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)
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.
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).