Yeti is indeed being fixed! Update 8/4/2014

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Unplugged

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GeneralKnowledge said:
When it comes down to it if their options are to rebuild a complex machine with slightly lighter, very expensive materials, or shore up it's supporting structure with more cheap steel and concrete, the choice is obvious, and it's not the choice you suggested.
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I know you're correct about the choice of materials. However, I believe it's safe to say that based on the cost and requirements just to get in there to do the fix, they will be evaluating materials and expenses very carefully with a long term (think "maintenance-FREE") perspective where ever possible. I can ensure there is going to be steel and concrete for pure brute strength and costs, but I would imagine they may find a few critical components, perhaps part of the Yeti structure that would be lightened if possible so they could reduce the force being applied to it for the motion. Reducing the force would go a long way into not having to revisit the costs and ride availability issues again.
 
Beholder

Beholder

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IWant2GoNow said:
Yes, I am. Judge me all you want, but with all of the broken effects that guests don't know about that stay broken is ridiculous for the price people pay to get in. It's my own opinion & I'll keep it. :)
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I think it's a valid point. I'm not sure I would be "more" excited at having the Yeti fixed over a new land, BUT, I would have mixed emotions. Getting a new experience, even on the scale of Pandora is great and all, but with what has been the star attraction still languishing in its broken down disco mode would be troubling. Painting the walls while the roof still leaks kind of thing. Not as dramatic, but that's the gist of it. For me, the bottom line is that the Yeti has become a symbol of what I consider WDW's problems. Symbols are powerful and this might be more of an emotional thing than anything else. But hey, it's Disney, it's all pretty much emotional.
 
Tom Morrow

Tom Morrow

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Kuzcotopia said:
Or how much fuss we made over an animatronic that you only see for three seconds. . . . Maybe over time it will get dusty, and we can complain about the deplorable upkeep of Dustbunny Yeti.
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I predict that a lot of people will have a "that's what the fuss was about?" reaction if the yeti does get fixed. It was cool, but the fan community has made it into a legend that it couldn't possibly live up to.
 
AEfx

AEfx

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Goofyernmost said:
How many will even know it was ever broken? Not many unless they frequent the Disney boards. Percentage wise, that's a very small number.
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Normally I'd agree with that sentiment, however, we have an attraction that had not one, not two, but three television specials made about it, one of which was largely focused on the Yeti, and an entire attraction with a queue and experience set up to "watch out for the Yeti!" which most folks don't even really see in the ride. It's this huge set-up with no punchline.

I've always argued that, even working, it was anticlimactic - you go by him so fast, and most folks are squinting at that point in the ride because of the speed to begin with, even knowing he was there you had to really pay attention to see him - so I'm hoping they will have him lit better this time and make him more obvious.

Martin can correct me if I am wrong, but originally I believe he was slated to be in that big patch of nothing in the center of the mountain, but Disney felt that it was too much like King Kong at Universal, so it was scrapped - which of course is ironic since Kong closed well before the ride actually was finished, anyway.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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AEfx said:
Normally I'd agree with that sentiment, however, we have an attraction that had not one, not two, but three television specials made about it, one of which was largely focused on the Yeti, and an entire attraction with a queue and experience set up to "watch out for the Yeti!" which most folks don't even really see in the ride. It's this huge set-up with no punchline.

I've always argued that, even working, it was anticlimactic - you go by him so fast, and most folks are squinting at that point in the ride because of the speed to begin with, even knowing he was there you had to really pay attention to see him - so I'm hoping they will have him lit better this time and make him more obvious.

Martin can correct me if I am wrong, but originally I believe he was slated to be in that big patch of nothing in the center of the mountain, but Disney felt that it was too much like King Kong at Universal, so it was scrapped - which of course is ironic since Kong closed well before the ride actually was finished, anyway.
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I agree with what you say, but, in spite of all the publicity, as you say, you go by that part so fast that even if they did or didn't know it was broken, they might not know what "working" meant. Therefore, I have to stand by my statement that most guests do not even know that it hasn't been working. The strobes probably did the illusion job quite well. We have to remember that as board people we have discussed this problem as if we had just had some catastrophic thing happen to us, others do not get into that much detail.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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StarBurst said:
i prefer the yeti to be as it was intented to be ..working..

i've seen it working and in other modes..the swinging arm is quite thrilling for me
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Who doesn't, but, you and I and the few thousand other people that frequent these threads are NOT a majority. We sometimes tend to think that just because we feel a certain way about something that everyone in the world does. Sorry, but, that is not the way life works. Would it be nice? Yes! Is it absolutely necessary? Apparently not!
 
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twebber55

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Goofyernmost said:
Who doesn't, but, you and I and the few thousand other people that frequent these threads are NOT a majority. We sometimes tend to think that just because we feel a certain way about something that everyone in the world does. Sorry, but, that is not the way life works. Would it be nice? Yes! Is it absolutely necessary? Apparently not!
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totally agree
 
TalkingHead

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AEfx said:
It's this huge set-up with no punchline.

I've always argued that, even working, it was anticlimactic - you go by him so fast, and most folks are squinting at that point in the ride because of the speed to begin with, even knowing he was there you had to really pay attention to see him - so I'm hoping they will have him lit better this time and make him more obvious.
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Not to mention the train brakes approximately five feet past the thing.

I understand the idea behind the set-up -- but the implementation is a little too cute, since it holds off on the spectacle when a big snow ape and the centerpiece of the attraction ostensibly demands a fitting spectacle.
 

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