Originally Posted By leemac Haha! I'm a scaredy-cat so you wouldn't find me near one of those haunted houses or mazes. I'm completely befuddled as to why anyone would want to go through that type of experience! I'm not a fan of being surprised - control freak that I am.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "And now just as I'm typing this I got the visual image of leemac clawing his way out of that haunted house! " And I now have a visual image of leemac clawing his way out of 2oony.
Originally Posted By doombuggy They probably have no money for Indy what with them gearing up for the 60th and the first princess..Cinderella events planed. AND the star wars land going in at the La Brea tar pits.
Originally Posted By PeterPan1313 >>There are maintenance crews on the third shift at all Disney theme parks. They inspect every single E-ticket every night (except when the third shift is less than 6 hours which is often the case at MK) - every single night.<< Well, there's a difference in inspecting the track and inspecting for safety, versus inspecting the show lights/show scenes, and then actually fixing something. >>There are maintenance crews on the third shift at all Disney theme parks. They inspect every single E-ticket every night (except when the third shift is less than 6 hours which is often the case at MK) - every single night.<< Yeah, well, you can teach somebody how to inspect an attraction, it isn't rocket science, the folks who actually do the fixing are pretty busy. >>Seriously? A single push of a button? Every attraction has a SOP for opening and it is typically through a system boot-up - fully automated. IJA is a fully computerised attraction. The attraction can only open with everything running - Ops has final say on operating an attraction that isn't fully operational.<< I don't think they even turn-off a lot of the computers for Indy at night, and they don't put the effects on some sort of a timer if that's what you're thinking. You don't want, or even need, the computer to be in control of the switches for various show scenes, it is just plain common sense, maybe even in the code, that you've got to have a manual switch for these circuits. Of course the cars/tracks are computer controlled. Anaheim does have some electrical issues, given the huge amount of current that some attractions draw, and do some issues with the power company I think.
Originally Posted By PeterPan1313 >>I do love the idea that you seem to think every fault is because of a tripped circuit breaker - like that is the only source of failure.<< Never said, there are mechanical safeties as well, and they can cause a circuit to "trip", in addition to a ground fault/problems with power fluctuations.
Originally Posted By PeterPan1313 >>Horse crap. Maintenance budgets are tied directly to attendance and gate revenue. Both have been increasingly steady as has maintenance budgets. Refurbishment budgets are also tied to the same calculation. The issue has been that DL has a lot of aging infrastructure and the days of 10-year refurbs are gone with attractions that are over 30 years old or technically complex like IJA.<< Maintenance/inspection related to safety of the ride, and basic operation would be expected to follow increases in profits, not always the case. At any rate, this thread is about show scene stuff, which we all know can take the back seat at times. It's a world of difference to say a ride gets its pre-show walk through, which focuses on safety, versus talking about the show scene stuff.
Originally Posted By PeterPan1313 >>They probably have no money for Indy what with them gearing up for the 60th and the first princess..Cinderella events planed. AND the star wars land going in at the La Brea tar pits.<< Tokyo doesn't seem to have a lot of these sorts of show scene maintenance problems. Indy ain't that old, just that they space out the maintenance work on the show scenes, resetting stuff by the book often requires a visual inspection of certain mechanical effects that might shutdown a show scene and that the folks doing the start-up aren't often aware of what even needs to be done to properly to fix/startup a section that was tripped. You can run the ride perfectly well with a show scene down. Cinderella events are coming as far as I know, and Star Wars land is going into Simba. I would have gotten more on my trip to DL, but a guy from Burbank I was going to talk to was a no-show.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I now have this great mental image of a CM plugging their phone in to a socket in the break room, and suddenly causing the entire westside of the park to go 101 : ) >>Indy ain't that old...<< Uhhh...just because there's not much at DL that's newer than Indy doesn't mean it's that old. Indy is only 3 years younger than DLP's Mark Twain, and it's in terrible shape. Indy is just a few years shy of Space Mountain's age when it needed the entire track replaced (~25-26). When you're running these things for 16+ hours a day, 365 days a year, with millions of guests passing through them, they tend to age pretty quickly
Originally Posted By Dabob2 PP, give it up. It's just embarrassing when you try to go toe to toe with leemac or anyone who actually knows what he's talking about. It's like watching Evander Holyfield spar with my 10-year-old niece.
Originally Posted By monorailblue ^^ Agreed. PP1313's idiotic points included that Indy effects aren't running (a) because no CM noticed and (b) because no one reported it (under various theories involving either the reporting or the repairing CM being off the clock). It don't get more dumberer than that.
Originally Posted By phruby So not one cast member can walk around the corner and find the door room is completely dark? They could at least look in the mirrors if they are afraid of the eyes of Mara.
