Monorail spiel

[Goofyernmost]

I may very well be the incorrect one here and I certainly defer to your usually correct and frequently entertaining posts. Your contributions help make these forums interesting.

Ow, heck...now you've gone and made me blush. Thanks!

 

[Neph-Neph]

The monorail is a big part of the WDW experience and most likely tied directly to nostalgia for some of us "older" folks. Seeing and riding the monorail for the first time is one of my very first and most vivid WDW memories.

Riding that bad boy in from TTC was the first indication that I was seeing something VERY different from the local theme parks near my house.

For the record I have NEVER smelled anything but that typical air conditioning smell on the monorails.

If you are not being facetious then you, sir, are very lucky.

 

[ScorpionX]

Still GPS guy. What I am wondering now is, do they all smell like urine?

I was on them three times last week and each time I walked in, it smelled like someone urinated in them.

One of the many "Disney Secrets" is that the stray cats who eat the mice in the parks every night are trained to urinate in every car of every monorail shortly before the crack of dawn. They do this twice over on especially hot days.

 

[ShookieJones]

If you are not being facetious then you, sir, are very lucky.

I am not! It's funny as I was typing my post, I texted my wife at work and said "did the monorail ever smell bad to you"
After a couple of "??" texts back and forth she finally said. "no I never smelled anything". I have to run the question by the kids, but no one has ever crinkled their nose.

You know I wonder if it's not the time of year. Is that when it's crowded a lot of people standing..holding onto rails armpits in the air...it's going to be a bit more ripe? Even possibly the AC not working to it's full potential, you know when rooms get warm dormant people and pet smells just seem to creep right out of the carpet and walls.

 

[Neph-Neph]

I am not! It's funny as I was typing my post, I texted my wife at work and said "did the monorail ever smell bad to you"
After a couple of "??" texts back and forth she finally said. "no I never smelled anything". I have to run the question by the kids, but no one has ever crinkled their nose.

You know I wonder if it's not the time of year. Is that when it's crowded a lot of people standing..holding onto rails armpits in the air...it's going to be a bit more ripe? Even possibly the AC not working to it's full potential, you know when rooms get warm dormant people and pet smells just seem to creep right out of the carpet and walls.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's folks who forgot their deodorant that day (and possibly everyday.) It's not so bad that I won't ride because of the smell but it could use a good fabreezing in some of the cabins.

 

[ShookieJones]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's folks who forgot their deodorant that day (and possibly everyday.) It's not so bad that I won't ride because of the smell but it could use a good fabreezing in some of the cabins.

Fabreeze is magical. They should come up with a travel size one you can clip to your back pack like they have for Purell

 

[G8rchamps]

If they every got rid of Jack Wagner's "Please stand clear of the doors" spiel, I would cry. It's something so simple but to me it's an essential thing to hear while riding the monorail. I doubt that they will though, considering the sell T-shirts that say "¡Por favor manténgase alejado de las puertas!"

Not a real trip to Disney if I don't hear and mimic "¡Por favor manténgase alejado de las puertas!"

 

[Goofyernmost]

If you are not being facetious then you, sir, are very lucky.

No, I think he is right. I just think that people are misidentifying the odor that has been in the Monorails since day one. It has an odd odor unique to the Monorail in my experience, but urine it isn't. Not sure what it is, the carpets, the cleaning solution (germ killers that they use) or moldy sweat, but not urine.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Not a real trip to Disney if I don't hear and mimic "¡Por favor manténgase alejado de las puertas!"

You know what would be a great idea? How about whenever you sign into WDWMagic, you hear that spiel. How about a letter writing campaign to get that to happen? Who's with me?

 

[erwinalber4]

You know what would be a great idea? How about whenever you sign into WDWMagic, you hear that spiel. How about a letter writing campaign to get that to happen? Who's with me?

That would be awesome but I stay logged in so I'd never hear it.

 

[Goofyernmost]

That would be awesome but I stay logged in so I'd never hear it.

I'm sure that they could set it up so that it happens whenever you actually open the site to look at. Heck, I'd be tempted to sign off just to sign back on again.

 

[experiment624]

Fabreeze is magical. They should come up with a travel size one you can clip to your back pack like they have for Purell

They have the ones you put in your car by Fabreeze, I got one free with a can of spray I bought for work...it's pretty good. I wonder how well it would work clipped to a backpack...must try this.

 

[erwinalber4]

They have the ones you put in your car by Fabreeze, I got one free with a can of spray I bought for work...it's pretty good. I wonder how well it would work clipped to a backpack...must try this.

Are you going to go clean the monorail for us?

 

[FQL]

Back on the topic of the spiel. All of the previous spiels gave the monorail a special or magical feel. You were riding on a special form of transportation in a magical place. The new gps/navigation narration spiel just makes it feel like another mode of transport. Maybe this is by design so that other lesser forms of transport (bus) in WDW don't feel as mundane in comparison.