Disney Skyliner shutdown and evacuation - October 6 2019

[danlb_2000]

I didn’t think for skiing the tram actually ever stopped, I thought it was continuous.

In theory it should be continuous but if there is a problem loading it can be slowed or stopped. We have seen a lot of stoppages of this system since guests started riding.

 

[HoldenC]

We could have played that before it opened.

I just hope no one is injured but clearly people are shaken up and this is going to be a horrible look for Disney and the new gondolas

I don't disagree there. They will have lots of bad press in the coming weeks. But they'll recover.

 

[mm121]

Speculation is that the regular stops were CMs trying to load wheelchairs and ECVs outside of the designated area.

Riviera doesn't have a separate area. The line has to be stopped for ecv to load and unload there.

 

[Ojo4]

Oh look, they have to pause evacuations because the resources required are STILL not available

 

[Mouse Trap]

Do they have boats for the cabins suspended over the water? Ooooh let the fun begin!

 

[HoldenC]

Oh look, they have to pause evacuations because the resources required are STILL not available

We should take these tweets with a grain of salt. It's obvious they have an axe to grind

 

[flynnibus]

So it looks like incoming cabins from EPCOT into the rivera station collided with cabins already in the station. Cabins detach from the line and are motored through the station on wheels. So I guess somehow that movement was stopped in the station.. but the EPCOT line kept feeding them into the station. Or maybe somehow a stop happened in the magic window where a cabin was coming off the line and it didn't stop with the rest of the action?

Will be interesting to hear about it all when someone gets the real dirt.

EDIT: Looking again at videos.. I think it's the other way around. Cabins LEAVING rivera to epcot seemed to be the impact. So maybe what happened is the blue cabin failed to transition to the live line correctly.. and then the yellow cabins in the station fed into it.

The good news is, if that is the case, the impacts should have been at station speed.. not coming in at 11mph down to nothing.

 

[flynnibus]

Do they have boats for the cabins suspended over the water? Ooooh let the fun begin!

Yes, but that's not this line.

 

[Movielover]

Do they have boats for the cabins suspended over the water? Ooooh let the fun begin!

Yes, The have a specifically designed platform to handle the line over the water.

 

[DisneyDreamerxyz]

there are some castmembers stuck in some of the cabins, mainly college program kids that were off work and at the parks.

I'm not even scared of heights but I would terrified to be evacuated at night like that .

 

[danlb_2000]

Do they have boats for the cabins suspended over the water? Ooooh let the fun begin!

Yes there is a special rescue boat for hourglass lake. The only significant water this line passes over is the canal by the International Gateway.

 

[smile]

yikes - not good at all...
sympathies to the guests caught up in this at any level

If the response time for evacuations is 2+ hours, I'm out. Can you imagine if this was 2:00 in July?

heat/humidity...
with sway?


system's just gotta go thru may/june/july before committing to expansion

 

[Mouse Trap]

there are some castmembers stuck in some of the cabins, mainly college program kids that were off work and at the parks.

I'm not even scared of heights but I would terrified to be evacuated at night like that .

they’ll be evacuated last

 

[shernernum]

We should take these tweets with a grain of salt. It's obvious they have an axe to grind

While I take everything on Twitter with a grain of salt, I don’t see anything in the tweet history there that denotes an axe to grind.

 

[flynnibus]

A monorail doesn't have a single point of failure like the Skyliner does

Yes it does.. the power rail.. which is turned off for safety reasons. Thus one shutdown takes down the whole loop. The 'moving the other monorails to stations' bit is a conditional option. Without power, they have to do it one by one to clear the line.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

We should take these tweets with a grain of salt. It's obvious they have an axe to grind

 

[zakattack99]

So I am not familiar with Spectrum News but they are reporting that Disney's Spokeswoman has confirmed "Unexpected Down Time". So there you go folks nothing to see here just your normal unexpected downtime.

https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando...periences-unexpected-downtime-in-opening-week

 

[Bob Harlem]

Twitter Thread from a group right over the highway next to the Boardwalk sign, with a baby on board: over 2 hours at this point.

 

[Kram Sacul]

I want to punch that first post.

 

[flyerjab]

Rode today and it worked great to be honest. When leaving DHS around 9:30 tonight the DHS line was running but they weren’t letting anyone on. Did not know at the time that this was the reason why.

The Riviera station is odd in that it doesn’t have a dedicated loop for handicapped loading/unloading. And the line would slow down and speed up at times.

I will say that I hope this system isn’t entirely staffed by college students. They should have some experienced people operating it. For what it is worth - and I don’t know this for a fact - a lot of the operators seemed very young to me. If so this to me is where I have issues with WDW. They take advantage of the college program and have kids running a lot of things at the parks. A system that is new for Disney should not be staffed with college students. I don’t care how great the training program is.