Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nemo11jun11,0,2463820.story" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/busines s/la-fi-nemo11jun11,0,2463820.story</a> >>It was 1998 when Disneyland grounded the submarine fleet, calling it costly and dated. Then park President Paul Pressler, leader of the park bean-counters, wanted the ride shut down because it hogged space, proved too expensive to maintain and cycled riders through too slowly. But the ride had its champions, including Marty Sklar, then Disney's creative chief. He publicly threatened to lie down on the busy street that fronts Disneyland to prevent the subs from being deep-sixed. It was a rare case of an internal Walt Disney Co. dispute being thrust into the public eye. "Oh, I said it," Sklar said. "I meant it. I'm sure glad I didn't have to throw myself across Harbor Boulevard…. I never gave up."<< Much more at the link...
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "Then park President Paul Pressler, leader of the park bean-counters, wanted the ride shut down because it hogged space, proved too expensive to maintain and cycled riders through too slowly." The space issue is moot now, but one has to wonder what has been done to rectify the other two issues.
Originally Posted By oc_dean If anything it would be more labor/daily maintainance intensive now that there's a lot of new electronics in the ride. But maybe that's equalized now that the subs are fully electric ... than Diesel/Electric.
Originally Posted By Skippy Sometimes it's worth running something at a loss in order to raise the big picture up to new heights.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen >>Sometimes it's worth running something at a loss in order to raise the big picture up to new heights.<< In other words, the Eisner/Pressler era is over! Yeah!!!
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I know that a couple of years ago ('04) we were talking to a friend of ours who was a junior imagineer doing some work on Nemo. The impression I got from him was that they were doing more to protect the "in the water" effects from being damaged by said water. We all know that sooner or later water disolves almost everything, and a water ride, all other things being equal will have more maintance issues than a "dry" ride. Hopefully what they were able to come up with does indeed protect the in the water effect and reduce maintence costs.
Originally Posted By Skellington88 Marty Sklar had nothing to do with the return of the subs I can't believe hes trying to take credit.
