RustySpork
Oscar Mayer Memer
It's obviously fake news. That guy isn't even at Epcot, he's obviously near a beach in Mexico.
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Large Piece Falls off Monorail - Being Evacuated
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It's obviously fake news. That guy isn't even at Epcot, he's obviously near a beach in Mexico.
raven
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Photo looks like the pick-up piece that touches the electricity bar.
Kamikaze
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Yes, but you're equating a nearly 50 year old, one of a kind system with almost 30 year old trains to a brand new, off the shelf system that is widely in use in places other than WDW with nearly zero incidents per year. You can't just say 'because X, Y'.
If you said 'I think we are going to see more monorail issues' then thats one thing (and something I'd probably agree with), but to say the gondola is going to have issues right off the bat is a hard leap to make.
breakin2
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In raven's world, people will have to keep their head on a swivel to avoid the falling gondolas.
raven
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One of a kind system? Yeah, ok. Monorails don't exist anywhere else in the world.
Monorail_Orange
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Don't forget though, that DLR's is still operating on the Mark III chassis, only the shells above them have been completely replaced, although funnily enough Bob Gurr tells a pretty interesting story about how on opening day one of monorail red's electrical shoes fell off too.
Kamikaze
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One of a kind system? Yeah, ok. Monorails don't exist anywhere else in the world.
Monorails do, but the WDW system is pretty unique in its structure (besides the LV system that uses its tech).
RustySpork
Oscar Mayer Memer
They don't really have a great uptime record for most of the things that they've built in the last 5-10 years though. How many times has FeA been down? FoP? NRJ? Even PoC has been down quite often in recent years. Then on top of all that there's all of the things that are almost 50 years old.
Figment2005
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Once again so many assumptions.
Kamikaze
Well-Known Member
Not sure what that has to do with the Gondola - they aren't building that from scratch.
RustySpork
Oscar Mayer Memer
They didn't build FoP or NRJ from scratch? OK.
raven
Well-Known Member
And yet it's still a transportation system at Disney. And how many incidents has Disney transportation had in the past 10 years now?
RustySpork
Oscar Mayer Memer
The answer to that is "too many".
Monorail_Orange
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Enough.
Wngo905
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- In the Parks
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Goofyernmost
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Nothing said so far proves that to be incorrect.
lazyboy97o
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The Mark VIIs also reused the Mark V bodies sans the noses.
deWild
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I can't cuss on these boards, but I can bend the rules: What. The. (I am Groot).
GlassHalfFull
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I fail to see why people think this makes the things completely unsafe.. Usually things are designed with multiple failsafes, and on top of that.. the safety factor has to be multiple times the expected loading etc. So far, at least as far as my understanding, this is a very small part of the system not like the entire chassis collapsed on a car, or caused the vehicle to suddenly derail. If those massive system fails occurred then yes safety would be compromised. As of right now, with the people in the know, and what has been shown, this is closer to a car tire losing a lug nut than an axle snapping.