Interesting idea, but the old float trip channel is used to cycle water through AP now. I'm glad they preserved the old channel and utilized it with the AP, and it is nice to pass part of the channel on the way to Wildfire. I can still remember where the old float trip scenes were on the channel. I worked the float trip in '79, and often was the early man in, responsible for cleaning the boats and filters prior to rope drop on Main Street. I loved the old float trip, and was sad to see it go, but excited about the new AP at the time ('81). The Dugan boys got to be among the first humans to ride the plunge. We came in a couple of weeks before the park opened to rehearse, and one day they told us to come over and try out the new ride. They were looking at the boats as they came down the lift hill to make sure everything was running OK, and they ran us through the ride over and over again until we were glad to get off. I remember Jack Herschend watched us go around a few times, and his smiling at us as we came over the top of the hill for the first time. We must have had frightened looks on our faces. Anyway, we survived. (Well, most of us did, HA!)