The Colorado River Ride actually began lifeas a lazy-river ride. But during...

narrator:
The Colorado River Ride actually began life
as a lazy-river ride. But during construction,
Gene decided he wanted a realistic
simulation of Class IV rapids. Early test pilots reportedly
came out unconscious, forcing him to turn down
the ride's intensity. - There was one section
where tubes tended to go right up an embankment, and everyone was
looking at it expectantly, waiting for them
to fly over the side. You would hear people
audibly go, "Oh...aw," when they didn't actually fall
to their doom. - I mean, we're holding on,
getting slammed into stuff, the thing's getting stuck,
we have to kind of stick our own legs out
and push our way off, and then we go past
a lifeguard chair that, you guessed it, is empty