As Joe Rohde explained it long ago, the yeti is one structure. It's inside the track, which is another separate structure. Both of them are inside the mountain, which is a third separate structure. In order to fix the crack in the yeti's base (which is why they can't let it swing its arm at you, because it might break completely and fall on someone), they would have to dismantle the mountain and the track to get to the base. The engineers didn't calculate the forces correctly and didn't make the base strong enough.
I wish they would - we rode it several times with the original motion, and it was awsome! That said, I don't know that this refurb is actually long enough for that, and I've read elsewhere that they're redoing the controls, not the yeti.
from what I herd that isn'st exatly true. The concret base cracked becuse of excess force but it was becuse the hydrylics that werr used for the yeti wern't installed properly and wern't lubrictaed properly and they eventuly seized up. Before it was known waht the porblem was a carck in the concrete formed
They may not have been able to schedule it then. Something that gets said a lot by the local public transit system in Toronto when they close part of the subway system "there is no good time to close the subway it will always inconvenience someone."
That's what I had read as well. It seems reasonable as to why they can't fix the Yeti.
4 months is no where near long enough. They would essentially have to completely take the entire ride (or most of it) apart and put it back together.
Agreed. And even as a free Fastpass, Navi wasn't worth it.
To each their own, we loooove Navi.
Well, not to be Johnny Raincloud, but have seen how long it takes WDW to build gift shop in EP? It has take literally years!
Came here to say this exact same thing
