Splash Mountain Adds Lap Bars...

[Speedway]

Calm. Down. Everybody.

Breathe.

[lily23]

Well, this stinks. No more riding in the same row with my two girls. One of them will have to ride alone or with a stranger.

Thanks, morons, for ruining it for the rest of us

[Disneytwins]

I don't think this is a very big deal. I don't stand up anyway, so makes no difference to me. The likelihood of a log overturning is extremely low. Are the individual lap bars or Big-Thunderesque?

[TheDisneyInquisitor]

Well, this stinks. No more riding in the same row with my two girls. One of them will have to ride alone or with a stranger.

Thanks, morons, for ruining it for the rest of us

According to the reports from Screamscape, this is a single lap-bar (a la Thunder Mountain), so this will not affect you riding with your two girls.

[DRSeeker]

Way to break theme. Let me remind everyone this is a terrible idea that instead of protecting guests, in makes them even more prone to injuries on Splash. The force of the drop is supposed to keep you in your seat. Lap bars are not needed for that. Also, the logs CAN tip over. It's never happened, but it's possible. How would you like it if you were under water and unable to get out from a lap bar keeping you in? That's why log flumes don't have seatbelts or lap bars - but somehow this one just got some.

Where did you get that ridiculous idea that the logs can tip over?? There is no way it could happen even if you and everyone in the log tried to.

[TheDisneyInquisitor]

Where did you get that ridiculous idea that the logs can tip over?? There is no way it could happen even if you and everyone in the log tried to.

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[Disneytwins]

I was just looking at Screamscape's picture. All i see is new padding on the logs. They look a lot like lap bars but it looks to be just padding.

[Pinkflutterby]

Last time we were riding Splash, we we're climbing the final accent and the 'special' people in the log in front of us decided that was the time to switch over the order in which they were sat in the boat....on a incline....so yeah, lap bars maybe not the worse idea in the world.

[TheDisneyInquisitor]

I was just looking at Screamscape's picture. All i see is new padding on the logs. They look a lot like lap bars but it looks to be just padding.

Those big white things aren't padding, those are just fake test bodies.

[Disneytwins]

I know what the big white things are. I'm talking about the black things. The logs have always had them. Their padding so that you don't hit your head on the way down. It looks like they just replaced them with darker ones.

This is what they used to look like:

[lily23]

According to the reports from Screamscape, this is a single lap-bar (a la Thunder Mountain), so this will not affect you riding with your two girls.

Hopefully, but not according to Screamscape. " ...but with the new lap bars two riders per row is all that will be allowed. " I have no idea how accurate this information is. Anyone?

Last time we were riding Splash, we we're climbing the final accent and the 'special' people in the log in front of us decided that was the time to switch over the order in which they were sat in the boat....on a incline....so yeah, lap bars maybe not the worse idea in the world.

Unbelievable...

[lazyboy97O]

I was just looking at Screamscape's picture. All i see is new padding on the logs. They look a lot like lap bars but it looks to be just padding.

I have circled where the lap bars attach to the logs.

[dsnyfnatic]

The lap bars concave down in the center, limiting each row to a maximum of two guests.


The lap bars are being installed less as a safety issue and more as a deterrent for idiots getting out of the boat, such as the one who got to the second lift hill, only to then realize that she wasnt on the "steam train that goes around the park" and didn't want to get wet, so therefore jumped out of the back of the boat, INTO the water, taking her young child with her....true story!

[lily23]

She didn't want to get wet, so she jumped into the water?

[TheDisneyInquisitor]

I have circled where the lap bars attach to the logs.

I could be wrong, but those look more like non-skid pads. Usually lap bars connect to the front of the cars.

Hopefully, but not according to Screamscape. " ...but with the new lap bars two riders per row is all that will be allowed. " I have no idea how accurate this information is. Anyone?

And yes, it it is certainly possible that these will be the rules Disney will enforce. However, with Screamscape providing no evidence to support that statement, I take it with a grain of salt.