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

Soarin' Over Pgh

Soarin' Over Pgh

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RSoxNo1 said:
The plan involves the wooden leg from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean animatronics.
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Unfortunately, due to budget cuts that wooden leg has been down for refurbishment for a few months now.

It's been replaced by this.

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Have a Magical Day!
 
RunnerEd

RunnerEd

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Mouse_Trap said:
Of course, a further motivation behind not fixing this for so long could be the running costs.

I bet running that large hydraulic arm for 12 hours a day don't come cheap, not to mention the maintenance cost.
Not compare that to a couple of flashing lights and some new light bulbs once in a while.

So many have observed over the years over how keen Disney is to reduce running costs, so you could understand management not wanting to spend capital on repairing something that would also significantly increase their running costs..
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I've always thought that if they weren't going to fix the figure, they could put up a screen and do an extremely high quality projection. Castle show quality projection. The speed at which it is visible would make this a viable alternative in my opinion.
 
MichWolv

MichWolv

Born Modest. Wore Off.
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Buried20KLeague said:
As long as you know you're enabling. ;)

Edit to add: I'm also not willing to sacrifice my enjoyment of Disney. Hence, Disneyland, TDL, DLP. But you may be local to WDW, which makes it a LOT for hard to justify scratching your parks itch at a different resort.

And really, I don't fault locals that have passes and go. There still is a lot of good at WDW, and locals don't dump near the money into the bucket that people out of town do. If I lived there, I'm quite sure we would pop into the MK for a few hours each week or what have you.

It's the people that have to get on a plane, buy food, and stay in a hotel for that Disney trip anyway that frustrate me more. And with so many, I think it's fear of change that motivates, among other things.
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You're frustrated that I find WDW to be worth a plane ticket, a hotel, and park tickets, even though you acknowledge that "there still is a lot of good at WDW"? Why does it frustrate you that I find that "lot of good" to be worth my costs? I've been to Disneyland, TDL, and DLP in the past few years as well. The cost of getting to DLP and TDL, as well as the time involved, makes substituting them for WDW a non-starter, even if I thought there was a similar "lot of good" at those resorts (TDL is there is quality, but not quantity, DLP fails in both). Disneyland has comparable costs if I stay off-site, but is far more expensive if I want to stay in a Disney hotel, because there are no moderates or values to stay at. Off=site at Disneyland, I find Anaheim to be unpleasant, while I can have a wonderful stay near WDW in a great place for little cost.

So, on balance, I'll still visit WDW annually or so, even though I know it isn't as good as it could be . Disneyland also isn't as good as it could be (it hits on just about all cylinders in terms of park attractions, but hotels, restaurants and recreation, not so much), and I'll visit Disneyland frequently as well.

And I appreciate your suggestion as to my motivation. It's silly, but I appreciate the suggestion nonetheless.
 
Buried20KLeague

Buried20KLeague

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MichWolv said:
You're frustrated that I find WDW to be worth a plane ticket, a hotel, and park tickets, even though you acknowledge that "there still is a lot of good at WDW"? Why does it frustrate you that I find that "lot of good" to be worth my costs? I've been to Disneyland, TDL, and DLP in the past few years as well. The cost of getting to DLP and TDL, as well as the time involved, makes substituting them for WDW a non-starter, even if I thought there was a similar "lot of good" at those resorts (TDL is there is quality, but not quantity, DLP fails in both). Disneyland has comparable costs if I stay off-site, but is far more expensive if I want to stay in a Disney hotel, because there are no moderates or values to stay at. Off=site at Disneyland, I find Anaheim to be unpleasant, while I can have a wonderful stay near WDW in a great place for little cost.

So, on balance, I'll still visit WDW annually or so, even though I know it isn't as good as it could be . Disneyland also isn't as good as it could be (it hits on just about all cylinders in terms of park attractions, but hotels, restaurants and recreation, not so much), and I'll visit Disneyland frequently as well.

And I appreciate your suggestion as to my motivation. It's silly, but I appreciate the suggestion nonetheless.
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LOL.

Clearly you, who HAS already ventured out to those other places, are not the target of my comment and in fact have done exactly as I suggested people do. I'm talking about those that choose to ignore what else is out there. DL specifically, because as you said for most that have to board a plane it's cost neutral.

And you must have missed the part where I said that I still visit WDW myself, albeit differently and less.

My post was not meant for you... And I'm really not even sure how you thought it might be.
 
Alektronic

Alektronic

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intheATL said:
My brother is a mechanical engineer in Atlanta. He has been flown down to WDW and Universal many, many times to work on maintance issues on numerous attractions and he actually laughed at "old auto mechanics" and said that was an insult. You may be confusing that with working in the auto industry as many of the engineers at the parks have worked on the automation at car factories. According to my brother, the same mechanisms used at say, a Ford or GM plant to move large vehicle parts through the assembly has a lot of similarity to some theme park rides.

He is retired now, but was called down there when the issue had to do with the parts/programming that had to do with things installed by his company. He says both WDW and Universal have "Highly skilled teams". In other words, they CAN fix it, but whether they choose to is another story.

Another interesting note: my brother worked on Maelstrom when it was being built!
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Obviously, your brother doesn't know what he is talking about, they don't bring in outside engineers to work on maintenance issues (at least WDW doesn't) unless it was something they installed and it broke again but they just work with Ride and Show Engineering or WDI, they don't work with hourly maintenance workers
 
Buried20KLeague

Buried20KLeague

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Alektronic said:
Obviously, your brother doesn't know what he is talking about, they don't bring in outside engineers to work on maintenance issues (at least WDW doesn't) unless it was something they installed and it broke again but they just work with Ride and Show Engineering or WDI, they don't work with hourly maintenance workers
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I knew you would reply to this. Thanks.
 
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Kungaloosh1937

Active Member
Alektronic said:
Obviously, your brother doesn't know what he is talking about, they don't bring in outside engineers to work on maintenance issues (at least WDW doesn't) unless it was something they installed and it broke again but they just work with Ride and Show Engineering or WDI, they don't work with hourly maintenance workers
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Yeah, WDW NEVER uses outside consultants. Why do some people even bother posting anymore? Do you even know how ridiculous you sound? Most of the ride systems these days aren't even built in-house.
 
Lee

Lee

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