News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner

[MisterPenguin]

FYI to anyone. Google Earth updated their images recently. You need to click the "Historical imagery" button to make it appear. I'm sure it'll be in Maps at some point once it gets "3d'd".
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Indeed. To repeat what I said in another thread...

That's a good find!

Apparently, those are images from Maxar Technologies taken 10/2019. They are newer, but aren't as high a resolution as NearMap or Google.

Google usually updates their map in January (and it can take one to three months to finally appear on Google Earth or Google Maps).

BTW, the 3D version only gets updated once every few years, not yearly.

 

[Victor Kelly]

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Oh great, the Russians took over the Skyliner.

 

[Goofyque']

We had a great time at Shanghai Disneyland, then the Gondola at Seoul Korea. I think Americans need to get over their "Oh my goodness! I have to share a cabin!"

 

[ThistleMae]

And for some perspective, all of the resort and charter bus stops are off the right side of the above pic. Uber/Lyft zone is along the long curb by the Skyliner station.

-Rob

Thank you. I'm so excited. Flying out Jan. 29th

 

[MisterPenguin]

What happened to the semi-regular reports of stoppages on the EPCOT line? Has that pretty much ended?

 

[joelkfla]

What happened to the semi-regular reports of stoppages on the EPCOT line? Has that pretty much ended?

There were none when I rode twice last week. A few slowdowns. One time it slowed down almost to a stop, but accelerated before it came to a stop.

 

[Incomudro]

We had a great time at Shanghai Disneyland, then the Gondola at Seoul Korea. I think Americans need to get over their "Oh my goodness! I have to share a cabin!"View attachment 442668View attachment 442668

Yeah, no thanks.
I ride the NYC subway, I wouldn't welcome a sardine can ride in WDW.

 

[Goofyque']

Yeah, no thanks.
I ride the NYC subway, I wouldn't welcome a sardine can ride in WDW.

Fair enough! Just amuses me when people are put off by the possibility of more than their party in the gondolas. There were 50 in this one!

 

[JaxFLBear]

What happened to the semi-regular reports of stoppages on the EPCOT line? Has that pretty much ended?

We rode from DHS to Epcot on 1/7 and had a few slow downs and any actual stops were no more than a couple of minutes.

 

[Incomudro]

We rode from DHS to Epcot on 1/7 and had a few slow downs and any actual stops were no more than a couple of minutes.

Was that one ride, or several rides?

 

[Disstevefan1]

We had a great time at Shanghai Disneyland, then the Gondola at Seoul Korea. I think Americans need to get over their "Oh my goodness! I have to share a cabin!"View attachment 442668
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I don’t think it’s the sharing the cabin that most folks are troubled with, it’s the possibility of being stuck on the Skyliner for hours that most folks worry about.

 

[joelkfla]

Fair enough! Just amuses me when people are put off by the possibility of more than their party in the gondolas. There were 50 in this one!

That's not actually a gondola. It's an aerial tram, which is more like a subway car on a rope than it's like Skyliner.

 

[Magic Feather]

Yeah, no thanks.
I ride the NYC subway, I wouldn't welcome a sardine can ride in WDW.

I take it you haven’t ridden the monorail recently?

 

[Goofyernmost]

That's not actually a gondola. It's an aerial tram, which is more like a subway car on a rope than it's like Skyliner.

Damn, I rode one of those once at Universal Studio's and right in the middle of the trip King Kong attacked the tram and we almost got killed. I'm never going to ride that one again, I'll tell you that much!

 

[Heppenheimer]

We had a great time at Shanghai Disneyland, then the Gondola at Seoul Korea. I think Americans need to get over their "Oh my goodness! I have to share a cabin!"View attachment 442668View attachment 442668

Americans regularly stuff themselves in ski gondolas amongst strangers without a second thought. It seems to be only a certain kind of Disney guest that has a problem.

 

[Incomudro]

Americans regularly stuff themselves in ski gondolas amongst strangers without a second thought. It seems to be only a certain kind of Disney guest that has a problem.

Disney's different.

 

[Victor Kelly]

Disney's different.

Well, the people that are in Disney frequently do not use deoderant, some I doubt bathe regularly. So, yeah that is why a lot of us don't wish to be squished into an arial cattle cars that has a tendency to stop sometimes for long periods

 

[Incomudro]

Well, the people that are in Disney frequently do not use deoderant, some I doubt bathe regularly. So, yeah that is why a lot of us don't wish to be squished into an arial cattle cars that has a tendency to stop sometimes for long periods

Plus, it's often hot and humid.

 

[Victor Kelly]

Plus, it's often hot and humid.

Exactly

 

[RobWDW1971]

Exactly

And anybody who compare the crowd at WDW to those at a ski resort have clearly never been to either.