I think people were hoping that when you look at this:
You didn't immediately think of this:
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I think people were hoping that when you look at this:
You didn't immediately think of this:
If WDW was going to make gondolas a full park-wide transportation system, then I would expect the central hub to be something spectacular, like Grand Central Station or the old Penn Station. But even with a grand architectural central hub, all the other stations in NYC are rather basic with a bare minimum of decoration. The CBR hub looks a bit impressive. I wouldn't expect each terminus to be grand. But, that's my opinion.
Even with the supplied pictures i still don't.
Andrew C
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I think the CBR one looks nice as well.
zengoth
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What is up with all the concept “guests” carrying shopping bags? Where are the double strollers? Where are the coolers on wheels i thought were supposed to be banned by now?
Do you think being on the skyline will give guests a view (perhaps too much) of the behind-the-scenes areas of the parks? Would they be in danger of losing the illusion?
I think seeing to much backstage, etc. would pull me out of being part of an enveloping world .
I think seeing to much backstage, etc. would pull me out of being part of an enveloping world .
lazyboy97o
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So now proper scale and use of elements is exuberant?
It’s not even that. The hulking roof in the back has relevance to nothing but a poorly designed strip mall with poorly executed French-ish ornaments pasted onto it. The mansard roof came to prominence due to tax laws and concealed an additional floor of occupiable space. As occupiable space they follow along in those proportions. The roof over the loading station has no pretense of being occupied space and sits over open space. It also disregards traditional proportions and relationships, being significantly larger than everything below.
The location of Ratatouille will block part of the view behind World Showcase.
JoeCamel
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With the last option I agree it won't work. Unless my math is wrong you have 5.7 seconds to get 8 people in and the door closed. Maybe athletic skiers but Disney people?
Lift Blog
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You have to factor in that multiple cabins are loading at once. With the example you chose, cabin spacing is 5.76 seconds. A cabin arrives every 5.76 seconds and another leaves at the same interval. This is where terminal length and design come in. The longer the station, the more cabins can be moving through loading passengers in between the ones arriving and departing. If you had 8 cabins loading, the time for passengers to load any single cabin wound be 46.1 seconds before the doors close.
Look how many cabins have doors open in the real life example below. Factoring in the speed of this particular system, each cabin has 48 seconds of load time.
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The lines don't pass too near to backstage areas except when they are getting close to the International Gateway station, and the changes coming with Rat should help with the France backstage area.
bclane
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Since these appear to detach from the cable, is there a way for them to put these on some sort carousel that facilitates multiple outgoing lines/destinations? How cool would it be if they could have a central loading hub with cables going in different directions where you could tell the operator your destination and they could swing you around to the appropriate cable...and off you’d go. I could see them doing this with low cables so as not to have a mess of cables in one area. The towers could get taller so that you rise above the trees after you get far enough away from the hub.You have to factor in that multiple cabins are loading at once. With the example you chose, cabin spacing is 5.76 seconds. A cabin arrives every 5.76 seconds and another leaves at the same interval. This is where terminal length and design come in. The longer the station, the more cabins can be moving through loading passengers in between the ones arriving and departing. If you had 8 cabins loading, the time for passengers to load any single cabin wound be 46.1 seconds before the doors close.
Look how many cabins have doors open in the real life example below. Factoring in the speed of this particular system, each cabin has 48 seconds of load time.
Lift Blog
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Speaking of loading, I think Disney and Doppelmayr are being very deliberate using variable-colored cabins with characters on them. Picture a cast member telling a family, "Orange gondola please, go ahead." The family has 45 seconds to get in that gondola but within less than 10 seconds, the cast member is telling the next family, "green gondola, go!"
JoeCamel
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You have to factor in that multiple cabins are loading at once. With the example you chose, cabin spacing is 5.76 seconds. A cabin arrives every 5.76 seconds and another leaves at the same interval. This is where terminal length and design come in. The longer the station, the more cabins can be moving through loading passengers in between the ones arriving and departing. If you had 8 cabins loading, the time for passengers to load any single cabin wound be 46.1 seconds before the doors close.
Look how many cabins have doors open in the real life example below. Factoring in the speed of this particular system, each cabin has 48 seconds of load time.
Ahhhhh, been a lot of years since I have been skiing. I think Snowbird with the big tram was last. Never been on a multiple line load system.
Pixieish
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Me either.
Per the park rules, coolers on wheels are allowed if they are under a certain size.
NearTheEars
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It looked to me on the concept art that the front of station has a huge ornate iron/glass feature. Am I just seeing things?
jt04
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This is true of the monorail and even the WDWRR. Something for future Imagineers to fix.
GlacierGlacier
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This is exactly like what some members of the board believe the IG station will look like!
(INTENSE SARCASM)
You're seeing a small part of the original theming.