Yoo Hoo, John!
On September 24th '96 you wrote to Carol Brock:
 JT> CB> If you are talking about Carousel of Progress...yes it is still in
 JT> CB> Florida and has been recently updated. Carol
 JT>
 JT> I just called Disney Corporate this morning and asked the same question
 JT> (I called the office I work through as a IP).  You are correct about
 JT> COP.  The reason it was kept open is because more WDW employees are
 JT> "full time" rather than "seasonal" (which is the case with DL)... and
 JT> even the slightest safety "infraction" and the employee is pulled off
 JT> the ride.  So they tend to put the most experienced cast members... or
 JT> the kids that can "obey the rules". Too bad that did not work here in
 JT> California.
Also, at Florida where the walls of the theaters are on either side of
the audience the end where it meets the stage has been renovated to be
a soft (rubber?) area so I'd suspect that even if someone got caught
there they would not get hurt.
 JT> According to Disney Corporate, DL's hardware is going to be ripped out
 JT> as part of the renovations... so no more California Carousel (This is
 JT> entirely due to the safety problems... DL has had accidents... WDW has
 JT> not had any major accidents on the COP).
What do you mean by hardware?  The leftover COP stuff?  They've been using
the COP building at DL for offices (but no longer need to now that their
Team Disney building is open).  What I heard was that the COP building
would still revolve (it is mounted on railroad tracks, so it would be
kind of hard to remove that hardware without tearing the whole place down)
and become an exhibit similar to Epcot's Innoventions.
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