News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

note2001

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Hopefully people will appreciate the faster more efficient method of transportation.
People enjoy the buses because they get them to the parks, not because they are buses.
I ran into the elevator appreciation group online some years back as I searched for the names of the Kidani elevators. These people will travel to locations just to record their elevator ride. There must be people who do this for buses also.
 

drizgirl

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There has been a saying around since the beginning of time that applies.... "In life, timing is everything. Things change... we flex or we die". You can't really, seriously, think that a place that provides a venue to thousands of people per day like WDW does can possibly take every single persons individual schedule into consideration, can you?

There has been plenty of promotion about the Gondola's over just the last year that unless people live under a rock or don't really care are going to not know about it. Then you have that other factor, of the number of people that reserve for the very week that the Gondola's open up, how many of those people are actually going to have a problem with riding something that is, for all intents and purposes, a kids ride. The numbers are mindbogglingly small and I think that Disney has taken that into consideration.
Nobody I know has any idea about gondolas at Disney. And they don't live under rocks. They just don't read Disney discussion boards.
 

WDWtraveler

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Photo update as of Monday, August 13, 2018. Skyliner station progress at Riviera resort.

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Skyliner transfer station at Caribbean Beach resort. Below photo includes the new resort entrance guard shack at right of photo. Currently, this resort road is used for Disney bus exits only.

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Patcheslee

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There has been a saying around since the beginning of time that applies.... "In life, timing is everything. Things change... we flex or we die". You can't really, seriously, think that a place that provides a venue to thousands of people per day like WDW does can possibly take every single persons individual schedule into consideration, can you?

There has been plenty of promotion about the Gondola's over just the last year that unless people live under a rock or don't really care are going to not know about it. Then you have that other factor, of the number of people that reserve for the very week that the Gondola's open up, how many of those people are actually going to have a problem with riding something that is, for all intents and purposes, a kids ride. The numbers are mindbogglingly small and I think that Disney has taken that into consideration.
I'm simply saying need NOTICE if they plan to drop direct bus transport to parks BEFORE vacation. I don't expect Disney to know every schedule that's just blowing things out of proportion, but do expect it Disney for to be considerate enough to give notice prior to doing away with a service that has been a given for how long? I don't understand why that is so hard to get across.
 

lazyboy97o

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I'm simply saying need NOTICE if they plan to drop direct bus transport to parks BEFORE vacation. I don't expect Disney to know every schedule that's just blowing things out of proportion, but do expect it Disney for to be considerate enough to give notice prior to doing away with a service that has been a given for how long? I don't understand why that is so hard to get across.
It’s not getting across because it is a rather nonsensical position. There is no inconvenience created so the notice is without a purpose.
 

peter11435

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I'm simply saying need NOTICE if they plan to drop direct bus transport to parks BEFORE vacation. I don't expect Disney to know every schedule that's just blowing things out of proportion, but do expect it Disney for to be considerate enough to give notice prior to doing away with a service that has been a given for how long? I don't understand why that is so hard to get across.
Notice is not necessary because they are still providing the service of complimentary transportation to the parks.
 

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I'm simply saying need NOTICE if they plan to drop direct bus transport to parks BEFORE vacation. I don't expect Disney to know every schedule that's just blowing things out of proportion, but do expect it Disney for to be considerate enough to give notice prior to doing away with a service that has been a given for how long? I don't understand why that is so hard to get across.
The service is free transportation to the parks.
You’re still getting that.

Am I missing something here?!?
 

Goofyernmost

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Most of Disney's guests don't go as often as the people here. I'd venture to say most of the people there now were not also there in the last 5 months.
I haven't been there since January 2017, but, I knew about it. However, that is not the point. You folks are acting like they are going to be lining people up in front of a firing squad. Riding in the Gondola's are hardly a punishment or are they going to be unpleasant, so why all the crap about it when the solution is so simple and the number of people that will be bothered by them being there are minuscule. One of the reasons is that they haven't been on the boards having to sort through all the ridiculous reasons why they are dangerous or unpleasant. Trust me, even the ones that didn't know about it will be just fine and all the rest of the wimps can have their own little personal anxiety attacks.
 

Goofyernmost

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I'm simply saying need NOTICE if they plan to drop direct bus transport to parks BEFORE vacation. I don't expect Disney to know every schedule that's just blowing things out of proportion, but do expect it Disney for to be considerate enough to give notice prior to doing away with a service that has been a given for how long? I don't understand why that is so hard to get across.
And what makes you think they aren't going to let people know in plenty of time. It's almost a year away before it is fully operational. If they told you now everyone would probably forget it before it was time to go. Plus they don't have an exact date yet. How about we knock some of those imaginary mountains down to the mole hills that the actually are.
 

drizgirl

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I haven't been there since January 2017, but, I knew about it. However, that is not the point. You folks are acting like they are going to be lining people up in front of a firing squad. Riding in the Gondola's are hardly a punishment or are they going to be unpleasant, so why all the crap about it when the solution is so simple and the number of people that will be bothered by them being there are minuscule. One of the reasons is that they haven't been on the boards having to sort through all the ridiculous reasons why they are dangerous or unpleasant. Trust me, even the ones that didn't know about it will be just fine and all the rest of the wimps can have their own little personal anxiety attacks.
I assume you know that with 23K posts on a Disney message board, you aren't representative of the general public when it comes to Disney news.
 

Lift Blog

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No, it's Doppelmayr at least according to this picture I took inside the cabin

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Neither of you are wrong. This lift was built by Poma with CWA cabins. Later, Doppelmayr bought CWA and stopped them from selling cabins to other lift manufacturers. When Stowe had their cabins refurbished, CWA snuck Doppelmayr logos in even though the lift is not a Doppelmayr.

From what I can tell, there will be no Doppelmayr logos in or on Disney's gondolas.
 
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Goofyernmost

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I assume you know that with 23K posts on a Disney message board, you aren't representative of the general public when it comes to Disney news.
Yes, I am very much aware of that and that is why I know it isn't going to be any problem, because even the small cross section of "concerned" people on this site, with advance knowledge of it coming and creating the silly concerns aren't enough to amount to a snowball in hell.

My prediction is that there will be only a small handful of people that will even know that this is a new thing and even fewer that are concerned about it. They will be told that the transportation from those resorts will be a fun, unique Gondola ride and will be excited about it. The number of people that don't come to these boards will never hear all the wildness that people have come up with to be negative and will not even give it a thought. You, and a few others have some wild imaginations that center around disasters, most people do not have that inclination and realize that getting out of bed in the morning can cause a chain reaction that can kill you, but, the likelihood is so small that it is not worth spending any time thinking about. Take a bus... it can crash. Ride the Monorails, they can break down and leave you stranded at the highest point, A boat can catch fire or sink. Trains can derail and cars can lose control and hit a tree. There is no way to escape possible danger, but, why bother to be concerned about it. Any fear you have you can control by taking action on your own, like I've said until my lips are bleeding, DON'T STAY AT A GONDOLA RESORT, and you will never have any problem involving a Gondola.
 

larryz

I'm Just A Tourist!
Premium Member
Because you were so counting on BUSES instead of 'getting to where you need to go efficently?'

Seriously.. who is going to be complaining about the lack of a bus when a better alternative for the same route is right there too?
A matter of perspective, I'd say. In a bus, all you have to worry about is crashing into some tourist on the road. The gondolas, on the other hand, potentially expose you to 565 pages of listed perils, which I will not rehash in this short post.
 

GlacierGlacier

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Photo update as of Monday, August 13, 2018. Skyliner station progress at Riviera resort.

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Skyliner transfer station at Caribbean Beach resort. Below photo includes the new resort entrance guard shack at right of photo. Currently, this resort road is used for Disney bus exits only.

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Riviera makes the second station to have a roof installed. We expect Epcot then hourglass, right?

And the ones in the Central station do not have roofs outside of the building's roof, correct?
 

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