Large Piece Falls off Monorail - Being Evacuated

[Figment2005]

Nothing fell off, it was obviously ripped off by something. Maintenance has nothing to do with an outside influence. Something on the beam could have come loose and stuck out further than it should have. At any speed, this could easily rip off this EASILY REPLACEABLE part of the train. Stop exaggerating everything.

 

[Clamman73]

Repeal and replace.

If Monorail Blue was enrolled in Monorailcare, this would never had happened...preexisting conditions are covered.

 

[TalkingHead]

The monorails are hands-down the single most run-down part of the WDW experience today. In their current condition they make a mockery of the futuristic optimism that allegedly guided the Disney ethos and design of the resort.

So basically they're a perfect mirror of WDW management over the past decade.

 

[TalkingHead]

That'll be fine. To get from the front of Epcot to the back, we can always take a bus to Board Walk and come in the International Gateway.

Yeah, they'd be better off disassembling it so that the line doesn't run through Future World. It would go along with the upcoming redesign of the area and give WDI a bigger canvas to work with.

 

[ninjaprincesst]

What I don't get why did the guy who picked up the piece not give it to security or a cast member instead of taking photos and posting to social media?

 

[RustySpork]

What I don't get why did the guy who picked up the piece not give it to security or a cast member instead of taking photos and posting to social media?

His tweets said that he tried to give it to a cast member who didn't seem to care so he tweeted WESH.

 

[ninjaprincesst]

His tweets said that he tried to give it to a cast member who didn't seem to care so he tweeted WESH.

I would have gone to cast members till I found someone who would listen, not just got to facebook or twitter, I would have been more concerned with peoples safety than social media fame.

 

[RustySpork]

I would have gone to cast members till I found someone who would listen, not just got to facebook or twitter, I would have been more concerned with peoples safety than social media fame.

That's nice. His method seems to be working pretty well so far. I've dealt with cast who don't care, can't really blame him at all.

 

[EvilChameleon]

I would have gone to cast members till I found someone who would listen, not just got to facebook or twitter, I would have been more concerned with peoples safety than social media fame.

Yeah, let's walk around the Disney property with something that could easily be mistaken for a bomb.

 

[raven]

Actually, even in the last ten years, with the number of people Disney Transport moves in a day, the number of incidents is extremely low.

That's not what I asked. I asked how many.

 

[Dead2009]

I provided data to back up my assertions, it's up to you to disprove it.

You posted screenshots of the hits when you do the search on Google and on here. Again, if you search for a specific topic on this forum, unless you set it to search for the first post only, you're going to get the original post...and however many replies that thread got. So for example, say the GOTG redo for the Tower of Terror in DCA got 2500 replies..if you do a search without looking for just the first post, all of the replies are going to more than likely pop up. So therefore, the amount of hits you claim that back up your argument are invalid, because they're all contained to one thread.

Share the Orange Crush please.

It's in the mail as we speak.

 

[raven]

100% This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Guests to WDW can't fathom closures. This is proven by countless threads here and elsewhere about how vacations are ruined and such because favorite rides/attractions aren't open. Well people, let this small example be something that stands out!

Yes, it's WDW. Yes, it'd be great if everything were always open. Sadly, things break. These transportation options are used and abused heavily on a daily basis, the rides go through far worse abuse. Things strain and break and need downtime.

This is one of the reasons I think they got rid of the 24 hour events. There literally was no downtime for maintenance to maintain the rides.

They'll patch Blue up and it'll be back running again, but people need to learn that if something has to go down for a major refurb, that it's for their safety to do so. Not because Disney is trying to be a PITA and ruin their vacation.

Disney created this because people pay a LOT for their vacation and all of the videos show happy guests, no lines and meet & greets on the castle lawn with a princess. Can't blame guests for wanting what Disney has built themselves up to be. Just saying.

 

[mousehockey37]

Disney created this because people pay a LOT for their vacation and all of the videos show happy guests, no lines and meet & greets on the castle lawn with a princess. Can't blame guests for wanting what Disney has built themselves up to be. Just saying.

And like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, etc don't build themselves up either? I know I've never gotten a commercial quality Quarter Pounder.

Whether paying $2 or $2000+, every business doctor's up their product to sell it.

 

[danlb_2000]

What I don't get why did the guy who picked up the piece not give it to security or a cast member instead of taking photos and posting to social media?

You are obviously new to the internet.

 

[danlb_2000]

Nothing fell off, it was obviously ripped off by something. Maintenance has nothing to do with an outside influence. Something on the beam could have come loose and stuck out further than it should have. At any speed, this could easily rip off this EASILY REPLACEABLE part of the train. Stop exaggerating everything.

But if something came loose on the beam, wouldn't that also point to maintenance?

 

[RustySpork]

You posted screenshots of the hits when you do the search on Google and on here. Again, if you search for a specific topic on this forum, unless you set it to search for the first post only, you're going to get the original post...and however many replies that thread got. So for example, say the GOTG redo for the Tower of Terror in DCA got 2500 replies..if you do a search without looking for just the first post, all of the replies are going to more than likely pop up. So therefore, the amount of hits you claim that back up your argument are invalid, because they're all contained to one thread.



It's in the mail as we speak.

Yeah, they're "invalid". Uh huh. Sure. OK. We have another ignore winner. Congratulations!

 

[RustySpork]

But if something came loose on the beam, wouldn't that also point to maintenance?

OMG MORE FAKE NOOS!

 

[Andrew C]

But if something came loose on the beam, wouldn't that also point to maintenance?

I think the only way we are going to find out for sure is if someone here gets some inside information regarding it. Hopefully that can happen. I know I'm curious. Lol.

 

[21stamps]

Repeal and replace.

I was just reading along, and then seriously laughed out loud at your comment. Bravo.

 

[raven]

My first post in this thread was to say that the monorail trains should have been replaced by now. But if you (or raven, or whoever) is going to equate an incident on the monorail to immediate failure of something else, of course I'm going to call that out, because its nonsense - plain and simple.

Actually I never said that. Go back and read my very first post on this thread that you attacked. I said "I fear." The new gondola will be built in the Lightning Capital of the U.S. That fact alone nearly means something is bound to happen.

WDW can be a place where things operate consistently at or above 95%+ of the time if there are sufficient plans and resources for preventative maintenance. WDW has at least 5-6 hours per day in which maintenance can be performed.

Wrong. Disney maintenance works around the clock covering 3 shifts on nearly every attraction.

I would have gone to cast members till I found someone who would listen, not just got to facebook or twitter, I would have been more concerned with peoples safety than social media fame.

Social Media is the fastest way to grab attention, even for help sometimes, because someone is almost always watching at that moment. Just ask the POTUS.