I just returned from a much needed vacation with my family to good old Disney World in sunny Orlando, Florida. We saw many of the popular sites, and I had a chance to take my son on a classic Disney ride which I enjoyed from my childhood, “It’s a Small World.”
While talking with others waiting in line for the ride, I heard a story about the Disneyland version of “Small World” (in Anaheim, CA). The ride was shut down in January of 2008 for reengineering, since the boats on the ride were bottoming out. It turns out, the average weight of Americans has increased by 25 pounds since the early 1960s, when the ride was first designed. The boats weren’t originally engineered to handle that extra 350 lbs! I guess our small world has been super-sized! I thought that was funny and had to share.
