http://twitpic.com/2jewso History: ; Disneyland's Fantasmic! got a new dragon last year. ; And it was completely outsourced. ; And was months behind schedule, including things like being too heavy for the platform, etc. Apparently it failed mid-show this weekend and couldn't hide. ; Now they are saying 4-6 months for a repair. ; Hopefully they won't outsource the repair to the Yeti Maintenance Divisionâ„¢.
Yeah, those Yeti Maintenance guys are terrible...and don't forget the Kilimanjaro Safari Lion Maintenance crews - you almost never get to see the animatronic lions working!
I hope they learned their lesson on outsourcing animatronics work. ; This is the second major failure of an outside group's work.
Well, it'll continue so long as they "take the costs of audio animatronics outsourced in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average cost of repair, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a building one themselves, they will continue to outsource"[nb]I'm paraphrasing The Narrator.[/nb]
Apparently they have said that the reason the Yeti is off is because from all of his movement that he is actually coming away from the mount he is on. ; So they turned it off to prevent him from coming off. ;
That's funny[nb]okay, not really[/nb], because that's exactly what happened to Murphy during the show. ; Came off its' mounts it did.
I've also heard rumors that the concrete base is cracking and I've heard rumors that his spine is broken. ; The common theme to all three reasons for putting him in "B" mode is that they can't fix whatever is wrong without shutting the ride down for an extended period of time. ; I just hope that whenever the next major refurb is scheduled that they take the time to fix the Yeti properly.
I'm sorry, but at some point, it is better to stop fixing the problems and start over. ; At least that is what i do in my line of work. ; I have found that more time and money is often spent trying to keep fixing something that breaks rather than start the project fresh. ; Each time it fails, more damage is done to the trust and reputation of the product no matter what we are talking about
I completely agree. ; One of my consultants (a structural engineer) has a sign hanging in his office that sums things like this up nicely: ; "Why is there always enough time and money to do things over, but never enough of either to do them right the first time?"
Actually its not a poster. ; He has it engraved on a plaque. ; I assume he (or whoever gave it to him) went to a trophy shop and had it made.
