Looking for a parachute
The Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, the maybe most popular attraction of the Toy Story Playland with guests of all ages, is missing a parachute. Luckily it is none of the parachutes that double as ride vehicles (even so one row was closed earlier during the past weekend due to a technical problem).
Instead we are talking about the three dimensional parachute that was installed at the photo location next to the ride. It allowed guests to place themselves in front of the painted view of toy soldiers parachuting high above ground under the green (supposed to look) plastic parachute with their hands on metal pipes standing in for the rope normally suspending the paratrooper. While the backdrop is still there, the parachute is gone which basically results in the photo location no longer function as such.
A close look at the backdrop reveals the points where the parachute was mounted to it
Tuvok @ do mei 26, 2011 6:03 pm schreef:Ik moet zeggen, dat ziet er een stuk mooier uit. Ze hebben deze fotolocatie een nieuwe decor gegeven (vergelijk de foto's van de originele lokatie maar eens enkele posts hierboven). Beter!
Klopt! En in de parachute zijn ook lampjes aangebracht
Bron: InsideDLParis
All the Single Riders… put a wait time on it at RC Racer and Parachute Drop
With every new Disney attraction, the Imagineers’ work is never quite complete when the ribbon is cut. Once guests start pushing through the turnstiles, filling out the queue lines and fastening their seatbelts, a whole myriad of niggles or opportunities to “plus” the experience often come to light; the designers and engineers having to go back to the drawing board to tweak their creation. At Toy Story Playland, there was something we could have all seen coming: long queue lines. While the basic rides themselves only have a finite capacity, park operations soon jumped on the best idea to maximise that number with the installation of temporary Single Rider lines at RC Racer and Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop.
This year, as part of the 2011 improvements programme, those successful trial lines became “official” lines, with queue barriers and signage redesigned to properly accommodate them, and here’s the final piece of the playset: space for Single Rider wait times to actually be displayed at the entrance. At the moment, a single rider can see a regular wait time of 80 minutes at RC Racer but have no clue how long that means they’ll be waiting for a spare seat.
Whilst the entrance marquees for both attractions have been modified today to include a second dot-matrix display, they’re not yet operational. Calculating attraction queue times is usually as easy as pairing the number of turnstile “clicks” against the hourly throughput of the ride, but with guests coming in groups of different numbers and empty seats never a given, it’ll be interesting to see exactly how Disney work out the wait time for a single rider to put a seatbelt on it.