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Appalling state of the monorail cabins
- Thread starter ptaylor
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Cesar R M
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I do not know what to think about that.. D:
englanddg
One Little Spark...
It gets worse, that's the best...
asianway
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I have news for you, I have serious doubts they're going to replace anything once it's runs down. See that mega bus stop they just opened?
Bairstow
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Wait, they opened a megabus stop?
asianway
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May as well charge a buck so the indigent can keep making their trips
Soarin' Over Pgh
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Heh...food never really was a big issue. Neither were diapers (though, pull ups were a bane in the tubes, because...well, lets just say they don't contain solid waste very well and kids crawl through the tubes in one of a few ways...some crawl, some run in a squat, and others scoot on the butts. Use your imagination).
Sickness happened, but also rather rare.
No, you don't want to know what I (or people who have worked for me) have found in them, but I will say this, in stores I ran I was obsessive for a reason about the tubes being cleaned every half hour during peak, and at least once a shift during non-peak...and the pit being cleaned out twice daily, and the balls swapped and sanitized once a week (after the weekend rush). Things I've found are far worse than anything you've mentioned. I will spare you the details and just say...
There are reasons we decided to remove them altogether...and you didn't list any of them.
Its cockroaches, isn't it?
Bairstow
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NormC
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Which "refurb" changed Chuck to a mouse? When Nolan Bushnell created him he was a Rat.CEC hasn't had ball pits in nearly a decade. I know. I was part of the refurbs.
tissandtully
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The change from Showbiz Pizza to Chuck E. Cheese.
Figment2005
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His name is Sam Lau and he hates everything that isn't a bus... end of story.
willtravel
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Are you saying the monorail is eventually going away or maybe just run between monorail resorts only to parks?
asianway
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I am confident one day the MK monorail loop will be removed. No current inside knowledge but building extended bus stops at the MK is one more step in that direction. Maybe we will get Mark VIII trains one day, but if we do, dont expect a IX unless WDPR gets bought out by OLC or someone who actually gives a damn.
willtravel
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That saddens me. To me, the monorail is like TTA. I enjoy just riding . Part of vaca at WDW..
asianway
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I am very hopeful I am wrong, but to me the signs are there. Like the nonsense that closed the subs, Horizons, PI...close a high maintenance operationally challenging operation.
Bairstow
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I wouldn't consider the bus depot expansion as evidence that Disney is cooling on the monorails. The previous MK transportation situation, with the monorails and boats, was utterly insufficient.
thehowiet
Wilson King of Prussia
I hate to say it, but I've also thought this for awhile myself. Eventually there will come a time when the cost to maintain the aging system will become too high for TDO's liking and it will be cheaper to just get rid of it. I still think we're a long way from that, but I'd be surprised if it's still there in another 20 years. I hope I'm wrong.
sweetpee_1993
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Yep. The original beams will not last forever. At some point all those beams will need replacing...nevermind the troubling condition of the current fleet. I don't really see TDO being commited enough to replacing beams along the original loop...much less the Epcot line.