Originally Posted By Lake Nona >>Sailors get buried at sea, but this boat gets buried in the ground. LOL.<< Kind of stupid, the proper thing to do is to sink the boat in The Seven Seas Lagoon and make it a Disney dive site, another way for WDW to earn that cold hard cash.
Originally Posted By brotherdave They buried that boat before Eisner took over Disney. Might explain why...
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Kind of stupid, the proper thing to do is to sink the boat in The Seven Seas Lagoon and make it a Disney dive site, another way for WDW to earn that cold hard cash.<< Kind of stupid to go diving in the Seven Seas Lagoon, given the fact there are real live alligators living in those waters.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^C'mon TDLFAN, where's your sense of humor ... wouldn't it be fun to watch them fat tourists from Minnesota try and get away from Al E. Gator?
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Recent Liberty Belle photos are here LIBERTY BELLE <a href="http://ssdisney.home.att.net/Rocket/" target="_blank">http://ssdisney.home.att.net/R ocket/</a>
Originally Posted By MPierce It still looks like it needs another stack, but I still like it. Thanks again.
Originally Posted By dresswhites does anyone else have a hard time believing that they buried the boat? first of all i thought the because of the water table in florida they couldn't dig that deep. wouldnt' a stern wheeler require a big hole? Secondly why in the world would they bury it? It seems more likely they dismantled the boat.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy I've heard other stories about things being buried on property. I've always kind of wondered where. I've never run across any evidence of such.
Originally Posted By danyoung >does anyone else have a hard time believing that they buried the boat?< The original statement was - "The broken boat was taken to the backstage "bone yard" for awhile before being buried somewhere on the property." I read that to be a much more figurative thing than that they dug a hole and put the boat underground. That would make no sense. If it's somewhere back in the trees and away from the parks, it's "buried" on the grounds.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Why would you be?? Anything that takes a budget to be fixed at WDW is either abandoned/canceled, or allowed to sit and rot until eternity. When was the last time the Everest trains steamed out of the boarding platform???
Originally Posted By CTXRover << When was the last time the Everest trains steamed out of the boarding platform???>> It was working just a few weeks ago according to a friend of mine who was there. As far as I know, the steam is still working. Bad example, but there are others you could use to prove your point.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I have been to DAK 4 times in the past couple of month and the steam was off everytime I rode Everest. Of course, that is just one example to illustrate the problems that WDW has now a days... At $72 per day, guests are entitled to a 100% show, but obviously, management does not agree.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^No steam on two visits this week. No steam in July. Also no snow (they gave up on that),no mist/fog. I don't expect to see any of these back.
Originally Posted By dresswhites however when the boat got damaged, Disney was caring for their theme parks. I can see if it happened during Pressler's reign or even now, but in the early 80s it is hard to understand why they didn't fix it.
Originally Posted By dresswhites i do admit i found the magic kingdom kind of lacking. it does seem to have a lot of abondoned facilites: Keelboat and Canoe Docks, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland Skyway stations, timekeeper, several stages in Tomorrowland, the sumarine lagoon,
Originally Posted By danyoung >...but in the early 80s it is hard to understand why they didn't fix it.< There are some injuries that are beyond fixing. If, as I understand it, the keel was broken during lifting, then it would have been beyond repair. The effort to build a new keel and then transfer all of the above woodwork to it would have been harder and more expensive than just building a new one.
