People don't stand on a slope, stare up, and watch giant TV screens? What else is there to do on a mountainside?!!
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People don't stand on a slope, stare up, and watch giant TV screens? What else is there to do on a mountainside?!!
Based on what we're seeing from Korea, not much.
WDWtraveler
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Photo update as of Sunday, February 18, 2018. At Epcot's International Gate (to the Epcot resorts), clearing a pathway for the gondola transportation over the canal to the Epcot station being built (behind the camera's view). Probably a support tower will be placed here.
P.S. A cast member mentioned that the security check at the International Gate may be moved closer to the resorts, beyond the gondola station, so that guests arriving via the gondola transportation won't have to go through security again before entering Epcot. However, there is still the issue of guests arriving at the Friendship dock.
Additional concept art for the Hollywood Studios station, posted at the alternate bus stations near the park entrance.
A ground level view of the progress at the Hollywood Studios station under construction.
Current progress on the station at Hourglass Lake between Pop Century and Art of Animation resorts.
Finally, here are the pilings for the support towers across Hourglass Lake and the first actual gondola tower in the distance (far right). The view is towards the station to be located near Caribbean Beach Resort.
P.S. A cast member mentioned that the security check at the International Gate may be moved closer to the resorts, beyond the gondola station, so that guests arriving via the gondola transportation won't have to go through security again before entering Epcot. However, there is still the issue of guests arriving at the Friendship dock.
Additional concept art for the Hollywood Studios station, posted at the alternate bus stations near the park entrance.
A ground level view of the progress at the Hollywood Studios station under construction.
Current progress on the station at Hourglass Lake between Pop Century and Art of Animation resorts.
Finally, here are the pilings for the support towers across Hourglass Lake and the first actual gondola tower in the distance (far right). The view is towards the station to be located near Caribbean Beach Resort.
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P_Radden
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Wow, great update! This is all really starting to come together.
What have we learned...
1. Cable cars attach themselves to the cable by clinging very tightly to the side of the cable.
2. Gondolas are 3 feet wide and seat only 3 people.
3. By the time the project is finished, the sun's polarity will be reversed and instead of casting shadows, it will be drawing shadows towards it.
1. Cable cars attach themselves to the cable by clinging very tightly to the side of the cable.
2. Gondolas are 3 feet wide and seat only 3 people.
3. By the time the project is finished, the sun's polarity will be reversed and instead of casting shadows, it will be drawing shadows towards it.
EricsBiscuit
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That is Da LINE of gondolas I want!
JoeCamel
Well-Known Member
Or is that the moon and the setting sun is behind the viewer??? Any way you slice it the artist took liberties.
tonymu
Premium Member
And that the gondolas will not have characters on them...
4. Young children will be able to ride them unattended.
Creathir
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You forgot to mention the obvious dig at those concerned about accessibility and the gondolas...
That support tower is RIGHT where a bus in the stall would have its accessibility ramp lowered...
Not only will folks not be able to use the gondola with their wheelchairs, but now Disney is also telling them the bus is off limits as well...
mm121
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are there any drawings anywhere showing how the new dhs bus stop, gondola station and security will all fit together?
Minthorne
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And do it the cables really have that much swag?
JoeCamel
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Sag or swag the artist has never seen a cableway
5. And DHS will be opening at or before dawn judging by the Sun's apparent position in this rendering.
I've been looking at all the artist concepts for the gondola stations and not a one of them shows how an expanded security bubble works for them.
Yeah, it could be the moon... the totally white, uncratered moon whose moonlight keeps the sunlight from illuminating the clouds under its spell.
The artist didn't take liberties, it ran over liberties and then backed up over it several times.
cosmicgirl
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6. Towers which are not right outside of a station will not be maintained, except for the occasional helicopter inspection executed by @bioreconstruct.
7. Disney's cables will magically defy the laws of physics.
8. Rides to DHS will be a lot windier than rides to Epcot with vents facing the direction of motion, whereas rides to Epcot will only get sideways ventilation.
9. If a stepping platform is present on the cabins, it is not underneath the doors. This is clearly a way to make sure strollers and ECVs cannot make into the cabins.
10. Cabins will not make a 180° turn around the platform at the DHS station as the cable will. Instead they will come out the same way they went in, meaning there must be something flipping their position w.r.t. the cable inside the station.
11. All but two of the wheels on the towers (sheaves, right?) are solely for decorative purposes. Theming, people, theming!
DisneyCane
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Speaking of wheelchairs/strollers, I anticipate constant slow downs and stoppages. How on earth are families with strollers and everything else they carry going to board a moving cabin? They can't even get on the stopped parking lot trams.
The only way I could see it being remotely possible is if there is a moving floor synched to the cabin. But, there will also be people exiting from the same door I assume which will make it even more difficult.
The only way I could see it being remotely possible is if there is a moving floor synched to the cabin. But, there will also be people exiting from the same door I assume which will make it even more difficult.
truecoat
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Why won't Disney listen to these people and stop building this while there's still time! It's going to be a longlined, hurricane stricken, hotbox, peolemoving disaster!
flynnibus
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