Welcome back to the Walt Disney World Maintenance Report. In this report, the goal is to create a comprehensive list of broken effects, damaged props, and more at the Walt Disney World Resort in the hopes they will be repaired, or at the very least just track how long it takes for Disney to get around to it.

We have taken a break from the report for awhile due to other commitments here at WDWNT, but the hope is that it will once again become a regular staple of the site, even if not presented weekly. What you see below isn’t complete, but rather a re-starting point. We haven’t been to every corner of Disney World in the last few days, so the list has a lot of growing to do before it can shrink.

A permanent page showing the current list of problems will be added to the website and we will update it as we can, recapping additions and subtractions in these reports from time to time on the website in blog post form. You can still submit problems or fixes you find through the methods listed at the bottom of this report.

Now, where did we leave off…

Needs Repair

The Magic Kingdom

Splash Mountain

• The speakers for the vultures are blown. (10/26/19)

The Haunted Mansion

• Audio is stretching room B is out of sync with show elements by about 2 seconds. (10/26/19)
• The projection Hitchhiking Ghosts are still very misaligned. (10/26/19)

Tomorrowland

• The UFO on top of the Disney Vacation Club kiosk has been missing the cockpit dome since before Hurricane Irma in 2017. (9/12/17)

TTA Peoplemover

• Many lights on the Progress City model are burnt out. (10/29/19)
• The Starport signs inside Space Mountain are showing tremendous wear once again. (10/29/19)

Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin

• The spinning red light tunnel effect isn’t working and hasn’t in a very long time. (1/14/19)
• The speed tunnel projection looks horrendous. The film is clearly extremely dirty and is jumping all over the place. I think the time has come for this to go digital or at least be repaired. (1/14/19)

Space Mountain

• The spinning space station projection inside of the mountain hasn’t spun in years (1/19/19)

Epcot

Park Entrance

• Two overhead walkway lights have been violently flickering for weeks just outside the security screening area on the left side of the park entrance. (9/28/19)

Spaceship Earth

• Half of the star field on the ascent is off. (3/16/19)
• The lights in the window looking outside in the Renaissance scene are burnt out, leaving the mural in complete darkness. (10/28/19)
• The large green gear in the newspaper printing press is not spinning. (10/28/19)
• A large section of the 180 degree scene at the top is not covered with the star projections. (1/27/19)

Imagination!

• Several of the jumping fountain are not working. (10/29/19)

• The upside down waterfall has several jets that are spraying water in the wrong directions. (10/29/19)

Journey Into Imagination with Figment

• All of the projectors in the first scene of the ride are misaligned (10/28/19)
• In the “Smell Lab” scene, the word “winner” lights up before Figment has even finished spinning the slot machine. (1/27/19)
• The audio is out of sync between the multi-Figment finale scene and the scene with astronaut Figment and the Nigel Channing moon. (10/28/19)

The Land

• The hot air balloons in the center of the atrium haven’t moved in nearly 20 years. They used to move up and down. The motors burnt out and no one ever bothered to replace them. (10/28/19)

The Seas with Nemo and Friends

• Lights outside the attraction entrance have large cracks around them and many are burnt out. (10/28/19)

• The wave lights on the floating boat in the queue are not working. (10/28/19)
• The speaker for the first appearance of Marlin in the ride is blown out. (10/28/19)
• The projectors and/or projection surfaces are so dirty that any time a fish with white sections appears on screen, you can see filth and stains in those white areas. (10/28/19)
• The character audio in the EAC sequence is completely out of sync with the video. (10/28/19)

Test Track presented by Chevrolet

• Dashboards of cars and inside of show scenes are covered in dust and filth, extremely noticeable in blacklight environments. (12/31/18)
• The screens in the cars either don’t work or are in horrendous condition. (2/20/19)
• The laser trees do not appear for every car that goes by. (2/20/19)

Gran Fiesta Tour starring the Three Caballeros

• One of the elderly men in the Fiesta scene was not stomping his foot. (12/31/18)
• The Donald audio-animatronic has a visible seam on his face. (10/28/19)
• The Jose audio-animatronic was not strumming his guitar. (10/28/19)
• The finale scene lighting is horrible, with shadows of the audio-animatronics being cast onto the ceiling/night sky. (10/28/19)

Frozen Ever After

• Olaf’s mouth during his first appearance isn’t working correctly. (10/28/19)
• The skating Olaf’s mouth was not working correctly. (10/28/19)
• The Anna and Kristoff audio-animatronics had audio, but their faces were frozen. (10/28/19)
• The “icy magic” projection that would appear above audio-animatronic Elsa’s hands is missing. (2/3/19)
• There is a large white gash in the dark wall near the “northern lights” projection (adjacent to Elsa’s Ice Palace) in the scene where the boat switches from backwards to forwards motion before taking the plunge. (10/28/19)
• Marshamllow’s mouth did not emit smoke. (10/28/19)

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Hollywood Boulevard

• The globe underneath Mickey at the Crossroads of the World is once again not moving. (10/28/19)

Sunset Boulevard

• The terrazzo floor in front of Beverly Sunset Boutique is all ripped up and was filled in with cement. It looks pretty bad. (2/16/19)

Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

• New projectors were installed in the disappearing hallway scenes, but they’re too bright and ruin the effect, showing the corridor’s arches even after it has “disappeared”. (10/28/19)
• The Rod Serling audio didn’t play as the elevator ascended in the shaft on the left side. (10/28/19)
• The eyeball effect is still not working in the 5th Dimension scene, just showing a stock photo instead of a photo of guests currently on the ride. (10/28/19)
• The lights on the wall that opens into the drop shaft were not displaying properly in the left shaft. (10/28/19)
• The screen at the end of the ride on the left side was misaligned, but also had tree branches that had fallen into the shaft in front of it. (10/28/19)

Slinky Dog Dash

• Temporary covers hide damage on coils attached to train cars. (1/15/19)

Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run

• The lights on the back of the Millennium Falcon weren’t all one color as they are supposed to be. (10/29/19)

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Discovery Island

• The pathway lamps behind the Tree of Life are all severely worn, with tons of paint missing and most of the metal toppers are completely lose and can be removed by guests. (10/28/19)
• The decorative frame in one of the Terra Treats windows has fallen out. (10/28/19)

Kali River Rapids

• The interactive squirting elephants at the ride’s exit are not working. (10/28/19)

Expedition Everest

• The yeti audio-animatronic doesn’t move. (probably a decade ago)

Dinoland U.S.A.

• The big dinosaur statue is Dino-Rama is bubbling and peeling in many places. (10/28/19)

DINOSAUR

• The left attraction poster is showing visible signs of damage. (10/28/19)
• The plants located above the posters look to be falling over. (10/28/19)
• Two lights in the upper atrium in the part of the queue with meteorite above are burnt out. (2/7/19)
• The PA speakers in the pre-show rooms are completely blown out. (10/28/19)
• The star field is permanently stuck on during the first time travel portion of the ride. (10/28/19)
• The Alioramus eating another dinosaur was stuck in the down position. (10/28/19)
• Mechanisms under the first Carnotaurus animatronic are clearly visible. (10/28/19)
• The running Carnotaurus is not moving, but is also stuck in the forward position. (10/28/19)
• The asteroid smoke trail effect before the drop past the Carnotaur head has not worked in several months. A trail of smoke would lead guests to believe that an asteroid has whooshed by them. (1/1/19)

Pandora: The World of Avatar

• The drums in the drum circle are showing a ton of wear. (10/28/19)
• The “water squirting creatures” area is still a mess. All 3 creatures are back but do not function. (1/20/19)

Repaired

This section will return in the next report.

How To Do Your Part

To report broken effects, damaged props, or anything else out of the ordinary, please submit photographic or video evidence of the malfunction or disrepair to tom@wdwnt.com or through WDWNT’s social media avenues (Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram) with the hashtag #WDWNTfix. You can also submit proof that anything listed above has been repaired. The entire purpose of this weekly post is to get Walt Disney World looking how it is supposed to look, so we are hoping to see this list shrink rather than grow over time.