Rumor New Monorails Coming Soon?

Disone

Disone

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GlacierGlacier said:
Track cleaning happens semi-regularly. I believe another thread documented the forum's crazed fervor at the sight of cleaned beams. Or it might just be this same one, several hundred pages back.
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Thanks. I do remember the discussion you're referring to. As the picture is very recent, I'm simply pointing out that regardless of how long it's been since they've last cleaned them, they are currently on a round of re cleaning the beams now.
 
Goofyernmost

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s8film40 said:
This would’ve been in the 80’s, in any case it was second hand information to me so I can’t confirm beyond that.


WED Transportation was a subsidiary of the Disney company. They used the company a little more heavily in the 80’s and marketed monorails and people movers outside of the parks including selling a peoplemover system to the Houston Intercontinental Airport. So it was a distinctly separate division of the company that reached beyond just the parks. They essentially sold off all the technology to Bombardier as part of the Mark VI project which basically ended the company.

Edit: Looks like the company was active from 1980 - 1994.

http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=WEDTRANSPORTATIONSYSTEMS 6686761&aggregateId=domp-668676-c3578388-9217-40e7-9841-609d6be3260f&searchTerm=Wed transportation&listNameOrder=WEDTRANSPORTATIONSYSTEMS 6686761
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I don't know this for sure, but, I believe I read someplace that Walt established WED as a separate entity that put cash directly in his pocket and not the corporation of TWDC. And that was only for Disneyland. By the time that WDW came into existence WED was a subsidiary of TWDC. And was until they sold it off which was a long time after Walt was dead. Thirty years after in fact. Not to long after Walt's passing, TWDC had acquired ownership and therefore the employees would all be Cast Members for TWDC. And the paychecks, which was the reason for this particular discussion, would not have been from WED at that time.
 
s8film40

s8film40

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Goofyernmost said:
I don't know this for sure, but, I believe I read someplace that Walt established WED as a separate entity that put cash directly in his pocket and not the corporation of TWDC. And that was only for Disneyland. By the time that WDW came into existence WED was a subsidiary of TWDC. And was until they sold it off which was a long time after Walt was dead. Thirty years after in fact. Not to long after Walt's passing, TWDC had acquired ownership and therefore the employees would all be Cast Members for TWDC. And the paychecks, which was the reason for this particular discussion, would not have been from WED at that time.
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You’re talking about something entirely different. WED and WED Transportation are completely different things. Paychecks are usually payed out by the division and/or subsidiary. The paychecks aren’t usually going to say the Disney co. For example when I first started working at WDW the paychecks came from Walt Disney Attractions. That company later changed to Parks and Resorts and I believe it’s something entirely different now. Getting back to the original point, I was simply pointing out that at that point in time from what I was told it was completely seperate from CM’s who worked in the parks and resorts and came from WED Transportation, much the same way the ticket that was posted stated that WDW was collecting a portion of the ticket price on behalf of WED Transportation.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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s8film40 said:
You’re talking about something entirely different. WED and WED Transportation are completely different things. Paychecks are usually payed out by the division and/or subsidiary. The paychecks aren’t usually going to say the Disney co. For example when I first started working at WDW the paychecks came from Walt Disney Attractions. That company later changed to Parks and Resorts and I believe it’s something entirely different now. Getting back to the original point, I was simply pointing out that at that point in time from what I was told it was completely seperate from CM’s who worked in the parks and resorts and came from WED Transportation, much the same way the ticket that was posted stated that WDW was collecting a portion of the ticket price on behalf of WED Transportation.
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Could very well be, I'm just trying to make sense out of it and connect it to the person that stated the they were working with the Monorails in the 70's and his check didn't say anything about WED. It is yet another unimportant bit of discussion anyway. It doesn't matter what name they put on it, if the money is coming from the bottomless pit that is TWDC, how it is routed makes almost no difference to anything.
 
lazyboy97o

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Goofyernmost said:
Could very well be, I'm just trying to make sense out of it and connect it to the person that stated the they were working with the Monorails in the 70's and his check didn't say anything about WED. It is yet another unimportant bit of discussion anyway. It doesn't matter what name they put on it, if the money is coming from the bottomless pit that is TWDC, how it is routed makes almost no difference to anything.
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@s8film40 already posted the reason why, WED Transportation Systems didn’t exist in the 1970s. WED Transportation Systems had a reason for existing, and it not interesting you doesn’t mean it doesn’t interest others. The company had a distinct purpose beyond being a meaningless way to put different names on checks.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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lazyboy97o said:
@s8film40 already posted the reason why, WED Transportation Systems didn’t exist in the 1970s. WED Transportation Systems had a reason for existing, and it not interesting you doesn’t mean it doesn’t interest others. The company had a distinct purpose beyond being a meaningless way to put different names on checks.
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OK, you win.. it was the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel. How a company compartmentalizes is of no interest to me, so I will leave the discussion and go to things that I do find important.


sayonara!
 
monothingie

monothingie

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My understanding of this thread so far.
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s8film40

s8film40

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Goofyernmost said:
OK, you win.. it was the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel. How a company compartmentalizes is of no interest to me, so I will leave the discussion and go to things that I do find important.


sayonara!
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You were the one who started this tangent. It's not a bad thing, it's actually kind of interesting and somewhat relevant to the topic. If in the past they were willing to split transportation off into a separate company than it stands to reason they may consider that in the future, especially when it comes to financing new trains. They could even give the operations contract to Bombardier as part of the deal for the new trains. Then either add on a fee to tickets (like they did in the past) or a direct fee at the entrances to in turn pay them. It could be a good way for them to get new trains and leave the whole thing to someone else so they don't have to worry about it anymore.
 
asianway

asianway

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jbeechuk said:
Rumor is there will be an additional charge to ride the monorail coming soon. The bean counters are hungry for more revenue. I suppose $2 per person per ride isn’t too bad, but the $5 I’m hearing is excessive. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen.
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Id pay easy
 
Kman101

Kman101

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I'd never throw out "zero chance". There's *always* that .01% chance ... lol, just saying ... even the most ludicrous things, never say never ...

But I think it's a stretch they'll charge. Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to go back to that and as @s8film40 said, hand over operations to someone else so they don't have to worry about it.
 
mikejs78

mikejs78

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matt9112 said:
why not? keep ferry free packed to the gills like terminator salvation and if you dont want to feel like cattle better let go of some coin. add free monorail use as deluxe resort perk....I can see it 5 bucks seems low though. 9.99 seems a bit better.
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Ferry doesn't have enough capacity to take the throngs to MK and out. Hoards of guests waiting for the Ferry are hoards of guests not spending money on Main Street. The $5 per ride is less than the price of a cup of coffee and a breakfast sandwich at Main Street Bakery. Better to have them in the park spending money than waiting outside to not spend $5.
 

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