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| Witches of Morva
Sun 4/13/2008 2:32p | ORWEN: On Saturday--April 10, 2008--us Cauldron girls went to the Magic Kingdom and while we were there we got ourselves some fast passes--
ORGOCH: --more like fast gases, if'n the truth be told--
ORWEN: --for Splash Mountain and while we were riding it, we came to that ever so famous scene where Br'er Rabbit is supposed to be hopping by your log. Only, this time, Br'er Rabbit wasn't hop, hop, hopping along like he's supposed to. Instead, he was just standing there on the wooden fence like he was frozen in place.
ORDDU: This same scene is often broken down without a sign of Br'er Rabbit. Often guests will glide by in their log and see only an empty space beyond the fence.
ORWEN: So, we were wondering if Management has just decided to give up on the idea of having Br'er Rabbit hopping. I mean, could it be they've just decided to let the little bunny take on the same job description of a scarecrow? Just hanging there on a pole without being able to move any more? I hope that's not what they're planning to do.
ORDDU: Of course it's better to have Br'er Rabbit standing there instead of having nothing what-so-ever to see. Still, it would be a shame if they decided to never let him hop around ever again.
ORGOCH: If'n they could git all them frogs on Tom Sawdust Island ta stop hoppin' 'round it'd sure be a lot easier fer a witch ta ketch supper ev'ry night!! |
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| FerretAfros
Sun 4/13/2008 6:34p | That's really not surprising that he's just sitting there. It seems like he only works about half of the time, so he's bound to break down in a visible position. The effect was never really all that believable for me (you can clearly see the stick that he's on), so I would much rather have them replace him with a traditional AA there that actually works on a regular basis. |
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| ChiMike
Sun 4/13/2008 8:06p | I remember when they maintained and monitored him so as to SELDOM ever have him down. I might be wrong, but I am almost certain that when Splash first opened at WDW if he wasn't show ready the attraction would not operate.
Amazing how things like this are acceptable less than 20 years later. |
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| mickeyboy43
Sun 4/13/2008 10:10p | I read somewhere on a Splash Tribute that this was the most exspensive AA in the entire place, costing Disney around 1.4 Billion at the time. ANd ill agree, the effect is not believable at all, since is hop is just like an arc with a stick behind him.
YOu would thing disney would come up with something better than that for a ride based off of Marc Davis' WRE (Basic river ride concept). |
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| Inspector 57
Sun 4/13/2008 10:23p | One-point-four BILLION dollars to make a frog-on-a-stick appear to hop along a log?!
I think the Witches were onto something.
Ditch the animatronic amphibian. Spend one-thousandth of the cost to stock some live frogs.
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| Inspector 57
Sun 4/13/2008 10:30p | Wait. I got confused.
It's a RABBIT-on-a-stick, NOT a frog. Got it.
Sorry. When I think of rabbit-on-a-stick, I usually think of bar-b-que, not DizzyWorld attractions. My bad.
Okay. So replace the stick-rabbit with some REAL bunnies!
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| brotherdave
Mon 4/14/2008 4:32a | $1.4 BILLION for one AA figure??? I highly doubt that. All of EPCOT Center cost just under $1 Billion when it opened. $1.4 million is even skeptical but more believable, but never $1.4 BILLION! |
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| WilliamK99
Mon 4/14/2008 4:55a | I read somewhere on a Splash Tribute that this was the most exspensive AA in the entire place, costing Disney around 1.4 Billion at the time. ANd ill agree, the effect is not believable at all, since is hop is just like an arc with a stick behind him. <<
No way that is true, the entire DCA project including DTD and the Grand Californian was 1.5 billion.
Either you have your numbers wrong, or I need to get into the AA design business..... |
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| FerretAfros
Mon 4/14/2008 8:50a | I'm pretty sure it's a just typo, as I have also heard that he cost over $1 million (with an M)... |
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| wahooskipper
Mon 4/14/2008 10:18a | I think the entire attraction (Splash at WDW) came in somewhere in the $90 million range (not including the grand opening event and the initial marketing). |
