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No, but neither are the bus seats. (Some of Disney's older buses had slightly padded seat inserts, but I think they've all been swapped out by now.)View attachment 414182
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The seats in the gondolas are not padded!!!
*a new complaint!
That's OK... most of the riders will be. And heavily so...View attachment 414182
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The seats in the gondolas are not padded!!!
*a new complaint!
Phil12
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Seat padding interferes with the lifesaving ventilation.View attachment 414182
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The seats in the gondolas are not padded!!!
*a new complaint!
doctornick
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So, question: is there anything to stop guests from raiding the emergency kit for free water or "souvenirs"? And before anyone says that guests won't do it, look at the metal sporks from GE.
I rode yesterday, and two things stand out. 1) airflow was pretty nice overall, but depending on which way the wind is blowing can affect how much air you feel. If the gondola is traveling against the wind, it felt awesome! If it’s traveling with the wind, it’s just decent. 2) Maybe my mom and I are weird, but we only rode in one gondola with a wrap, and it was making both of us motion sick. I’m not TOO sensitive to motion, but my mom is pretty bad, and something to do with looking through those tiny holes affected the depth perception or something. Again, it could just be us, but we had to request a clear cabin every route after that.
JayKZ
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You're likely to be disappointed. The strangers will be looking out the windows and won't notice you. Sorry.
Lift Blog
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I don't think so.
Surfin' Tuna
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Creepy!
I asked the same thing while we were on the preview yesterday and noticed the emergency kit had been opened. The answer is no, there is nothing to stop it, and I bet it has already started.
IanDLBZF
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Those emergency kits should have been under lock and key until they are required.
Maybe Disney needs to check them every morning.
doctornick
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I feel like they need to have a magnetized lock or something that only can be opened when activated during a line shutdown or something. I feel bad for the guest who actually does get stuck for a while and finds out that the kit has been pillaged.
Surfin' Tuna
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After I noticed it had been open, I started to wonder what else they could do. They use nothing more than one of those tamper evident plastic seals (similar to below). There is no real place to put it (it's under one bench), and it would be problematic to house it in a "break glass" type of enclosure. It does say something about how far we have come as a society that we all know this will be a problem.
But they are required... even though it's just the cast preview, cast members are humans too.
Jon81uk
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My guess is most people won't know it even exists until they are told to find it over the announcements/intercom.
peter11435
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They need to be available and accessible in the event of an emergency
Goofyernmost
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No, they don't. If all is going properly the main lines never stop moving, slow up yes, but never stop. the load and unload for the regular part is operated by tire drive separated from the main rope and the wheelchair etc. area pulls off the line to a stop and then joins the continuously moving rope. Theoretically, the main rope never stops moving.
cindy_k
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I wish this was true. The EPCOT line, which is the longest so has the most people on it was stopping quite a bit yesterday evening when I rode it.
So much so, that after we completed the loop once, the original plan was to ride it back from CB to IG and leave the system there. However we stopped so much on the EPCOT line, (watched it stop 3 times while waiting in IG station and then it stopped a couple of more times on our way back to CB), that my husband, who isn't a fan of heights to begin with, said 'No Mas' for the EPCOT line. We just went back to Hollywood studios and took the boat from Studios back to IG.
There is no pull off for Gondolas at the Riviera station which is in the middle of the EPCOT line, so after they open that station, I think they will be stopping the EPCOT line to let Handicap people off there too. That wasn't even happening yesterday, they were just having training issues.
From my experience yesterday it appears that the EPCOT is going to be the problem child.
Figment82
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No, you’ll know it’s there. I hit my leg on the box probably half of the times I boarded the gondola. We started joking that we were going to need to use the emergency supplies *because* of the emergency supplies.
Heppenheimer
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Nearly every ski gondola in the world uses the same system and stops are still common, and the cause is usually something that happens in the loading and unloading area, typically somebody doing something unsafe or problems securing skis or snowboards in the outside storage bins. Even though the main line and the transit through the loading station use separate propulsion systems, if a back-up occurs in the loading station, the entire line needs to stop.