Monorail Orange loses all power causing evacuation

donsullivan

donsullivan

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Bullseye1967 said:
Crazy story!
The video shows guests removing the windows and placing them on the floor after instructions from CMs.

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Video shows Disney World guests stranded after monorail loses power

A guest was seen waving his hand out of the window which was open on the monorail.
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They brought the tug out and towed it to MK station. they had all the evac equipment out there but on the video I saw, nobody was evacuated at height. With a heat index around 105 today it did likely get a little warm.
 
donsullivan

donsullivan

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Gringrinngghost said:
Funny thing is, it would have been much faster to take the monorail into the contemp...
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Actually since they were on the Express line what they did was the best approach. It got the guests to their intended destination quicker vs having to walk from Contemporary (and go through security again). It also allowed them to just push the train back through the switch in front of Space Mountain back to the roundhouse for repair after unloading passengers at MK station. As long as that tug is on the beam, the whole system shuts down so this was the fastest way to get passengers to their destination and get the broken train off the beam to restore service.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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That is the exact location that I always hold my breath on. It is the highest point that the monorail travels on and I would assume the toughest one to evacuate. Oh, and by the way, the title of this thread says "loses power and is evacuated". When did it get evacuated? From what I could see, it didn't. All's well with a slight delay. I'm sure the riders were rewarded at the station in MK.
 
TikibirdLand

TikibirdLand

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Well, at least all the pieces stayed on the monorail.. I mean, there's that.

ETA: Didn't get much detail on what was to the left of the monorail. It looked like it may have been very close to the MK loading area. Why didn't the tug simply push it back there?
 
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Doberge

Doberge

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"several minutes"? I guess that's not a complete disaster. I would have been in full panic attack mode but at least i wouldn't have subjected other guests to that for terribly long. 😄
 
Epct82

Epct82

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1HAPPYGHOSTHOST said:
the camera man is horrible.
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Quick whoosh! to one side, zoom in.
Quick whoosh! to the other side, zoom back out.
Repeat....

Yeah I couldn't take more than a minute and a half of that before feeling a tad queasy. For future reference, people, learn the art of the SLOW zoom, and don't turn from side-to-side while filming like you're dancing the Twist.
 
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST

1HAPPYGHOSTHOST

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Epct82 said:
Quick whoosh! to one side, zoom in.
Quick whoosh! to the other side, zoom back out.
Repeat....

Yeah I couldn't take more than a minute and a half of that before feeling a tad queasy. For future reference, people, learn the art of the SLOW zoom, and don't turn from side-to-side while filming like you're dancing the Twist.
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it was horrible
 
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST

1HAPPYGHOSTHOST

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Lilofan said:
What free stuff did the guests get out of this?
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CAST MEMBER: "HERE ARE 2 FREE PASSES."

GUEST STUCK ON MONORAIL: "BUT THERE ARE FOUR OF US"

CAST MEMBER: "HERE ARE 2 FREE PASSES"
 

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