Those cherry pickers certainly worked fast to unload that one gondola and the 6 people in it.
A big issue with the 'gondola picker' is that the gondolas would have to be returned to the storage rails and reloaded there since you can't just drop it back on the line and hope it is in exactly the...
It is an interesting, out-of-the-box, idea and it would make evacs a lot easier and faster. But, it would be a highly specialized piece of equipment. Like a self-propelled crane with an attachment on the end that can unclamp and lift the gondolas off the cable, then lower them to the...
Not disagreeing with you, as I think the gondola system is perfect for this application, but just want to point out that a monorail doesn't need a big loop to turn around.. . the Vegas monorail, which uses the same type of beam, uses switches to run the trains in a back-and-forth shuttle mode...
It would be a straight line from the AKL bus stop area to the AK bus loop, without even any buildings in the way. Wouldn't be very convenient for Kidani Village though.
The Skyeship also has a mid-load station, just like the Disney one will have at the Riviera resort.
The old Killington gondola had 2 mid stations along the 3.5 mile trip from the base to Killington peak, for a total of 4 stations on one line. One was at Skye peak before it went over to...
So if this is supposed to be a reference to WDW/Epcot...... what ride are they referring to? I can't remember anything from the early/mid 80's with aliens in it. The only space related rides I can even think of were Space Mountain, Mission to Mars, and maybe part of Horizons. Am I missing...