News Walt Disney World Monorail gets an upgraded sign at TTC, including undercarriage lighting effect

eliza61nyc

eliza61nyc

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StarshipDisney said:
If so, then we need to see this on a much larger scale. This small detail is next to nothing.
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Lol not picking on you but this made me laugh because in a previous thread on this I was told how supremely important this "small" detail was and how this would have never had happened in the past.

Now that it's fixed, we're still kvetching and how the fix is of no importance.

😏 Nothing done will ever be enough, unless they can find a way to transport folks here back to 1979
 
HauntedPirate

HauntedPirate

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I may not like that they spent money on the undercarriage lighting instead of putting it towards new trains, but I give them credit for adding this small detail.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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HauntedPirate said:
I may not like that they spent money on the undercarriage lighting instead of putting it towards new trains, but I give them credit for adding this small detail.
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What they spent on the lighting wouldn't have purchased more then a dozen rivets on a new train. I doubt that expense is why they aren't replacing the trains.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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eliza61nyc said:
Lol not picking on you but this made me laugh because in a previous thread on this I was told how supremely important this "small" detail was and how this would have never had happened in the past.

Now that it's fixed, we're still kvetching and how the fix is of no importance.

😏 Nothing done will ever be enough, unless they can find a way to transport folks here back to 1979
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Ain't that truth! The funny part is if they were transported back, they would discover how delusional they are as to what was like then and the overall added sophistication and technological excellence that has followed that year. They would notice how the memory plays tricks on one as to what they recall as the past. Not to mention the shear added volume, like 4 parks instead of one.

It was nice then but also primitive in many ways compared to now. It was new and different but nothing like it is today. I'm not saying that there aren't things that I enjoyed more back then, but anyone that thinks that it was better has either a faulty memory or never actually went in 1979 or in that era. The four major attractions plus others are still there. (PoTC, Small World, Space Mountain and Jungle Cruise)
 
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solidyne

solidyne

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Goofyernmost said:
Ain't that truth! The funny part is if they were transported back, they would discover how delusional they are as to what was like then and the overall added sophistication and technological excellence that has followed that year. They would notice how the memory plays tricks on one as to what they recall as the past. Not to mention the shear added volume, like 4 parks instead of one.

It was nice then but also primitive in many ways compared to now. It was new and different but nothing like it is today. I'm not saying that there aren't things that I enjoyed more back then, but anyone that thinks that it was better has either a faulty memory or never actually went in 1979 or in that era. The four major attractions plus others are still there. (PoTC, Small World, Space Mountain and Jungle Cruise)
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The Contemporary Resort was better in 1979. Fact! The Poly actually had a view in 1979. Memory does play tricks, as demonstrated when I play an old Atari game for ten minutes and wonder "what was I thinking???" However this is not one of those cases.

Actual shops all along Main Street USA? That's not just nostalgia talking.

Well, I'll grant you things like smoking areas and some room decor. The whole thing was a smoking area, LOL!
 
CntrlFlPete

CntrlFlPete

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Disstevefan1 said:
I am not surprised they didn't do the wrap on the monorails, as they don't want to spend the money.

I fully expect them to put Ads in the monorails eventually. They have had them in the busses forever, right?
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I believe the movie studio paid them for the wraps out of a movie's advertising budget. So, in the example of Tron, the studio was paying Disney for the monorail wrap -- that would be different than Disney using wraps to introduce a ride.

Just pointing out that the Tron wrap was not an expense to WDW but rather an income source.
 
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StarshipDisney

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donsullivan said:
Yet another example that no matter what they do, some will find negativity in it.
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Well, these days I think Disney deserves negativity.

Let's see them do something significant like fix GenieCrap, return of package delivery from parks to your resort, or return of daily room service to all resorts. Now something like those examples would be worthy of praise. Fixing a sign...not so much.
 
PREMiERdrum

PREMiERdrum

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A great little improvement, but a HUGE missed opportunity to refont both the Magic Kingdom and EPCOT panels into their established brand identities. The "Epcot" instead of "EPCOT" is especially egregious.
 

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