Figment2005
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Lime is the only train that had/will have alternate deltas.
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Rumor New Monorails Coming Soon?
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meyeet
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Is there a reason for that?
Movielover
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To tell it apart from Monorail Green.
DisneyFreak
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Agreed. It was much bigger in the 70s and 80s. We always stayed at the Polynesian and up until '89 when the Studios opened we never even had to get on a bus when at WDW. Even when we went to River Country/Hoop Dee Doo we could take a boat.
mikejs78
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The monorail is a big reason why people stay at the Poly/Contemporary/GF. I don't think that can be discounted. I also know many people who go and always make sure to take a ride on the monorail, even if they are at one of the non-monorail resorts. I think you underestimate its appeal.
montyz81
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I think if they would have finished the original plan for the Monorail, it would have been much more important to the experience. Additionally, there likely would not be as many buses and possible no need for a chairlift, assuming the peoplemover part of the plan was also seen through to completion.
Maybe the Disney Skyliner® portends new transportation trends in WDW. If it works well between the Values/DVC and Epcot/DHS, I can see the monorail resorts next on the list ... a round-robin gondola circuit around the Seven Seas Lagoon, anyone?
EricPZ
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Doubt it...but think it would be kinda fun to take a gondola straight directly across Seven Seas from the parking to MK.
asianway
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I think theyre referring to the switch from blue to white deltas during its lifespan.
Movielover
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Ah, misread the question, cheers!
lawdogNOLA
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There's a coolness factor for the monorail that I think you're discounting, especially for kids. If there was a choice between monorail and ferry, I always wanted to take the monorail when I was little, and the same with our kid when he was little. He was lucky enough for his first visit to be before the crash, so he got to ride in the cockpit, like I did when I was a kid. For a lot of people, the monorail is considered the first part of the WDW experience. On our most recent trip, not a day went by when there weren't kids excited about getting on the monorail. There's a reason they still make and sell toys of the monorail.
Goofyernmost
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No, I'm not discounting it at all. I like riding the Monorails and make it a point to every time I visit. In fact, I will just take a round trip from MK to Epcot just for that purpose if I'm not planning on going to Epcot on that trip. They are an icon and as such a quick and easily recognized part of Disney, both in Florida and Anahiem. That said, however, the problems and the overall attraction has been greatly exaggerated to the point that now they have become, at least on the boards, a thing to be ridiculed instead of admired. If a person that lives in this world cannot be awestruck when you see how many estimated humans have parked their collective butts on those seats and done so on equipment that is 30 years old and has millions of miles on them then there is nothing that is going to impress them and therefore shouldn't be taken quite so seriously. They are looking for Disney to provide something that just isn't possible and that is something that connects with perpetual motion and that nothing will stop or slow it down. It is just pie in the sky lack of a combination of reality with the induced fantasy that is necessary for any accurate evaluation of a fantasy theme park anywhere. But, to answer your question, no one has traveled half way around the world or even a few hundred miles just to ride those particular rails. It is just a nice, fun addition, not the do all and be all of the parks.
imarc
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I would think that some sort of transportation hub around AK would be next.
AK, AK Lodge, Coronado, All Sports, Coronado and Blizzard Beach.
Those are all bus only right?
Some suit is working up the proposal right now, I'm sure... an ingenious way to cut down the monorail beam supports and convert them to gondola tower bases... Think of all the money they'll save not having to buy new monorail cars that won't be delivered for 5 or 6 years anyway.
ABQ
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What may also happen after the gondolas are all running is that someone will spot some odd thing on Google Earth and think it looks like an unused gondola tower footer that would connect the Studios to the Animal Kingdom and all the conspiracies will start up like those of the famed monorail footer behind the WOL .
https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...satellite-images-to-date.875801/#post-5768823
s8film40
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To me it was always closer to Yellow.
Those deltas really helped a bit from a safety standpoint. Also Peach should have had a more contrasting color. Of course none of it really matters anymore since they're all automated.
imarc
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Ideally everything would be available within 1 or 2 changes right? But the first thing you need to do is build the area hubs.
MK's is complete - it has the 3 resort monorail connection, 5 resort ferry connection, plus connections to the TTC
DHS/Epcot expansion is underway - it has has a 4 resort ferry connection and soon 8 resorts via gondola, plus connections to the TTC though you have to go through Epcot
Disney Springs - it has a 4 resort ferry connection but it is isolated otherwise
Typhoon Lagoon - close to the Disney Springs hub but isolated
Animal Kingdom and nearby resorts and Blizzard Beach - all isolated
I really feel like there is a long term plan here. Right now, the monorail's cannot be worked on because they are essential to the operation of MK and 3 resorts. Didn't Disneyland's monorails go down for awhile when they last made major changes? Hard to do that in Florida unless they have a bunch of other stuff in place to lighten the load.
Get the hubs taken care of and it lessens overall bus use so that they can be concentrated on areas where upgrades need to be made.
It also spreads out the demand for the various resorts as they all become more attractive.
Then you can start working on connecting the hubs to the TTC.
I'm surprised there aren't more graphical differences so that people who are color-blind can tell them apart: stripes, squares v. triangles, logos of park or resorts, etc...
s8film40
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Seeing color is (or at least was) a requirement for working in Monorails.
Lensman
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Why do color-blind people need to tell them apart?
Aside: Has anyone heard about the special glasses that they've come up with recently that let color blind people distinguish between the colors to which they are blind?
At this point, I'm not sure what your original point was. I don't think anyone was saying that people were visiting WDW solely to ride the monorail. I think someone was just saying that they thought that the monorail was part of what made WDW special to them and it is a shame that Disney stopped expanding the monorail system a long time ago. I also don't think that anyone is saying that the monorail trains don't need to have their interiors refurbished or be replaced. I mean isn't that the whole point to this thread is the exciting prospect that we'll get a new trainset?
Not criticizing, just hoping to focus and get clarity on your thoughts.