welcome to tpm vids disney beat where we
talk about all things disney now disney
is known for their impressive audio
animatronics since audio animatronics
are complex robots they do break down
from time to time and that was seen in
our top 10 disney animatronic
malfunctions videos but we saved the
biggest animatronic malfunction for its
own video the biggest disney animatronic
fail there is
at disney's animal kingdom in walt
disney world the attraction expedition
everest takes riders on a roller coaster
adventure all the way through the
himalayas while trying to avoid the yeti
when expedition everest was built in
2006 it went on record in the guinness
world records for being the most
expensive roller coaster ever built but
most of the cost was due to the highly
impressive yeti animatronic this yeti is
the single biggest dynamic figure that
has ever been built there is nothing
that is this big that moves this fast in
the world of animation you can see that
the range of movement the yeti was given
was very impressive coming in at 25 feet
tall with 19 different movement
functions this figure had a range of
motion of up to five feet horizontally
and 18 inches vertically the most
movement any disney animatronic has ever
seen now these are some on-ride videos
of the yeti performing in what is known
as a-mode take a look
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shortly after the opening of this
attraction in april of 2006 the yeti
encountered some problems it speculated
that the problem was caused by damage to
the yeti's concrete base structure
resulting in cracks on the foundation so
the problem with the concrete is rumored
to be a glitch in the 4d scheduling
software that was used to build the
attraction it didn't allow the proper
curing of a portion of the yeti's
concrete foundation prior to the
overlapping fabrication of other
mountain elements so technically
speaking there is nothing actually wrong
with the yeti audio animatronic but if
the yeti did continue to operate in
a-mode this would have put way too much
stress on the foundation causing even
more issues which is why they've now
placed the yeti in what is known as
b-mode or what the disney community
refers to as disco yeti
b-mode or disco yeti is a static yeti
illuminated by strobe lights giving the
illusion that the yeti is moving but in
reality it's totally static and the
yeti's been in b mode for so long now
that many people don't even know it used
to move i mean it's been over 10 years
now so you might be wondering why
doesn't disney just fix it right well
because of the complexity of the whole
ride structure parts of the mountain
would need to be removed to get the
proper access needed to fix the issue
this would also mean that the ride would
need to be closed down for an extended
period of time for a park that was
pretty low on attractions they wouldn't
be able to sacrifice the closure of
their newest e-ticket attraction in the
park at the d23 expo in 2013
joe road the imagineer responsible for
expedition everest and animal kingdom as
a whole was asked about the state of the
yeti and this is what he had to say
it's a giant complicated machine sitting
on top of like a 46 foot tall tower in
the middle of a finished building it's
really hard to fix
but we are working on it and i
personally
you know kind of bulldog this one in a
way that doesn't always make me popular
but
i will fix the yeti someday i swear
in the past few years there's been
rumors circulating that once pandora at
animal kingdom was built and the buzz
subsides a little bit expedition everest
would go down for an extended refurb and
the yeti would then get fixed it should
also be noted that expedition everest
has never undergone an extensive refurb
like most big e-ticket attractions get
in all the disney parks so now it's only
a matter of when will the ride go down
for a refurb and when it does
will the yeti actually get fixed it's
also been speculated that since the yeti
is only two to four seconds of the
actual ride that they may never bother
to fix the biggest disney animatronic
fail there is now what about you do you
think the yeti will get fixed let us
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