hey screens are hard to replace do you realize how far they'd have to drive to get to a best buy?
I think I recall them making smaller deals to at least sell the shorts and some merch before they flat-out bought Oswald prior to Epic Mickey?
Yeah getting water dumped on you is fun if it's taking a shower but I've never understood "dump a bunch of water on you = theme park fun" outside of water parks.
They litterally could just use drone delivery - it's Tomorrowland, aren't drones supposed to be the future anyway?
As for Oswald, I don't know anything beyond the fact Disney traded Al Michaels the sportscaster for the rights to Oswald and all of his shorts which Disney himself had worked on - the shorts that came AFTER Walt left Universal were not included in the deal.
They used to sell ponchos? Didn’t check if they still do.
lol nope. You'd think Disney would capitalize on that, but there weren't any ponchos for sale around Splash in the four or so stalls around its rediculously long-ass queue to get
into the queue.
a) ponchos don't do shit about all the water that gets in the car
b) ponchos fucking suck
I don't even mind when it poured back when I used to go to wdw. But that's fresh rainwater, not that grody shit in a boat ride.
Yeah, when I stepped into that log, there was water
still in what looked like little trenches carved into the floor of the boat specifically for water drainage. Guess where your feet went. And god help you if you have personal belongings, because you're allowed bringing them on the ride, but there's NO storage, so I had to cradle this bag of stuff (including electronic hardware like smartphones, though fortunately I had brought along emergency ziplocs just in case so those were at least protected) in my lap the whole time.
It was notoriously undermainted for a while, like entire AAs missing of main characters and the dialog still there.
All the AAs seemed to be in fine working order on Splash...
except the very last one. There was some owl dude that clearly was meant to do something, with a spotlight on him and everything, but he just remained motionless with his head rotated 90 degrees to the right and
away from the ride vehicle.
As for the maintenance, that was a widespread issue back in the 90s and early 2000s thanks to Eisner era policy. It still pisses me off that it's the reason why the Big Thunder locomotives look so stupid with the second driver axle wheels missing (all the promotional art and merch still has them as proper 0-4-2s, but ever since the fatal accident which involved the second axle catching on bad track and causing the locomotive to lift up and basically crush the guy in the front row seat behind it, all the locomotives on the ride are now 0-2-2s with a dumb looking gap to ensure that axle never happens again). It's
better now, though there's still signs they could be a bit better still - especially with the fact I think the reason Matterhorn is such a long wait is because they intentionally are keeping only the Fantasyland side running - the Tomorrow land side's tracks run alongside the section where the old plasterwork fell and the scrim covering the damage is still there, visible from the 'Partners' statue at the end of Main Street. This was a few months ago so why they haven't gotten that back up and running is beyond me.
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