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OG Runner

OG Runner

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Lensman said:
I think that design is called "ribbed", not "corrugated", but I could be wrong. Apologies for being overly precise. Like the scorpion said, it's in my nature.

Did anyone hear or find out why they had to remove, then replace/reposition the last tower?


I really don't understand why people choose to attack the messenger. Again, I guess it's just in people's nature.

To the underlying information about bus service, I guess there's no convincing people of something they don't want to believe. You've done your good work in putting the information out there. What people choose to do with that information is up to them.

Have you informed them about the AC? Lol
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If you can believe it. It seems like the just started talking about there being no AC. It was funny to watch unfold.
 
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joelkfla

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monothingie said:
Walt liked innovation, new, and fresh often untried ideas. The original concept models of WDW showed monorails and people movers crossing the property. The ideas werent focused soley on practically, if they wanted efficient and purely functional they could have just stuck with busses.

Maybe I’m just looking at what they’re building as ordinary because I’ve experienced it so frequently on the ski slopes, but as @marni1971 said Disney invented the People Mover, it seems like such a shame that this is the best that could have been come up with. Yeah it gets the job done but it’s so ordinary.

Do you think anyone will ever develop a sentimental attachment to the gondola versus the first time they rode on a Monorail? Or got on the WDWRR?
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There are so many commonalities between the WEDway People Mover and modern gondola lifts that one could argue that the gondola lift is a close cousin, if not a direct descendant of the People Mover:
  • Vehicles never stop moving
  • Vehicles have no internal means of propulsion
  • Vehicles load while circling thru a terminal
  • Vehicles move slowly thru a station, and accelerate and increase spacing as they depart
  • Doors are opened and closed mechanically by a stationary device in the station
  • Vehicles load continuously
I do think many Guests will associate the Skyliner with their visit to WDW. I don't know what percentage of Americans ski, but I would guess it's less than half, and that many have never been on a modern gondola lift.
 
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tractor tipper

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Missing20K said:
Correct, and it comes in standard sheet sizes, cutting it to fit is standard practice. Not saying it doesn't exist, but I haven't ever seen any custom sized ribbed metal siding before. Far easier to just cut it in the field.
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Sheets can come in any length you want with a square end cut. Angle cuts are done in the field. Do it all the time.
 
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Driver

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tissandtully said:
I guess none of them have stayed at FW and tried to hop a bus to MK. Or tried to hop a bus to MK from Epcot. Wait, you can't do any of those.
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Actually you can...... when the monorail is down there is bus service to EPCOT from TTC
And there is bus service from MK to FW always has been .
 
Phil12

Phil12

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marni1971 said:
Three.

Nice that you knew Walt personally.

:)
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If you'd bother to research Walt's ownership of the monorail (and the Disney family via RETLAW) you'd understand the great amount of wealth he garnered. His plan for EPCOT was centered upon a transportation system that he would exclusively own. Walt was not averse to obscene wealth.
 
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DisneyCane

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joelkfla said:
There are so many commonalities between the WEDway People Mover and modern gondola lifts that one could argue that the gondola lift is a close cousin, if not a direct descendant of the People Mover:
  • Vehicles never stop moving
  • Vehicles have no internal means of propulsion
  • Vehicles load while circling thru a terminal
  • Vehicles move slowly thru a station, and accelerate and increase spacing as they depart
  • Doors are opened and closed mechanically by a stationary device in the station
  • Vehicles load continuously
I do think many Guests will associate the Skyliner with their visit to WDW. I don't know what percentage of Americans ski, but I would guess it's less than half, and that many have never been on a modern gondola lift.
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I don't think a gondola is a decendant of WEDway. If anything it's the other way around. Gondola lifts came first. WEDway could be considered a gondola on a track with an invisible haul rope.
 
MickeyMinnieMom

MickeyMinnieMom

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Edward Jackson said:
I was probably being oversensitive, but when I noted I had heard there would be a reduction in the bus service, I was told
it was the dumbest thing posted during the discussion.
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Ah. That's less DIS-pixie-dusting as know-it-all-ness and intolerance to a different view... which is omnipresent throughout the internet. What I appreciate about this board in contrast is that discussion isn't stifled like it is there these days IMO. Wasn't like that in the past.

Edward Jackson said:
If you can believe it. It seems like the just started talking about there being no AC. It was funny to watch unfold.
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No -- like here, it's been discussed there in spurts since the beginning.
 
Missing20K

Missing20K

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tractor tipper said:
Sheets can come in any length you want with a square end cut. Angle cuts are done in the field. Do it all the time.
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Length can be unlimited, theoretically, if they are extruding them in the field, sure. Otherwise they can't get any longer than the truck on which you plan to ship them. Width, however, is always limited. Unless you have a link to a product I'm unaware of, which is certainly possible, and if so, I'm definitely interested.
 

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