lazyboy97o
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Well, it has character graphics. Those don’t come standard from Doppelmayr.
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News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -
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flynnibus
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Adding something vs running something into the ground. New thinking at Disney...
Cost vs end product?
We have a poster
I hope there are aerial stop lights to stop gondola traffic to allow gondolas coming from a different direction through without crashing. Going by that poster, that red gondola totally ran through that gondola intersection and the blue gondola had to slam on its brakes!!!
smile
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well that's not even new to wdw, let alone all P&R
smile
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yeah, someone prob should have told the artist how they actually work...
does look like their paths intersect.
also getting a 70's led zep poster vibe.
bclane
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Getting the Led out one gondala ride at a time...
lazyboy97o
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This is the same company that described the finish for the springs at Disney Springs as brand new, despite having been used for the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.while certainly new and novel to P&R... that's a bit of a stretch.
either advice from marketing or an uber-fan unaware there's a world out there who's trying to impress.
DisneyDebRob
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Anytime you can get zep into a conversation, it works for me.
TiggerDad
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Finally, confirmation that there won't be any wheelchairs, ECVs, or strollers in these death traps. As slanted as the cabins are, they would slide right out and into the waiting alligators.We have a poster
WDWtraveler
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Photo update as of Friday, January 12, 2018. Billboard concept art posted on construction wall at Epcot's International Gateway. I overheard one guest comment when viewing this concept art: "Why would we use this? We always take the bus." (Couldn't resist posting the comment.)
PizzaPlanet
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Notice how in the photo showing the Skliner's route it says Disney's Riviera Resort with an apostrophe.
The Skyliner isn't likely to go much higher than the current monorail. It just needs enough height to clear tall tracks on the roads, just like the monorail, or to get over the roofs of the CBR bungalows.
Lift Blog
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If a gondola door fails to lock (or someone inevitably decides to put their foot/head in it) the entire lift stops. The door can then be manually locked with a hook and everyone sent on their way.
I'm sure Disney will maintain these pretty well. Usually ski resorts do most of their maintenance during the summer. Since these will be in operation year round, it will have to go down for 'rehab' at some point just like any other attraction.
Modern lifts are very safe and have plenty of sensors and fail safes, very similar to what a roller coaster has. The system knows the exact position of all cabins, the spacing between the cabins etc. and will stop if anything out of the norm occurs. At which point to operators have to contact maintenance to inspect and clear any faults before it can resume operation.
(Our gondola wasn't nearly this fancy, pretty jealous of that dude. Would have been happy with a chair.)
At times though maintenance can be reactionary, because sometimes things just break. The gondola I operated once had a bunch of cabins out of commission for a while for various reasons (windows missing, broken door cables, etc.) and they were out of parts to fix them, so the capacity went down for a bit. We didn't have that much space to store cabins when in operation, so we had a stream of like 5 busted cabins with cones inside we would have to wait for before we could continue loading guests.
Since this is going to be in constant operation it would make sense for Disney to have some spare cabins and a larger maintenance bay for swapping out broken cabins.
Modern lifts are very safe and have plenty of sensors and fail safes, very similar to what a roller coaster has. The system knows the exact position of all cabins, the spacing between the cabins etc. and will stop if anything out of the norm occurs. At which point to operators have to contact maintenance to inspect and clear any faults before it can resume operation.
(Our gondola wasn't nearly this fancy, pretty jealous of that dude. Would have been happy with a chair.)
At times though maintenance can be reactionary, because sometimes things just break. The gondola I operated once had a bunch of cabins out of commission for a while for various reasons (windows missing, broken door cables, etc.) and they were out of parts to fix them, so the capacity went down for a bit. We didn't have that much space to store cabins when in operation, so we had a stream of like 5 busted cabins with cones inside we would have to wait for before we could continue loading guests.
Since this is going to be in constant operation it would make sense for Disney to have some spare cabins and a larger maintenance bay for swapping out broken cabins.
artvandelay
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In Rod We Trust!
DisneyDreamer08
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Maybe this is a silly question, but will a CM be inside each gondola, traveling along with you?
