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- From: shla@spf.trw.com (Sheila Wallace)
- Subject: Re: Disney World expansion?
- Message-ID: <2AAE4985.B11@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
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- Organization: TRW Sensor Data Processing Center, Redondo Beach, CA
- References: <1992Sep9.143947.17102@ccd.harris.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:59:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.143947.17102@ccd.harris.com> wjf@controls.ccd.harris.com (Bill Figie) writes:
-
- >They still have plans on their Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
- >THis looks to be one intriguing Disney ride. It will be a
- >Disney-type free fall. The paper briefly said the final part of
- >the ride would simulate a fall in an elevator from 13 stories. I
- >can't believe Disney would actually build a real freefall.
- >Haven't freefalls "fallen" (sorry about the pun) out of favor with
- >park goers?
-
- Don't know about anyone else out there, but I love Freefall-type
- rides (still).
-
- >Well that's all I have. I hope this gets out to you all. Disney
- >is going kind of slow now because of the recession, the war,
- >perhaps the problems at Euro-Disney, and if you ask me, the cost
- >for them to put in a ride such as Splash Mountain. Could you
- >imagine what kind of park you could put in if you were given $91
- >million dollars? You could almost build a park from scratch.
- >
-
- I haven't been up on the Disney scene -- what problems have
- occurred at Euro-Disney?
-
- Thanks for your informative post.
-
- Sheila
-
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