Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA While I have ridden Matterhorn many times over the years, with a girl sitting between my legs -- ahem -- it's good and it's bad. It's good -- because, well, a girl is sitting between your legs. It's bad -- because it always seems as if her head is going to fly backward and smash me in the face. ^^^- sounds rather sexual, no?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I always found that it's harder to see when someone is seated between your legs. Not that there's much to see on the Matterhorn, but I imagine the experience will be a lot better now having your own seat and not having someone's head immediately in front of you blocking the view.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Jim...how often have you had a women's head flying backward and smashing you in the face" during sex? Just curious...
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance We wouldn't want any heads to block our view of those furry yetti yoobs now would we Sara Tonin?
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<My DH is 6'7" and can't do MM at all. He can barely do Space.>> I'd like to see your DH get into a smart car. I saw Pete Docter (who's about the same height) getting into his smart car once. It was reminiscent of a clown car act at a three-ring circus. 8^D
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Jim...how often have you had a women's head flying backward and smashing you in the face" during sex? Just curious...> Email me. I'll send drawings.
Originally Posted By tashajilek My boyfriend used to say that with his legs being spread and having someone sitting inbetween that his knees always got smashed on the sides of the bobsled. But people did have the option to be a single rider. I agreee MM isnt a very good ride.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <My boyfriend used to say that with his legs being spread and having someone sitting inbetween that his knees always got smashed on the sides of the bobsled.> trust me, it's not his knees getting smashed!
Originally Posted By Manfried Interesting the redo of the bobsleds. Single seats and will they have lapbars? It would be about time. Make it a much safer attraction.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<Single seats and will they have lapbars?>> Seatbelts. See the link to the pics I posted in #4.
Originally Posted By Moondoggie This will certainly facilitate the loading of guests. As a former Matterhorn CM, guest fumbling with seat belts, in addition to some who would, interestingly, try to step into the sled with their companion and sit side-by-side rather than in front of one another, could make things a challenge at times. This will make everything much more obvious. Trying to get two people who didn't understand English to try to sit in front of each other, rather than next to each other (talk about a tight squeeze!) could be challenge. Luckily we had a slower dispatch time and longer station to work with than on Space.
Originally Posted By ImTempest The seatbelts are the kind that won't unlock until a switch is pressed at the unloading dock, like the belts on Indiana Jones.
Originally Posted By Hista98 the new cars arent premiering yet the old cars are back on the track and the ride will reopen with them, it is unknown if the new cars will preimere at all.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Interesting Hista98, because they were testing the new ones were testing on Friday: <a href="http://www.disneygeek.com/updates/disneyland_image.php?update_dir=2010_04_23&page_id=63&num_image=3" target="_blank">http://www.disneygeek.com/upda..._image=3</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt <a href="http://www.disneygeek.com/updates/disneyland_image.php?update_dir=2010_04_23&page_id=65&num_image=3" target="_blank">http://www.disneygeek.com/upda..._image=3</a> <a href="http://www.disneygeek.com/updates/disneyland_image.php?update_dir=2010_04_23&page_id=64&num_image=3" target="_blank">http://www.disneygeek.com/upda..._image=3</a>
Originally Posted By danyoung I had read somewhere else that they were indeed testing the new cars, but they were not going to go with them at this time. They want to do the work to put in gates that will match with the new 3-seat configuration, and that's gonna have to wait till the next refurb. Don't know if that's true or not - just something I read somewhere on the web. It seems to make sense, though.
Originally Posted By danyoung From Friday's In The Parks article on Miceage - "Recent testing on the tracks of the Matterhorn has been conducted with new bobsleds. The new sleds have been designed to hold a minimum of six single riders per dispatch (3 in each car). No more snuggling with your honey. The testing is just to check out the new cars, work out the kinks, and make sure that the new vehicles keep riders within the envelope of safety. We won't see the new vehicles in operation anytime soon. However, when the attraction goes down for it's next annual refurbishment, the load area will receive newly configured safety gates to match with the new seating configuration and the new bobsleds should be introduced. The unload area will then receive new technology that will unlock the seat belts automatically. This will ensure that riders will "remain seated with their seat belt fastened" until they reach the unload area. Though, as a reminder, with Disney, NOTHING is ever certain - even after it happens. This is just the current plan."
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I was there yesterday, and they were still running the old vehicles. However, there was a new vehicle on the Tomorrowland side, covered by a tarp. It was just sitting in one of the places where they store the unused cars, near the unloading area. It was covered so we couldn't be 100% sure that's what it was, but there were clearly 3 supports inside it that looked like the 3 seats in the pictures. It will be interesting to see how this changes the ride. I suppose if it significantly reduces the loading time, they could end up running more bobsleds at a time. When they only had the single cars, I believe they still had the same total number of cars, which means they were dispatching twice as frequently. While I don't think that much of a boost will be possible, they probably could get a few more trains going. And I don't know if it was just where I was sitting (the very front on both sides), but it seemed like the tracks were much smoother than I remember. I do ususally sit in the back, so that may have affected it, but it didn't seem to have that constant bumping that it usually does. I don't think they would have had enough time during this refurb to do anything major, so it may have just been my seat.
