The Disneyland railroad and Main Street and red car vehicles actually goes to places so they considered park transportation. The Riverboat had scenery. The People Mover when through dark tunnels slowly. Granted, it was great place to make out if you don't care to be watched by the cast members.
The riverboats scenery is the same as the peoplemovers.... the lands that it travels through and a few scenes you can only see from the attraction.
I actually do agree with this. The Rocket Rods were a correct and appropriate idea doomed by catastrophic execution.
Absolutely, and these examples are all period appropriate to the lands they belong to. A resurrected People Mover would no longer look like it belonged to the future. For all their faults, the Rocket Rods did appear to belong in their surroundings. I'd love to see something like a successor to them, but it seems like there are too many roadblocks on that path.
That's a good idea. The cars could be on a center tube making it look like they are floating from below. The Autopia could have lots of levels and banked curves. They could even spin out. Basically it's a modern version of the Steeplechase Coaster but you don't see the tube.
What's cool about this is RSRs and Test Track use a center tube that powers the car. The car above just rides the powered mechanism underneath. It's not beyond imagination to have the car attached to a pole above the road as if flying. The actual driving mechanism under the road.
Why even do all that when you can have actual "flying" cars using MagLev, heck Japan has had MagLev trains since the 80s. It is possible today to have an actual "flying" car that floats above a roadway, we just don't have the infrastructure for it. So given the "rather" small footprint of Tomorrowland it wouldn't be too expensive to create a magnetic roadway that the "flying" cars float over.
I always thought it would be cool to drive electric autopia cars on a charging highway. If they combined part of the current autopia roadway with an above-ground level highway and incorporated a futuristic charging road, that would be cool. It would add movement, be kid friendly, and have a little bit of tomorrow. Of course, this requires a complete redesign of the land. You can't reuse the peoplemover tracks for this.
They could do what the fx team did on Star Wars when making the land speeder float. They could hide the wheels/supports with mirrors.
I just can't Imagine how they would hide such a huge structure and building. The ride is way to short already and takes too much real estate. The only way I think it would work is if they completely demolished most of tomorrowland except Space mountain. Rebuild everything from scratch and then have some track portions be integrated into new buildings similar to the way they did the people mover years back.
Yeah not only is it a terribly short ride, but there’s a break run after just about every other turn so it never really gets going before it just ends. Also, story-wise you’re vaguely supposed to be trying to cut off the orange lightcycles or avoid getting cut off by them like in the movie, which would’ve been a great concept for two dueling coasters, especially with the real estate they’re already using up. And finally, from below the canopy and from on the coaster itself you have a direct view of the show building, which has no place in the vague story of the ride. Everyone sees this view in pictures:
