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

matt9112

matt9112

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PhotoDave219 said:
The last time I rode Everest, took me two weeks to recover.

About 18 months ago I rode the hulk & dueling dragons writhing 15 minutes and that ended me riding coasters for good.
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i respect you and think quite highly of you dave....but this...this is a dent.

edit: the hulk is by far one of the best roller coasters i have ever been on butter smooth except the very ending where designers were obviously up against space constraints...one more block section back there would have made it perfect. but alas it is almost perfect.
 
PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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matt9112 said:
i respect you and think quite highly of you dave....but this...this is a dent.

edit: the hulk is by far one of the best roller coasters i have ever been on butter smooth except the very ending where designers were obviously up against space constraints...one more block section back there would have made it perfect. but alas it is almost perfect.
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Yeah, I dont need to lose whats left of my mind on a roller coaster, like that poor girl from England on ToT a bunch of years back.
 
matt9112

matt9112

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TOT is the only ride of that size that scares me as i approach.....200+ foot hyper coasters and such are the only others....super man at six flags new England turned me into a girl just as the TOT will do. there are 6 year olds in my TOT photos with better states of mind than i.
 
5thGenTexan

5thGenTexan

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Goofyernmost said:
I can answer that if you don't mind, but, I'm sure the Martin will do so as well. They didn't start out thinking that a broken Yeti was a positive. I think originally they just didn't know what the fix would be and they did a lot of engineering studies to find out what was going on.

As time when on, they realized that, people were still enjoying the ride without an actual "moving" Yeti and that within a generation the majority of guest wouldn't even know that it was ever supposed to move. So the "business" question is... Should we spend the money to repair something that a whole bunch of people never saw even when it was working and at this point are still at odds about whether it is actually moving or not right now. The "business" answer of course would be... Why adversely affect the bottom line when almost no one is even conscious of the fact the it is supposed to be moving in actuality.
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If that is the "business" decision they are going to go with a big change needs to happen. That whole part about the Yeti in the hour long Disney commercial that they play on the cable travel channels needs to be changed. They make a big deal about the engineering, the show design, and how it adds alot to the experience. Its busted and probably shouldnt be featured on a planning show as working.
 
Sped2424

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JediMasterMatt said:
It's sad how many things in WDW this can be said about.

For what it's worth, EE even when in full A mode wasn't markedly different than what it is today. It was better for sure; but, even with several effects (including the headlining Yeti) down - it is still a flawed attraction in execution. What it tried to build up through the outstanding land and fantastic queue doesn't pay off in the actual ride experience. As a roller-coaster, the pacing is very haphazard with the short run to the first big lift and then the multiple stops to do the direction changes. The second half gets a bit better; but, the whole layout is too helix focused with too much ride time traveling in the same direction. As a Disney attraction, EE's ride experience suffers from far too much of the story build up preparing for an epic journey that ultimately we find out spending much of the time spent in the dark or spiraling around the back side of the mountain. The big payoff moment, even when full A mode, is taken at far too great of speed and too little time where the Yeti was even visible to really appreciate it for what it was doing. The spectacular lunge that it used to do, while much better than the strobe, was still hard to digest when you blow right by it so quickly. This is why to this day you still get people swearing the Yeti is working in full disco mode. The experience with the Yeti didn't leave you in awe and wanting more because it was so impressive... it left you unfulfilled because you couldn't appreciate it because of the very limited view you had of it.

Does it need to be fixed? Of course. The fact that it broke isn't the issue. The fact that it's not fixed after all this time is.

When/if it does happen the ride will be better for it; but, it still be the same one with the same flaws.
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That's why I believe the yeti should show up right before the big drop once to scare you and so you can really see him, and then again at the end where he's tracked you down and trying to get you before you escape. Also something should be done to make the backwards fall in the dark more exciting visual wise.
 
matt9112

matt9112

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Sped2424 said:
That's why I believe the yeti should show up right before the big drop once to scare you and so you can really see him, and then again at the end where he's tracked you down and trying to get you before you escape. Also something should be done to make the backwards fall in the dark more exciting visual wise.
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well the latter used to be pitch black and now light leaks are everywhere....i think it would be hard because as you can tell via light leaks that portion is unthemed since you cant see...so simply adding visuals is not really an option.
 
Sped2424

Sped2424

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matt9112 said:
well the latter used to be pitch black and now light leaks are everywhere....i think it would be hard because as you can tell via light leaks that portion is unthemed since you cant see...so simply adding visuals is not really an option.
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I mean theme it! Put some money into this attraction and give it a 2.0 version. It sorely needs it.
 
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BigThunderMatt

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Sped2424 said:
I mean theme it! Put some money into this attraction and give it a 2.0 version. It sorely needs it.
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And where is the return on investment on this? Everest's lines haven't suffered as an effect of the yeti not working, so why should they pour money into an attraction that is still getting strong ridership? Haunted Mansion is literally the only popular attraction I have continually seen Disney plus for no apparent reason. The status quo seems to be only to truly plus something when the alternative is tearing it down and losing ride capacity.
 
matt9112

matt9112

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BigThunderMatt said:
And where is the return on investment on this? Everest's lines haven't suffered as an effect of the yeti not working, so why should they pour money into an attraction that is still getting strong ridership? Haunted Mansion is literally the only popular attraction I have continually seen Disney plus for no apparent reason. The status quo seems to be only to truly plus something when the alternative is tearing it down and losing ride capacity.
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Although you might be spot on at the higher management level I think there are lots of people still at disney who care and do try to plus things the issue is getting money released that's why alot of it is rolled up under bigger projects. AK is case and point.
 
Mike S

Mike S

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BigThunderMatt said:
And where is the return on investment on this? Everest's lines haven't suffered as an effect of the yeti not working, so why should they pour money into an attraction that is still getting strong ridership? Haunted Mansion is literally the only popular attraction I have continually seen Disney plus for no apparent reason. The status quo seems to be only to truly plus something when the alternative is tearing it down and losing ride capacity.
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Because show quality used to be something Disney prided itself in.
 
JWG

JWG

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This thread is still a thing? I love how these threads outlast the hope of improvement/change. Though, give anything enough time and it will be right (i.e. the BAH thread finally became true).
Maybe the new tiered pricing will pay for a new Yeti...
 

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