The Worst Disney Maintenance - Grand Canyon BB Hole

[steamboatpete]

It has been years since someone shot a BB hole through the glass at the Grand Canyon diorama at Disneyland. Walt would have made sure that something like a BB hole would be fixed with a new pane of glass immediately. With the increased security, it's less likely than ever that fixing the glass would just encourage the perp to shoot it again. And that bullet hole really looks bad, as if you are at a run-down park where they just can't afford to repair the vandalism. Why aren't they doing anything about the bullet hole?

[LlamaLover]

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How long has it been there? Either way, it is sad. I don't get to the park very often but I do recall on my last trip in December I noticed the skrim in the HM's graveyard looking really bad as well. The good news is that the park looked MUCH cleaner than when I visited in 2001.

[Disney Wrassler]

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I believe that stuff can be really expensive to fix and replace. I believe the same thing happened in Haunted Mansion and all they could do was design the hole as if it were some sort of spider web.

[LlamaLover]

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I believe that stuff can be really expensive to fix and replace. I believe the same thing happened in Haunted Mansion and all they could do was design the hole as if it were some sort of spider web.

I do remember reading about how they camouflaged the crack in the HM's glass over the party scene. Is the hole in the Grand Canyon's glass really noticeable?

[Hyperbole]

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Considering that the hole has been there for over 30 years, I'm going to assume that there is a VERY good reason for it not having been repaired. Probably a situation a la the HM bullet hole.

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I noticed the hole in the Grand Canyon.

[RobotMirror]

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The hole has been there since 1974. This website quotes the following:

" As you're going through it look and you'll notice what's supposed to look
like a spider web on one of the sheets of glass. (It's on one of the
last ones you see) The story I heard behind this (from a HM Cast Member
and a good friend of mine) is that one night somebody actually shot
through the glass, leaving a bullet hole.

This was confirmed by Mark Keiser (Retlaw 72-76 Security 77-81) Summer
1974 "The guy that shot there presumably also shot the hole in the last
or second to last window of the Primeval World diorama. Later
investigation determined the hole to be .22 caliber (in both places), and
bullet fragments matched (courtesy of Anaheim PD) the holes in Adventures
in Inner Space (he shot up the snow flakes)."

There is another bullet sized hole beneath the duelist on the right, so
perhaps a deranged guest was shooting at "the man with the gun".

They knew that to replace the glass they'd have to take the roof off the
building first, so they decided to simply disguise it as a spider web.
BTW, there is a spare pane in the back lot."

[LlamaLover]

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Frogberto I don't think I have told you lately just how much you ROCK. Seriously, I know that if there is a myth to be busted or confirmed you are the frog who will set us all straight!

[brassplayer]

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It has been years since someone shot a BB hole through the glass at the Grand Canyon diorama at Disneyland. Walt would have made sure that something like a BB hole would be fixed with a new pane of glass immediately.

One of the dinosaur animatronics has not been working correctly for years, his broken head stuck in a pool of water, and the first thing you mention is a BB gun hole????

[Hyperbole]

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One of the dinosaur animatronics has not been working correctly for years, his broken head stuck in a pool of water, and the first thing you mention is a BB gun hole????

You're joking here, right? That dinosaur has always been like that.

[brassplayer]

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You're joking here, right? That dinosaur has always been like that.

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that at one time that dinosaur moved just like his brothers. In fact, I remember talking to one of the Railroad engineers back in 1998 about just noticing the dinosaur had stopped moving.

Also, it doesn't sound like Walt to place one static dinosaur so close to two moving ones.

[Jungle Cruise Gal]

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yes,lets just say me and the dinosaurs and grand canyon gang are all GOOD friends and that dinosaur has been that way for a very long time but hopefully trains will fix it in january when they go down for refurb.

[barfownz]

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I believe that stuff can be really expensive to fix and replace. I believe the same thing happened in Haunted Mansion and all they could do was design the hole as if it were some sort of spider web.

They'd have to remove the whole ceiling just to replace the glass.

[Jungle Cruise Gal]

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BTW did you know that-there are 4 bunnies,5 skunks,6 deer,5 moutain sheep,2 crows, 1 hawk, 1 snake and 7 turkeys in the grand canyon.

[Tui]

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You're joking here, right? That dinosaur has always been like that.

Speaking of bad maintenance, when are those clowns in New York City going to fix the Statue of Liberty? I remember when they first put that thing up it would do a full blown John Travolta disco dance! Now its arm just sticks into the air holding that torch. No movement at all! Rediculous!

[anaheimgirl79]

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They'd have to remove the whole ceiling just to replace the glass.

Yes i have heard that as well from many sources..

[RobotMirror]

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yes,lets just say me and the dinosaurs and grand canyon gang are all GOOD friends and that dinosaur has been that way for a very long time but hopefully trains will fix it in january when they go down for refurb.

Define really "GOOD friends". Actually, no... I don't want to know.

[Jungle Cruise Gal]

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Define really "GOOD friends". Actually, no... I don't want to know.

Hehe when lights go out, we party like its 1999 ! Man those skunks can party it up!

[RobotMirror]

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Dinos gone wild!

[LlamaLover]

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BTW did you know that-there are 4 bunnies,5 skunks,6 deer,5 moutain sheep,2 crows, 1 hawk, 1 snake and 7 turkeys in the grand canyon.

What?!?! I need some photos here people since I have only been through the GC once and it was at the end of the day so I was lucky have my eyes open at all.

Giving me all these juicy details and no visual proof...such teases!

[Hyperbole]

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Also, it doesn't sound like Walt to place one static dinosaur so close to two moving ones.

Actually, I think that would be a perfect way to arrange things. Have one which doesn't move, next to two which do. Save $$$ on animatronic's costs, and MOST people wouldn't notice that one dinosaur isn't moving. Brilliant.

Does anyone have older video of the diorama? I cannot remember a time when that dinosaur moved, and it would be interesting to see what exactly was going on say 15 or 20 years ago. Our memories can certainly play tricks on us.