Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-76989.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Expedition Everest Yeti Update</b></a> <p>ScreamScape.com has the scoop on what's being done with the Yeti on Expedition Everest which is currently covered up. According to them the Yeti will be down for several months but will return with motion. Click below for more info on what's coming.</p>
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt Some motion is better than Disco Yeti but, it's unfortunate he's not 100%!! Glad I saw working when I did!
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Motion is much better than none. I would hope once DAK gets more offerings the yeti will be completely fixed.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 I know Leethedudewhofeedsonfanboidrool was seen behind an Everest scrim with some lubricating agent earlier this week. Unconfirmed reports say the yeti was seen with a giant smile too! ;-)
Originally Posted By CoolDisneyFan If you want to see the Yeti when operational i captured it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoTcnVcM0c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...TcnVcM0c</a> this was february 2007
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 Just watched it - those guys are kinda annoying but it was cool though seeing the track switch with the infra red(whatever)light. Also - if the yeti is such a quick glimpse, why did they bother building such a massive and advanced AA anyway?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Also - if the yeti is such a quick glimpse, why did they bother building such a massive and advanced AA anyway?>> Because that is the way Disney does things. Why did they hire Moroccan craftsmen to design and install true Moroccan mosaics at the Morocco Pavilion in Epcot when 90% of the people would never be able tell the difference?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper And anyone who actually has seen the Yeti working in person will tell you those were some heart pounding seconds. He was really terrifying/life-like. Now, the real question is why the ride immediately stops after your short glimpse of him. That's the real head scratcher.
Originally Posted By Manfried They did the overdone Yeti not because they just do things that way, but because a show designer wanted it that way. Then pushed through doing it without the proper engineering.
Originally Posted By Smiling Grump <<<<Also - if the yeti is such a quick glimpse, why did they bother building such a massive and advanced AA anyway?>> Because that is the way Disney does things. Why did they hire Moroccan craftsmen to design and install true Moroccan mosaics at the Morocco Pavilion in Epcot when 90% of the people would never be able tell the difference?>> But you can sure tell which totem pole at the Canada Pavilion was done by Disney and which was done by Indians. Yeti was a real terror when he was working correctly. I still cringe when I remember the first time I saw him and he reached out ... nearly had to change my drawers! Then we promptly lined up again and again! I still love EE (from the elaborate queu to the ride itself) but I look forward to seeing a working Yeti again (assuming he isn't broke again by 2013).
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper I don't think you'll ever see him 100% working again, unfortunately. Here's to hoping they prove me wrong on that one.
Originally Posted By leobloom The glimpse of Yeti was too brief. Hell, you got a better view of him in the PR television show that was on cable. And the abrupt stop a second after seeing the Yeti also made no sense in terms of the precious storyline.
Originally Posted By Christi22222 Clearly EE is all about the foreplay. Once you SEE the Yeti, you're done.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Clearly EE is all about the foreplay. Once you SEE the Yeti, you're done.>> I don't know. For me the 'big O' (Orlando) is that final high speed curving descent right at the end.
Originally Posted By dshyates Everest, from a show standpoint, always seemed a bit odd to me. There are parts before you go up into the mountain where you are out riding around a small field with extensively themed grass. Then you have a "show stop" and you get bent track and an embarassingly fake bird on a stick. I know that the 2 show stops are utilitarian for track switching. But seriously, a stuffed bird on a stick is the best that the brain trust at Imagineering could come up with to distract and entertain? The second "show stop" is arguably the best part of the ride with the Yeti projection. Then for the show stopper there is no "show stop". Not only is there no "show stop", you fly by it in, like, 2 seconds. It just seems the pacing is out of whack throughout the attraction.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Clearly EE is all about the foreplay. Once you SEE the Yeti, you're done.<<< This made me do a HUGE double take. But.. Uhm... Yeah, Christi, I agree! LOL
