Broken yeti?

[Robo]

1- Aren't there multiple effects that are no longer included with the ride? Along with the stationary Yeti,

2- didn't there used to be steam in the tunnels and

3- a pop-up bird? Sadly I missed the ride in all its new glory, and have never seen the yeti move. My parents got to ride in during an early soft opening, and got to see it when everything was new and working.

1- Yes.
2- Yes.
3- The "bird-on-a-stick" still works on many days.

 

[Azrael]

I wish you didn't go by the Yeti so quick at the end. This is probably why most people don't even know something is wrong with it.

 

[magicbob]

I wish you didn't go by the Yeti so quick at the end.

Well, it IS a roller coaster...

 

[HockeyMomNH]

1- Yes.
2- Yes.
3- The "bird-on-a-stick" still works on many days.

We rode EE several times on our trips in May and July of this year and did not see the "bird on a stick" at all.

It's my favorite roller coaster at the parks and it makes me sad that its not fully functioning any more.

 

[Travelingdad]

We loved Everest, did it four times in a row we couldnt get enough. Now I hear what it used to have working and I feel a little gyped. Still great ride but would have loved to see the moving animatronics. All we saw was the shadow yeti.

 

[stasijane]

I wish I could have seen it it all its glory! I feel kinda cheated now

 

[Arnir]

I rode it for the first time last year and never saw the Yeti. I watched that DVD about the ride that pushed the Yeti "attack" and was expecting it. I was wondering how I missed it. I feel better knowing that I wasn't that blind.

I do agree, though, that Disney needs to take out that part of advertising if they are still using it. The DVDs are probably old, but if they keep making them they should put in a disclaimer.

 

[StitchSpawn]

They did have a curtain or something up at one point, I believe, so some people didn't actually see the yeti.

Lack of a yeti makes for a rather anticlimactic ride... but on the other hand, perfectly consistent with real-life yeti expeditions. Maybe they could change it to a true-life adventures type ride, where instead of a giant yeti at the end some bow-tied scholar tells you the yeti isn't real.

That reminds me of when me & friends rode it three times and I kept seeing it, but she said she always missed it. Is it real or your imagination? I have only ever seen it in disco mode.

 

[aubriee]

Aren't there multiple effects that are no longer included with the ride? Along with the stationary Yeti, didn't there used to be steam in the tunnels and a pop-up bird? Sadly I missed the ride in all its new glory, and have never seen the yeti move. My parents got to ride in during an early soft opening, and got to see it when everything was new and working.

I was one of the lucky ones who got to ride it the very first week it was open. There used to be steam around the station itself. The original bird on a stick was I believe a white owl. The bird now (when it works) is brown and smaller. Betty (yes the CMs did name her) used to lean over and reach way down over the train. It looked like she was almost able to reach you. The first time I rode it, she scared the bejebbers out of me. I ducked down. I immediately jumped back on and knowing what to now expect, rode it twice more, but reached my hands up trying to touch her. I never could of course, but it sure felt like you should be able to. I go to WDW several times a year so was really disappointe when I returned just five months later to find she was no longer working. At that time they had her in either A or B mode (strobe light and fan blowing her hair or just a light on her). The strobe light and fan caused her hair to move some, so some people thought she was really moving. If they had seen her the first month or so the ride was open, there is no way they could have made that mistake. In her original version there was absolutely no doubt she was moving and reaching for you.

I wish you didn't go by the Yeti so quick at the end. This is probably why most people don't even know something is wrong with it.

See my above comments! I once asked a CM who has worked there since the ride opened if she'd ever be fixed and was told no. The company that made the ride is no longer in business. The weight of Betty the Yeti cracked her foundation and even if they could find someone to fix it, the ride would have to be shut down for months and would be very, very expensive to fix. With it being the premiere ride in AK there is no way Disney would be willing to shut it down that long and spend that much money on it.