Post #646582 by Deke Kahala on Thu, Aug 2, 2012 11:00 AM

On 2012-08-01 11:40, AceExplorer wrote:

On 2012-08-01 10:42, Deke Kahala wrote:
Cool interview. Why doesn't Disney bring the mermaids back to the Lagoon?

I am a former Disneyland castmember who worked in the Entertainment Division. The production manager I worked for, who was there working when the mermaids were there, occasionally made comments that the mermaid "atmosphere entertainment" program eventually stopped when the company came to realize that the chlorine and the sun exposure just became too problematic for long-term human performers. The submarine lagoon is more highly filtered for clarity and cleanliness, and also much more highly chlorinated, than your typical human swimming pool. Or so the older people around me always said. There's a good interview by Disney historian Jim Korkis with Edie here:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/9577/The_Disneyland_Mermaids

I did a quick online search but could not easily determine in what year the mermaid program was stopped. But from the photos I found online, I see that many of those gals were very attractive and had very nice smiles.

That makes sense about the high chlorine and sun exposure. Still a shame that it didn't work, I bet it would be still cool.