Hidden Cell Phone Towers

[muse1983]

I realize this is a bit of an obscure thread, but I had recently seen how they disguise cell phone towers in Arizona by placing them within a giant hollowed out cactus and it made me wonder if anyone had pics of how Disney World disguises their towers. I think I spotted one near the Grand Floridian disguised as a tree a few months ago but that's about it. It almost makes me wonder if Rapunzel's Tower in the new Fantasyland might have something hidden inside of it.

 

[Victor Kelly]

There are a lot of those now. It is nice to see them making them disappear.

 

[tissandtully]

Spaceship Earth is one huge cellphone tower. (not really)

 

[PUSH]

Spaceship Earth is one huge cellphone tower. (not really)

So is the BAH. That's why it's still there.

 

[BoarderPhreak]

There's a rather tall tree on property that stands out... Though it's not really a pine tree.

 

[tissandtully]

There's a rather tall tree on property that stands out... Though it's not really a pine tree.

Judging from wireless service at WDW, that must be the only tree.

 

[BoarderPhreak]

Judging from wireless service at WDW, that must be the only tree.

You may very well be right about that! I think that's also the location of their WiFi antenna.

 

[rob45]

I noticed the one in front of the GF disguised as a tree, pretty cool.

 

[Kobe!!]

Theres one backstage at DAK that's disguised as a tree. It's pretty tall.. you can see it from the lots.

 

[drkokintz]

Theres one backstage at DAK that's disguised as a tree. It's pretty tall.. you can see it from the lots.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=28.35735,-81.595627&spn=0.001235,0.001206&t=h&z=20

 

[BoarderPhreak]

You can see that DAK one from as far off as the Swalphin!

 

[Hoop Raeb]

Here's the one by the Grand Floridian.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=28.411394,-81.592175&spn=0.000767,0.001032&t=h&z=21

 

[Figments Friend]

There's a rather tall tree on property that stands out... Though it's not really a pine tree.

Indeed.
That thing is H-U-G-E ...and i am not talking about the Tree of Life...!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Here's the one out at AK..

 

[drkokintz]

Here's the one by the Grand Floridian.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=28.411394,-81.592175&spn=0.000767,0.001032&t=h&z=21

Looks like there are two there.

 

[luv]

I would never know this stuff. Thanks, guys!

 

[rct247]

All I know is there needs to be more of them, my Sprint service sucks on property. It is usually fine once I'm off property though.

 

[Polydweller]

All I know is there needs to be more of them, my Sprint service sucks on property. It is usually fine once I'm off property though.

Actually, all service cell phone towers are offsite. What people are showing pictures of are communications towers used internally by Disney, Orange County communications towers and old Bell South and Nextel towers that aren't used for cellular. There are several cell tower and antenna locator sites that show where all towers of any type are. According to all of those sites, you'll find the cell phone companies' towers close to but not on Disney property.

Doesn't change the fact that the camouflage and effort to do so is impressive.

 

[Obi Walt Kenobi]

I've often noticed the one near AK took me a few years to figure out what it was.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I always found that those faux trees were so painfully obvious that they brought attention to themselves way more then the plain old towers did. I lived in Vermont where there are an abundance of trees and those things stood out like a nude in church. They always towered over the existing trees, where not even close to matching the color of the real trees and look, at best, like deformed trees that wouldn't have been if a tree were actually that tall. Anyway, in spite of the effort, they really didn't achieve what the original intention was...to hide them. Yet, another attempt to do good that had the opposite effect.