Splash Mountain January refurbishment scheduled

Tony PerkisFeb 11, 2015

They are collectively an arrogant, immature, egotistical theme park website/group. They berate people who don't agree with their opinions, and the leader of the pack, Robb Alvey, is a 40 year old manchild that treats other people like garbage. Namely, he has a tendency to call people names for simply disagreeing with them, and his forums have a hive-mind mentality that encourages piling on when Alvey berates and insults someone (at the same time banning said person if they retaliate). He outright bans people from his forums and blocks them from Twitter/Facebook/Youtube if they don't like Maelstrom's treatment with the Frozen overlay. In addition, he manipulates his members numbers to sell his importance to theme parks for premium access and special treatments (he hires external companies to create thousands of usernames and accounts on his database for this sake). They post between 1-6 times to be considered "active" members, then are abandoned. TPR then uses those "active" accounts to sell their numbers and web site traffic to parks. He and his ilk give the enthusiast community a bad name, and I don't like seeing his mug as the face of the community. Hence, why I ask people, when spreading content, if at all possible, to not link to Theme Park Review, which they monetarily benefit from.

CheekBoysFeb 11, 2015

Why is that?

Tony PerkisFeb 11, 2015

Please don't give Theme Park Review page views. They are the eye sore of the theme park/roller coaster enthusiast community.

marni1971Feb 11, 2015

Total AA freeze sounds like an issue with the whole attractions supply pressure. I'd err on the side of caution and say maintainence wasn't to blame.

MerlinTheGoatFeb 11, 2015

Not the first time that has happened actually, hopefully the ride was taken down immediately after and fixed before being allowed to run again. Hopefully it's working properly again today. At least from a video from Feb 8 the ride was looking like it was in good working condition overall. The only broken bits are the water riding turtles in the Laughing Place. They're supposed to bounce up and down on the stream of water and their mouths should move as they laugh, they've been non moving for ages though. But otherwise the rest of the ride still looked fantastic on the 8th. Except for rare cases like the video above and those persistently busted turtles, so far Disney management has done a surprisingly decent job of keeping the ride in good condition. I fully expected the ride to return to pre 2013 conditions by now where everything was falling apart and broken. But as of now it's probably one of the best kept up rides at WDW, particularly given the ride's overall complexity. A somewhat rare glimmer of light these days.

spectromagic04Feb 11, 2015

Creepy video someone posted on Facebook of Splash Mountain the audio animatronics were all stationary https://twitter.com/themeparkreview/status/565361436701237248

noidworkJan 31, 2015

It's up and running today. Too much fun.

Victor KellyJan 31, 2015

I really expected it to be closed longer.

GoofyernmostJan 30, 2015

I'd guess that this would be one of the upsides for doing yearly scheduled maintenance instead of holding off for 5 or more years. It gets done quicker because the thing isn't falling down on itself.

JIMINYCRJan 30, 2015

Hey, new water.... so you wont worry about what you are getting wet with when you get splashed.

Cmdr_CrimsonJan 30, 2015

Well, it's been well over a month so it should be opening on the 31st....According to the schedule..

Victor KellyJan 30, 2015

That was pretty fast.

noidworkJan 30, 2015

Not sure where to post this or if it's even relevant, but they filled Splash today and are running test boats add I type. Hoping maybe for an early opening so I can get a ride Saturday, but not counting on it.

flyerjabJan 17, 2015

Didn't know where else to post this but I saw on another site that the entrance to Kali River Rapids is being relocated with more easy to notice signage. Not a big announcement but another change to add to the long list of projects/work being done at DAK.