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This waterfall is at the foot of what used to be the platform for the Skyway, which was removed about 7 years ago due to insurance premiums (a cast member was killed when the ride was activated while he was cleaning; he fell over 20 feet to his death). Pic is overexposed... will scrap later.


Another Tomorrowland Series, this time of scenery, seating, and such.


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:icondragonrider1227:
I didn't know THAT was why they closed it :(
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=AreteStock Oct 22, 2006   Photographer
It was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back: it was becoming more and more unpopular, it had no handicapped access, it was a nightmare to keep running at any sort of normal speed, and then the death ... within the year it was gone.
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:icondragonrider1227:
OH! Shame. I wonder why it wasn't popular. You get the most gorgeous views from it
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=AreteStock Oct 22, 2006   Photographer
I'm not sure, although I know many people were simply afraid to ride.
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:icondecemberdreams:
wow. :-( i never knew that. i mean, i knew they closed it because they were having problems, but i didnt know someone died. thats sad.
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=AreteStock Oct 22, 2006   Photographer
It happened while I was working there. Often, you'd hear stories about people dying that turned out to not be true (one was that some CM got his head knocked off by the Barnstormer while trying to rescue a cap for a kid... not true); but sometimes the stories are very, very true.

What happened was this: a custodial CM was cleaning the cars for the Skyway. While he was doing this, a ride operator came in for the day, and not realizing that someone was working on the cabs, started up the ride. The man working ended up hanging from the outside of the cab. If he had let go right away he would have only fell a few feet from the station, but he tried to hold on, and made it about half-way, where the track rose high over the transition from Fantasyland into Tomorrowland, the farthest possible he could have fallen. Disney denied that his death had anything to do with the ride, but the insurance premiums skyrocketed after that, and it was decided to just scrap the whole ride, since it was already becoming unpopular and a nightmare to run (slow load times, no handicapped access, etc.). I was shocked when I came back for my first visit after I returned to school: they had removed every last vestige of tehr ide, except for the platforms. It was eerie seeing no Skyway.
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