Honeypot: Complaints about the Skyliner/Gondola; also worries and insecurities

[Mr Ferret 75]

I forgot to mention that I think you'll be stripped and body painted a color that corresponds to how the sky should look during the temporal mid point of your journey. Very important detail since the sky changes quickly at sunrise or sunset.

Still game. But better also include a sky coloured cupcake.

 

[HiJe]

They will try some Gondola Cabins without walls, floors, or ceilings so that the blending in with the sky will work perfectly.

This sounds like a zipline. Which would be cool and fart-friendly.

 

[George]

This sounds like a zipline. Which would be cool and fart-friendly.

Two by four technology may be employed to create a "ski lift effect" which is considered classier and more resort like.

 

[QuasiNoFroyo]

Absence of some certain movies and franchises on these gondolas (Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Book, Aladdin, Lion King, Hunchback, Hercules, Tangled, Big Hero 6, Bug's Life, Incredibles, Inside Out, etc.). But that's more of a nitpick really.

 

[Brad Bishop]

I would prefer to use the Gondolas to get around INSIDE the parks.......Man getting from one end of MK to the other is a pain......Even taking the train
HS is going to need something like this very soon.

I've often thought about how great the Peoplemover, actually used for transportation with multiple stations inside the parks, would be.

Imagine boarding it just past SSE in FW and then taking it all the way back to the America Pavilion.. Or when you need to get something out of your locker but you're at the back of the park.

Transportation is pretty common at most parks and they'll use trains or sky rides to get you around. MK only has the train (of course, at one time had the sky ride) and Epcot, DHS, and AK are all surprisingly absent of that basic theme park item.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

This sounds like a zipline. Which would be cool and fart-friendly.

Nice and all until you are in the middle of flying past Tower of Terror with KatieBug on the other end staring you down menacingly with a pair of hedge clippers wide open on the line because her little princess didn't get to meet Rapunzel on her zipline escapade.

Sam will do nothing. Don't even ask.

 

[mergatroid]

Do we Get The Annual pass discount on food in The sykliner

Well one would certainly hope so! When you're been skinned alive and having your still beating heart ripped from your chest, it's a relief to know you saved 40c on your 10 french fries you've just purchased and digested as your final ever meal

 

[MissingDisney]

What if you are a witness to this and not an active participant? Shouldn't you at least get a free FP+?

You already got priority seating to a ‘show’ without a FP+ ....and now you want one to go?!?! There’s just no pleasing some folks!

 

[Smiley/OCD]

This is true, however I feel like the AC on the monorails help a great deal moving the air around. I just think that the gondola hot boxes will have issues venting out farts.

Never mind that, how about the child that needs to be changed....

 

[Paper straw fan]

The Gondolas at Disney Land are soo much better!

 

[larryz]

This sounds like a zipline. Which would be cool and fart-friendly.

Flatulence would be prohibited while on the zipline due to speed restrictions.

 

[larryz]

Well one would certainly hope so! When you're been skinned alive and having your still beating heart ripped from your chest, it's a relief to know you saved 40c on your 10 french fries you've just purchased and digested as your final ever meal

This will be known as the Indiana Jones Pangkot Palace Experience, and will cost $69.95 per person.

 

[mergatroid]

This will be known as the Indiana Jones Pangkot Palace Experience, and will cost $69.95 per person.

What a bargain, where do I sign up

 

[Raineman]

This will be known as the Indiana Jones Pangkot Palace Experience, and will cost $69.95 per person.

I think you could safely say that it would be a “once in a lifetime” hard ticketed event....

 

[MisterPenguin]

We've only just begun... to die!

• Claustrophobia
• Having to share a gondola with... strangers!!
• Evacuation procedures
  • will break down as often as Test Track, with all three back up systems failing
  • will be left there for hours and hours dehydrating and resorting to cannibalism
  • the firefighter rescuing me might not be cute
• It's taking away our buses!!
• Sights of backstage areas
• Ruining the sightline of World Showcase.
• Bringing more people (riffraff) to the IG entrance which is supposed to be a perk for the one percent that stays at Crescent Lake properties
• The deafening noise
  • keeping CBR guests awake
  • the IG entrance will be unbearable to hang around in
  • the towers will hum in the wind
• The IP wraps destroys the look of the gondolas and are childish
• My favorite IP is not a wrap
• Wild swinging
  • in the wind
  • when ramping up or down at the stations
  • fellow guests making it swing
  • and the swinging is bad because... ?... ?... being battered about inside the cabin?
• the walkway under the gondolas by the station is too close and the gondolas too low... someone will hit their head on them
• people throwing stuff out the gondola (after they bypass the metal mesh screen)
• People can't board them in a timely manner if they:
  • have a stroller
  • are on a wheel chair
  • are on an ECV
  • are an average guest who's too confused to enter through an open door

 

[LAKid53]

You forgot....hurricanes. And tornados.

 

[LAKid53]

So we can expect a 30 Foot High Club? *wink wink*

 

[danlb_2000]

I saw a discussion on another forum where someone was seriously concerned about sharing a gondola car with someone using foul language.

 

[FettFan]

In another attempt to keep the original gondola thread focused on construction upates, I thought I'd create a separate thread for folks to use to complain about aspects of the gondola that the moderators have requested that we keep out of the main thread. In addition, people should feel free to create additional complaints or talk about their anxieties here as well.

I'll keep an index here in the first post.

Complaints that have only been rationalized, but not eliminated:
* Lack of air conditioning
* Ugly towers
* Sightlines
* Crowding due to forced sharing
* Acrophobia - It may not be that far off the ground, but if it's still a problem, you may have to use alternate transportation. There may or may not be a direct bus from your resort, but you can always transfer at Disney Springs or another park.

Complaints that have been addressed:
* Lightning
* Noise

Vanishingly low probability complaints:
* Drowning
* Falling due to truck hitting a support pole
* Falling for unspecified reasons

Fun complaints created in jest:
* Sinkholes
* Alligators
* Amoeba
* Gondola babies - I put this here because I'm not exactly sure what the complaint aspect is.
* Starvation
* Killer bees
* Low flying birds

Other
* Too many people are overly fascinated by the gondola

Edited to add: As part of this, those offended by the complaining should not read the thread. The whole point is to free you from having to read this in the main gondola thread!

Edited to add: If you're mad about the negativity and don't know what a honeypot is, read this article on honeypots in wikipedia:

Honeypot (computing) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Funny. I always thought a "honeypot" was an attractive young woman who targeted older men for money.
AKA "sugar baby". AKA "thot".

 

[Nunu]

You forgot....hurricanes. And tornados.

...And flatulence!