Matterhorn "Remain Seated Please" spiel changed!!!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Believe it or not.

Instead of "Remain seated please - Permanecer sentados, por favor" it now says "Remain seated with your seatbelt fastened - Permanecer sentados, por favor."



1) They JUST put that famous old spiel into the fireworks show.

2) The translation doesn't make any sense. They don't care to say "please" to those that speak English, and don't care to tell Spanish-speakers to keep their seatbelts fastened.

3) This is such a geeky thing that I'd be embarrassed to complain to City Hall about it, yet this makes me angrier than most of their transgressions.

4) There is absolutely no reason to change it!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Believe it or not.
2) The translation doesn't make any sense. They don't care to say "please" to those that speak English, and don't care to tell Spanish-speakers to keep their seatbelts fastened.

Actually, the new English version is "Please remain seated with your seatbelts fastened."

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Actually, the new English version is "Please remain seated with your seatbelts fastened."

Oh, ok. My bad.

Still enraged though.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I'm a totally geeky purist so I think my feelings on this can be easily surmised.

[Isaac]

Doesn't surprise me. Once they changed the one in The Haunted Mansion I knew they wouldn't stop there. I'm still pissed off they changed the Casey JR spiel (both loading & unloading).

Ugh.

[Not Afraid]

Yeah, they're working their way through the park and making the spiels "better" from a safety perspective. I'm very glad it is preserved along with its retired brothers and sisters in Remember.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Yeah, they're working their way through the park and making the spiels "better" from a safety perspective. I'm very glad it is preserved along with its retired brothers and sisters in Remember.

But this one I just don't get. It's not asking you to keep your hands, arms, feet and legs inside the bobsled before the ride, and there's no safety spiel for that all-important liability waiver. Rather, it's asking you to keep your seatbelt on after the ride is over, precisely 2.6 seconds before you are supposed to somehow magically know it's really time to unfasten your seat belt.


Yeeech!






However, I love the irony and world-evident stupidity of almost simultaneously declaring the spiel a Disneyland Classic, and removing it from the attraction. If only the Paul Frees Mansion travesty could have had so much light thrown on its horrificness.

[DisneyFan25863]

Darn.....that was like my favorite speil ever...everyone knows what it is, even the non-Disney geeks. I almost want to put it on my iPod and listen to it while I get off the ride next time...

[€uroMeinke]

You mean it's no longer the Wildest ride in the Alps?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

You mean it's no longer the Wildest ride in the Alps?

No, now it's the wildest ride in the Aaaaaaaaaalllllps!!