wahooskipper
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We got the basic set for my son a few weeks back and he opened in Christmas morning. It is fine...but who is the knucklehead that designed the little tiny characters? Why not just put some buckshot in there?
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Does Anyone Have The Toy Monorail Set?
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sweetale
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Honestly, setting up the monorail underneath the tree is the "event" I look forward to most over the holidays. Our set has grown over the years to include:
Monorails red and blue (the doors actually open)
Hotels: GF, Contemp, Poly (Including signage), Wilderness Lodge (which takes a long time to set up since it is the Lincoln Log set).
Magic Kingdom accessories: HM, Astro Orbiter, Space Mountain, Castle, Dumbo (Also two trees and a lightpost)
Epcot: Spaceship Earth & The M:S Rocket
MGM: The Hat along with the character accessories which I set up outside the hat.
Animal Kingdom: AK Tree along with accessories
TTC switching station
It takes up the entire living room and then some. I have two loops going, a MK/resort line and an Epcot line. I also set up MGM and AK to scale and in there appropriate directions. Also, I take all the prince/princesses and put them each on a hotel that would roughly correspond to there "background" (snow white/prince at WL, Beauty/Beast at GF, Aladdin/Jasmine at Poly, etc.). It takes a long time to complete every year but it is most certainly a labor of love!
~Amy
Monorails red and blue (the doors actually open)
Hotels: GF, Contemp, Poly (Including signage), Wilderness Lodge (which takes a long time to set up since it is the Lincoln Log set).
Magic Kingdom accessories: HM, Astro Orbiter, Space Mountain, Castle, Dumbo (Also two trees and a lightpost)
Epcot: Spaceship Earth & The M:S Rocket
MGM: The Hat along with the character accessories which I set up outside the hat.
Animal Kingdom: AK Tree along with accessories
TTC switching station
It takes up the entire living room and then some. I have two loops going, a MK/resort line and an Epcot line. I also set up MGM and AK to scale and in there appropriate directions. Also, I take all the prince/princesses and put them each on a hotel that would roughly correspond to there "background" (snow white/prince at WL, Beauty/Beast at GF, Aladdin/Jasmine at Poly, etc.). It takes a long time to complete every year but it is most certainly a labor of love!
~Amy
Pixie_Pirate
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We have Monorail Black but we nvr use it. We took it out for X-mas to put under the tree it's cool to watch it go around the tree, we're also going to get monorail yellow i think. My dad's a big Monorail(and disney, same with me and my mom)freak and bought every monorail pin.
F'nGoofy
Member
We have had Monorail Purple for almost 2 years now, and just got the new Monorail Blue, as well as the Contempoary and the Switching Station two weeks ago when we were down there. My son is getting them for his birthday next week, so I need to clear out some room to set them up. I also have a bunch of extra track, so I'll have two loops running at the same time. I don't know how true this is, but when I was just down there, I talked to a CM at Once Upon A Toy, and asked about the discontinued attractions. He told me that they were re-doing them, and they should be back out in about 6 months.
Space Mountain
Well-Known Member
I have..
Monorail red & black
2 sets of extra track and support beams
contemporary resort and signs/trees
Poly Resort and sign
TTC
Spaceship earth
astro orbiter
dumbo ride
Monorail red & black
2 sets of extra track and support beams
contemporary resort and signs/trees
Poly Resort and sign
TTC
Spaceship earth
astro orbiter
dumbo ride
riguitargod
Member
I don't have it, but plan to star collecting it on my next visit...
And in my opinion, this thread needs more pictures!!
And in my opinion, this thread needs more pictures!!
We have two monorails (Red and Purple, I think), extra track, the Contemporary, SSE, the signage, and the TTC. None of these are the playset versions, they are all part of the monorail system. Actually, our SSE hasn't even been opened, and we've had it for a few years. We always intend to give it to the boys for Christmas, but other things always seem to take over. :lol:
I need more track pieces.
I need more track pieces.
MiceysBestPal
New Member
Here are some pix of what we do with our monorail and accessories in one end of our small living room at the holidays.
A few of the items I built, but many are from the (mostly-discontinued) WDW/DL/DCA accessories sets.
A few of the items I built, but many are from the (mostly-discontinued) WDW/DL/DCA accessories sets.
Zummi Gummi
Pioneering the Universe Within!
My goal is is to ultimately accumulate enough pieces of track and landmarks to have this thing be able to go all around my classroom.
My ultimate goal is to be able to setup a scale model of the monorail line at WDW. All I need is the Poly and GF, now.
All I need is the Poly and GF, now.
Silver Britches
Member
This is an old thread, but hopefully some of the people who posted can help. Whenever I see video (like YouTube) of other people's Monorail sets, the spiel changes as their monorail approaches one of the hotels. I have the blue Monorail and Contemporary, but the spiel doesn't change when it nears (or goes through) the hotel. Just can't figure out what the difference is... Any help on this would be very appreciated!
Any help on this would be very appreciated!
Figment1986
Well-Known Member
perhaps someone customized their monorails, or in the video used samples of the actual audio samples rather than the one the monorail actually makes.
I don't really think the monorail can know where it is without someone doing a censor type configuration.
I don't really think the monorail can know where it is without someone doing a censor type configuration.
Here is a link to my village on Photobucket. I only use the monorail with the Disney Christmas Village pieces. The monorail toys are just too big for me.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii77/edhi3/DisneyVillage.jpg
Ed
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii77/edhi3/DisneyVillage.jpg
Ed
disneydiva72
New Member
We have it, we put it around the base of our Christmas tree instead of the traditional train.....we have the single track with the yellow monorail...The Polynesian, the Epcot Ball, The Contemporary, the Sorcerers hat from Hollywood Studios, The Haunted Mansion, Astro Orbiter, Space Mountain, The ghost carriage from the Haunted Mansion and then little signs accesories and trees.
What made me mad was that Disney promoted the crap out of this Monorail set just to take it off the market fairly quickly and left us holding the bag so to speak, then we were left scrambling to get the last pieces they had and then paying out the yin yang for pieces on Ebay.
But to answer your questionis YES it does take up a good amount of space but its really great.
What made me mad was that Disney promoted the crap out of this Monorail set just to take it off the market fairly quickly and left us holding the bag so to speak, then we were left scrambling to get the last pieces they had and then paying out the yin yang for pieces on Ebay.
But to answer your questionis YES it does take up a good amount of space but its really great.
Silver Britches
Member
DisneyDiva,
Does your monorail "say" different things as it approaches the different hotels? For example, does it say something about the Polynesian as it approaches or goes by it? Or does it always do the standard "Please stand clear of the doors..."? Thanks!
Does your monorail "say" different things as it approaches the different hotels? For example, does it say something about the Polynesian as it approaches or goes by it? Or does it always do the standard "Please stand clear of the doors..."? Thanks!
the-reason14
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Oh yea, I have a lot of these accessories stashed away somewhere. I bought two standard monorail sets with different colors of course, I had the Contemporary resort, Polynesion, and Grand Floridian, and the SSE accessory too. I have the astro orbiter, the signs for the resort and the 3 resorts featured. I had a space mt. toy, and the California Screamin. If you look at my avatar pic, you can see a bit of what my set up used to look like.