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There are a lot of people concerned about this "box truck" who probably send their kids to school on a school bus every day, ride the parking shuttle bus at the airport and then happily take a trip on Kilimanjaro Safaris - all vehicles based on commercial chassis. The only difference here is...

They're likely staff facilities for the CMs working at the station. With no room on the actual platform, they still have to provide facilities within a short distance.

It looks like the black rail is a chain conveyor: at 0:25 in the video you can see the black chain with a motor hanging under it at the left end. On the right side, you can see another chain conveyor with the black "fingers" extended, the fingers on the chain next to the gondola have been folded...

I've speculated for quite a while that the cars will have an LED light inside, which would easily be charged by a small solar panel on the roof. Other urban transport gondolas use this type of system.

This seems more like it is a tensioning issue - the short quad chair I ran would automatically tension the cable about a foot over the course of a busy day. Even then, chairs would bounce a few feet when the lift stopped. The "wire" you see is likely the door control cable. The doors open and...

I laughed for a moment when it's mentioned that the lift has North America's first automatic, locking restraint bars. The small, slow fixed grip chair at Disney's Blizzard Beach already has automatic locking restraint bars.

The modern heated chairlift I've ridden only heated the seats in the station - you felt it through your snow pants a few moments after the chair started up the hill, but then it faded off. Gondolas with interior lighting often have a solar panel on the roof and a couple of LEDs inside.

They could easily disable the door opening at Riviera until the station is ready. You would still have to staff the station, but this would be 1-2 CMs, instead of a full complement.

Generally, it depends on the contract. Some units are handed off to the respective buyer with no ongoing obligations. These are generally legacy systems that have a history of maintaining their own rolling stock, for example the NYC subway, Toronto subway and streetcars and WDW monorail. Other...

The window graphics film is OK to see out of, but you're right that it really hampers photography. The camera auto focuses on the film, not the subject, and you never get a good picture of anything. The good news is that it doesn't seem like every cabin will be wrapped, and even if they are...

It certainly looks like a support wire for the comm line.

Since they would be restricted to the one route, quick charging electric buses would be more than doable.

Thinking about the original idea of an LRT to Disney Springs, the new bus lanes on Buena Vista Drive could be easily repurposed for median tracks. If this were to continue west, I can't see any reason that the current turn only station on the CBR-Epcot gondola line couldn't have platforms added...

Unintentional, but I'll roll with it.

I believe London's system uses supercapacitors. It would not shock me to see the Disney system integrate light or audio using a standard battery.

This is correct - the tires in the station move at a fixed ratio of the line speed. A small bank of tires may be separately computer controlled to slow down or speed up cabins as they move through the station, to keep the spacing between cabins constant. If the line moves faster, the cabins...

The "blend-in beige" paint scheme (cousin to "go-away green") makes me think it's permanent. Jobsite or rental power is usually white or another visible colour in my experience.

Those are also CWA Omega cabins, albeit older ones. I don't know the numbers, but I think it's a safe bet that the Omega is the most common monocable gondola cabin on the planet.

The small ski hill I worked at had a volunteer force of ski patrollers which wasn't very large some days, so all lift staff and anyone who wanted it were trained to do evacuations. Only one person on site had to be fall arrest trained to climb the towers to get the process started. Larger hills...

Understandable, but the dock and more importantly the gondola towers are supported by piles, which we hope were driven into something more than an endless void.