New Disney Bus Paint Scheme

[luv]

If you are referring to the old RTS buses, the ones with the handicap lift at the back door, I'm afraid those are no longer being built or at least not in the quantities previously made. The new buses are low to the ground and allow handicapped access on without needed a lift. What you see is the present into the future of buses.

I have no idea what you're talking about, lol. I'm talking about Ugly vs. Cute, which has nothing to do with RTS (I don't think, whatever it is) or lifts.

It's ugly. The white busses with the big, red Disney on them are way cuter.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I have n idea what you're talking about, lol. I'm talking about Ugly vs. Cute, which has nothing to do with RTS (I don't think, whatever it is) or lifts.

It's ugly. The white busses with the big, red Disney on them are way cuter.

Gotcha, I got technical, you're doing a sweeter observation.

 

[Cosmic Commando]

I'm sure they have tested them. I would think that hybrids would not be very economical when you consider that the weight of the vehicle and the stop and go set up would mean that the engine would be running just about all the time.

In addition to gas-electric hybrids, there are hybrids that store energy hydraulically. It helps with heavier vehicles.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/10/ups-hydraulic-hybrids/

As far as emissions, the new diesel fuel is down to 15 ppm sulfur as opposed to the 500 ppm that was allowed before, so there's significant improvement there. Plus, there's a lot less emissions than if all of those people drove their own, separate cars to the parks.

 

[Goofyernmost]

As far as emissions, the new diesel fuel is down to 15 ppm sulfur as opposed to the 500 ppm that was allowed before, so there's significant improvement there. Plus, there's a lot less emissions than if all of those people drove their own, separate cars to the parks.

That is, indeed, something that most people don't think about when showing concern over diesel exhaust. No one ever said that they don't pollute, although a lot less then they used too, but they don't pollute as much as 20 cars tooling around. The advances in diesel engines over the last 30 years has been huge. They have systems built in that recirculate unburnt fuel to make sure that they eliminates the amount of pollution entering the atmosphere. A well tuned diesel is no more polluting then a well tuned car. The big problem is that there are a lot of engines out there and very few people that can tune them properly.

 

[Tim_4]

WDWMAGIC poster: Disney sucks now. They don't do the little things needed to keep the parks fresh.

Disney: Does a "little thing" to keep the parks fresh.

WDWMAGIC poster: EFF THIS! How dare they change the bus scheme that I grew to love on my trip in 2004!? Plus, how many E-tickets could they have built with the bus paint money? I'm going to Universal.

 

[Epicpilot]

Here is some clear pics of the new buses

https://www.google.com/search?um=1&...364.1j0j1.2.0...0.0...1c.1.12.img._I0uQNJsBbE

 

[Chas. Harding]

No new pics yet then?

Is there just the one going around d'yer reckon?

Chas H.

 

[Bolna]

WDWMAGIC poster: Disney sucks now. They don't do the little things needed to keep the parks fresh.

Disney: Does a "little thing" to keep the parks fresh.

WDWMAGIC poster: EFF THIS! How dare they change the bus scheme that I grew to love on my trip in 2004!? Plus, how many E-tickets could they have built with the bus paint money? I'm going to Universal.

I am pretty sure which ever discussion board you go to about whatever topic - be it Disney or something totally different - you will always find someone who does not like one single bit. However, you seem to purposely pretend that every single not so positive remark about Disney is not just one single person's opinion but is made by nearly everyone here on the boards and you have to fight against it like a crusader. There are only a tiny handful of posters who complain about every single thing Disney does. Even some of the harshest critics are actually fairly balanced if you look at all their posts and what they say about all different kind of aspects of Disney.

 

[Bolna]

Oh, and I can report two bus sightings as well. One was at night at the MK and the bus did not glow red! So there must be at least two, one that glows and one that doesn't...

 

[Goofyernmost]

Oh, and I can report two bus sightings as well. One was at night at the MK and the bus did not glow red! So there must be at least two, one that glows and one that doesn't...

It's reflective. If headlights are directly on it, it reflects that it is there. It doesn't glow red all the time.

 

[Tom]

No new pics yet then?

Is there just the one going around d'yer reckon?

Chas H.

I've wondered the same thing. Lots of talk, but no random pics of it in action.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I've wondered the same thing. Lots of talk, but no random pics of it in action.

https://www.google.com/search?um=1&...364.1j0j1.2.0...0.0...1c.1.12.img._I0uQNJsBbE

 

[luv]

I didn't think to snap a pick, but I did think, "Ooh! There's one of the new busses! And it looks just like the pics. It really is ugly."

Then I looked at the cuter busses and back at the new one to see if maybe, by being shines and new, it would make the others look bad. But no. The cute busses are cute. The new busses are blah.

 

[Padraig]

The reflective stripes are a great safety feature, but overall I think the new designs are fairly generic. Remove the Disney branding and they could be from anywhere. Having said that, it's a massive improvement over the outgoing design, which just screams early 90s. It's kinda like Yahoo!'s brand identity, you wonder how something like that has survived so long.

 

[Chas. Harding]

Padraig says;"it's a massive improvement over the outgoing design, which just screams early 90s"

Me and Lady H. came for our first visit to WDW in 1996 and 'those' buses appeared about then.
They were far superior in deco than the previous 'no imagination' ones.
Sounds daft I know but those '1990' ones are SO Disney and I don't think that we would ever get tired of them!
Everyone now seems to want to 'update their branding!
At least it gives some work to a guy with a paintbrush and something for him to do to earn a few dollars!

We'll be over the pond later and I'll give you our personal report.

Chas H.

 

[SMPTE MOUSE]

While I think it's great that WDW is trying to stay current, i think the paint scheme is a bland. Red and Silver? That's not very magical.

 

[Goofyernmost]

While I think it's great that WDW is trying to stay current, i think the paint scheme is a bland. Red and Silver? That's not very magical.

Yea, and the all white just exuded magic. At least this one glows in the dark when lights hit it. That's kinda magical.

 

[Princess_AmyK]

i kind of like it. I think sometimes simple can be good.

 

[LucyK]

the same girl just posted the un-instagramed pic

http://instagram.com/p/VIhZwhJLos/

WAY too silver, I hate silver cars, silver buses and anything silver and boring. If it was white and red it would look better IMO.

 

[c-one]

I don't know how one makes buses "magical" -- especially when the buses have to fit in as well as possible at the various parks and hotels, from African savannah to 1920s boardwalk to rustic western lodge to far east Asian. Probably for the best that buses don't call too much attention to themselves. Sometimes a bus is a bus.