{"id":280946,"date":"2018-10-14T02:37:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T02:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/14\/are-you-ok-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T02:37:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T02:37:45","slug":"are-you-ok-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/14\/are-you-ok-2\/","title":{"rendered":"are you ok"},"content":{"rendered":"

furbearingbrick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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jemthecrystalgem<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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prokopetz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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kristoffbjorgman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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disney built the biggest and most expensive animatronic ever in their history and then built a mountain around it and it BROKE a couple of months after the ride opened and it\u2019s impossible to fix it without dismantling the entire mountain structure and that\u2019s honestly the most hilarious verified disney fact\u2122<\/p>\n

ever<\/p>\n

the second most hilarious being that the chum animatronic on the finding nemo ride at epcot used to pop out of the barrel to scare guests but one time a cast member was walking past it during an opening\/closing procedure and it popped out and smacked them clean in the face so now it\u2019s turned off permanently<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The really hilarious part is that the busted Yeti is even worse than this description makes it sound<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

TL\/DR version: the structural layout of the Expedition Everest attraction is so complicated that Disney had to use a technique called \u201cprevisualisaton\u201d to construct it – essentially a four-dimensional blueprint that specifies not only how the structure should be put together, but the exact point in time that each step should occur. That precision in timing is actually kinda critical, because if certain parts of the structure are subject to stress too early (e.g., before the concrete is fully cured, before additional supports have been installed, etc.), they\u2019ll be permanently weakened.<\/p>\n

Well, long story short, when the ride went into action, Disney\u2019s engineers quickly discovered that the numbers weren\u2019t adding up: the internal stresses the ride was producing every time they turned the animatronic yeti on were literally tearing the whole mountain apart. It\u2019s clear that something got screwed up during construction: either somebody performed a step with the wrong timing, or in the wrong order, or the previsualisaton was messed up to begin with. The trick is, they have no idea what the actual error was<\/i> – and the ride can\u2019t be repaired until they figure out what went wrong in the first place.<\/p>\n

So now they just point a moving strobe light at the motionless yeti to create the illusion of motion, which is why it\u2019s been nicknamed the \u201cdisco yeti\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When companies have too much money and need to chill<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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here\u2019s an example of what the yeti looked like when\u00a0it actually worked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

furbearingbrick: jemthecrystalgem: prokopetz: kristoffbjorgman: disney built the biggest and most expensive animatronic ever in their history and then built a mountain around it and it BROKE a couple of months after the ride opened and it\u2019s impossible to fix it without dismantling the entire mountain structure and that\u2019s honestly the most hilarious verified disney fact\u2122 … <\/p>\n

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