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[Lee]

I am gonna drag this fireworks topic right through the mud... so, is the area in the following link, the area at the end of maple rd a fireworks testing area?

Nope.
That's the landfill.
Buncha subs buried out there.

 

[unkadug]

Nope.
That's the landfill.
Buncha subs buried out there.

You think they'd mind if I went and dug a sub up and carried it home? :lookaroun

 

[WDW Monorail]

How far can google earth zoom in. I downloaded the free version and can zoom into 96 ft. but it is extremely blury. You can't tell if you are looking at a building or the ground.
I know that Windows Live Local can zoom into 75 ft. with perfect clarity.

Can you zoom down more in other versions with perfect clarity?

 

[Lee]

You think they'd mind if I went and dug a sub up and carried it home? :lookaroun

Thought about scavenging parts off them myself...but they're all covered up now. :brick:
Managed to get me a seat from one before the burial, though....

 

[Madison]

How far can google earth zoom in. I downloaded the free version and can zoom into 96 ft. but it is extremely blury. You can't tell if you are looking at a building or the ground.
I know that Windows Live Local can zoom into 75 ft. with perfect clarity.

Can you zoom down more in other versions with perfect clarity?

The resolution of the image is dependant upon the area you're looking at. I believe that the Google HQ in the Bay Area is available at the highest resolution currently exhibited on Google Earth.

 

[GrandFloridian1]

If you go to "Inside the Magic" video podcast and download show #59 from 5/21/06 there is a video of some of the roads behind the Magic Kingdom. You also get a look at the maintenance building for the trains and monorails. Pretty interesting.

 

[teebin]

Nope.
That's the landfill.
Buncha subs buried out there.

Now c'mon... Please tell me you are joking. First, creating ones own corporate landfill is illegal, second, Disney has better things to do than create a landfill on property, third, Disney cannot afford to be burying junk in the ground with its reputation for being environmental. Lastly, each one of those subs would have been worth more to all the mentally warped millionare collecters out there then it would have cost to bury them.

So, I maintain that the location I posted has to be for fireworks testing as the previous fireworks testing area was moved about 12 years ago. Anyone here know where the old fireworks testing ground used to be??? HINT: What was going on 12 years ago?

 

[Lee]

Now c'mon... Please tell me you are joking. First, creating ones own corporate landfill is illegal,

Not for Disney. Reedy Creek can do it if they want.

second, Disney has better things to do than create a landfill on property, third, Disney cannot afford to be burying junk in the ground with its reputation for being environmental. Lastly, each one of those subs would have been worth more to all the mentally warped millionare collecters out there then it would have cost to bury them.

Nope. I saw them when they were half buried.
Here it is in Live Local: http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/showphoto.php?photo=22465&size=big&cat=3052

From another angle you can see all of them buried except for the front of one.

 

[unkadug]

Now c'mon... Please tell me you are joking. First, creating ones own corporate landfill is illegal,

As Lee already pointed out, it's not a corporate landfill it belongs to the governing body of Reedy Creek, who can do as they please.

second, Disney has better things to do than create a landfill on property,

No, they strive to be self-sustaining

third, Disney cannot afford to be burying junk in the ground with its reputation for being environmental.

Not that many people are even aware of this.:lookaroun

Lastly, each one of those subs would have been worth more to all the mentally warped millionare collecters out there then it would have cost to bury them.

TRUE :wave:

So, I maintain that the location I posted has to be for fireworks testing as the previous fireworks testing area was moved about 12 years ago.

:brick:

Anyone here know where the old fireworks testing ground used to be??? HINT: What was going on 12 years ago?

No, please share....

 

[teebin]

Not for Disney. Reedy Creek can do it if they want.

What about the EPA?

Nope. I saw them when they were half buried.
Here it is in Live Local: http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/showphoto.php?photo=22465&size=big&cat=3052

From another angle you can see all of them buried except for the front of one.

That is FOUL! There are stacked cargo containers being buried out there! Mercy knows what they contain! Again, where is the EPA?

 

[teebin]

No, please share....

A part of the land which Animal Kingdom now sits on.

 

[optjay]

More than subs and containers have been buried.
I remember seeing photos of the old monorails being buried !!
Long before the internet was created by Al Gore, giving the world Disney "freaks" a place to be.

 

[teebin]

More than subs and containers have been buried.
I remember seeing photos of the old monorails being buried !!
Long before the internet was created by Al Gore, giving the world Disney "freaks" a place to be.

Monorails... great, I suppose next we will hear that all of the old Mickey Mouse and other charachter heads are buried on property too. One of the Disney environmental dept guys lives down the street from me. He sure has some splainin to do!

 

[Montyboy]

Would you feel better if they were buried somewhere else?

 

[teebin]

Would you feel better if they were buried somewhere else?

I would feel better if they dismantled large items such as the subs, monorails, and cargo containers and recycled what they could of them.

 

[optjay]

I would feel better if they dismantled large items such as the subs, monorails, and cargo containers and recycled what they could of them.

Just think of this stuff as time capsules

 

[Rob562]

I would feel better if they dismantled large items such as the subs, monorails, and cargo containers and recycled what they could of them.

I'm sure that they did do that. Disney might have been able to sell them for scrap metal, but what happens if the company they sell them to decides not to actually scrap them?
Plus, I don't believe metal things like the subs contaminate the environment when buried like that. There's no hazard to ground water, it's just metal (which CAME from the ground in the first place...) Right?

At one point there was one of the mapping sites had Maple Road listed as Dump Road. Perhaps that was the name before they built the fireworks storage area up there.

As for fireworks testing, they do enough of that in the parks after-hours.

-Rob

 

[Gorjus]

The aerials photos pre-date Wishes, so there aren't any of the Fantasyland launch sites built yet. To see those, check out local.live.com for newer photos.

====> I have recently discovered that local.live.com (windows live local) is not very up to date. It has the best photos, especially the bird's eye view, but yahoo seems to be the most up to date. Windows live local does not show HWY 429 to the west of WDW. And this highway is up and running from the north down to 192.

Gorjus