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[danlb_2000]

Not much of a line at Pop either.

 

[joelkfla]

Not much of a line at Pop either.

Still early for a Sunday.

 

[tissandtully]

Still early for a Sunday.

Why would we expect huge lines? Except for when it stops, it’s a people eating monster.

 

[Heppenheimer]

Why would we expect huge lines? Except for when it stops, it’s a people eating monster.

People eating monster?! It appears in addition to boiling heat, freezing cold, and Olympic-jumping alligators, we have discovered yet another hazard of these stratospheric death carriages.

 

[Movielover]

it’s a people eating monster.

How very much Lovecraftian!

 

[wdwmagic]

Here is the CBR station at 9:30am

 

[wdwmagic]

Studios station at 9:15am

 

[begood524]

In honor of the Skyliner's opening, bioreconstruct is posting pictures showing each station's progress over the past two years; it's amazing to see how this all finally came together!

 

[joelkfla]

Why would we expect huge lines? Except for when it stops, it’s a people eating monster.

Just saying, being a Sunday, if there are going to be hordes descending for a first-day ride, they probably won't show up until noonish. I expect to get to DHS around 11.

 

[wdwmagic]

Caribbean Beach has a cookie in honor of the Skyliner opening

 

[po1998]

Dedication stream randomly popped up from some random streamer on my Youtube account:

Other than the coverage of the actual dedication speech, I wanted to climb onto my roof and jump!

 

[Fear]

When does the Pop-Daar line start running? There was a timetable for when DHS and EIG begin operation, but not that one, if i recall correctly.

 

[Rob562]

When does the Pop-Daar line start running? There was a timetable for when DHS and EIG begin operation, but not that one, if i recall correctly.

If I were to guess, the Pop line will start at the same time as the earliest park line. You wouldn't block people from being able to get to the parks, nor would you want to open it earlier than the park lines just to dump people at CBR with nowhere else to go.

-Rob

 

[nbdysreal]

So far, the air flow is nice, I haven't fell to my death, and was attacked by 0 Gators. 0/10, Worst death trip ever.

 

[BrerJon]

Looking back at the early pages of this enormous thread, it's amazing how many people were quite indignant and insistent that this would be a monorail or a Peoplemover, citing numerous reasons why a monorail would work better, be more economical, gondolas could never withstand hurricanes, could never work in Florida... so much nonsense it's unreal.

I would love to hear from those people now we are a couple of years later and the Skyliner is open... I wonder what they make of the rave reviews it's getting?

 

[wdwmagic]

Busier at Studios around midday

 

[wdwmagic]

Epcot line has the longest line at CBR station round midday

 

[Coaster Lover]

Would be interesting to know the percentage of people riding today who are hotel guests (at one of the Skylines associated hotels) vs the people riding "just for the fun of it".

 

[peter11435]

Would be interesting to know the percentage of people riding today who are hotel guests (at one of the Skylines associated hotels) vs the people riding "just for the fun of it".

The percentage of bloggers and guests/locals just riding for fun is high. Today is really not a good indicator of what lines will ultimately be like for this reason.

 

[monothingie]

Epcot line has the longest line at CBR station round midday
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Heading over to epcot now to ride to the studios. Any idea on wait times?