Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
Sorry, I'm having trouble pulling out your meaning by that comment. Do you mean that what they replaced Mission to Mars with was inferior? I'm just not sure.
Mission to Mars, although interesting it was comical in it's application. If you have been on it you have to recall how the plastic seats that you sat on dropped down during lift off and landing and other then that we all watched those screens to get the rest of the ride. Yes, those screens that everyone is so uptight about now saying that Disney would never do that, existed forty years ago and were replaced by a better show with animatronics that didn't look like department store dummies. AE was a good show but a little scary when you consider the area it was in. Stitch, with all it's flaws, was more, even if not completely, family friendly and had some pretty good animatronics as well.
My point being that, at the time, that stuff was the state of the art and was liked by many people, myself included. I would have a hissy fit if they were to introduce it at this point in technological time. Look at the number of people that are still on suicide watch because they took out that day-glow cardboard cutout carnival ride known as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. EE cannot be compared to any of those. This was (still is) a major break through (pardon the pun) in animatronics strictly because of it's size. Somebody was much more of an imagineer than an engineer and designed something that wouldn't hold up. It's a bad show, but, mistakes happen and this was a big one.
They have made it clear that it is not a simple fix and anyone that had to spend that kind of money, Walt included, would weigh it's need to it's cost. EE is still a very popular ride with or without a working Yeti. Only a handful of us even know what it is supposed to do. If they can get money out of accounting to repair it to full working order, it is going to be just short of a miracle. However, miracles sometimes happen. Keep a happy thought.
