Project City gone from People Mover

[wdwfan22]

It was there Saturday but half the audio was turned off. Never have seen that much audio turned off

 

[StarWarsGirl]

On Friday, the entire tunnel was dark and the audio was missing. That included the scene with the robot in the rocket. Yesterday, it was back, but the audio was still missing from Progress City all the way through to Mickey's Startraders. The Tomorrowland Speedway was the next bit of narration

Worth noting is that the PeopleMover was down for several hours on Friday.

 

[Mike S]

Audio was off my last ride as well but that was more than a month ago.

 

[Foltzy]

Worth noting is that the PeopleMover was down for several hours on Friday.

From what I saw it looked like the cars were playing bumper cars in the station. Cars were repeatedly slamming into each other and flying through the station. I don't think it had anything to do with the tunnel.

 

[Corbin]

When I went in May, the narration for Progress City was cut out.

 

[EOD K9]

#progresscitymatters

#allcitiesmatter

 

[marni1971]

I just realised what the title of this thread actually says....

 

[Fantasmicguy]

I just realised what the title of this thread actually says....

What where you thinking it said?

 

[montyz81]

This. It's a specialised job done by a core team and is very much a labour of love.

The model has only had one complete total refurb since 1975 in 2013.

It's too bad they cut the model in half and stopped all the working elements of it!

 

[JenniferS]

lately disney has been doing alot of removing.....

And, to be fair, a lot of refurbing.

 

[Hakunamatata]

I just realised what the title of this thread actually says....

Freaking travesty is what it is.

 

[bunnyman]

I was down there from Saturday to Saturday last week. They were having issues all week with Space Mountain and the People Mover. One night Space Mountain was down for an extended period, and got to ride the the People Mover with the lights on. That ride had numerous issues as well with some cars bumping, medical removal, etc. The City model was lit all week except Friday night at some point, and I'm guessing if not a refurb then maybe the lights in the display didn't come back on following one of the numerous service issues in the building.

 

[tirian]

I'm not going to make a lot of friends for this, but does anyone else feel like the model never really belonged up there? I mean, Tomorrowland never had the most cohesive themeing, but even going with what they gave you it never made sense for a big 1960s-era model of a planned city sitting above an actual city/plaza of some sort of sci-fi future.

I don't know where else they would put the thing in a theme park, and it's not as if the Peoplemover was full of other high-end show scenes (I guess there's that one lady getting a perm) but like the Grand Canyon and Primeval World scenes along the Disneyland Railroad, it makes less than zero sense in context.

It's important to keep a couple things for legacy's sake, and the model city was important to Walt.

Gotta admit, I agree about the scenes on the DL railroad.

 

[EOD K9]

I know thanks to @marni1971 's vid on the People Mover that the model was cropped down. Where is the rest of it?

 

[DisneyFans4Life]

Progress City has always been an awesome model to look at and I've always wondered if a city of the future could ever look like that. Hopefully it'll be back soon!

 

[wdwfan22]

update: just rode 10 mins ago. Progress city is visable and nothing seems to have been done. Audio still off in several sections.

 

[Fantasmicguy]

I just realised what the title of this thread actually says....

Lol oh it's says project city. Wow I missed that.

 

[articos]

There is other work being done, even if it's not visible. Like I said, work on the model goes in spurts as they can. Here's an overview of what goes into rehabbing this, including the thought and research that goes into it:

https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/2013-restoration

The PeopleMover needs a ton of work, which should come in the next major overhaul of TL.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

While we're on the subject...
Can they please bring back the "Now approaching...Space Mountain" audio?
I know RCA or Fed Ex don't sponsor it anymore , but remake the audio without the sponsor name.

I vote for this also.

 

[rnese]

This!