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MaximumEd
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Strain on the cable? Where did you get your engineering degree?
Luckily, Disney isn't inventing the gondola system or ordering a never-been-done imagineered-from-scratch transportation system. They're having the biggest name in gondola lifts, used successfully around the world, install a system for them.
You wouldn't be questioning Disney's purchase of new buses: Are they ACA compliant? How could an EVC ever get into them? Are they safe on highways? If the A/C goes down in mid-transport, will everyone die of heat exhaustion? What if someone tries to sit in the driver's lap? What if the driver has a heart attack?
cindy_k
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Yay! I found some new pictures. Work at AoA.
http://www.chipandco.com/photo-update-construction-disney-skyliner-gondola-system-277557/
http://www.chipandco.com/photo-update-construction-disney-skyliner-gondola-system-277557/
jaklgreen
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You don't think that stopping and starting causes more stress on a cable?
MaximumEd
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No. They don't stop like you jam on the brakes with both feet. Even if it did, that wire rope is over engineered to the point that nothing that happens in normal or even abnormal operation is going to break it short of a plane falling out of the sky. C'mon. I like to hear both sides of an issue, but that's just pulling stuff out of your rear end.
jaklgreen
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Fine, you guys win. Disney is building this so its going to be frickin AMAZING! The best thing ever! No old person in their rented ECV is going to have any issues at all. No kid is going to freak out when they see how high they are. Everyone at these resorts is going to LOVE it and pay double just to stay there. It's never going to have any issues at all. Why didn't they do this years earlier we could have all been saved from riding in the horrible buses. WDW property can all be connected by gondolas, just a big highway in the sky, oh. Dang it that phrase is taken.
MaximumEd
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Cool. Thanks. We win, then. Look, could it have issues? Sure, but it's not a new thing. Gondolas run all over the world. If issues do pop up, they'll get on it and fix it. For all we gripe, me included on occasion, WDW runs pretty dang smooth considering the amount of people they jam in that place. It's pretty amazing to step back and think about.
lazyboy97o
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Novices visit and live in other places in the world. These novices made it to the gondola station and all of the same obstacles along the way.
That’s not how the system works.
shortstop
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And the worst part is the gondolas are a requirement for a WDW vacation! If you don't want to ride it, better just not come in the first place!
Oh wait...
jaklgreen
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So now you are agreeing with me? Seriously? That is all we were saying that there can be issues, and naming off a few. But no, you have to berate others for saying that and then turn around and say it yourself. You guys are something else.
Minthorne
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Disney isn't building or designing it. If they were I'd have concerns.
https://www.doppelmayr.com/en/products/detachable-gondola-lift/
MaximumEd
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No, I don't agree with you. I said "could", not "would". Also, if you think that's berating, well....I can't help you there.
MaximumEd
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I never started naming off every possible scenario to why this will be the huge problem some think it will be. I also can't see the future, so I threw in the "could". I think it's going to be really cool and come off without a hitch, but the good news is if we wait awhile, we will see. I got no money in it either way and don't really care. I just like jawing on discussion boards.
DisneyJeff
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God, I love this thread!!! I'm going to miss it once these things are up and running.
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
Don't worry. I am sure we will receive updates and/or photos anytime there is a slight hiccup.
Gatorboy
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Not to the degree you speak of. And the fact this is an established system makes your remarks even more silly. I wonder why there wasn't an outrage when they bought new buses
Kamikaze
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Its the bullwheel thats stopped, not the cabins. The cabins and the cable have no method of self movement.
The bullwheel is connected to an engine, and that (like any motor/engine) is designed to be stopped and started.
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WDWtraveler
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Photo update as of Tuesday, August 1. Ground preparation at the gondola station on land south of Sea Breeze Drive at the Caribbean Beach Resort, across the lake from Trinidad South.
