You know America is getting fatter when "It's A Small World" ride at Disneyland has to close for 10 months so they can make the water channel deeper and the boats more buoyant because the average weight of Americans has increased since 1965, causing the current boats to bottom out and get stuck.
"The Imagineers who designed the unique flume ride system for the World's Fair assumed that adult men would average 175 pounds, and adult women would average 135 pounds. Needless to say, those 1960's statistics are hopelessly out of date in today's world. This same issue creates similar problems on the drops at Pirates of the Caribbean, or even on the older dark rides like Pinocchio or Alice In Wonderland as the more heavily loaded cars try to keep up their pace throughout the ride. But at it's a small world, the weight related problems happen more frequently."
"...added buoyancy of the new boats should allow for several hundred extra pounds of churro-loving park visitors to pile into the new boats before they bottom out and bring the ride to a stop."
"It's a small world may be the attraction everyone loves to make fun of, but its popularity has endured for almost 45 years...2,500 riders per hour to cycle through the 15 minute long attraction...35,000 or more people float through in one day."
"The Imagineers who designed the unique flume ride system for the World's Fair assumed that adult men would average 175 pounds, and adult women would average 135 pounds. Needless to say, those 1960's statistics are hopelessly out of date in today's world. This same issue creates similar problems on the drops at Pirates of the Caribbean, or even on the older dark rides like Pinocchio or Alice In Wonderland as the more heavily loaded cars try to keep up their pace throughout the ride. But at it's a small world, the weight related problems happen more frequently."
"...added buoyancy of the new boats should allow for several hundred extra pounds of churro-loving park visitors to pile into the new boats before they bottom out and bring the ride to a stop."
"It's a small world may be the attraction everyone loves to make fun of, but its popularity has endured for almost 45 years...2,500 riders per hour to cycle through the 15 minute long attraction...35,000 or more people float through in one day."
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