Well, Walt Disney World is nothing if not interesting lately. Guests have been adapting to the “new normal” with the pandemic protocols and procedures. Animatronic issues have been happening and now the boats at Living With The Land, in EPCOT, were going backwards for several minutes according to Twitter.
Apparently this happened yesterday.
Jonathan Anderson posted this video on Twitter:
our boat for Living With the Land started going backwards for a solid 10 minutes🙃🙃 pic.twitter.com/FxEXAE4ysG
— jonathan andersen (@jonandersenn) July 31, 2020
we are currently moving backwards on Living with the Land
— micki!! ✨ (@MickiKMouse) July 31, 2020
haha nah we genuinely moved backwards on Living with the Land due to an E-Stop
— micki!! ✨ (@MickiKMouse) July 31, 2020
I wish there was more video of this! I guess that’s one way to “freshen up” an older attraction.
My kids love Living With The Land and insist on riding it every trip. Hopefully, when Disney is messing around changing everything, they leave it alone!
Of course the Twitter comments were fantastic:
You also get the tour guide back, but it’s Gene Wilder and you’re in the tunnel of terror now instead of the greenhouses pic.twitter.com/4DAbNS1sxk
— DreamfinderGuy (@DreamfinderGuy) July 31, 2020
— Edward Bulfango (@edwardbulfango) August 1, 2020
So your were Reliving With the Land?
— TheMaxRebo (@TheMaxReboIV) July 31, 2020
People did point out that it was likely and E-Stop(Emergency Stop) for some reason:
Ride must’ve been E-stopped. Water jets were shut off during the ride stoppage procedure or RSP, most likely explaining why the boat went backwards.
— Theme Park Nerdo #SaveSplashMountain (@ThemePark_Nerdo) July 31, 2020
If they would decide to run it in reverse I have some new words for the first part of “Listen to the Land” that was in the early EPCOT days.
“Just make believe you’re a full grown plant, a full grown plant that’s going back to the size of an ant.” I have more but I will spare you all. Yes I know I’m a dork.
What do you think? Would you like to ride the attraction backwards?
Comment and let us know!
Sources: Jonathan Anderson, Twitter (Tweets belong to the accounts that posted them)
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