Below is a list of effects, props and details that have turned off or are easily overseen by the maintenance department. You can help us keep this list updated by checking if the effects below are working during your DLRP trip.
(A downloadable PDF will be available soon!)
Let's start!
MAIN STREET, U.S.A.
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Smoke coming out of The Coffee Grinder advertising (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Twinkle lights in Main Street trees (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Gas lights (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Dentist sound effect (Kristof, 09 August 09)
- Mahjong players sound effect (Kristof, 09 August '09)
- Bathing guy sound effect (Kristof, 09 August '09)
- "Rooms" sign on building near Storybook Store (Kristof, 25 March '11)
DISNEYLAND RAILROAD
- Main Street Station Organ (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- On board sound and music (-breeno-, 11th July 09)
TOWN SQUARE PHOTOGRAPHY
- Party line telephone (Kristof, 09 August '09: horn gone)
STORYBOOK STORE
- Book-stamping Tigger (Kristof, 29 November '09: moving, no stamping)
EMPORIUM
- Overhead cash carrier track (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Fan over Flower Street entrance (Kristof, 25 March '11)
BOARDWALK CANDY PALACE
- Miniature fair rides (Balloon model was working; Kristof, 29 November '09)
- Light behind stained glass over mural in the back (Kristof, 29 November '09)
MARKET HOUSE DELI
- Party line telephone (Horns gone, Kristof, 09 August '09)
CABLE CAR BAKERY
- Fans (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Arcade machines (Kristof, 07 February '10)
DISNEY & CO
- Animatronic Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy in balloon (Kristof, 13 March '11)
MAIN STREET MOTORS
- Bubbling gas pump (Kristof, 13 March '11)
HARRINGTON'S FINE CHINA AND PORCELAINS
- Light behind glass dome (Kristof, 25 March '11)
VICTORIA'S HOME STYLE RESTAURANT
- Gas lights on restaurant logo (Kristof, 09 August '09)
- "Fire" effect in stove (Kristof, 04 March '09)
PLAZA GARDENS RESTAURANT
- Outdoor fountain (Seasonal, Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Indoor fountain (Kristof, 25 March '11)
CASEY'S CORNER
- Animated baseball players on overhead menu (Kristof, 09 August '09)
LIBERTY ARCADE
- Statue of Liberty Tableau (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Gas lights (Kristof, 29 November 09)
DISCOVERY ARCADE
- Gas lights (Kristof, 29 November 09)
- Fans near Ice Cream Company. (All but one, Kristof, 09 August '09)
DISCOVERYLAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Rotating Discoveryland Sign (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Lava pool water fountains (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Lava pool smoke and fire effects (turned off due to safety regulations)
ORBITRON - MACHINES VOLANTES
- Full Rotating of all Orbitron elements (Kristof, 25 March '11; no full rotating)
SPACE MOUNTAIN MISSION 2
- Columbiad smoke (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Columbiad loading door (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Columbiad recoil (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Onboard music (-breeno-, 10th July 09)
- Smoke in M.O.M (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Smoke before wormhole (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Starlight effect on top of roof (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Strobes on tracks on top (Kristof, 29 November '09)
LES MYSTERES DE NAUTILUS
- Bubbling water in lake (Kristof, 29 November '09)
- Bubbling water in Diving Room (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Steam in Engine Room (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Nuclear lights in Engine Room (Kristof, 29 March '09)
VIDEOPOLIS
- Moving fans on Hyperion (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Pidgeon animatronics in baskets (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Flashing lights on spires on façade (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Hydrolics of Coke machines (Kristof, 06 July '09)
- Bubbling water in Coke machines (Kristof, 29 March '09)
STAR TOURS
- Flashing lights on façade (Kristof, 04 March '09: not all worked)
- Animated red lights on Star Tours logo (Kristof, 26 July '09)
- Flashing light on top of Star Tours logo (Kristof, 26 July '09)
- Large screen in queue line (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- R2D2 moving up and down on Star Speeder in queue line (Kristof, 29 March '09)
FANTASYLAND
LE CHATEAU DE LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT
- Fountain and indoor waterfall (Likely due to refurb of the Castle - Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Small copper fountains near Castle Courtyard (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Fiberglass pixiedust in Sleeping Beauty tapestry (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Turning spinning wheel (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Real fire in fireplace (turned off in 1993)
- Fire light effect in fireplace (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Snoring knights (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Rose/Dove stained glass window effect (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Light behind the window on the backside of the main Tower (Kristof, 29 November '09)
LA BOUTIQUE DU CHATEAU
- Light behind stained glass shop logo (Kristof, 25 March '11)
LA TANIERE DU DRAGON
- Fire breath (turned off due to safety regulations)
- Smoke breath (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Fog in water (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Dripping water (Kristof, 07 February '10)
BLANCHE NEIGE ET LES SEPTS NAINS
- Evil Queen opening curtain (25 March '110)
LA CHAUMIERE DES SEPTS NAINS
- Snow White appearing in magic mirror (across the cottage) (Kristof, 13 March '11)
LA CONFISERIE DES TROIS FEES
- Three fairies effect over fireplace (Kristof, 13 March '11)
AUBERGE DE CENDRILLON
- Cinderella Fountain (Kristof, 25 March '11)
L'ARBRE ENCHANTE
- Fruit and leaves in tree (Tree removed - 25 March '11)
SIR MICKEY'S
- Vegetables in garden (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Lights on Giant (Kristof, 13 March '11)
ALICE'S CURIOUS LABYRINTH
- Pink and blue lights in hedges (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Water fountains (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Accordion Owl (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Nail bird (Kristof, 06 July '09)
- Smoking caterpillar (-breeno-, 12th July 09)
- Small Cheshire cat in tree moving eyes and tail (Kristof, 06 July '09)
- Cheshire Cat floral bed's eyes (-breeno-, 12th July 09)
- Cheshire Cat floral bed light up smile at night (Kristof, 19 Dec '08)
- Turning card (Kristof, 06 July '09)
- Animatronic Queen of Hearts (Kristof, 06 July '09)
MAD HATTER'S TEACUPS
- Coloured lights on roof (Kristof, 13 March '11)
MARCH HARE REFRESHMENTS
- Pop-up dormouse and smoke (Kristof, 07 February '10)
TOAD HALL
- Toad painting changing (Kristof, 26 July 09)
THE OLD MILL
- Turning mill wings (Kristof, 25 March '11)
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
- Moving elements on top of the façade (A few were broken - Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Sun/moon face clock moving (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Fountains in front of the façade [color=red, 13 March '11)[/color]
- "it's a small world" globe fountain (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- "it's a small world" clock parade (Kristof, 29 November '09)
FRONTIERLAND
LEGENDS OF THE FAR WEST
- Torches on Fort Comstock (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Waterfall near Indian village (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Smoke coming out of tipi color=green](Kristof, 25 March '11)[/color]
PHANTOM MANOR
- Interior: First "holographic" picture (mirror right after loading) (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Interior: Leota's "floating" table (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Interior: Pharmacist's transforming face (Kristof,07 February '10)
- Interior: Ghost Train effect (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Interior: Ghostly card players (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Interior: Finale: Fog behind the Bride skeleton (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Interior: Phantom on Doom Buggies mirror effect (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Exterior: Flapping window cover (-breeno-, 12th July 09)
- Exterior: Phantom behind window on the side (07 February '10)
- Exterior: Moving candle at night behind top windows (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Exterior: Bride behind window (07 February '10)
BOOT HILL
- Beating heart in grave (Kristof, 09 August 09)
BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
- Water wheel in queue line (Not enough water to make it turn; Kristof, 09 August '09)
- Fluorescent pools [color="orange"](Dirty; Kristof, 07 February '10[/color]
- Waterfall on top of lift hill (Kristof, 13 March '11)
- Water splash (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Rotating possums in tree (Kristof, 13 March '11)
- Animatronic goat (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Animatronic donkey's (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Steam from engine (Kristof,25 March '11)
- Smoke out of chimney (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Shaking and falling rocks in mine (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Fiberglass gold in mine (Kristof, 13 March '11)
- Smoke effect on top of lift hill (Kristof, 07 February '10)
FUENTE DEL ORO
- Fountain (Kristof, 07 February '10)
RIVERS OF THE FAR WEST
- Geysers (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Old Joe and dog animatronic (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Chewing moose animatronic (Kristof, 25 March '11)
RIVER ROGUE KEELBOATS
- Torches at entrance, loading dock and Smuggler's Cove (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Sound effect in Smuggler's Cove (Kristof, 25 March '11)
ADVENTURELAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Torches near Hakuna Matata Restaurant (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Waterfall between Adventureland and Peter Pan's Flight (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Waterfall near Frontierland entrance (across Colonel Hathi's Pizza Outpost) (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Waterfall near Hakuna Matata (Kristof, 07 February '10)
ADVENTURELAND BAZAR
- Torches at entrance (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Chandelier (Kristof, 25 March '11)
ADVENTURE ISLE
- La Rocher qui Bascule (tipping rock) (Permanently fixed with concrete ; Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Fruit in root cellar (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Skeleton with treasure (Kristof, 07 February '10)
LE PASSAGE ENCHANTE D'ALADDIN
- Cave of Wonders rising (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Moving flying carpet in final diorama (Jerky; Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Fountain effect inside walkthrough (Kristof, 07 February '10)
AGRABAH CAFE RESTAURANT
- Large fountain near cash register (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Small fountain near the coffee / tea stand (Kristof, 29 March '09)
LA GIRAFE CURIEUSE
- Animatronic giraffe (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Torch in front of building (Removed ; Kristof, 07 February '10)
COLONEL HATHI'S PIZZA PLANET
- Tiki birds in tree
LA CABANE DES ROBINSON
- Self-playing organ (Kristof, 09 August '09)
- Water irrigation system (Kristof, 25 March '11)
- Water running to drinking fountain (Kristof, 09 August '09)
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
- Torch tower near Blue Lagoon entrance (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Swinging pirate (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Canon ball splashes (Kristof, 07 February '10)
- Fountain at exit (Kristof, 07 February '10)
COOL POST
- Cool box with sound effect (Kristof, 06 July '09)
- Radio sound effect (Kristof, 06 July '09)
INDIANA JONES ET LE TEMPLE DU PERIL
- Torches in front of attraction (Kristof, 13 March '11)
- Torches on staircase in queue line (-breeno-, 12th July 09)
Look also at the Walt Disney Studios Park effects and details checklist
:arrow: //http://www.photosmagiques.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5964
Funny, I'm actually making some kind of broken effects "check list". Will finish that and post here. :)
One for Mainstreet - The steaming coffee cup on the nescafe sign. :)
James. :donald:
The onboard music on Space Mountain +/-
Quote from: "Alpop"The onboard music on Space Mountain +/-
i went on at least 20+ times in the summer and it only didn't work once, thats only a 5% failure rate :P
Quote from: "Nicholas-c"Quote from: "Alpop"The onboard music on Space Mountain +/-
i went on at least 20+ times in the summer and it only didn't work once, thats only a 5% failure rate :P
But was it working well? It's still no good when it's quiet.
rose/dove window in castle +
waterfalls in fantsayland +/-
evil queen animatronic in window of snow white
its a small world facade animations +
small world fountain (globe) -
pirates of the carbibbean facade flaming torch +
duelling pirates in potc +
swinging pirate in potc +
adventureland waterfalls +
chandelier in adventureland bazaar +
tiki torches in adventureland bazzar +
anamatronic giraffe in curious giraffe shop +
waterfall at swiss family robinson +
waterwheel at swiss family robinson +
water buckets and funnels around swiss family robinson +/-
tipping rock in adventure isle -
water wheel at btm +/-
waterfall inside btm
possums, bats, donkeys and coyote on btm +
shaking and falling rocks in btm +
geysers +/-
fans on hyperion +
neon lights +/-
spacemountain stars at top -
spacemountain strobes on track at top +/-
to name a few... :wink:
Quote from: "Kristof"Funny, I'm actually making some kind of broken effects "check list". Will finish that and post here. :)
:lol: Great minds think alike. :mrgreen:
I had the same idea and then I though why not taking the not broken ones to the list :lol:
Thank you for the other effects. I´ve added the other effects to the "first post list". Hope we will find even more! (in waiting for raptors list :mrgreen: )
I suppose twinkle lights don't really count as effects, but I'll include them anyway for the sake of thoroughness.
Main Street U.S.A.:
The overhead cash carrier track at the Emporium -
Twinkle lights in Main Street's and the castle's trees -
Liberty Arcade Statue of Liberty Tableau -
Frontierland:
The torches in Smuggler's Cove (I think it's called) -
Fantasyland:
Alice's Curious Labyrinth — pop-up figures +
Alice's Curious Labyrinth — pink and blue lights in hedges -
Alice's Curious Labyrinth — smoking caterpillar -?
Adventureland:
Tiki birds in Colonel Hathi's +/-
The phone near the Cool Zone or whatever the former currency exchange huts are called +
The fiber optics in the castle tapestries were working a few months ago. Oh and David, the geysers are unfortunately a big fat minus at the moment.
And hoooow the twinkle lights are a effect to count! I loved the twinkle lights in the trees around the castle sooooooooo much! I´ve updated the list! Thanks for all these effects puss! =D>
Any others :?:
Quote from: "Riebi"And hoooow the twinkle lights are a effect to count! I loved the twinkle lights in the trees around the castle sooooooooo much! I´ve updated the list! Thanks for all these effects puss! =D>
Any others :?:
The tipping rock could be given a + now as its fixed :D
:oops: Oooops I´ve forgott this completly. And that after my hapiness of hearing it has been fixed :oops:
Thanks Owain =D>
By the "lava rocks" in Discoveryland, do you mean the pink "Giants Causeway" rocks at the entrance? Its just that I've never seen a fire effect there before... when does that happen?
The fire effect at the Discoveryland entrance rocks has not worked for many years ,you can still see the pipes under the water which provided the effect of flames coming out of the water ! I was told the ducks swam too close ,and you can imagine the scene !!! Not very Disney !!
Quote from: "Timbo"The fire effect at the Discoveryland entrance rocks has not worked for many years ,you can still see the pipes under the water which provided the effect of flames coming out of the water ! I was told the ducks swam too close ,and you can imagine the scene !!! Not very Disney !!
Oops. Roasted Donald...
Most are here already, but a few more
Main Street
The phones on Main Street - (they have been broken the last two times)
Sounds of the Dentist office +
Majong game +
the guy having a bath +
Frontierland
Geyser -
Waterfall and Splash on BTMRR -
The Phantom on the doom buggy -
Fantasyland
The Three fairies +
It's a Small World clock figures - (not running on time and some not at all)
The giant's Garden - (half the carrots are ripped out)
Discoveryland
Some of the bonus targets after hitting the lower targets to reveal them -
Trip: 14th to 18th October
Main St phones: Market House Deli +
Studios Park
Studio 1
Lighting Effects Control -
Backlot
Keyboard -
Fan -
Oh, and I forgot, Joe is still missing from his cabin in Forntierland. I hope he returns to his fishing spot.
Thanks again for this effects!
Quote from: "ford prefect"Studios Park
Studio 1
Lighting Effects Control -
Backlot
Keyboard -
Fan -
Good Idea! I make a WDS Effects Topic!
Quote from: "davewasbaloo"Fantasyland
The giant's Garden - (half the carrots are ripped out)
Discoveryland
Some of the bonus targets after hitting the lower targets to reveal them -
Maybe the giant is a hungry guy :mrgreen:
The bonus targets at Buzz?
Quote from: "Riebi"Thanks again for this effects!
Quote from: "ford prefect"Studios Park
Studio 1
Lighting Effects Control -
Backlot
Keyboard -
Fan -
Good Idea! I make a WDS Effects Topic!
Quote from: "davewasbaloo"Fantasyland
The giant's Garden - (half the carrots are ripped out)
Discoveryland
Some of the bonus targets after hitting the lower targets to reveal them -
Maybe the giant is a hungry guy :mrgreen:
The bonus targets at Buzz?
Yep, there are about 3 or 4 places, where if you hit a target 1-5 times (depends which one) the effect moves the reveal another higher scoring target. My last trip, many of these were not working. How will I ever get my score over 600,000 at that rate (best score so far 589,400)
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned the use of Pepper's Ghost.
Pepper's Ghost was first used in Victorian times to create see-thru ghosts on stage. It is used (obviously) in the Phantom Manor during the banquet/ball scene but also in the Pinocchio ride!
Some may have missed this, but as you turn the final corner you can see the Blue Fairy floating over "real boy" Pinocchio's bed. Then she disappears. Very simple but effective special effect!
I've updated Riebi's list with a new layout and I've added in all the details from my list! I'm going to take the list with me to DLRP tomorrow, so I'll check what's working. :D
you know kristof one day you will be there when i am, when we went in march you were there the day before!!! why could you not be going next week lol
FRONTIERLANDPHANTOM MANOR- Flapping shutter on the front
- Bride behind window on the front
ADVENTURELANDPIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN- Magistrate spitting water in the Well Scene [-]
- Rain effect in Hurricane Lagoon [~]
Updated the list with new items and also added the effects I've checked. Green means working, red obviously not working. :D
QuoteLA CABANE DES ROBINSON
- Water irrigation system (Kristof, 09 Nov '08)
Is this true? Did they really fix it ??? [-o<
So much red in the list. That´s sad. :cry: Great is that raptor check the effects for us =D>
I´m happy that the orbitron elements were all on. I was a bit disapointed last time. There was just moving hm 2 of the 3 parts or so. Not a nice planet circulation show.
Quote from: "Mobi"QuoteLA CABANE DES ROBINSON
- Water irrigation system (Kristof, 09 Nov '08)
Is this true? Did they really fix it ??? [-o<
Oh sorry, something went wrong. Will update the list again with the right colours. Sorry Riebi, more red coming....
Dunno if its a bit late or not but the dentist sound effect on Main Street was working between 22nd and 24th of October.
Quote from: "Kristof"Updated the list with new items and also added the effects I've checked. Green means working, red obviously not working. :D
Too many reds! :evil:
Oh well, what can you do about it. On the plus side, it's good to see some of those greens :mrgreen:
The red is a little disappointing, but i suppose it's possible that if we highlight them all somebody might pick up on it.
x x x
I have a question concerning the castle. Is the Disney coat of arms on the castle like in Florida and Anaheim?
Can someone post a picture?
Quote from: "dagobert"I have a question concerning the castle. Is the Disney coat of arms on the castle like in Florida and Anaheim?
Can someone post a picture?
I don't think so, it could be I suppose, but I don't think it is :wink:
Quote from: "dagobert"I have a question concerning the castle. Is the Disney coat of arms on the castle like in Florida and Anaheim?
Can someone post a picture?
Yes, I'll post a picture tomorrow. :)
Quote from: "dagobert"I have a question concerning the castle. Is the Disney coat of arms on the castle like in Florida and Anaheim?
Can someone post a picture?
Are you talking about the one on the left side of the castle? That can be found
here (//http://www.d-log.nl/media/db_images/original/141357_9db287.jpg).
Cheers,
Flounder
Thank you very much!
Quote from: "Flounder"Quote from: "dagobert"I have a question concerning the castle. Is the Disney coat of arms on the castle like in Florida and Anaheim?
Can someone post a picture?
Are you talking about the one on the left side of the castle? That can be found here (//http://www.d-log.nl/media/db_images/original/141357_9db287.jpg).
Cheers,
Flounder
Wow, I didn't realise that there was one on our castle, thanks for that :)
Quote from: "Riebi"BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
- Water splash
In this video from Disney parks advertising the DLRP Christmas Season, at point 0:50 onwards you can see the BTM splash :D
[youtube:mc2zebli]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AcipNzJHhQ[/youtube:mc2zebli]
The fountain outside Plaza Gardens wasnt working from the 8th - 11th Dec :(
Also Half of the dancers in PM were stationary :(
But I did get to see the Minature fair ground rides in Boardwalk Candy Place working! :D (the ones behind the cash registers) and 1 gas light on main street was definatly working, didnt notice the rest :oops: i was distracted by the parade :P
... and I even managed to get a video this time of Snow White in the Mirror!! (sorry its not the right way up)
[youtube:1d23ay3f]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsaCiqtvpjE[/youtube:1d23ay3f]
Quote from: "Clarebelle"The fountain outside Plaza Gardens wasnt working from the 8th - 11th Dec :(
Also Half of the dancers in PM were stationary :(
But I did get to see the Minature fair ground rides in Boardwalk Candy Place working! :D (the ones behind the cash registers) and 1 gas light on main street was definatly working, didnt notice the rest :oops: i was distracted by the parade :P
... and I even managed to get a video this time of Snow White in the Mirror!! (sorry its not the right way up)
[youtube:2zo1a2rz]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsaCiqtvpjE[/youtube:2zo1a2rz]
Nice video, thanks for uploading it :) =D>
(Don't worry about it being the wrong way, it makes it unique :wink: :P )
thats me :P unique lol
QuoteThe fountain outside Plaza Gardens wasnt working from the 8th - 11th Dec :(
Most fountain effects are turned off in the winter. :)
:oops: just letting people know as on the list they are said to be on
I noticed past weekend that quite a few light effects have been fixed, including the window on the Fantasyland-side of the main turret.
I've updated the list with a few things I was able to check and threw in a few new things that need to be fixed. :)
Photo proof! :mrgreen:
Very good news comes from "webmasseur"' on Disney Central Plaza...
The 4 torches on Fort Comstock have been turned on once again! :mrgreen: =D> =D> Let's hope the other torches spread out over Adventureland and Frontierland will make a return!
Quote from: "Kristof"Very good news comes from "webmasseur"' on Disney Central Plaza...
The 4 torches on Fort Comstock have been turned on once again! :mrgreen: =D> =D> Let's hope the other torches spread out over Adventureland and Frontierland will make a return!
Fantastic news! I only hope they will remain on forever, and not stop working again after a few weeks!
It does seem that the "broken" effects are returning to the park one by one. Hopefully one day we'll see a park with all effects working! :mrgreen:
When I was in the park in December I noticed that half of the waltzing ghosts from Phantom Manor were not dancing! Has this since been fixed?
Quote from: "Magic M"When I was in the park in December I noticed that half of the waltzing ghosts from Phantom Manor were not dancing! Has this since been fixed?
January 4th - 10th they were still not moving most of the time.
Let's hope they get fixed in the refurb time, then :)
Fort Comstock torches photo proof:
(//http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/news_updates/31_january_2009/comstock2.JPG)
I noticed only 3 working, but that was probably because of the wind.
So awesome!
Only 55 red items on the checklist now. :P
That is fantastic! It has been so long. Was the waterfall next to the fort working too?
Neat! That's been quite a while.
It's great the fires re-lit, it's like when I saw the Indy fires on on my last trip, they're both such a great little feature :P :mrgreen:
the swinging pirate in potc is broken :( :( :(
Yeah and the sounds of the dueling pirates arent working still... been that way since December :-k think pirates needs a bit of attention
That's bad news, after all POTC just had a pretty long refurb closure.
The animatronics on BTM work everytime i go so that's working ro sure.
Updated the list! :D
"TOWN SQUARE PHOTOGRAPHY
- Party line telephone (Kristof, 04 March '09: horn completely ripped off)"
That's a crying shame. It played a wonderful and hilarious spiel.
I agree! There was even a very proud cast member showing the phone to a guest, only to realise it was vandalised.
Still way too many reds. Can't the maintenance crews just have a big day where they go round fixing things? :roll:
In my opinion keeping all the effects working is way more important than the MMP rubbish.
important to us but not to many of the visitors i fear :cry:
Amazing news comes from Dash on Disney Central Plaza. He says that a special department has been brought to life at DLRP that will be responsible of indexing all lost effects and fixing them.
Currently the smoke effects in Frontierland (Big Thunder Mountain and Phantom Manor) are being restored, which will hopefully lead to the restoring of all smoke effects in POTC as well. Next will be the fountains in POTC, both inside the attraction as outside.
And last but not least, all the gas torches in Adventureland are being fixed as well. =D> =D> =D>
Quote from: "Kristof"Amazing news comes from Dash on Disney Central Plaza. He says that a special department has been brought to life at DLRP that will be responsible of indexing all lost effects and fixing them.
Currently the smoke effects in Frontierland (Big Thunder Mountain and Phantom Manor) are being restored, which will hopefully lead to the restoring of all smoke effects in POTC as well. Next will be the fountains in POTC, both inside the attraction as outside.
And last but not least, all the gas torches in Adventureland are being fixed as well. =D> =D> =D>
That's great news! It's good to hear that DLP are finally being serious about maintaining all of its amazing effects!
Quote from: "Kristof"Amazing news comes from Dash on Disney Central Plaza. He says that a special department has been brought to life at DLRP that will be responsible of indexing all lost effects and fixing them.
Currently the smoke effects in Frontierland (Big Thunder Mountain and Phantom Manor) are being restored, which will hopefully lead to the restoring of all smoke effects in POTC as well. Next will be the fountains in POTC, both inside the attraction as outside.
And last but not least, all the gas torches in Adventureland are being fixed as well. =D> =D> =D>
That is FANTASTIC news. :mrgreen:
Just when we thought things weren't going to get better (with all the MMP rubbish), this comes along! :D For me, this is actually more exciting than any new attractions. Hopefully the group won't fade away after a few years!
Will this department also be fixing some other lost effects in Main Street, Discoveryland and Fantasyland? And possibly even the smoke machines in Rock 'n' Roller Coaster? :mrgreen:
This better be true!
Quote from: "Kristof"Amazing news comes from Dash on Disney Central Plaza. He says that a special department has been brought to life at DLRP that will be responsible of indexing all lost effects and fixing them.
Currently the smoke effects in Frontierland (Big Thunder Mountain and Phantom Manor) are being restored, which will hopefully lead to the restoring of all smoke effects in POTC as well. Next will be the fountains in POTC, both inside the attraction as outside.
And last but not least, all the gas torches in Adventureland are being fixed as well. =D> =D> =D>
Sometimes i think a DLRP insider is reading this forum.... :wink:
OMG........ :shock: Is this a dream???? :lol:
Great news indeed!!!
Quote from: "Kristof"... a special department has been brought to life at DLRP that will be responsible of indexing all lost effects and fixing them. ...
I can't believe it!! THIS is the best DLRP news I have read since the announcement of TOT being build and - if they really do what they promise - it tops even that, easily.
This is great news , hope it is reliable !!,wish they could restore the fountains at the entrance to Discoveryland,without the fire of course !!! =D>
Quote from: "Kristof"Amazing news comes from Dash on Disney Central Plaza. He says that a special department has been brought to life at DLRP that will be responsible of indexing all lost effects and fixing them.
Currently the smoke effects in Frontierland (Big Thunder Mountain and Phantom Manor) are being restored, which will hopefully lead to the restoring of all smoke effects in POTC as well. Next will be the fountains in POTC, both inside the attraction as outside.
And last but not least, all the gas torches in Adventureland are being fixed as well. =D> =D> =D>
Wow, talk about making my day Kristof, this is amazing news. To hear something like this is being created, especially during the credit crunch, and MMP ( :roll: ), this is so unexpected, but brilliant. The right move by Disney =D> :mrgreen:
Wow, it seems just as davewasbaloo said, dlrp management do read these boards :D/ :D/
Yeah it sure seems like that :)
Ooh, I'll jump on this bandwagon. That sounds great, obviously. Fingers crossed.
It's not just torches and smoke effects, though. Fantasyland in particular would be a field day for these people. Although that's all documented well on the first page of this thread, of course...
Amazing news, that.
Now let's just hope they actually give this new department some money to spend...
Awesome news! Just as I start to lose faith, something comes along to bring my spirits up!
The fountain outside Plaza gardens was working 28 March-1 April, as was Columbiad smoke effect..... :)
Quote from: "Bambi"The fountain outside Plaza gardens was working 28 March-1 April, as was Columbiad smoke effect..... :)
Indeed Bambi! I haven't updated the list yet from my past visit. Will do this asap. :)
Good to hear about the smoke effect, but what about the recoiling effect and the opening/closing door? I haven't seen those working in years.
this new department sounds great but i can't help to think all they will be given is a screwdriver and some spare screws ? :p Time will tell tho!
Quote from: "pussinboots"Good to hear about the smoke effect, but what about the recoiling effect and the opening/closing door? I haven't seen those working in years.
Those stopped working early 2008 or so. :roll:
The door was working last November. I haven't seen the recoil effect since about 2005.
Quote from: "RnRCj"The door was working last November. I haven't seen the recoil effect since about 2005.
I definitely have seen the recoil effect after that. (I'm around during press events a lot... That's when most effects get fixed for a day or 2...)
Quote from: "Kristof"(I'm around during press events a lot... That's when most effects get fixed for a day or 2...)
How can they only be fixed for a day or two? Surely once they're fixed for the press event, they're fixed forever. Do they purposely break them again once the press have left?
I'm guessing all the smoke machines in RnRC magicaly start working on press days too? :lol:
I really hope to visit soon, as I cannot wait to see all of these amazing effects working again! :D
This is simply amazing news. No attractions, shows or placemaking could be better news than this :mrgreen: :D/ Restore the park to its magical period with all these amazing effects and then start adding again :D/
Amazing news :!:
Quote from: "RnRCj"Quote from: "Kristof"(I'm around during press events a lot... That's when most effects get fixed for a day or 2...)
How can they only be fixed for a day or two? Surely once they're fixed for the press event, they're fixed forever. Do they purposely break them again once the press have left?
I'm guessing all the smoke machines in RnRC magicaly start working on press days too? :lol:
Euhm no, they just don't get fixed when they brake down again... :-k
Quote from: "Kristof"Quote from: "RnRCj"Quote from: "Kristof"(I'm around during press events a lot... That's when most effects get fixed for a day or 2...)
How can they only be fixed for a day or two? Surely once they're fixed for the press event, they're fixed forever. Do they purposely break them again once the press have left?
I'm guessing all the smoke machines in RnRC magicaly start working on press days too? :lol:
Euhm no, they just don't get fixed when they brake down again... :-k
But surely they can still keep them working for more than just a few days?
Oh well, at least this new department will (hopefully) do something about the effects now!
Updates:
- DLRR: On board sound working great, just a shame about the stupid CM interrupting every few seconds and the Discoveryland intro playing as we were at Fantasyland.
- Boardwalk Candy Palace: Never even noticed these before, but the little balloon props in the right-hand corner were going up and down! Store looked amazing.
- SMM2: Smoke was there one day, but none at all yesterday.
- Nautilus: You can see water bubbling slightly in the lake, but nowhere near full force it should be
- Taniere du Dragon: I think there was a little fog. Dragon didn't seem as ferocious as I remember... A bit sleepy? lol
- Tea Cups: Hanging lanterns were lit at night, but they seem very faded and dirty, nowhere near as bright as they should be
- IASW: Globe fountain was on, but no water was running down the side facing Pizzeria Bella Notte.
- Fort Comstock closed all weekend (WHY?! That damn bin!) and no torches. Two scenes on your right as you enter (Buffalo Bill and the bedroom) seemed to have been freshened up, though they'd replaced Buffalo Bill's hair (bright silver) but not his beard (dirty yellow)... I'll find the photo.. lol)
- BTM: Animals all working, Steam engine by the lifthill had working "fire" AND smoke coming out the top (never seen that before). Dynamite lift hill all working I think.
- Fuente del Oro: Pretty sure the fountain was on
- No geysers
- Aladdin: Fountain inside working, scaffolding and tarps covering outside - entire waterway between here and Main Street still dead for now
- POTC: No torch fire, entrance sign massively damaged and dirty, most things inside working great except the duelling pirates who didn't have any sound of clinking swords. Outside exit fountain working.
- Indy: Two huge torches in front of the attraction working this weekend (nighttime)
Just some extras:
- Cottonwood Creek windmill was turning (is this an effect or a real windmill? I honestly can't remember seeing it turning before)
- IASW Postshow: Exit passageway just been repainted, but inside NONE of the animated scenes are lit properly (except one): only the video is playing, none of the background scenes illuminated. One even had the words "FAN ERROR" projected next to the video clip... Attraction itself is running wonderfully.
Quote from: "Anthony"Updates:
- DLRR: On board sound working great, just a shame about the stupid CM interrupting every few seconds and the Discoveryland intro playing as we were at Fantasyland.
Yes, why do they do that? It seems so unnecessary. What is that bit of pivotal information that needs to be repeated at every station? It's like a harsh wake-up call from the serene spiel.
Quote from: "pussinboots"Quote from: "Anthony"Updates:
- DLRR: On board sound working great, just a shame about the stupid CM interrupting every few seconds and the Discoveryland intro playing as we were at Fantasyland.
Yes, why do they do that? It seems so unnecessary. What is that bit of pivotal information that needs to be repeated at every station? It's like a harsh wake-up call from the serene spiel.
I was under the impression that this was usually them yelling at someone to sit down, or to keep their arms inside the train. I seem to remember that's what it was the last time I was there, anyway...
Quote from: "king_spoon_ian"I was under the impression that this was usually them yelling at someone to sit down, or to keep their arms inside the train. I seem to remember that's what it was the last time I was there, anyway...
Yes... If I'm not mistaken, the message usually comes down to "please remain seated and keep your hands and arms inside the train, thank you..." Which sounds like something that could be worked into the recorded spiel, doesn't it? And if it's already in there but not URGENT enough or not bilingual (I don't remember), then it would still be saner to change the recording than to physically repeat it at every station every day.
They could get that pleasant male voice again — if the bearer of said voice isn't dead or retired, that is. Or is that taking jobs away from French workers? Loud, boisterous, bored-sounding French workers... (I know, they're just doing their job...)
Quote from: "pussinboots"They could get that pleasant male voice again — if the bearer of said voice isn't dead or retired, that is. Or is that taking jobs away from French workers? Loud, boisterous, bored-sounding French workers... (I know, they're just doing their job...)
I was wondering this at the weekend... what happened to him? You still hear him talking about getting your hand stamped at the exit, but they mustn't have had any new recordings from him for 10 years or more. I'd much prefer if parades were announced by a friendly American voice rather than with a disjointed accent and all the words mixed up. "In just 5 minutes will begin It's Party Time with Mickey and Friends. That's in just 5 minutes" does not make sense!
But yes, the DLRR cast members were interrupting the spiel for everything from "Please remain seated" (not entirely their fault) to "In Frontierland you can find the mine train". The annoying thing is that there's plenty of room between the spiels to announce things like "remain seated", but they just obviously haven't been told to do that.
Quote from: "Anthony"I was wondering this at the weekend... what happened to him? You still hear him talking about getting your hand stamped at the exit, but they mustn't have had any new recordings from him for 10 years or more. I'd much prefer if parades were announced by a friendly American voice rather than with a disjointed accent and all the words mixed up. "In just 5 minutes will begin It's Party Time with Mickey and Friends. That's in just 5 minutes" does not make sense!
But yes, the DLRR cast members were interrupting the spiel for everything from "Please remain seated" (not entirely their fault) to "In Frontierland you can find the mine train". The annoying thing is that there's plenty of room between the spiels to announce things like "remain seated", but they just obviously haven't been told to do that.
Getting a little off topic now (may start one) but i tried doing an onride video both august and halloween time and interrupted by either screaming kids or castmembers saying "please remain in your seats, next station is ......" when it could be mixed into the sound track in gentle voice "Welcome aboard the DLRR, our next station is ______, Please, for your safety remain seated until the train comes to a complete stop" kinda BTM style :P
Yeah the cast members interupt suddenly during the journey when you are like 2 mins away from the stations i get annoyed! why cant they say things softly instead of shouting"
I was just editing a video of the Dance Time show and there's some woman from Guest Flow screeching at the start for people to move. I'm not sure if it's just because I'm not French that it always sounds so horribly shrill and unpleasant, though... if an English person shouted in English like that, how would it sound?
The thing about the railroad is that all the warnings - smoking, standing up, etc are all included in the actual narration. It's just a case of CMs being a bit robotic and going OTT on how they were trained. At Le Pays des Contes de Fées for example, I was the only person in the queue, there were empty boats going around, the CM still points me to sit in the boat in front with some other group. I smile nicely and sort of say... can I go in the next boat? .. and all I got was *robotically* "the middle row..." Why?! There is an EMPTY boat right there!
Don't get me started on the ToT CMs who confuse "creepy" with sleazy and plain rude... we're way off topic now. :lol:
Quote from: "Anthony"I was wondering this at the weekend... what happened to him? You still hear him talking about getting your hand stamped at the exit, but they mustn't have had any new recordings from him for 10 years or more. I'd much prefer if parades were announced by a friendly American voice rather than with a disjointed accent and all the words mixed up. "In just 5 minutes will begin It's Party Time with Mickey and Friends. That's in just 5 minutes" does not make sense!
But yes, the DLRR cast members were interrupting the spiel for everything from "Please remain seated" (not entirely their fault) to "In Frontierland you can find the mine train". The annoying thing is that there's plenty of room between the spiels to announce things like "remain seated", but they just obviously haven't been told to do that.
You're right about that disjointed accent. It shouldn't be too difficult to find a native speaker. An American, preferably, as it seems to befit the park, or a Briton who does a passable impression (hey, it worked for the Australian accent on Crush).
There are two other spiels that aren't handled very respectfully, by the way; the ones on the riverboats. They get cut off or played at the wrong moment or not played at all. Which is too bad, because they're hilarious.
Spiels are great, really. You're listening to something that was created by those clever Imagineers; it's their narration to their visuals. Or at least it feels that way. You don't get that with "in Frontierland you will find the mine train."
The animatronics on BTM always work when i am there , the head's move up and down.And when we go up a hill , there's this tree and there's 2 ravens/blackcrows in it looking over as you go by.
Updated the list with things I remember from over the weekend. :)
QuoteRIVERS OF THE FAR WEST
- Geysers (Kristof, 07 April '09)
They were actually working?! Are you sure? This is the first time in years if so!
It would be great if the Geysers are working, because I've seen them only once in 2000.
Quote from: "RnRCj"QuoteRIVERS OF THE FAR WEST
- Geysers (Kristof, 07 April '09)
They were actually working?! Are you sure? This is the first time in years if so!
Sorry, wrong colour... They were NOT working. :roll: Last time I've seen them working was on 3 February 2007. They had just fixed the big geyser which hadn't worked in years.
There's a picture of that day on Photos Magiques in the
Boot Hill album (//http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/disneyland_park/frontierland/boot_hill.php).
Quote from: "Kristof"Sorry, wrong colour... They were NOT working. :roll: Last time I've seen them working was on 3 February 2007. They had just fixed the big geyser which hadn't worked in years.
There's a picture of that day on Photos Magiques in the Boot Hill album (//http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/disneyland_park/frontierland/boot_hill.php).
Ah, I wondered why you hadn't mentioned it! The geysers are my favourite effect in the park. Very disappointing to see them completely inactive. It's strange that they fixed it for that one day in 2007 though. Is there a reason for them being inactive?
Kristof, you have all recent dates set to 07 April '09, but I think that should have been 07 June '09, shouldn't it?
I updated the list with what I could check last week:
MAIN STREET, U.S.A.
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Smoke coming out of The Coffee Grinder advertising (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Twinkle lights in Main Street trees (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Gas lights (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Dentist sound effect (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Mahjong players sound effect (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Bathing guy sound effect (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Piano lessons sound effect (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- "Rooms" sign on building near Storybook Store (Kristof, 07 June '09)
DISNEYLAND RAILROAD
- Main Street Station Organ (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- On board sound and music
TOWN SQUARE PHOTOGRAPHY
- Party line telephone (Nicolai, 01 June '09: horn completely ripped off, rest of phone now broken too)
STORYBOOK STORE
- Book-stamping Tigger (Kristof, 29 March '09: moving)
EMPORIUM
- Overhead cash carrier track (Kristof, 07 June '09)
BOARDWALK CANDY PALACE
- Miniature fair rides (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
MARKET HOUSE DELI
- Party line telephone (Kristof, 29 March '09: horn near Main Street ok, horns behind counter and near arcade ripped off)
CABLE CAR BAKERY
- Fans (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Arcade machines (Kristof, 29 March '09)
DISNEY & CO
- Animatronic Mickey, Minnie and Goofy in balloon (Kristof, 29 March '09)
MAIN STREET MOTORS
- Bubbling gas pump (Kristof, 07 June '09)
HARRINGTON'S FINE CHINA AND PORCELAINS
- Light behind glass dome (Kristof, 29 March '09)
VICTORIA'S HOME STYLE RESTAURANT
- Gas lights on restaurant logo (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- "Fire" effect in stove (Kristof, 04 March '09)
PLAZA GARDENS RESTAURANT
- Outdoor fountain (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Indoor fountain (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
CASEY'S CORNER
- Animated baseball players on overhead menu (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
LIBERTY ARCADE
- Statue of Liberty Tableau (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Gas lights (Kristof, 07 June '09)
DISCOVERY ARCADE
- Gas lights (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Fans near Ice Cream Company. (Kristof, 29 March '09)
DISCOVERYLAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Rotating Discoveryland Sign (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Lava pool water fountains (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Lava pool smoke and fire effects (turned off due to safety regulations)
ORBITRON - MACHINES VOLANTES
- Full Rotating of all Orbitron elements (Kristof, 07 June '09)
SPACE MOUNTAIN MISSION 2
- Columbiad smoke (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Columbiad loading door (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Columbiad recoil (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Onboard music (Kristof, 04 March '09: all trains I've seen in station worked)
- Smoke in M.O.M (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Smoke before wormhole (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Starlight effect on top of roof (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Strobes on tracks on top (Kristof, 04 March '09)
LES MYSTERES DE NAUTILUS
- Bubbling water in lake (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Bubbling water in Diving Room (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Steam in Engine Room (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Nuclear lights in Engine Room (Kristof, 29 March '09)
VIDEOPOLIS
- Moving fans on Hyperion (Both worked! Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Pidgeon animatronics in baskets (Pidgeons are missing, sound still there. Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Flashing lights on spires on façade (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Hydrolics of Coke machines (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Bubbling water in Coke machines (Kristof, 29 March '09)
STAR TOURS
- Flashing lights on façade (Kristof, 04 March '09: not all worked)
- Animated red lights on Star Tours logo (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Large screen in queue line (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- R2D2 moving up and down on Star Speeder in queue line (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
FANTASYLAND
LE CHATEAU DE LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT
- Fountain and indoor waterfall (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Small copper fountains near Castle Courtyard (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Fiberglass pixiedust in Sleeping Beauty tapestry (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Turning spinning wheel (both wheel and pedal fully working! Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Real fire in fireplace (turned off in 1993)
- Fire light effect in fireplace (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Snoring knights (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Rose/Dove stained glass window effect (Effect was frozen in transition, not changing! Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Light behind the window on the backside of the main Tower (Kristof, 04 March '09)
LA BOUTIQUE DU CHATEAU
- Light behind stained glass shop logo (Kristof, 29 March '09)
LA TANIERE DU DRAGON
- Fire breath (turned off due to safety regulations)
- Smoke breath (None! Also mouth not moving. Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Fog in water (no lights and no fog! Nicolai, 01 June '09)
BLANCHE NEIGE ET LES SEPTS NAINS
- Evil Queen opening curtain (Kristof, 29 March '09)
LA CHAUMIERE DES SEPTS NAINS
- Snow White appearing in magic mirror (across the cottage) (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
LA CONFISERIE DES TROIS FEES
- Three fairies effect over fireplace (Kristof, 29 March '09)
AUBERGE DE CENDRILLON
- Cinderella Fountain (Kristof, 29 March '09)
L'ARBRE ENCHANTE
- Fruit and leaves in tree (Nearly all fruit and leaves are gone ; Kristof, 29 March '09)
SIR MICKEY'S
- Vegetables in garden (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Lights on Giant (Kristof, 29 March '09)
ALICE'S CURIOUS LABYRINTH
- Pink and blue lights in hedges (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Water fountains (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Accordion Owl (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Nail bird (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Smoking caterpillar (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Small Cheshire cat in tree moving eyes and tail (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Cheshire Cat floral bed's eyes (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Cheshire Cat floral bed light up smile at night (Kristof, 19 Dec '08)
- Turning card (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Animatronic Queen of Hearts (Kristof, 04 March '09: only one worked)
MAD HATTER'S TEACUPS
- Coloured lights on roof (Kristof, 04 March '09)
MARCH HARE REFRESHMENTS
- Pop-up dormouse and smoke (Kristof, 29 March '09)
TOAD HALL
- Toad painting changing (Kristof, 29 March '09)
THE OLD MILL
- Turning mill wings (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
- Moving elements on façade (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Fountains in front of the façade (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- "it's a small world" globe fountain (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- "it's a small world" clock parade (Kristof, 04 March '09)
FRONTIERLAND
LEGENDS OF THE FAR WEST
- Torches on Fort Comstock (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Waterfall near Indian village (Kristof, 07 June '09)
PHANTOM MANOR
- Interior: First "holographic" picture (mirror right after loading) (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Interior: Leota's "floating" table (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Interior: Fog behind singing busts (Working, but not much fog. Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Interior: Pharmacist's transforming face (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Interior: Ghost Train effect (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Interior: Ghostly cardplayers (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Interior: Finale: Fog behind the Bride skeleton (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Interior: Phantom on Doom Buggies mirror effect (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Exterior: Flapping window cover (Kristof, 04 March '09)
- Exterior: Phantom behind window on the side (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Exterior: Moving candle at night behind top windows (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Exterior: Bride behind window (Kristof, 29 March '09)
BOOT HILL
- Beating heart in grave (Kristof, 07 June '09)
BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
- Water wheel in queue line (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Fluorescent pools (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Waterfall on top of lift hill (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Water splash (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Animatronic animals on the mountain (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Shaking and falling rocks (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Explosion Fog (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Fiberglass gold (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
FUENTE DEL ORO
- Fountain (Kristof, 07 June '09)
RIVERS OF THE FAR WEST
- Geysers (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Old Joe and dog animatronic (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Chewing moose animatronic (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
RIVER ROGUE KEELBOATS
- Torches at entrance, loading dock and Smuggler's Cove (Kristof, 07 June '09)
ADVENTURELAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Torches near Hakuna Matata Restaurant (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Waterfall between Adventureland and Peter Pan's Flight (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Waterfall near Frontierland entrance (across Colonel Hathi's Pizza Outpost) (Nicolai, 01 June '099)
- Waterfall near Hakuna Matata (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
ADVENTURELAND BAZAR
- Torches at entrance (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Chandelier (Kristof, 07 June '09)
ADVENTURE ISLE
- La Rocher qui Bascule (tipping rock) (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Fruit in root cellar (Kristof, 29 March '09)
LE PASSAGE ENCHANTE D'ALADDIN
- Cave of Wonders rising (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Moving flying carpet in final diorama (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Fountain effect inside walkthrough (Stopped working after a few minutes - Kristof, 07 June '09)
AGRABAH CAFE RESTAURANT
- Large fountain near cash register (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Small fountain near the coffee / tea stand (Kristof, 29 March '09)
LA GIRAFE CURIEUSE
- Animatronic giraffe (Kristof, 29 March '09)
- Torch in front of building (Removed ; Kristof, 29 March '09)
COLONEL HATHI'S PIZZA PLANET
- Tiki birds in tree
LA CABANE DES ROBINSON
- Self-playing organ (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Water irrigation system (Kristof, 07 June '09)
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
- Torch tower near Blue Lagoon entrance (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Swinging pirate (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Canon ball splashes (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Duelling swordfighters (still no sound effect, but the swords are touching again!!! Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Mayor spitting water in the Well Scene (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Rain effect in Grotto scene (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Fountain at exit (Kristof, 07 June '09)
COOL POST
- Cool box with sound effect (They even added fake ice in it! - Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Hidden Jungle Phone with sound effect (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
INDIANA JONES ET LE TEMPLE DU PERIL
- Torches in front of attraction (Kristof, 07 June '09)
- Torches on staircase in queue line (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
I added a few new ones and marked them bold.
I just made an interesting find. When we rode BTM last week I noticed something I didn't see before. On the second climb there is a kettle on the left side, right before the steam engine. And there was a little bit of smoke coming out of this kettle! Not very much, just a little. The following days I always looked very good at this kettle but there was no smoke any more (although I noticed a small pipe leading into the kettle from below), so I wasn't too sure that what I saw was indeed a real effect and not something else ...
Now imagine my surprise when today I was digging through one of my old 1992 guidebooks and I find this great picture:
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If you look closely there is actually a lot of smoke coming out of this kettle!!! And in addition to that there is also smoke coming out of the chimney of the building left to it:
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What great details!!! And I am so glad I found this pic to prove I wasn't mistaken!
So what do you think, should we not add both effects to the list??
BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
...
- Smoke coming out of kettle (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
- Smoke coming out of chimney (Nicolai, 01 June '09)
:D
- Castle fountain and indoor waterfall + (the crystal in the wall between the main corridor and Merlin's was working as well)
- Alice's Curious Labyrinth water fountains +
Quote from: "pussinboots"- Castle fountain and indoor waterfall + (the crystal in the wall between the main corridor and Merlin's was working as well)
- Alice's Curious Labyrinth water fountains +
The waterfall next to the staircase was working?????? :shock:
Quote from: "Kristof"Quote from: "pussinboots"- Castle fountain and indoor waterfall + (the crystal in the wall between the main corridor and Merlin's was working as well)
- Alice's Curious Labyrinth water fountains +
The waterfall next to the staircase was working?????? :shock:
I was just as surprised. And who would have guessed that the little Sleeping Beauty fountain upstairs and that elusive waterfall were in fact one single water system. Quite lovely!
Another thing they've finally fixed: The dozens of broken (and missing) flickering-flame lights in the castle chandeliers.
It's just too bad that every time you spot something that's working, something else isn't. The dragon was in a terrible state. No smoke at all, the little light in the back of his throat wasn't working, and his eyelid had come off and was hanging over his right eye. I doubt they've fixed it by now.
Without the smoke, the dragon is surprisingly dull, I have to say. Not very menacing to say the least. Without smoke or fire, what exactly makes it a dragon?! It's like a big growling dog on a chain this way.
Quote from: "pussinboots"... I was just as surprised. And who would have guessed that the little Sleeping Beauty fountain upstairs and that elusive waterfall were in fact one single water system. Quite lovely! ...
Wow, this is great news!! Now I have to go back asap to check it out, damn. Did you take pictures or video of it??
QuoteI was just as surprised. And who would have guessed that the little Sleeping Beauty fountain upstairs and that elusive waterfall were in fact one single water system. Quite lovely!
Yes, it starts at the Sleeping Beauty statue, runs down next to the staircase and ends next to the entrance of Merlin's shop. Last time I've seen it work was 31 December 2004!!!
Quote from: "Kristof"QuoteI was just as surprised. And who would have guessed that the little Sleeping Beauty fountain upstairs and that elusive waterfall were in fact one single water system. Quite lovely!
Yes, it starts at the Sleeping Beauty statue, runs down next to the staircase and ends next to the entrance of Merlin's shop. Last time I've seen it work was 31 December 2004!!!
This is great news , thought I would never see it work again !! As you said it is years since this was in action !! =D>
The fountain at the top is really connected to the waterfall?!
I feel like a booking a trip right now just to see this...!
Quote from: "Anthony"The fountain at the top is really connected to the waterfall?!
I feel like a booking a trip right now just to see this...!
Here's a photo of the waterfall when it worked on New Year's Eve 2004. It's hard to make out on this photo, but the lower part is actually were the staircase is.
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Thanks for the picture , I remember the very first time I saw this fountain and following the water all the way down to the small pool ! It is great they have tidied up inside the castle as really the heart of all the magic !! and should be the showpiece of the park
The fountain (on Monday:)
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And a very very bad picture of the glowing crystal at the base of the waterfall:
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Wow!! Never seen this before! Looking forward to experience a new detail :wink:
Fantastic to see the fountain working again! I love little details like that. Someone on Disney Central Plaza mentioned that the turning wings on the Old Mill are also working again - is this true?
I've never seen this waterfall, but it's great that DLRP is improving the effects again. Hopefully it will stay this way.
Here is my little update from this weeks trip
Waterfall on top of lift hill - on btm - this was working today
Rain effect in Grotto scene - on POTC - this was working today
Quote from: "smurfy74"Here is my little update from this weeks trip
Waterfall on top of lift hill - on btm - this was working today
Rain effect in Grotto scene - on POTC - this was working today
When exactly did the rain start?
I guess you meant the rain effect where the skeleton is turning the wheel, I hadnt noticed it until this week, i thought it was a great special effect. Or is it the bit where you get physically wet as you go through the grotto ( this was working too :D )
The rain in the grotto was working for us too on Tuesday (didn't notice it Sunday or Monday, though).
Quote from: "smurfy74"Here is my little update from this weeks trip
Waterfall on top of lift hill - on btm - this was working today
Rain effect in Grotto scene - on POTC - this was working today
Great! I hope they are working when I visit this summer! I really missed the waterfall on BTM.
Updated the list; see first topic! :)
My goodness Kristof, that is a seroius amount of little effects that you've noticed. Between checking the effects and taking 1000's of pictures, do you ever find time to go on the rides and attractions anymore ?
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"My goodness Kristof, that is a seroius amount of little effects that you've noticed. Between checking the effects and taking 1000's of pictures, do you ever find time to go on the rides and attractions anymore ?
:lol: Well I don't ride much attractions, unless I have Fast Pass, there's no long queue or I need to check effects or need photos from the inside. :wink:
Quote from: "Kristof"Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"My goodness Kristof, that is a seroius amount of little effects that you've noticed. Between checking the effects and taking 1000's of pictures, do you ever find time to go on the rides and attractions anymore ?
:lol: Well I don't ride much attractions, unless I have Fast Pass, there's no long queue or I need to check effects or need photos from the inside. :wink:
That's terrible. It's like buying Star Wars toys but keeping them in the wrapper so they become collector's items. You need a break from all this, a holiday in fact. I know a good place just outside of Paris. It's got a castle, some really cool rollercoasters, friendly Cast Members .............. :lol:
Got a few updates here, not a lot though.
Quote from: "Riebi"MAIN STREET, U.S.A.
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Smoke coming out of The Coffee Grinder advertising (12th July 09)
- Twinkle lights in Main Street trees (10th July 09)
- Dentist sound effect (12th July 09)
DISNEYLAND RAILROAD
- On board sound and music (11th July 09)
PLAZA GARDENS RESTAURANT
- Outdoor fountain (12th July 09)
LIBERTY ARCADE
- Gas lights (12th July 09)
DISCOVERY ARCADE
- Gas lights (12th July 09)
DISCOVERYLAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Rotating Discoveryland Sign (12th July; no inner-rotating)
- Lava pool water fountains (12th July)
SPACE MOUNTAIN MISSION 2
- Columbiad smoke (10th July 09)
- Columbiad loading door (10th July 09)
- Columbiad recoil (10th July 09)
- Onboard music (10th July 09)
*NOTE* SM:M2 was closed due to a technical fault on the 11th and 12th July 09
FANTASYLAND
ALICE'S CURIOUS LABYRINTH
- Water fountains (12th July 09)
- Smoking caterpillar (12th July 09)
- Cheshire Cat floral bed's eyes (12th July 09)
TOAD HALL
- Toad painting changing (12th July 09)
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
- Fountains in front of the façade (11th July 09)
- "it's a small world" globe fountain (10th July 09)]
FRONTIERLAND
PHANTOM MANOR
- Interior: First "holographic" picture (mirror right after loading) (12th July 09)
- Interior: Leota's "floating" table (12th July 09)
- Interior: Ghostly cardplayers (12th July)
- Interior: Finale: Fog behind the Bride skeleton (12th July 09; was working 9th, 10th and 11th)
- Interior: Phantom on Doom Buggies mirror effect (12th July 09)
- Exterior: Flapping window cover (12rth July 09)
- Exterior: Phantom behind window on the side (12th July 09)
- Exterior: Bride behind window (12th July 09)
BOOT HILL
- Beating heart in grave (12th July 09)
BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
- Waterfall on top of lift hill (12th July 09)
- Water splash (12th July 09)
- Animatronic goat (12th July 09)
- Shaking and falling rocks (12th July 09; was working 10th and 11th)
RIVERS OF THE FAR WEST
- Geysers (12th July 09)
ADVENTURELAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Torches near Hakuna Matata Restaurant (12th July 09)
ADVENTURELAND BAZAR
- Torches at entrance (12th July 09)
- Chandelier (12th July 09)
LA CABANE DES ROBINSON
- Self-playing organ (12th July 09)
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
- Swinging pirate (12th July 09)
- Canon ball splashes (12th July 09)
- Fountain at exit (12th July 09)
INDIANA JONES ET LE TEMPLE DU PERIL
- Torches in front of attraction (12th July 09)
- Torches on staircase in queue line (12th July 09)
Thanks -breeno-, I'll update the list. :)
Edit: "- Self-playing organ (-breeno-, 12th July 09)"
Are you sure??
Quote from: "Kristof"Thanks -breeno-, I'll update the list. :)
Edit: "- Self-playing organ (-breeno-, 12th July 09)"
Are you sure??
Thinking now i dont think it was :P Maybe its because i was up there and just seen it :lol:
Nice to hear the recoil effect is working on the Columbiad. :wink:
Quote from: "-breeno-"- Columbiad recoil (10th July 09)
- Onboard music (10th July 09)
Seriously? Wow!
Quote from: "-breeno-"- Geysers (12th July 09)
They really need to be fixed... :(
Quote from: "Anthony"Quote from: "-breeno-"- Geysers (12th July 09)
They really need to be fixed... :(
It's surprising they haven't with this recent surge in fixing effects. It's one of the most major effects of the park, my favourite in fact. Perhaps there's a good excuse... though I find the "dangerous for birds" thing hard to believe.
Ben-J over at DCP informs us about the geysers:
Quote from: "Ben-J at Disney Central Plaza"Une rehab est prévue mais coutant excessivement cher pour ce que c'est (je ne décrie pas la beauté des geysers bien au contraire je suis le premier à souhaiter les revoir fonctionner mais malheureusement nous avons beaucoup trop d'autres priorités) elle risque d'être repoussée éternellement.
Putting it through a translator, I got that a refurb is planned for the geysers but it will be expensive and may be postponed indefinitely. There are other things that have priority at the moment.
Updated the list with things I checked. :)
Quote from: "RnRCj"Ben-J over at DCP informs us about the geysers:
Quote from: "Ben-J at Disney Central Plaza"Une rehab est prévue mais coutant excessivement cher pour ce que c'est (je ne décrie pas la beauté des geysers bien au contraire je suis le premier à souhaiter les revoir fonctionner mais malheureusement nous avons beaucoup trop d'autres priorités) elle risque d'être repoussée éternellement.
Putting it through a translator, I got that a refurb is planned for the geysers but it will be expensive and may be postponed indefinitely. There are other things that have priority at the moment.
That's a real shame, seems like they no longer treat the Rivers like an attraction in iteslf. At Disneyland in California there is a whole AA village of indians that you can only see from the train, the Mark Twain and the Canoes (and when I was a kid, there was a real burning cabin and a huge waterfall too). DLP always felt let down in comparison, but the geysers made it special and unique, especially as there are none in Big Thuder per se (like in DL, WDW and TDL)
Returned detail: notice the American flag on Mark Twain.
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Some good news from this weekend.
- The dragon was breathing smoke again!
- The caterpillar in Alice's Curious Labyrinth is smoking again! *edit* I see someone spotted the effect working in the beginning of July as well. It didn't work when I was there in that period, but good news nonetheless.
- The Columbiad on Space Mountain was recoiling on Sunday. The smoke was also working, but that's nothing new.
- The animatronic chickens in the baskets underneath the Hyperion are back, and working.
However...
- The Columbiad was no longer recoiling yesterday, and the hatch isn't moving;
- The Buzz Lightyear Animatronic is still stationary. The projection of his face is working, though.
I'm starting to believe the rumors about the special effects unit. Things are looking pretty good.
QuoteI'm starting to believe the rumors about the special effects unit. Things are looking pretty good.
This is how it works:
- First, ride and land managers & team leaders can now request refurbishments of effects, façades, whole attractions etc. In the past, these things were checked once every while by the maintenance department, but it's a big park and a small department, so... (The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster responsible personally requested the September refurb by e-mail)
- Secondly, every morning, a team of managers go through the parks with a photo camera and take pictures of things that are broken, unclean, etc. and these are then send to the responsible departments.
:)
Quote from: "Kristof"This is how it works:
- First, ride and land managers & team leaders can now request refurbishments of effects, façades, whole attractions etc. In the past, these things were checked once every while by the maintenance department, but it's a big park and a small department, so... (The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster responsible personally requested the September refurb by e-mail)
- Secondly, every morning, a team of managers go through the parks with a photo camera and take pictures of things that are broken, unclean, etc. and these are then send to the responsible departments.
:)
Excellent. And they're aware of all effects? Even ones that haven't worked for years? I mean, it's easy to spot a broken smoke effect on a figure holding a hookah, but would these people know about the flaming fountains or the birds at Colonel Hathi's?
Oh and I forgot to mention an effect that's working again — the light in the dragon's throat.
Quote from: "Kristof"QuoteI'm starting to believe the rumors about the special effects unit. Things are looking pretty good.
This is how it works:
- First, ride and land managers & team leaders can now request refurbishments of effects, façades, whole attractions etc. In the past, these things were checked once every while by the maintenance department, but it's a big park and a small department, so... (The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster responsible personally requested the September refurb by e-mail)
- Secondly, every morning, a team of managers go through the parks with a photo camera and take pictures of things that are broken, unclean, etc. and these are then send to the responsible departments.
:)
It's great to hear that so much effort is being put in to fix things now! I absolutely cannot wait to see RnRC working properly again (I actually had a dream about that last night :lol:).
Quote from: "Kristof"This is how it works:
- First, ride and land managers & team leaders can now request refurbishments of effects, façades, whole attractions etc. In the past, these things were checked once every while by the maintenance department, but it's a big park and a small department, so... (The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster responsible personally requested the September refurb by e-mail)
- Secondly, every morning, a team of managers go through the parks with a photo camera and take pictures of things that are broken, unclean, etc. and these are then send to the responsible departments.
:)
It's a pity that loyal fans, and regular visitors couldn't contact the maintenance department directly, and make suggestions as to what needs fixed. As this is the age of the mighty i for interaction, this would be a great way for everyone to feel that they had some level of involvment as to how the park should look
Has the "Sword In The Stone" smoke effect been added to the list? Was it working this week Kristoff?
Quote from: "Anthony"I was wondering this at the weekend... what happened to him? You still hear him talking about getting your hand stamped at the exit, but they mustn't have had any new recordings from him for 10 years or more. I'd much prefer if parades were announced by a friendly American voice rather than with a disjointed accent and all the words mixed up. "In just 5 minutes will begin It's Party Time with Mickey and Friends. That's in just 5 minutes" does not make sense!.
Mike Wagner worked for Disneyland Paris from 1995 tot 2000 and then went on to become the director of a french radio station
don't know he still works there
would be nice to see him come back
http://www.magicsparks.com/tributes/JW/jackwagner.htm (http://www.magicsparks.com/tributes/JW/jackwagner.htm)
Quote from: "kristofke"Quote from: "Anthony"I was wondering this at the weekend... what happened to him? You still hear him talking about getting your hand stamped at the exit, but they mustn't have had any new recordings from him for 10 years or more. I'd much prefer if parades were announced by a friendly American voice rather than with a disjointed accent and all the words mixed up. "In just 5 minutes will begin It's Party Time with Mickey and Friends. That's in just 5 minutes" does not make sense!.
Mike Wagner worked for Disneyland Paris from 1995 tot 2000 and then went on to become the director of a french radio station
don't know he still works there
would be nice to see him come back
http://www.magicsparks.com/tributes/JW/jackwagner.htm (http://www.magicsparks.com/tributes/JW/jackwagner.htm)
Brings back memories! He has a lovely voice. His replacement is okay, but indeed something's a little off.
Updates from 2nd - 4th September 2009. I have only listed things which I saw and have changed since the last update:
MAIN STREET USA
CASEY'S CORNER
- Animated baseball players on overhead menu (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
DISCOVERYLAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Lava pool water fountains (RnRCj, 04 September 09) (only one was working)
SPACE MOUNTAIN MISSION 2
- Columbiad smoke (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
- Smoke before wormhole (RnRCj, 04 September 09) (went by so quick, but did seem as if there was some smoke there)
FRONTIERLAND
LEGENDS OF THE FAR WEST
- Waterfall near Indian village (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
PHANTOM MANOR
- Interior: Leota's "floating" table (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
- Interior: Finale: Fog behind the Bride skeleton (RnRCj, 04 September 09) (was not working Thursday, was working Friday)
BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
- Fluorescent pools (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
RIVERS OF THE FAR WEST
- Chewing moose animatronic (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
ADVENTURELAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Waterfall near Frontierland entrance (across Colonel Hathi's Pizza Outpost) (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
- Waterfall near Hakuna Matata (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
ADVENTURELAND BAZAR
- Torches at entrance (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
LE PASSAGE ENCHANTE D'ALADDIN
- Fountain effect inside walkthrough (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
LA GIRAFE CURIEUSE
- Animatronic giraffe (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
- Torch tower near Blue Lagoon entrance (RnRCj, 04 September 09)
Mike Wagner! That's the name I wanted! Thank heavens for the Disneyland Railroad spiel.
The new voice isn't English or American as far as I can tell, which makes it sound slightly distorted and unfriendly (often getting the words in the wrong other doesn't help), and indeed in some cases new events this Summer have been introduced by their own show director Emmanuel Lenormand, which sounds even worse and incredibly cheap.
Some kind of "Voice of Disneyland Paris" competition would be good publicity, wouldn't it?
As for the checklist, I noted the same as RNRCj, plus:
Videopolis
- Flashing lights on spires on façade (1 September '09)
Castle
- Turning spinning wheel (1 September '09)
Frontierland
- Waterfall near Indian village (I saw this working, but a few days before you RnRCj, so that's a bit disappointing if it's broken again) On a side note, the tepees themselves look awful, as if they're about to rot away.
^Both the spinning wheel and the flashing spires were not working when I was there. Or do the flashing spires only work at night? That was a problem with several of the effects I checked - I wasn't sure whether they only operated at night.
And I agree about the teepees. They were filthy. As I approached Frontierland I actually saw some guests walking around the teepees and I got a little over-excited thinking they were open... turns out those guests had gone through the "Cast Members only" door. :lol:
There seemed to be some problems with waterfalls during my visit. I mentioned this is my trip report - a lot of waterfalls were not working, like the ones at Skull Rock, La Cabane, Colonol Hathi's, Fantasia Gardens, the one near Hakuna Matata, and the one at the Indian Village.
Spinning wheel was definitely working 31st August (that's when I should have dated those, Monday), tsk.
All the Adventureland waterfalls were definitely turned off on that Monday too, after working perfectly fine before. DLP.info mentions something about the lower lagoon being drained slightly too, so perhaps there's actually just some maintenance happening there.
I was happy to see water running from Frontierland to Adventureland, even if the tepees were filthy. Back in April it was dry and full of leaves. The park as a whole is looking fan-tastic.
But as well as the tepees, it's about time Adventureland Bazaar (Central Plaza side) got a major repaint.
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Torches weren't working either.
Philippep62 at Disney Central Plaza reports that all the Space Mountain canon effects are working! That's including the recoil, the smoke, and the door!
After a quick Youtube search, I found a video of it:
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Quote from: "RnRCj"Philippep62 at Disney Central Plaza reports that all the Space Mountain canon effects are working! That's including the recoil, the smoke, and the door!
After a quick Youtube search, I found a video of it:
[youtube:ty6zvks1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9U431HF2R4[/youtube:ty6zvks1]
It's a thing of beauty isn't it 8) DLP really should try to make sure that it's working as often as possible, because it's incredible when it does :)
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This was last December - doors closed, smoke front and back, recoil, gorgeous!
The torches at the Bazaar are working again! 8)
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Photo taken by Kristof (not the one we know!) at Micechat.
Quote from: "RnRCj"The torches at the Bazaar are working again! 8)
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Photo taken by Kristof (not the one we know!) at Micechat.
Wonderful picture !! I love this corner of the park :D
Hello everyone! I'm new here to the forums and the first one that caught my eye was this forum.
Though, I'm not sure how the list on the first page work. I know the list states all of the things that are not working or not working to their full potiental, but why is it that some are in different colors than others?
Hi John, welcome to the forum!
Green means the effect was working when checked, red means it was not working and orange means something in between (e.g. only part of the effect was working).
The Adventureland tourches were working when we were there too! (8th-13th Nov)
As were the Gas Lights on Main Street, Dentist and Dog Barking noises, both Miniature fair rides were working in the boardwalk candy place. and fort Comstock was actually open to walk around! which was nice
The Main Street Station Organ was missing!! :shock: and where is the Dog in PH?
Quote from: "Clarebelle"... The Main Street Station Organ was missing!! :shock: ...
The Main Street Station Organ missing!?! Could that mean they are repairing it?? Uh, that would be sooooooo great.
Quote from: "Clarebelle"and where is the Dog in PH?
Was already missing at out trip last Halloween :?
Went for some bone i guess and never returned.......
Quote from: "Soap"Quote from: "Clarebelle"and where is the Dog in PH?
Was already missing at out trip last Halloween :?
Went for some bone i guess and never returned.......
The dog is not back yet??? :shock: We saw him last time we went, on the Sunday (11th October), and when we went back on Tuesday to PM, he was gone. That's 1 month and a half that he's been missing!!
Should we start putting posters up?
Updated the list with a few observations from past weekend.
I'm glad to report that most of the lights behind the Castle windows have been fixed!
Just read on Disney Central Plaza that a lot of broken effects are have been fixed. Members report moving elements on the "it's a small world" façade, Space Mountain cannon recoil and other things like fixed lights and such. =D>
Quote from: "Kristof"Just read on Disney Central Plaza that a lot of broken effects are have been fixed. Members report moving elements on the "it's a small world" façade, Space Mountain cannon recoil and other things like fixed lights and such. =D>
HALLELUJAH!!! :D/ :P
Weird, why all at once? Did they find an extra extension cable?
Quote from: "Anthony"Weird, why all at once? Did they find an extra extension cable?
Hey, why the negativity? :D This is a good thing!!! I just hope the recoil effect still works when I am there in 15 days.
That wasn't negativity... Just makes me laugh that these have apparently been fixed all at once.
If anything saying "I just hope the recoil effect still works when I am there in 15 days" is negative. I mean, it's not like we have evidence that this effect won't last more than 14 days... :wink:
The moving elements on the Small World facade is great to hear in particular though. With the Old Mill turning and the Labyrinth given lots of attention, the land has really done well this year.
Quote from: "Anthony"...If anything saying "I just hope the recoil effect still works when I am there in 15 days" is negative. ...
:-"
:lol:
Very good news of course!
I do wish they'd repair the geysers too. They are perhaps one of the most spectacular effects of the park, yet anyone whose first visit was in the last ten years would never have seen them in action. Please repair them soon DLP! [-o<
what geysers? where?
Quote from: "bensmum"what geysers? where?
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To the right of Phantom Manor.
I don't suppose we'd see them back in action until Spring now anyway.
It's true what they say..... if youve never had something you don't miss it! The bonus of being new to the parks I suppose :roll:
Yay for the improvements. And yes, let's not forget the Labyrinth... A big sigh of relief there. And the Treehouse. A small sigh of relief there.
As for the geysers, the thing with them is that they're such a major effect — not like little twirling windmills on a facade or a pair of shifty eyes on a Cheshire cat that you would never miss unless you were a hardcore fan. With the geysers lying dormant, there's a full three minutes of awkward nothingness on every single riverboat tour. Frankly it's embarrassing.
Quote from: "RnRCj"Very good news of course!
I do wish they'd repair the geysers too. They are perhaps one of the most spectacular effects of the park, yet anyone whose first visit was in the last ten years would never have seen them in action. Please repair them soon DLP! [-o<
I have photos from 2002 of them sorta working. If you look at the park map, they are shown spurting away tho
I expect someone has already picked up on this but on my last trip (5-8 Dec) the swinging rope Pirate was missing from POTC and the gun shooting cowboy on the right from Phantom Manor was missing - so they guy on the left is firing at nobody!
Quote from: "mattboywonder"I expect someone has already picked up on this but on my last trip (5-8 Dec) the swinging rope Pirate was missing from POTC and the gun shooting cowboy on the right from Phantom Manor was missing - so they guy on the left is firing at nobody!
Oh, and they have repaired the entrance flag on POTC after it was torn, which I thought was done to make it look more 'used'
Just found this video on Youtube which shows the smoke effect at the top of BTM's third lift working again! You can see it at about 4:19.
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Quote from: "RnRCj"Just found this video on Youtube which shows the smoke effect at the top of BTM's third lift working again! You can see it at about 4:19.
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What a great video! Glad to see that effect back too, all of those little effects on BTM really make such a huge difference to the overall feel of the ride! It's so good to see lots of them working again :)
So, I'm heading to the resort a week today, and I was wondering if anyone knows the status of the BTM effects and the SMM2 cannon recoil? I'm taking a newbe and would love to find all the effects working!
Any ideas?
Dont think this effect has been added but the chimney smoke was working on Peter Pan
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Whilst I dont want to sound so negative, my god, with how many faults there are with the DP at the moment, this topic could reach 1,000 pages!
I absolutely love DLP, and I have done for so long now, but my last trip, January09 was the first trip that I have had where I felt that the place was loosing its magic...
With Disney Parks, it really is the little things that make all the difference, that make it so special and magical, but it appeared to me last year that they were starting to loose interest in the little things...
As I posted in the 'Alice' topic, just back and I was very upset with the parks general upkeep of effects. Loads of smoke on Space Mountain, one day, none the next. I know the re-coiling of the cannon has been on and off for years, so expected that, even inside so many lights and effects not working. Over at Pirates, quite a few un-animated pirates slumped over.. Star Tours and HISTA just looking very very aged. I honestly believe the standard has slipped, unfortunetly.
I have to disagree, I also just came back and to my surprise I found many things working that I haven't seen for quite some time:
Starting with POTC, the Mayor was finally (!) spitting water again, the duelling Pirates are working great and have been moved even closer together, their swords touching regularly, you can hear them touching a lot - also their sound effect was working the whole week, so the overall effect was really great! They looked better then they have for a long time! Also the Octopus is back and looked great!! He was missing for over a year and had been replaced with something else so I feared we might not see him back at all, and he was back and looking great and moving and everything, so I was really pleased!! In Phantom Manor Madame Leota's table was finally floating again, the ballroom scene looked great and some days (not all sadly) there was even fog coming from the crypt behind the singing busts. The lighthouse in front of POTC was burning every (!) evening the whole week (from Sunday to Saturday), same goes for the torches at Adventureland entrance and the ones in front of the Indiana Jones temple (don't know if the fires at the stairs worked though, as it wasn't open when we wanted to ride in the dark)!! The Dragon was in awesome shape too, in her cave there were drops from the ceiling and fog on the water, haven't seen that for some time too and especially pleasing after seeing her in such bad shape last June. Oh, and in the studios in RNRC there was plenty of smoke and the light show was pretty amazing too.
True, there were also effects broken that have worked before, but seeing some of the things working that I almost lost hope to see again, like the Mayor spitting water or the duelling pirates easily makes up for all of them!
Overall I was pleasantly surprised by the work of the maintenance team, especially as last year the budget must have been really tight with all the cost cut backs the Resort had to make.
Yeah I no what you mean, somethings were working that I hadn't seen before, and Pirates seemed to be a lot better than it used to (I hadn't been on it since 2007).
But there are still lots of effects that aren't working.
NOTHING working on Orbitron
Space Mountain, no smoke or cannon retract on launch.
Small world facade, hardly anything working! (though like Pirates, the ride itself seemed better than last year), there seemed to be a lot more dolls in there and lights and other stuff.)
I dont if this is a part of 'cutting back costs' but on some days certain effects weren't working, but they were the day after, and so on. Though they could just be repairing them quickly.
Quick question, why was the swining pirate removed and replaced with a smoke machine?
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I didn't even know that effect existed
That's a new one on me too SM:M3! It doesn;t look like much fun sitting at that green table being blasted with smoke all day long! (Admittedly I love the smell of dry-ice smoke!)
Not many people had seen the smoking Excalibur Stone until I posted it on here a few months back.
More Smoke = More Magic!!
That is actually an effect that worked almost every time I've been to the park. It's also included in our checklist. It only blast a bit of smoke when the Dormouse pops up.
In a different note, I've edited the checklist with things I've noticed working/not working the past weekend.
Somethning appears to be missing in this photo...
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I'd say... finally! :mrgreen:
Image from the Disney Central Plaza Facebook page
God it looks so empty without the beasts castle, all's hoping for a nice clean refurb of it :)
Yay! I'm so pleased they've decided to finally give it a bit of TLC. I really hope Storybookland is open when I go in June, I'm keeping my fingers crossed :-D
Was the castle in such a bad condition? I haven't been on the ride since September 2008, it was closed in February.
We went mid March and were surprised that the Dormouse had no smoke (and wasn't even popping out of the teapot), there was no smoke on Space Mountain, no water shooting through Curious Labyrinth and the umbrella in Studios had no rain!
Got back from our trip on Thursday and according to the park programme storybookland and casey jr will be closed until 2nd July so hopefully they're covering everything, and the beast's castle was still gone.
Quote from: "kurgly_bird"Got back from our trip on Thursday and according to the park programme storybookland and casey jr will be closed until 2nd July so hopefully they're covering everything, and the beast's castle was still gone.
Oh no :( I was so hoping Storybookland would be open in June, I'm gutted! Oh well, I suppose it's for the best, I'd rather they take their time refurbing everything properly than do a half-a**ed job.
The window in the castle with the rose and the doves is working again.
About the water system in the Treehouse — I'm not exactly sure what should be working that isn't, but water was flowing all the way from the top of the tree, by way of a bamboo mill, to the drinking fountains below. Is this news in any way or is there some long-gone system of weights and pulleys that I'm missing?
The dragon was working perfectly for a change, although I do miss the little light in the back of its throat. Without it, the smoke isn't illuminated.
And speaking of lights, I regret to say that CFLs are starting to take over. They're even in the Disneyland Hotel chandelier now, which looks awful. I really wish they'd be doing more with halogen and LED to replace tungsten, which are far less hideous and shed far superior light. But I suppose Disney as a whole is in hot water about that issue.
Quote from: "pussinboots"... About the water system in the Treehouse — I'm not exactly sure what should be working that isn't, but water was flowing all the way from the top of the tree, by way of a bamboo mill, to the drinking fountains below. Is this news in any way or is there some long-gone system of weights and pulleys that I'm missing?
Thanks for the update, pussinboots!
The broken and now missing part of the irrigation system looked like this:
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Would be so great to see it fixed, but I doubt we will see this anytime soon.
Oh, I see. Yeah, that wasn't there.
Beast is finishing up the refurbishment on his Château:
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It's back and looks amazing! Lots of pieces have been replaced by resin to make it more weather proof.
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It really looks amazing. Hopefully Disney continues to refurbish the whole park like they did with this castle.
Wow it looks great! Le Chateau is next! :D
I'd love to see Beast's castle as the Fantasyland castle in one of the parks one day, maybe in Shanghai...?
Oh it's gorgeous! Soo pretty.
I've just looked at my photo from 2007-it looked so tired then-so pretty now :)
Just got back from 3 days in the park and noticed two things on BTM.
Good news: The waterfall at the top of the hill lift is working.
Bad news: The fall rocks in the mine aren't.
On my August trip I noticed:
The following are now working again: partyline telephone in Town Square Photography; the Plaza Inn fountain; the bubbling water next to the diving suits in 20K; the large screen in the Star Tours queue; the fountain inside the Chateau.
Also now working:
Cinderella fountain; the water fountains in the Labyrinth; the Queen of Hearts animatronics; the lights on the roof of the Mad Tea Party; the Fuente del oro fountain; the waterfall between Pirates and Peter Pan; the waterfall near Hakuna Matata; Aladdin passage Cave of Wonders rising; Agrabah Cafe small fountain; the torch tower near Blue Lagoon.
Oh good, one of the party line telephones is working again. Was it just that one or have others been fixed as well? (I forget which one worked and which one didn't; how many are there again? Three?)
I'm afraid I didn't have a chance to check the others Puss, but was very pleased to find so many previously reported problems fixed. The static eathquake scene on Big Thunder was a bit of a let down.
Quote from: "pussinboots"Oh good, one of the party line telephones is working again. Was it just that one or have others been fixed as well? (I forget which one worked and which one didn't; how many are there again? Three?)
There are three. Town Suqare Photography, Dapper Dan and Market House Deli.
STAR TOURS
- Large screen in queue line (Kristof, 29 March '09)
is this the screen where the promotions for the endor express are played? If so it was working October 3rd 2010!
ALICE
- Water fountains (Kristof, 07 February '10) Worked oct 3rd
- Animatronic Queen of Hearts (Kristof, 06 July '09) Worked oct 3rd.
PIRATES
Swinging pirate (Kristof, 07 February '10) Did NOT work oct 3rd 2010
Fountain at exit (Kristof, 07 February '10) Did NOT work oct 3rd 2010
Not sure if this is a new effect, a really old effect that was just fixed, or if it is something that I had just never noticed before and it just isn't listed; however, one of the Tepees in the Indian Village was giving off puffs of smoke every so often:
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Also, noticed a lot of "background" sound changes on Main Street... at the Dentist in Town Square, the side street on the Discoveryland side (Is that Flower Street?) and outside Victoria's Home Style Restaurant... they were MUCH louder than I ever remember them being and at least the Dentist one is completely different from what it was a few months ago. Also, in the Roundup Village there were also new (at least I had never heard them before) background sounds of saws sawing, goats bleating, and other various things.
This was all seen on Nov 13th, 2010
The smoke coming from that teepee is an old effect, long out of order, which was brought back this summer.
The volume of several Main Street window sounds has indeed been turned up, but they're still the same that have been there since park opening. Most of them (especially the dentist school) play a loop of several different "scenes" though, so it's well possible that you hadn't heard that particular bit before.
Few things I noticed during my trip this weekend....
POTC - swinging pirate still missing but smoke effect on by pirate with knife in his mouth near the swinging pirates location. Pirate balancing between boats before 2nd drop is back (he was missing in October) but his pile of hats are NOT on his head but behind him on some boxes!!! The peeping bride in the barrell is also back but the dog is still missing but his bark can be heard. Also the captain of the Wicked Wench seems to have been silenced as he is not speaking his lines!
OK, so its only two things. Im sure there were a couple more but I cant remember them now
The swinging Pirate has been removed, hasn't it?
Quote from: "Martyn"The swinging Pirate has been removed, hasn't it?
Not permanently, no. But it is in refurb a lot for sure!
He's not even be visable on my last couple of visits, and I dont just mean not working, he literally wasn't there at all. I presumed all that smoke was a replacement for him.
Yeah he's still not there. The mechanism for him has gone as well.
Also, not a lot working on Space Mountain at the minute. No smoke, no retracting cannons and hardly any lights at night. The dome wasn't lit up at all.
On a light note, in general the park seemed to have a lot more stuff working, and I guess the smoke machine people have been about (apart from Space Mountain) as lots of smoke effects everywhere!
Oh, and the steaming drain outside BTM, is that an effect? Or something gone wrong!?lol
Quote from: "Martyn"Yeah he's still not there. The mechanism for him has gone as well.
Also, not a lot working on Space Mountain at the minute. No smoke, no retracting cannons and hardly any lights at night. The dome wasn't lit up at all.
On a light note, in general the park seemed to have a lot more stuff working, and I guess the smoke machine people have been about (apart from Space Mountain) as lots of smoke effects everywhere!
Oh, and the steaming drain outside BTM, is that an effect? Or something gone wrong!?lol
That's really bad that nearly nothing works on Space Mountain. It is the centerpiece of Discoveryland and at least the lights should work.
in the first week of January we rode SM several times I found the interior effects to be in very good condition, (but no smoke or recoil, of course) strange how this can change in such a short period of time.
The pirate seems to be in refurb a lot, but I'm sure he will return. He was there and swinging on one of our stays last year, not sure which one, I think January 2010, but not sure. And that was already after the smoke effect appeared, so the smoke is not ment as a replacement for him. POTC has a 25 day refurb in March, I guess they will return him then. I'll be there right after the refurb, so I will check myself and report it here :-)
But why would such a simple effect need to be refubed all the while?
Quotein the first week of January we rode SM several times I found the interior effects to be in very good condition, (but no smoke or recoil, of course) strange how this can change in such a short period of time.
The interior was fine for us too, its just the exterior that was bad. Including the large Space Mountain facade/picture, which had curled up at all the corners, and looked like an old poster. Though they had sorted it (ish) by the end of the week.
One other thing, its now 2 years in a row that the green lights in the wall in Phantom Manor haven't been working. The ones that follow you past the doors and grandfather clock before floating head scene. Have they been removed?
If you mean the glowing eyes in the wallpaper, then some of them were working on my last visit, but it definately wasn't as many as there are supposed to be.
Discoveryland lava rocks/pools are out of refurbishment, lots of bubbles but no return of the fire effect :(
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The bubbling effect is great!
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I used to love those bubbles when I was a kid. It's good to see that they're finally back.
Fab!
Nice. Should start a poll though. How long until they stop working again?
Great, but it seems that the fog effect is not returning.
I didn't want to start a new topic on live entertainment, so I'm putting it here:
I've never seen a band playing under the gazebo, especially not during low season. Is that new? That's what I expact from a Disney park. It seems they really try to improve certain things.
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Oh, ya, now that is more Disney than any teenager in a furry costume IMHO.
The band was out loads over the last couple of days, it was really nice just to sit and watch them play. That's Disneyland for me. I hardly did any attractions, just wandered around looking at things :P
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Regarding the Discoveryland lava pools, the bubbles are broken already... :( There was plenty of water flowing over the rocks, though.
Some other effects I'd noticed broke or turned off were rivers... the one coming out of the Aladin walkthrough wasn't on, the river running in front of fort Comstock was turned off, with small pools of stagnating water here and there... and also, a stream up near Colonel Hathi's wasn't working.
Don't know if this classes as an effect, but a good few of the floor mounted area loop speakers are broken in every land and Fantasia gardens.
Oh, and the small bulbs on the Disneyland Hotel and the gazeebo's in Fantaisa Gardens were in a very poor condition. One of the Gazeebos was completely dark and the DLH was only lit on the left hand side. The ones on Main Street though, were at quite a good standard. All but 2 or 3 of the Gas Lamps weren't lit though... *sigh* the little things that make the Disney difference... :roll:
MAIN STREET, U.S.A.
MAIN STREET MOTORS
- Bubbling gas pump (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
PLAZA GARDENS RESTAURANT
- Outdoor fountain (Seasonal, Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
DISCOVERYLAND
AREA DEVELOPMENT
- Rotating Discoveryland Sign (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
- Lava pool water fountains (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
ORBITRON - MACHINES VOLANTES
- Full Rotating of all Orbitron elements (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
SPACE MOUNTAIN MISSION 2
- Columbiad smoke (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
FANTASYLAND
L'ARBRE ENCHANTE
- Fruit and leaves in tree (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
FRONTIERLAND
BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
- Water wheel in queue line (Loads of water!; Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
- Shaking and falling rocks in mine ( :( ;Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
FUENTE DEL ORO
- Fountain (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
ADVENTURELAND
LA CABANE DES ROBINSON
- Water running to drinking fountain (Festival Disney, 13 July '11)
Here are the following broken effects I spotted over the last few days.
BUG THUNDER MOUNTAIN
All shaking rocks and falling rock effects.
PHANTOM MANOR
Skeleton lifting coffin lid.
Hitchhiking ghost illusion mirrors.
"Little Leota" on exit.
ORBITRON
No moving parts at all.
I am happy to report that the little leota on the exit of phantom manor is back, so is the skeleton liftin his coffin lif :D
but the hitchhiking ghost illusion wasn't there on my trip last week. And no shaking or falling rock effects on BTM and moving parts on obriton either :(
I'm happy to say that probably thanks to Disney Dreams, most if not all of the torches and gas lamps on Main Street/around the Central plaza area (Frontier/Adventureland entrances) are working. I think this is due to the fact that they all get turned off for dreams and then they're all re-lit simultaneously after it's finished. Either that or they've just gone around fixing all the pilot lights :P
Oh and does anyone know what's happened to the gas pump at main street motors?? It's seemed to have disappeared.
The steaming cup on Coffee grinder advert wasn't working.
I swear that every single bulb on every building on Main Street was working, too... (and on one of the popcorn stands on Central Plaza! The other one was completely dark, though.)
Also, all rivers around fort Comstock are working again, and the one up by colonel Hathi's.
I've already reported this on Twitter last month, but I'm so glad they finally fixed this (after 6 years): the lights behind the glass dome inside Harrington's! They store is so bright again!
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Will Columbiad Canon ever work again? End of july there was no moving, no smoke at all :-(
I think it really is a shame they turned off or didn't repair the Columbiad Canon effects. ):
Can I just say something, the falling rocks/shaking rocks on BTM were probably stopped due to the incident with the train and rock facade!
The waterfall at the end of the first tunnel in Thunder Mountain now works (I got soaked!) and so do the Geysers apparently!
Do the Geysers work? Wow, seems ages ago. Does anyone know what actually happened to the little ferris wheel in Fantasyland? Still remember it was there during one of my first visits.
the Geyser don't work anymore, they look a bit ugly now. The Old Mill ferris wheel is still there in Fantasyland, but Disney finally closed the ride and removed the bucket seats in a refurbishment last year, it's now just a counter service restaurant, looks good though.
In this video we can see Orbitron's rotating arm working again properly! (at 5:28)
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Well Orbitron is still spinning more than a month on :P
One thing that stood out to me this past couple of days is lights. There's so many of them broken everywhere!
At fantasia gardens there are quite a lot not on, the two gazebos either side might as well be turned off... and the marquees at the entrance under the hotel are quite frankly a joke... (fixed now though :thumbs: )
Moving on into the park, lights under the station were all working but are modern bulbs... no longer the antique ones that appear more orange and visually appealing. Main street facades and arcades also are mainly working properly.
Gas lamps on the other hand!! I counted three working on the street and absolutely none at all in the arcades.
On central plaza there was a visible number of lamps off including one whole side of the castle bridge.
And a final note - I hope main street station gets a refurb soon. The two ends either side of the main station were pealing and appeared rotten. Same with the station canopy. Reminded me more of some terribly neglected british train station instead of the beautiful oldy worldy turn of the century beauty that its supposed to be :(
Gas lamps in main street all working as of Christmas eve was so nice to walk in and they were all on, except one which currently hasent got its top, was only saying the day before :-)
Oh about the gas lamps on Main Street and in the Arcades. Are they working every day or just on special occasions? Or is the system itself broken?