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News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner

lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Goofyernmost said:
OK, fine... bet it works though, we shall see. And if it doesn't... we all will live to see another day. That's the magic of theme park design. It almost always is not life threatening unless someone forgot to put a pin in to hold it together.
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The parapet already exists. It’s not some surprise.
 
Walt d

Walt d

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GoofGoof said:
I'm thinking a luxury gondola more like this than a traditional sky ride:
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This is from Whistler mountain in Canada. The lift covers something like 3 miles in about 10 minutes and has 28 of these gondolas that hold up to 28 people. It has an hourly capacity of over 4,000 riders but would be less if it has to make multiple stops. I assume it could also be air conditioned for FL heat. The whole thing cost something like $50M to build a few years ago. Much cheaper than a monorail. I'm pretty sure the thunderstorms would still be a problem for these.
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$50 m there go the ticket prices again ..
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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OK, I finally see that you are talking about the view from the ground going and coming from The Rat Ride. Yes, that could be a problem, I was only looking at it from the Gondola (silly me thinking that on a Gondola thread) which should have no real problem as long as, like I said, the bottom of the E.Tower is not visible and at 15 feet of elevation difference, I should be easy enough to take care of and as lazyboy said, the parapet already exists. The Gondola view will not be perfect, but, it is as believable as the big sky blue building housing Soarin. That is only a situation for a few people on the boards. I've never heard John or Jane Doe complain about it or even mention it. None of the little Doe's either. However, I do see that the ground view around the Rat tale might be ugly.
 
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lazyboy97o said:
A giant painted flat!
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Not sure if joking or not but honestly, I guess it wouldn't be half bad if they painted it up to look like building rooflines. Unless of course we're talking about the view from above looking down at the Eiffel Tower, in which case... yeah I got nothing. I wonder if they could hide it by actually painting a "flat" to resemble the Eiffel Structure? One that blends in with the force perspective Eiffel Tower behind it? Would be tricky to limit viewing angle though; maybe strategically blocked by foliage of some kind. IDK. Without seeing the space from all angles it's difficult to theorize what would best hide the gondola structure.
 
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lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Magicart87 said:
Not sure if joking or not but honestly, it wouldn't be half bad I guess if they painted it up to look like building rooflines. Unless of course we're talking about the view from above looking down at the Eiffel Tower, in which case... yeah I got nothing.
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Half joking. From the gondolas or the courtyard, it wouldn’t work for the tower. The tower should just be removed. It doesn’t work from the front and will just be worse from the back.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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lazyboy97o said:
Amazing how you go on and on about stuff you constantly claim to not care about. Forced perspective is designed and neither view was designed.
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Those things are called opinions. You don't have to accept them and you sure as hell don't have to keep trying to convince me that you are right. Maybe you are, maybe you aren't... again I don't really care. So can we stop now? Thank you.
This is where I could say that forced perspective can and quite often does work from any angle. The Castle is forced perspective no matter which direction you look at it from. Planned? Maybe or it could be because the scale is the same from any angle. It can accidentally happen as well as deliberately. I say it will work, I could be wrong, I'll let you know when it is all competed how I feel about it then.
 
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DisneyJeff

DisneyJeff

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In the Parks
No
Saw this on Joe Rohde's Instagram... Glass Bottom Gondolas confirmed for WDW!!! ;)

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