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[Elizabeth Swann]

What was the tweet? It's already been deleted.

I was wondering too

 

[trainplane3]

So... I predict a massive flood of videos taking the skyliner AND videos trying to beat other videos to the punch

I doubt it. That would mean they have to step away from doing a Outlet report. Like, I'm just dying to know how much the shoulder Banshees are discounted by that week and what hot new magnet is 80% off!

 

[danlb_2000]

I'm guessing the gondolas were delivered in batches and the last step is paint and/or wrap and finishing so the batches probably got made up by color due to the batching of the gondola orders form the manufacturer.

They were more random earlier in testing.

 

[disney4life2008]

Just how many bloggers do you think there are?

What are you serious? Go to YouTube and watch how many of them needed to be first for star wars.

 

[begood524]

So the previews started today?

 

[Hawg G]

The did, however, invent the steel tube roller coaster with the Matterhorn, even if it was by accident

Arrow Dynamics would argue with that comment.

 

[flynnibus]

The did, however, invent the steel tube roller coaster with the Matterhorn, even if it was by accident

Well.. arrow dynamics did

 

[Mainahman]

It is but Vloggers tend to love everything to death, it was the greatest, ground breaking etc. etc.

I'll like the chair lifts better than buses.

I rather be with 10 of my sweaty smelly new friends than sardined in a bus with Lord knows how many

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I rather be with 10 of my sweaty smelly new friends than sardined in a bus with Lord knows how many

I feel there is going to be that one person who makes it even worse.

 

[nace888]

Whoever was putting the cars on the DHS line must have loved yellow.

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Can you imagine shuffling the gondolas in the storage yard just to pull out all of one color?

If that was my job, I'd do all the same color but then have one single cabin in a random color. Just to really make OCD people just that little bit uncomfortable.


I'm truly an evil person.

I can. I'm OCD like that. I'd want a rainbow pattern, and if a red had to be pulled, I would want to pull the other 6 in the sequence!

I feel like I would be inclined for color-coding as well, but the interesting fact is that all of these are not yellow! If you look closely, some of them are yellow, and some of them are the golden tangerine color ones! I must say they complement each other very nicely though.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Will the Target dog be at the opening ceremony?

 

[DisneyCane]

No, but those cities generally issue bonds when they they need to pay less than a billion dollars a mile. They're not paying for it out of their own coffers and hurting their stock price.

I'm not saying a monorail extension or some kind of other light rail system wouldn't be really cool, I just don't think it's economically feasible. And again, the time thing is a huge factor.

Extension of the Las Vegas monorail 1.25 miles to the raider's stadium is estimated to cost $24 million (around $19 million per mile).

 

[starri42]

Extension of the Las Vegas monorail 1.25 miles to the raider's stadium is estimated to cost $24 million (around $19 million per mile).

It's six miles from Pop Century to the TTC. Assuming there aren't overruns, that's $114 million by your metric, and that only serves two resorts and one and a half parks.

 

[Creathir]

It's six miles from Pop Century to the TTC. Assuming there aren't overruns, that's $114 million by your metric, and that only serves two resorts and one and a half parks.

Why would you run new lines all the way to the TTC?
More than likely they would extend the current or implement a fast switching mechanism.

Also, the Skyliner cost over $240 Million.

Public transportation is expensive.

 

[starri42]

Why would you run new lines all the way to the TTC?

How else are we going to get to the Magic Kingdom?

If we're planning to connect every resort and park to the monorail, we're going to need a hub. That means either building one from scratch or renovating the existing one. I assume the latter option is cheaper. Even if we design a system that only does switching, and saying that EPCOT and the Studios share a station (which doesn't make a lot of sense, because the EPCOT station is so far from International Gateway), if doing something like that cost less that $2 billion, I'd be shocked.

 

[ABQ]

Just how many bloggers do you think there are?

Is "too many" a valid answer? At least, to me, there are far too many.

 

[wdwmagic]

So the previews started today?

Yes some transportation CMs got to ride.

 

[easyrowrdw]

A certain site (you know the one) posted about the previews today by saying:

"While the Skyliner seemed just about ready to go by the end of August for the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, it was strangely delayed for a full month"

They really can't admit when they're wrong, can they? It's also pretty false since the opening date was always officially September 29th (They also linked to not 1, not 2, but 5 of their own articles in the opening paragraph, which was 2 sentences)

Some people here said the same thing about an August opening for part of the line. It's not a delay from the official opening, but it's certainly a delay from the widely rumored opening. Aside from the Epcot gate, there didn't seem to be a good reason why they couldn't have opened with Galaxy's Edge. But that's Disney these days.

 

[smile]

So the previews started today?

good god

 

[bclane]

Yes some transportation CMs got to ride.

I hope they survived! Just reading through this thread, I’m afraid they might have died from heat exhaustion, lightning strike, altitude sickness, earthquake, terrorists, gravity, etc. Should we be worried?