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Hi weswife! I'm sorry the POTC ride has become non-ridable for you guys at this point. But hopefully the continuing developments in the parks (with new options!) will still make for very enjoyable visits! I know I'm now just repeating what has already been said, but it sounds like, if only due to the drop in the Frozen ride, it would necessitate a transfer for safety purposes. Hopefully the boats are not as low as POTC! That would be awesome. Good luck with the Frozen ride -- I hope your daughter can experience it, especially since she enjoys the movie so much!! Have a great trip!
It's pretty certain that the Frozen ride will be 'must transfer' - it is now listed that way on the Disney website and the descriptions, with information about the drop really are not sounding like they could make a safe wheelchair accessible car.I am very interested in this ride! My 2nd DD LOVES Frozen! She uses a wheelchair fulltime and is not able to stand or walk. If I am understanding correctly.... We must transfer her? POTC is a very low ride, we use to transfer her but now its too difficult.
I know I have some pictures somewhere of the Maelstrom ride cars. I remember them not being as low as the Pirates of the Caribbean boats. The biggest issue I remember was the high lift to get over the side of the boat.Hi weswife! I'm sorry the POTC ride has become non-ridable for you guys at this point. But hopefully the continuing developments in the parks (with new options!) will still make for very enjoyable visits! I know I'm now just repeating what has already been said, but it sounds like, if only due to the drop in the Frozen ride, it would necessitate a transfer for safety purposes. Hopefully the boats are not as low as POTC! That would be awesome. Good luck with the Frozen ride -- I hope your daughter can experience it, especially since she enjoys the movie so much!! Have a great trip!
Just wondering if the boats are going to be the old boats that would be recycled to use or are they going to make the ride/boats more handicapped accessible like It's a Small World.
1) They are the "old" boats and boat design.
2) They went into-the-water last night (3/11/2016).
3) Ride operational testing begins tonight.
4) It will be interesting.
. . . some ride CM's think the boats can't navigate one of the river turns
. . . the Imagineers think they will
. . . the C's say even if the boats make it, they will begin to bunch-up and create jams
. . . we will see
That sounds like they changed or added to the ride path - the information that was available sounded like they were using the existing ride path1) They are the "old" boats and boat design.
2) They went into-the-water last night (3/11/2016).
3) Ride operational testing begins tonight.
4) It will be interesting.
. . . some ride CM's think the boats can't navigate one of the river turns
. . . the Imagineers think they will
. . . the C's say even if the boats make it, they will begin to bunch-up and create jams
. . . we will see
That sounds like they changed or added to the ride path - the information that was available sounded like they were using the existing ride path
It will open too late for us to see this trip, so I will be interested to see how it works out.
What I have read was that the theater was possibly going to be changed into the entry queue. the old entry queue was not adequate when there was much of a wait anyway - it spill out onto the 'street' and interfered with the check in line for Akershus quite often anyway, so I can see why they would want to change it.I heard that they added a bit at the end, took out the theater? Maybe there's a 'kink' in there?