The way the cars sway with the wind when stopped makes me a bit nervous. Not sure why. Same thing on Mickey’s Fun Wheel or whatever Pixar name they came up with
Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group headquartered in Austria has done 15,100 installations of such transport systems in 96 counties. Quite an impressive resume. No this is not a cheap system and it is a very experienced engineering firm in the field that generated it.
It was chosen because it was the cheapest option though correct?
Clearly not the cheapest, otherwise, we’d still have noodles.
They didn’t crash. They’re just in love.
Approx 15 years ago I was walking in the parking lot of DHS while the park was closing The guest tram going down the road and then some children darted in front of the tram full of guests. The tram driver swerved and crashed into a pole. I don't know if anyone needed medical attention but it caused some commotion with a number people converging to see if everyone was ok.
They could have done 10 Billion installations, but not one of them has the Disney imposed system design elements which make the Skyliner a unique installation.
At ski resorts where there are more of these systems the guests are more used to them, more physically fit and able and therefore board quicker. I expect many issues at Disney are still guest related, a slow guest May cause an e-stop and if the gondola stops in the wrong place or one part of the system stops quicker than others it causes the issues shown.
I don’t think the physical conditioning has anything to do with this. Maybe more so to do with the number of guests who just aren’t paying attention. There has to be a specific window when gondola arrives for the passenger to get on.
Fire Alarms E-Stop the rides and bring up house lights. If there was a fire at splash mountain, they aren’t waiting a 11 minutes for a ride to cycle to get guests off.
Shall I compare it to PeopleMover? In Disney and in love, it’s not a ride without a little bump!
Have a heart. Some of us are still not over the loss of guac at Pecos Bill, and now they're telling us there's no more $65 lo mein at the Polynesian?!!? It's a lot to take.
It seems like you are just downplaying the seriousness of this. Although this crash was more of a bump in your view, this should not be recurring.
Of course. I just wouldn’t go to TikTok. I’d pull out the emergency snack box under my seat and pull out marshmallows to roast as the cabin crosses the 200-degree mark.Have a heart. Some of us are still not over the loss of guac at Pecos Bill, and now they're telling us there's no more $65 lo mein at the Polynesian?!!? It's a lot to take.
Honestly though - maybe she was being melodramatic, but I feel for her. Hanging in a box suspended in the air for awhile, with no estimate of how long you'll be trapped there, would make anyone anxious.
The fact that it restarted so quickly suggests the safety police also don’t care. Also, when monorails are allowed to drive with doors open, we need to adjust our expectations. Survived the trip to the park? The Magic is still here.
I haven’t checked their status but NFPA is considering changes to the next edition of the model code that would allow rides to continue cycling in show mode during a fire to evacuate guests. Guests who stop too often panic and try to evacuate themselves, which can be dangerous. Even a long ride cycling for ten minutes can be faster than the process of evacuating guests from the vehicles. A few years ago a disable guest sued Disneyland after being left on “it’s a small world” while everyone everyone else was evacuated.
When theater kids grow up!
