Hogwarts Express Backstage Photos

Scuttle

Scuttle

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IWant2GoNow

IWant2GoNow

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Is it safe to assume that those doors on the sides of the passenger cars (4 per car) are the cabins that the passengers will be sitting in?

I'm also guessing that the left side of the passenger cars will just be regular style windows where you can look out & that the cabin windows will be simulated to look like the outdoors throughout the ride.
 
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Mouse_Trap

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maybe I've missed something.....but am I right in thinking that these are not 'proper' trains i.e there are more like a monorail type but running on rails or a light rail system?

from a distance, they do pass off decently as a classic BR trainset, how closely you get to see the exterior I guess will depend how important this is.
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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Mouse_Trap said:
maybe I've missed something.....but am I right in thinking that these are not 'proper' trains i.e there are more like a monorail type but running on rails or a light rail system?

from a distance, they do pass off decently as a classic BR trainset, how closely you get to see the exterior I guess will depend how important this is.
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Correct, they are not real trains, they are actually cable driven (pulled along the tracks), not self powered. The picture shown above are of the side of the train that the guests will never see so they don't have much detail. Guests will see the other side so they will be realistically detailed.

IWant2GoNow said:
Is it safe to assume that those doors on the sides of the passenger cars (4 per car) are the cabins that the passengers will be sitting in?

I'm also guessing that the left side of the passenger cars will just be regular style windows where you can look out & that the cabin windows will be simulated to look like the outdoors throughout the ride.
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I am still curious what will happen with the left side. If it's setup like the trains in the movies there will be a hallway along the left side that gives you access to the individual cabins. In the movie the cabins have windows into the hall and the hall has windows to the outside so they are going to have to cover these windows since the only thing you will see outside is backstage.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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danlb_2000 said:
I am still curious what will happen with the left side. If it's setup like the trains in the movies there will be a hallway along the left side that gives you access to the individual cabins. In the movie the cabins have windows into the hall and the hall has windows to the outside so they are going to have to cover these windows since the only thing you will see outside is backstage.
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Some sort of privacy curtain or blinds would allow for a window into the hall while blocking the view.
 
StageFrenzy

StageFrenzy

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In order to move people on and off the train in a timely manner. The doors on scuttles picture are probably the entrance door to the train and small cabins are on the other side. Unless they are service doors for all the electrical work.
 
HTF

HTF

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StageFrenzy said:
In order to move people on and off the train in a timely manner. The doors on scuttles picture are probably the entrance door to the train and small cabins are on the other side. Unless they are service doors for all the electrical work.
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Each train car will have two doors for guests to exit and enter with one up front and one in the rear. The ones you see as DH mentioned are service doors for equipment and will never been seen by the general public. In addition the load process of this thing is pretty elaborate, think TOT but with guests exiting onto the same platform as those loading.
 
StageFrenzy

StageFrenzy

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Disneyhead'71 said:
The hallway side will also have screens, but they won't be the glassesless 3D monitors like in the couchettes.
The panels seen in Scuttle's pic are to access the backside of the fancy 3D monitors.
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HTF said:
Each train car will have two doors for guests to exit and enter with one up front and one in the rear. The ones you see as DH mentioned are service doors for equipment and will never been seen by the general public. In addition the load process of this thing is pretty elaborate, think TOT but with guests exiting onto the same platform as those loading.
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I was kinda split on what I wanted those doors to be. If they were actual guest doors it wouldn't have looked right. However getting people on the train would have been a heck of a lot easier. I know people get on a train everyday, but they always seem to check their brains at MCO or the gates of the theme parks. I'm happy from a thematic standpoint because they are making it true to the film. Are there 4,5 or 6 cabins in each train car?
 
HTF

HTF

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StageFrenzy said:
I was kinda split on what I wanted those doors to be. If they were actual guest doors it wouldn't have looked right. However getting people on the train would have been a heck of a lot easier. I know people get on a train everyday, but they always seem to check their brains at MCO or the gates of the theme parks. I'm happy from a thematic standpoint because they are making it true to the film. Are there 4,5 or 6 cabins in each train car?
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Original design of train cars had 7 cabins but its been revised to 6, why I haven't a clue other than the media equipment possibly taking up more space than originally intended.
 
danpam1024

danpam1024

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Was at Uni Monday and Tuesday, it is absolutely stunning how much work has been done since we were last there in October! Just got one pic of the HW Express-
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