skier_pete
DIsney-holics Anon
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2006
Without the yeti...Everest is a $30 mil vekoma off the shelf rollercoaster and a $250 million dollar queue...
Twist it however you want...but it's not a wdi ride otherwise.
To compare it to a standard roller coaster isn't even close - it's still one of the best rides at WDW.
I understand you are not going to change your mind - but you are pretty well in the minority on this. So far, everyone else posting in the thread says it doesn't really affect THEIR ride experience, even those of us that remember when it moved. I like many others have talked to people that are convinced it currently moves - the strobe effect is enough for the average Joe. That's not counting the people that close their eyes on roller coasters and completely miss it. (My daughter and wife have never seen the Yeti because they close their eyes.) IT's probably 20:1 in favor of "not much difference" here, and this is among DIS people. I bet if you polled people exiting the ride and asked the first 1000: "Does the yeti not working adversely affect your ride experience?" you would get 980 people that didn't know there was anything wrong with it, 18 people that would say that they wish it were fixed, but that it doesn't really hurt the ride, and 2 that would say that it would be a much better ride if it were fixed. And don't tell me Disney hasn't done that survey themselves and it's a piece of why they haven't fixed it. It's like the moving rocks in the last lift-hill on Big Thunder Mountain that used to move and now don't, only probably even less noticeable.
Is it symptomatic of a bigger problem at Disney, the problem that having the best possible show is not as important as it used to be? Well, I'll give that to you - but I can't say it's anywhere near the worst example. As others have said - there's 5 better examples in Epcot alone. Heck - my BTMRR is a better example. (I am bothered by those rocks not moving on the lift hill way more than the yeti not swiping.)