Disney: “It’s A Small, Smaller World” now
After several decades of operation, Disney has had to close the “It’s A Small World” ride down. For the past few years, more of its boats have been getting stuck during the ride. To fix this, Disney will renovate to raise water levels and make the boats more buoyant.
It’s not that the boats have been getting stuck due to low water levels. Rather, it is an increase of heavier visitors who are making the boats ride lower in the water. At first, Disney installed ramps along the course and had the more portly riders disembark. I don’t know if many took offense to this request. Hopefully, they were big enough to turn the other chin, er, cheek. In any case, to make sure that no one’s feelings were hurt for being large enough to strand an amusement ride, Disney compensating them with coupons for … you guessed it, free food. And you know how health-conscious the offerings at the Disney concession stands are. How else can a small, small world become smaller if its visitors aren’t big, big, bigger?
