not as simple as sending someone through with a garbage picker, there’s a lot of safety rules at play.
To be sure, go back the following day and see if a problem still exists. More so after reporting it.
Benefit of the doubt like you said, but certain things can’t be done until 3rd shift (though conversely a lot of things can)
bryanfze55
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Fair enough, but that was just one example. The queues were also trashed to an extent I’ve never seen before.
EricsBiscuit
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Speaking of broken, Indy is in terrible shape. The snake animatronic has no movement, most of the other effects that aren’t in the main area are not working either (including the boulder scene).
DisneyDreamer08
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Oh! This just reminded me of something
Back in 2008 or 2009, my husband and I were on RnRC and when the countdown ended, the coaster didn’t launch. We sat there for a minute or two and then it took off with no warning. There was no music the entire ride. Just the sounds of people screaming every time it went upside down. Awesome and strange at the same time
el_super
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Yeah... and if Disney started shutting down rides to clean trash, there might be another article complaining about all the rides breaking down.
Splash Mountain at Disneyland is notorious for the lack of access to the show areas due to OSHA regulations. It wouldn't be surprising, with the current state of the labor market, that there is no one in custodial that is trained in the requirements necessary to enter a ride path after hours just to clean up a water bottle.
Definitely not an excuse here, but there are a lot of reasons why this water bottle may end up being stuck there for awhile that don't all related to just management decisions.