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Guests travel with Brer Rabbit and friends in hollowed-out logs through scenes from the film, "Song of the South."
Yvonne Traina Falls On Ride
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Accident Date: August 8, 2000
Accident Type: Injury
August 8, 2000:--An operator dispatches a log on Splash Mountain before Yvonne Traina, 67, was seated, causing her to be thrown ''rapidly backward'' in her seat. When she screamed and he stopped the ride, she was thrown forward. After the ride,
Visitor Said She Started To Experience Left, Neck Pain After The Final Drop Of The Ride.
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Accident Date: March 16, 2009
Accident Type: Injury
Mar 16, 2009:--A 46 year old woman said she started to experience left, neck pain after the final drop of the ride. She was treated by a resort nurse. She received prescription medication. She was treated at Western Medical Center two days after the incident.
Guest Said She Felt Neck Pain While Seated In A Vehicle Stopped On Lift.
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Accident Date: March 25, 2009
Accident Type: Injury
Mar 25, 2009:--A 36 year old woman said she felt neck pain while seated in a vehicle stopped on lift. She was seen by resort nurse and later went to personal doctor on March 30. She reported it to Disney on May 8, almost two months after the incident.
Boy Slipped As He Attempted To Step Into The Log Vehicle And Hit His Right Eyelid.
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Accident Date: April 1, 2009
Accident Type: Injury
Apr 01, 2009:--A 5 year old boy slipped as he attempted to step into the log vehicle and hit his right eyelid. An inspection was conducted and no safety hazards were observed. He was self transported to St. Joseph's
Man Said He Tripped And Fell While Leaving The Ride
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Accident Date: August 5, 2009
Accident Type: Injury
Aug 05, 2009:--A 42 year old man said he tripped and fell while leaving the ride, hitting his head and injuring his knee. Cal-OSHA inspected the ride and found no safety
Woman Said She Slipped And Fell
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Accident Date: February 15, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Feb 15, 2010:--A 25 year old woman said she slipped and fell, injuring her right knee, while walking down the steps after being evacuated from the ride. Cal-OSHA inspected the ride and found no safety
Guest Said She Experienced Back Pain After Being Evacuated From The Attraction.
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Accident Date: March 17, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Mar 17, 2010:--A 41 year old woman said she experienced back pain after being evacuated from the attraction. She was seen by a resort nurse. She was seen by a private physician/chiropractor. Disney learned about the injury on July 6, about four months after
Man Said He Injured His Back When The Ride Was Evacuated.
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Accident Date: March 24, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Mar 24, 2010:--A 36 year old man, Steven Wilson of Anaheim, in the process of evacuation, Wilson hurt his back when it struck the top of the hard seat as he fell back when the log suddenly moved. Paramedics took him to Western Medical Center in Anaheim.
Visitor Said She Had Back Pain After Being Evacuated From The Ride
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Accident Date: April 17, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Apr 17, 2010:--A 41 year old woman said she had back pain after being evacuated from the ride. She was seen by a resort nurse. She was treated by a private physician/chiropractor. An inspection was done and no safety hazards were
Guest Said He Hit The Side Of His Head On The Log During The Ride.
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Accident Date: May 4, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
May 04, 2010:--A 12 year old boy said he hit the side of his head on the log during the ride. He was treated at Western Medical Center in Anaheim. An investigation was done and no safety hazards were
Guest Said She Slipped And Fell While Stepping Into The Log.
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Accident Date: May 31, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
May 31, 2010:--A 7 year old girl said she slipped and fell while stepping into the log. She cut her chin. She was seen by a resort nurse. Her parents took her to the emergency room at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. An investigation was done and no safety
Woman Said She Fell Exiting The Log When She Caught Her Left Foot.
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Accident Date: June 6, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Jun 06, 2010:--A 49 year old woman said she fell exiting the log when she caught her left foot. She landed on her left hand. Ride was operating normally. Cal-OSHA inspected the ride and found no safety
Boy Said He Cut His Right Eyebrow While On The Ride.
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Accident Date: June 15, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Jun 15, 2010:--A 6 year old boy said he cut his right eyebrow while on the ride. Ride was operating normally. Cal-OSHA inspected the ride and found no safety
Parents Said The Boy Fainted On The Ride
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Accident Date: July 20, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Jul 20, 2010:--Parents said the 5 year old boy fainted on the ride. Guest was seen by a resort nurse. Parents drove the boy to the hospital. He was treated at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. An inspection was done and no safety hazards were
Man Stated He Hit His Hand On The Side Of The Vehicle During Ride.
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Accident Date: August 11, 2010
Accident Type: Injury
Aug 11, 2010:--A 23 year old man stated he hit his hand on the side of the vehicle during ride. Ride was operating normally. He transported himself to hospital. Cal-OSHA inspected the ride. No safety hazards were
Girl Said She Was Seated In The Front-Most Seat.
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Accident Date: June 11, 2011
Accident Type: Injury
June 11, 2011:--A 6 year old girl said she was seated in the front-most seat. She bent forward at the bottom of the big drop and hit her had on the front edge of the seat. She was seen by a resort nurse. Her parents drove her to St. Joseph's Hospital in
In the 1980s Disneyland designers were eager to put a high-profile thrill ride in Bear Country, which had become Bore Country for many guests something new and dramatic was needed to reinvigorate and perhaps even redefine the northwestern corner of the park. That something turned out to be Splash Mountain.The last and shortest of the four peaks in the Disneyland mountain range the 87-foot high Splash Mountain covers 2 acres of what was originally the Indian Village in Frontierland.Though it's in the same thrill ride category as the other Disneyland mountains Splash Mountain is different from the rest in that its thrills aren't apparent until the very end of the ride. While the other mountain attractions are fast-moving roller coasters with rapid twist turns and dips Splash Mountain is for the first 75% of the experience a gentle musical cruise more akin to It's A Small World.
Actually Splash Mountain's heritage most likely dates back to the early 1900s where the Old Mill water ride on Coney Island took visitors on a winding scenic trip.On Splash Mountain guests group in hollow log boats for about half a mile through caverns with settings reminiscent of the 1946 Disney film Song of the South with the movies Oscar-winning hit Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah playing in the background near the end of the ride, one of the names originally considered for the attraction was Zippity Doo Dah River Run.Cute critters ranging from possum families to croaking frogs sing the happy How Do You Do song while a simple plot unfolds about Brer Rabbit eluding the bumbling villains Briar Fox and Brer Bear.
About 7 minutes into the 10 minute cruise however, the mood begins to darken the singing creatures faces grow worrisome, ominous vulchers appear and the river leaves its cozy interior and seems to point upward to the distant Fantasyland sky. Only in the rides last moments do guests fully understand what puts the splash in Splash Mountain a thrilling water plunge reminiscent of another historic Coney Island favorite the thrilling Shoot-The-Chutes ride diving down a 52 foot slope at a 47 degree angle Splash Mountain logs hit 40 miles per hour as they zoom beneath an overhang of thorny briars and ram into a pool of water that sends waves splashing across the bow and usually all over the guests.
The logs travel so rapidly that few guests see the sign at the bottom that reads Drop-in Again Sometime.The souvenir books of the late 80s and early 1990s proudly touted Splash Mountain as a record-setter world's steepest highest scariest wildest adventure. Signs along the queue warn guests that they may get wet understating the potential soak factor of a heavily front-loaded log nose-diving hard into a splash pool.Attentive guests might notice that some of that splash isn't actually the result of the logs plummeting down but from water cannons shooting water up into the air. Inside the log the thrill is perhaps most intense in Disneyland.From the walkway out front the screams five-story nosedive explosions of water and sudden disappearance of the guests and logs create as much concern as fascination.
Fortunately a happy ending built around an enormous set-piece the jubilant Zip-a-dee Lady Showboat brings damp guests and laughing Briar Rabbit home safely.When it was first dedicated on Disneyland's 34th birthday after 5 years of planning and construction Splash Mountain brought with it Critter Country a successful update of the Bear Country theme that had existed since 1972. Lines for the new attraction immediately became some of the longest in Disneyland's history, but just as robust where the glowing reviews from guests.Among the many satisfactual surprises along the way are the audio animatronic characters themselves over 100 of them populate the caves most of them recognizable as recycle entertainers from the America Sings attraction that once spun inside Tomorrowland Carousel Theater from 1974 to 1988.
There is a "Roller Coaster" like hill that you go down, then up then down again this is a first for any ride of this type.The voice of Brer Bear in Splash Mountain is the same person Nick Stewart who voiced him in the 1946 film, Song Of The South.Voices:Brer Rabbit - Jess Harnell Brer Bear - Nick Stewart Brer Frog - James Avery.Guest Previews: Started June 29, 1989 Grand Opening: July 17, 1989 (Disneyland's 34th Anniversary)
Statistics:Theoretical Dispatch Interval: 2 vehicles every 24 seconds Velocity: Average 4-5 fps Maximum speed 40+ mph at base of Drop #5 Vehicles: 40-46 logs (7 guests/log) Flume: Width - 7 feet average Depth: 3 feet (18-inch average water depth, 31 inch at load/49 inch at base of Lift #3) Length: more than 2,500 linear feet (approximately 1/2 mile)
Specs: Capacity 2100 per hour -- Capacity per log 7 -- TRip Time 9:00 -- Dispatch Interval :24 -- Distance Traveled 2500 feet -- Top Speed 40 MPH
The water that shoots out as you go down the hill outside is shot from an Air-Cannon.
On the inside you will see Black lighted props.
There is a "Roller Coaster" like hill that you go down, the up then down again. This is a first for any ride of this type.
The voice of Brer Bear in Splash Mountain is the same person who voiced him in the 1946 film, Song of the South.
Many of the Audio-Animatronics characters from the closed America Sings attraction were renovated and placed in Splash Mountain.
The final drop hill is 52 feet long at a 45 degree angle. At opening it was the longest flume drop in the world.
Statistics:
Theoretical Dispatch Interval: 2 vehicles every 24 seconds
Velocity: Average 4-5 fps
Maximum speed 40+ mph at base of Drop #5
Vehicles: 40-46 logs (7 guests/log)
Flume: Width - 7 feet average
Depth: 3 feet (18-inch average water depth, 31 inch at load/49 inch at base of Lift #3)
Length: more than 2,500 linear feet (approximately 1/2 mile)
Storage: 0 --5 vehicles in station loop/5 in maintenance flume (logs stay in attraction on shutdown)
Water System: 4 main pumps + 2 spares (2 + 1 for each water route), approximately 6 minutes to fill flume. 20,000 gallons per minute water flow past any one spot; flume is essentially dry when attraction is down; 475,000 gallon reservoir capacity under main building (weight more than 4,000,000 lbs., or 2,000 tons of water).
Elevation Changes (feet)/Degree of Angle:
Lift A - 18' 25 degrees
Lift B - 26' 25 degrees
Lift C - 52' 25 degrees
Drop 1 - 15' 35 degrees
Drop 2 - 4' 10 degrees
Drop 3 - 18' down 40 degrees (dip-drop)
Drop 4 - 3' 10 degrees
Drop 5 - 52-1/2' 47 degrees
Show: 15 show scenes
Over 100 audio-animatronic figures
Ride Control: Dual PLC using Allen-Bradley software
Total Project Area: Approximately 2.3 acres
Height of Mountain: 87 feet/from ground level
Queue Capacity: Interior - 14-1/2 minutes Critter Country - 28 minutes Bridge - 12-1/2 minutes (total provided by Project = 55 minutes)
Guest Previews: Started June 29, 1989
Grand Opening: July 17, 1989 (Disneyland's 34th Anniversary)
Voices:
Brer Rabbit - Jess Harnell
Brer Bear - Nick Stewart
Brer Frog - James Avery
Sign at the bottom of the drop says "Drop In Again Sometime"
Proposed names for the attraction: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Brer Rabbits Splash Mountain
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