Joe Rohde Explains Why There Aren’t Wheelchair-Accessible Boats on Na’vi River Journey

Netizens who frequent #DisTwitter, may have come across a few of acclaimed Imagineer Joe Rohde’s tweets.

This time, Mr. Rohde sounded off on the lack of wheelchair-accessible boats on Na’vi River Journey. According to Mr. Rohde, the positioning of the attraction within the show-building that houses both Flight of Passage and Na’vi River Journey didn’t allow for wider boats, which, naturally, would have required wider channels of water.

Well..sort of. The ride exists in its present form because of a spatial opportunity created by the queue of Flight of Passage. https://t.co/rmMM18nYRH

— Joe Rohde (@Joe_Rohde) August 12, 2019

Many complex checkmates. https://t.co/ylgjBfgDbo

— Joe Rohde (@Joe_Rohde) August 11, 2019

Now, at the same time, Mr. Rohde sounded off on why Disney chose to refer to the creatures on which you ride in Flight of Passage “banshees” rather than the name the natives of Pandora call them, “ikrans.”

That is a thoughtful comment. There was actually a fair amount of discussion about this. But between us and the filmmakers we decided to use the more familiar word banshee, and acknowledge the actual name Ikran. https://t.co/0wbz03Zj9K

— Joe Rohde (@Joe_Rohde) August 11, 2019

Mr. Rohde also retweeted this interesting tweet about the upcoming Disney Plus show about Imagineering.

✨ For The Imagineering Story, Leslie Iwerks and her crew travelled all around the Disney Parks to meet with those behind the magic like @Joe_Rohde, Alice Davis, @THEBobGurr, @Michael_Eisner…

November 12 on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/I3xzBHMLZI

— Disney Plus News 🔜 D23 (@DPlusNews) August 2, 2019