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  1. chiefs11

    Disney Skyliner shutdown and evacuation - October 6 2019

    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...
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    Disney Skyliner shutdown and evacuation - October 6 2019

    Well, I think it could be.....but it will never exist so we will never know. LOL
  3. chiefs11

    Disney Skyliner shutdown and evacuation - October 6 2019

    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...
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    Disney Skyliner shutdown and evacuation - October 6 2019

    This is the #FakeNews....we all know Disney would just abandon it in place and leave it there for the next 10 to 20 years.
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    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    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...
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    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    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.
  7. chiefs11

    News Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser coming to Walt Disney World 2021

    This made me chuckle........as I see Darth Vader saying "I am altering the deal....pray I don't alter it any further"
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    News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

    You mean like Dino-Land?
  9. chiefs11

    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    Just another way for these things to get you......... Now they'll be taking out people that don't even ride in them!
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    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    It would also give people staying in the Monorail resorts access to the Boardwalk area via Monorail->Gondola.
  11. chiefs11

    Hurricane Irma

    They moved him over to Ft Myers in time to let him stand outside as what was left of Irma's eye went past.
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    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    They'd probably react by closing it for the day and putting all the gondolas in the shed?
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    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    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...
  14. chiefs11

    News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

    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...
  15. chiefs11

    News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

    This would be great !
  16. chiefs11

    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    I assume you are referring to the 15:30mark in the video, I assume that track goes to the storage/maintenance area.. it wouldn't be used for loading or unloading guests.
  17. chiefs11

    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    I'm pretty sure the spacing between cabins is a set interval... any slowdown on the loading platform would have a proportional slow down of the cable to maintain the same interval. ETA: Just watched the video above.....that's exactly how it works.
  18. chiefs11

    Replacement for Tomorrowland Speedway?

    Regarding the Tron ride and the outside portion: I don't understand why they didn't design it the other way around, with the outside portion at the end because in the movie, during the lightcycle battle scene, it ends with them breaking out of the game grid ...
  19. chiefs11

    Replacement for Tomorrowland Speedway?

    That isn't the same plot of land... the Tron ride would be on the one to the left of that, on the other side of World Dr. just above Space Mnt. And if they were to build a hotel there, it would end up having a nice view of the unthemed backside of the huge showbuilding the Tron ride is in. :D
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    Guardians of the Galaxy coming to Energy Pavilion at Epcot

    The ride in the UK pavilion would be my guess... or maybe the Brazil expansion.
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