News Space Mountain and Disneyland Railroad closing for refurbishment in early August 2024

[chadwpalm]

Plus the vehicles no longer squeak!

 

[Too Many Hats]

Yay they fixed it, although I'll kind of miss going through the dark tunnel that we've had for a long time now.

Joking or trolling?

 

[Disney Irish]

Joking or trolling?

In regards to what, that I'll miss going through the dark? No that is not joking or trolling, I liked going through the dark tunnel, sue me.

 

[Disney Analyst]

 

[Too Many Hats]

I am ecstatic. Part of me wants to brave the 109 degrees and head to the park tonight, haha.

 

[CaptinEO]

Fantastic, when was the last time this worked? Brings me back to seeing this redo the first time in 2005!

 

[JSouth25]

Wow, it looks really good.

 

[Disney Analyst]

IMO, nothing spectacular. I kinda hoped they'd fully change that scene.

But at least they got it working AGAIN finally. Kinda the bare minimum we should expect.

 

[Too Many Hats]

Kinda the bare minimum we should expect.

My expectation at this point is that anything Disney has allowed to remain broken for over a year will stay broken forever. So this is a win, to me.

Also, Fresh Baked did a side-by-side comparison and it seems like an upgraded effect, not just a restoration.

 

[waltography]

My expectation at this point is that anything Disney has allowed to remain broken for over a year will stay broken forever. So this is a win, to me.

Also, Fresh Baked did a side-by-side comparison and it seems like an upgraded effect, not just a restoration.

Seems like they replaced the simple light bars for LED ones which means they do so much more than flash on and off. Pitch perfect enhancement of what was there before; I love how they play around with speed and do the flash bang at the end before the lift hill.

Can’t wait to see it in person tomorrow.

 

[DavidDL]

It looks great. I would love it if they'd bring back Ghost Galaxy, someday.

 

[chadwpalm]

Also, Fresh Baked did a side-by-side comparison and it seems like an upgraded effect, not just a restoration.

Partly upgraded, but actually mostly reverted.

This is a video of the effect in 2005:



From my understanding, the effect of it pulsating (before it stopped working) was added in 2017.

 

[DrAlice]

For someone with better memory.......

Did the station always have the blinking blue rectangle lights in the upper part of the walls? Did the ship above the load area always have the blinking lights on the panels? Those both stood out to me in the FB video, but it might have just been his camera settings making them more apparent.

 

[Misted Compass]

For someone with better memory.......

Did the station always have the blinking blue rectangle lights in the upper part of the walls? Did the ship above the load area always have the blinking lights on the panels? Those both stood out to me in the FB video, but it might have just been his camera settings making them more apparent.

From this video the only "new" things in the station I noticed were the starfield panels.

 

[D.Silentu]

For someone with better memory.......

Did the station always have the blinking blue rectangle lights in the upper part of the walls? Did the ship above the load area always have the blinking lights on the panels?

Years ago the blue rectangle lights were solid colors, but I can't recall when they were altered to have a pulsating effect. I can say it was long after the 2005 refurbishment. The blinking lights on the ship docked at the load have always done so, though their sequencing may be new.

 

[chadwpalm]

From this video the only "new" things in the station I noticed were the starfield panels.

Just so people know what you're talking about:

Old panels:

New panels:

Also, I noticed all the lights in the hallways were updated:

Old (circular):

New (Rectangle with a cover):

 

[chadwpalm]

Also misc. lighting:

Old:

New (or maybe replaced burned out bulbs):

I also feel like some of the color changes might be due to using different cameras and color difference in the sensors.

 

[waltography]

Rode it twice this morning (the heat’s melted the crowds away, what a perfect day!) and here’s what I noticed:

• Lighting throughout the queue feels refreshed. Nothing stood out in particular, but the queue felt more colorful than before.
• Load area feels brighter; I don’t remember the overhead lighting being as strong or warm before? But I could be making that up.
• Dispatch and restraint check both have refreshed lighting packages. It’s hard to see in the video, but in person the light bars have a nice electric pulsing effect. Note the angled light bars above the car on the left vs. the right (screenshot from the LMG video above):

Again, so awesome to have the light tunnel working again.

 

[Disney Analyst]

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Interesting - I was wondering why I hadn’t seen the Ward Kimball much! That grade made for some lovely stack talk echoing off the rocks - especially late at night when only 1 train was left on the rails and they would go for track speed the whole way.