Frozen Ever After broken down

[Farps]

Frozen Ever After broken down. Waited 2 1/2 hours just entered building and then announcement came over the speakers " experiencing technical difficulties and ride is down"

 

[JimmyV]

Gives new meaning to the word "Frozen".

 

[Quellman]

Maybe it will be back up quickly. I will say, I tried the opening of Test Track for ages when it first came out. - And this was during the days of cast member previews. It seems it would work for about 20 minutes and close for a few days. In the mean time, grab a tasty treat and enjoy the day, it is an opening day after all.

 

[Sona99]

Personally I wouldn't wait 2.5 hours for anything at Disney.

Sorry you've had such a bad time.

 

[agavegirl1]

Hence the reason for "soft openings" or "dress rehearsals". I went to Animal Kingdom 6 weeks before it opened for free. CMs, ride features, etc need to work out the bugs for a while...not just a few days with CMs. I feel bad for the CMs today.

 

[Accident]

I always wondered if soft openings they purposely stopped the ride to test being evacuated.

 

[Jennasis]

But today is not a soft opening right? Its the official opening isnt it?

 

[mom2rtk]

But today is not a soft opening right? Its the official opening isnt it?

I'm guessing the PP meant that they should have had some soft opened it prior to today.

 

[yulilin3]

Just because there weren't soft openings doesn't mean they didn't run the attraction, even using the CM. Now if they didn't run the ride for a full day, then that's stupid on their part

 

[4forWDW]

it's up now. 240 minute wait.

 

[Farps]

We did finally get to ride, it is a very good makeover. Personally if the ride had a posted wait time of 2 1/2 - 3 hours I would not have waited. We walked through the gates at about 8:50ish. Headed straight to Frozen, they held everyone up at the entrance to World Showcase for a few minutes. At nine the crowd proceeded to Norway, from there we were queued just outside of Norway and I would have thought about a 1 1/2 hour wait. Needless to say 1 1/2 hours later and we had not even reached the entrance to the building yet. By then we were in to deep and just toughed it out.

 

[JimmyV]

We did finally get to ride, it is a very good makeover. Personally if the ride had a posted wait time of 2 1/2 - 3 hours I would not have waited. We walked through the gates at about 8:50ish. Headed straight to Frozen, they held everyone up at the entrance to World Showcase for a few minutes. At nine the crowd proceeded to Norway, from there we were queued just outside of Norway and I would have thought about a 1 1/2 hour wait. Needless to say 1 1/2 hours later and we had not even reached the entrance to the building yet. By then we were in to deep and just toughed it out.

Wow! This must be some sort of record. 8:50-3:30.

 

[Karin1984]

It's down again according to the app. What is the hourly capacity of this ride?

 

[HollyL]

Are there pictures or video posted of this ride yet? Anything on youtube?

 

[jaceraden]

BigFatPanda has a youtube video of the ride.

ETA: My kids and I prefer/miss Maelstrom but I suppose we see it needed to change.

 

[Kona65]

Frozen Ever After broken down. Waited 2 1/2 hours just entered building and then announcement came over the speakers " experiencing technical difficulties and ride is down"

Welcome to the new and improved Walt Disney World

 

[wilkeliza]

I always wondered if soft openings they purposely stopped the ride to test being evacuated.

They test that after hours with CMs. I always hoped to do the Malstrom evac testing (has to be retested every few months) because CMs get to pet the puffins when they did that shift. I never did get it though

 

[wilkeliza]

It seems to be the new animatronics.

However, Malestrom was often up and down because the water tank backstage was always overflowing. I hope they fixed that during the refurb but who knows if they did or not.

 

[katclicks]

Are there pictures or video posted of this ride yet? Anything on youtube?

Laughing place posted a video on YouTube. My 5 year old has decided it will be her new favorite

 

[scrappinginontario]

I've checked the Touring Plans app for wait times today and both times it was down. Hope they're able to fix the problems soon and that it doesn't continue to happen.