BryanM
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This would be absolutely amazing... yet I'm sure outrageously expensive. Although you would think that with Disney's "relationship" with Apple, this would be very doable. One can dream, right?
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Rumor New Monorails Coming Soon?
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This would be absolutely amazing... yet I'm sure outrageously expensive. Although you would think that with Disney's "relationship" with Apple, this would be very doable. One can dream, right?
esskay
Well-Known Member
This is the one occasion where 'insiders' dont really know a lot, because not a lot is happening. It's very much being kept to a select few at this point, simply because as far as the rest of the company is concerned, there is no order, nor any plans to order anything.
Brad Bishop
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We all jab Disney, rightfully so in my opinion, for letting the Monorails get to the state that they are. I really wish it weren't the case, though. I really wish that they just kept them up, built extra maintenance bays, bought extra trains, and kept the Monorail running proudly at 99.8% uptime and had that spiel coming out of the regular recording still while you ride the Monorail.
It's literally the difference between the proud technology-driven company of the past and the current IP holding company that also runs some theme parks.
Rodan75
Well-Known Member
Interesting way of saying that.
s8film40
Well-Known Member
It’s definitely possible, but I don’t think plausible. The HP only has two trains and also I believe they’re just projections, not expensive transparent screens. Then factor in Disney would need more than 1,000 of these for the monorail fleet as well as continuous replacements when they’re damaged or vandalized. I don’t see them budgeting for that when they don’t even budget enough for maintenance and upkeep.
Robbiem
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I agree. New monorails could have something like the magic porthole on the cruise ships but this would be limited to maybe one or two ‘windows’ per car, a heads up tpe display would likely be too expensive/ complicated. Another option would be to install some sort of tunnel with projections like the old speed tunnel from Disneylands wedway
BalooChicago
Well-Known Member
Add a camera - screen displays what is outside (as if looking out a glass window) add AR overlay, and there you have it. Nothing too crazy or expensive and you have AR windows.
Mr Disney
Active Member
- In the Parks
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Even though the screens in the cabin are DEFINITELY projections on a screen, the glass that faces outward in the hallways are smart glass. When the train departs the station, the glass goes from transparent to opaque allowing the shadow projections to be seen clearly.
s8film40
Well-Known Member
Those are opaque the whole time, they don’t change.
Lensman
Well-Known Member
I don't care about having AR windows. I want safe super-reliable transportation again. I want it to not smell and it would be nice if the windows could be popped open for ventilation on the (hopefully rare) occasions when we have to be rescued by the towing tractor.
Besides, I find the reality of the views from the monorail nice enough to not need augmentation.
Besides, I find the reality of the views from the monorail nice enough to not need augmentation.
lawdogNOLA
Active Member
Pretty much my view. Hogwarts Express is really a ride taking you to Hogsmeade. A scaled down comparison is how you ride into the Living Seas with the Finding Nemo theme (which nice some nice AR work with the Nemo cast projected onto the actual aquarium windows). For many of us, the monorail is a fun ride, but it is a transport system. It strikes me a massive violation of the KISS principle, especially when you consider that the present monorail has been in service for 28 years, and we know that the lifespans for the monorails are approximately 20. It's one thing to add special effects to PhotoPass pictures and videos, it's one thing to project images onto aquarium glass in a controlled environment; it's a totally different thing to do this on one of the world's busiest monorail systems.
Disone
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20 years is a guideline or minimal expectation. With the right budget you can make them last indefinitely. Hello DL and WDW steam engines. Is it cheap? No. Does it require complete rebuilds occasionally? Sure does. I will second or piggyback off of someones earlier suggestion about the new trains.....
14 really is a great starting number of trains for the new fleet. At the beginning of the life span of the new trains, it may seem excessive. 15 years down the road its going to allow for heavy downtime and maintenance to the individual trains with out downtime or operational sacrifices to the system whole.
With fourteen trains though they should also invest and do it right, and would need to add to the Epcot line a second monorail "round house" to store the trains. Bare minimum of four bays and also a monorail washing facility. These bays should be built with maintenance in mind. Perhaps two of them for heavy maintenance and two of them designed more so around the custodial needs of the system. designed so that a 3rd shift custodial crew could detail clean the insides and all the windows of the trains. Only two a night may not be enough but its far more then what they are doing now.
With the right amount of inventment, they really could make these the last trains that WDW will need to purchase. Not say that the can litterall last forever but honestly, if you can get 100 year old steam engines still working effectively, there is no reason you can't double or triple the life expectancy to 40 or 60 years for monorail.
One side note... saw the wrap on monorail orange. Man that looks good! They have have stumble on a new paint scheme for the trains and I have wondered, as dirty as some of those trains are..... why could they not wrap them in just their original paint design periodically to keep them fresh looking on the outside? Is wrapping them more expensive than repainting them? They seem to wrap them much faster then repainting them. Trains seem to be down a LONG TIME for repaint, but orange got wrapped really quick.
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Cesar R M
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That tech as a lot of potential!
Jonathan Wang
Disney/Monorail Nut
Yea they are Mitsu, they are also not very comfy, which i would assume disney wants to keep for guests. Probably one of the reasons why they wouldnt want to go with mitsu. During all tests of MCO's the bumpyness of their new APM fell within what it was suppose to.
Edit: anyone know whats going on with monorails this morning? someone reported monorails were down, and they stopped all trams from taking people to transportation and ticket center because how backed up it was there.
