Thought this could be a cool thread. Post pictures of alarms, exit signs, ect. on theme park rides. They tend to theme some devices into rides with theming.
Its a small world - Walt Disney World
Slow moving boat ride built in 1971 with the park. Has Gentex commanders, look to be 2 or 3, sone are painted. Exit signs and exit doors also visible. The building is fully sprinkled and has smoke detectors.
Not surprised Disney went with a Siemens system: seems like that’s all they ever go with from what I’ve seen. Kinda not surprised they painted those Commanders either: given the way they operate they can supposedly get away with all sorts of violations like that if I’m not mistaken.
Say, aren’t you the fellow who’s been to Walt Disney World a lot of times for some reason? (& it seems like most often to scope out the park’s alarm systems)
Yes, I’ve been at Disney a couple dozen times and made it a mission to find the systems 
Disney seems to use exclusively Siemens in Florida and Simplex in California.
Ah okay, thought so.
Oh, really? Alright, rather interesting. Is that because there are major dealers for each company in each respective state?
I have no idea why they do that. That is probably why.
Are you thinking of me? I’ve only been to WDW twice in the past couple years. (and I’m probably the only member on this forum who has something from WDW as their profile picture.)
Also, despite what @aerhardt said, WDW has been using Edwards a bit more lately, particularly since the 2010’s. (I’d say approximately 85% Siemens, 15% Edwards.)
Disney Springs (a shopping/dining/entertainment complex at WDW) is also a bit more varied, likely because it has many non-Disney tenants which have some control over which vendors to use in their building. (for instance, there’s an AMC theater that has a Simplex system, likely because many AMC’s have Simplex systems.)
I don’t believe so: it seemed like whoever I’m thinking of would always have new videos or photos taken at Walt Disney World to share every time they’d show up on the TFP Discord group again after a hiatus.
Oh, well that’s nice, glad they’re giving other brands a chance (especially an excellent one like Edwards).
Yeah, though I remember the LEGO Store there having a system with Siemens-rebranded ZNSes, Siemens HFP-11 smoke detectors, & unknown pull stations under STI break-glass covers (why Disney insists on using these when they’re single-use among other disadvantages & when the fully reusable Stopper II is a thing (which literally everyone else uses) I have no idea).
I guess I should have said “mostly” rather than “exclusively”.
I’m guessing that people are much less likely to falsely activate a break glass pull station than just one with a cover over it. Although it’s not really that much different, people may see breaking glass (and therefore damaging property) as much worse than causing a false alarm.
If someone pulls the alarm as a prank, that would be quite bad, especially in large occupancy buildings and ride buildings. I think the glass really says “if there’s no fire, don’t pull it.” There’s tons of people at Disney who sometimes do silly things.
Living with the Land —Epcot
Gentex Commander 3’s and Siemens Pulls and smokes. Same as small world.
Interesting control panel pull station.
It’s good that the ride operator has a pull station accessible without having to break glass.
Well yeah, but as far as I know the Stopper II is just as effective in stopping false alarms as a break-glass cover (if equipped with a horn of course), & it’s not one-time-use too.
Well obviously, but as I said a Stopper II should still be effective in preventing false alarms if it’s a horn model, & there’s no need to replace any glass either: in this day & age a reusable cover like the Stopper II just seems the natural choice (especially since pretty much all call points don’t use glass anymore either).
Yep, definitely.
seaworld/bush gardens has a mixture of Wheelock and system sensor devices, both horn and voice evace
SeaWorld San Diego uses a mix of Cerberus Pyrotronics/Siemens and now Edwards is starting to get into the mix. They still use Siemens albeit in a very limited quantity, most of their older attractions have them and things like the gift shops and restrooms have them, but most of the older Cerberus Pyrotronics/Siemens stuff is now Edwards.
SeaWorld San Diego had a lot of really cool setups, for instance in the Wild Artic attraction, built in 1998, where they used have (what I presume to be) a Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL with a first gen Wheelock Safepath. Devices include Wheelock E70s (rebranded by Siemens for the renovated portions), and Cerberus Pyrotronics SS-1070-15/75s, and Cerberus Pyrotronics DI-3 Smokes. Really strange setup as they chose to not go with an MXL-V and instead went with a traditional MXL panel and just added on a Safepath. There is a video of it in action from around 1998. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mN7j65gaSCM
The system mentioned above was replaced with an Edwards panel and devices. Unfortunate but okay I guess.
Image of some of the old devices:
Welcome to the Forums! I’m surprised they decided to go the Edwards route rather than simply upgrading to newer Siemens for an easier transition.
SeaWorld Orlando uses a Gamewell-FCI system with a mix of Wheelock and System Sensor devices. A newer area of the park uses a Notifier system with System Sensor devices.
Does SeaWorld Orlando use voice evac? Section 13.4.9.4.4 of Florida’s adoption of NFPA 101 requires all fire alarm systems in existing special amusement buildings to have voice evac, which is another reason the Disney World systems are not compliant.
Yes, it does use voice evac. There are some horn strobes though.
How are the horn strobes arranged? If they are only in staff areas, then they might be used to notify staff who then give live instructions as required by NFPA 101.
I saw some in a gift shop and one was even in a hathroom.
