News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

[Surferboy567]

Finishing it and letting it sit means spending the money now. Finishing the building envelope is a milestone that allows for easy mothballing.

Aren’t they doing this with Rat?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Aren’t they doing this with Rat?

Ratatouille was much further along in its construction, being nearly complete.

 

[marni1971]

Aren’t they doing this with Rat?

To a much much lesser extent. Rat was delayed by the shutdown for various reasons. Now they’re gearing up to open but not at as fast as pace as is possible, but it’s not sitting dormant.

 

[Brer Panther]

Isn't construction being halted because of the Splash Mountain retheme?

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Isn't construction being halted because of the Splash Mountain retheme?

Construction is being halted in the name of the almighty dollar. The parks are hurting. 3 of them aren't even open.

They'll get through it, but they're hanging onto every possible dollar in the meantime.

 

[peter11435]

Isn't construction being halted because of the Splash Mountain retheme?

Not related

 

[JoeCamel]

Isn't construction being halted because of the Splash Mountain retheme?

Well you are consistent.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Just noticed that the pictures showing the coaster reentry portal being closed up also show sheathing blocking the main guest entrance.

 

[SilentWindODoom]

No it really doesn’t make sense. 2021 theoretically should start to pick up and they should be able to open more as the virus gets under control with vaccine roll outs. Shutting down construction for most of 2021 does not make sense especially when you have a highly anticipated anniversary in October. Halt new projects no doubt but stopping ones they are in the middle of like this just seems incredibly dumb.

Why? You've got cautious people in the US and every market outside of the country that have put off their visits until now, some of which haven't got a closer park to enjoy, that haven't gone in what will likely approach if not reach a year. They will come back when it's open no matter what. You could do literally nothing and have people coming.

Honestly? It's super jaded to say, but if the virus hangs on into the spring, you could sit back, spend the summer bringing back and retraining people, and reopen a number of experiences that aren't currently open in October and market the 50th anniversary as "Walt Disney World's Second Grand Opening".

Is there an aerial photo that shows the route of the replacement train track? Does it finish the connection with the existing track at the Main Street station?

It's all just dirt with retaining walls, a number of which don't have dirt on either side of them, so it's all just a mess with nothing there yet.

It’s not like Disney doesn’t have the money.

50% of "Disney Magic" is customer service and they lost a lot of those people, so many devoted true believers who have told their story. That's not the move of someone who has all of the money in the world.

 

[corran horn]

Well they *could have* been spending all this downtime at DL doing maintenance on everything under the sun. "They have the money", right?

Don't hold your breath on that though.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Well they *could have* been spending all this downtime at DL doing maintenance on everything under the sun. "They have the money", right?

Don't hold your breath on that though.

They updated Snow White...

 

[Disney Analyst]

Just caught the photos of the walled off track exit point. That wasn’t what I was expecting when people spoke of “walled up”.

Wow. I guess they really are halting for a while.

 

[IMDREW]

Does this “finishing the canopy now” everyones talking about mean the whole canopy (as in all panels and stuff, making it completely covered). Or just the framing work we can see already up now?

 

[JoeCamel]

Does this “finishing the canopy now” everyones talking about mean the whole canopy (as in all panels and stuff, making it completely covered). Or just the framing work we can see already up now?

They will put the panels in and do minimal landscaping to clean it up and hide and secure what they can. Who knows, 6 months - a year they start again.

 

[mikeymouse]

I hope they get to a point so that the MKRR can be restarted. Ridiculous that it's been down for two years now!

Even with Splash Mountains install, they still ran a portion of the line frontwards and backwards, which I understand won't be done again.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Even with Splash Mountains install, they still ran a portion of the line frontwards and backwards, which I understand won't be done again.

To be fair, the park was much less crowded back then. Even if they wanted to do it, it would probably turn into a discovery river boat situation since there would only be 1 train set.

I agree that It’s a real shame the train has been down for over 2 years now and it’s looking like it could be 3 or even close to 4 years until it’s operating again.

 

[trainplane3]

Even with Splash Mountains install, they still ran a portion of the line frontwards and backwards, which I understand won't be done again.

Modern day safety reasons and ops won't allow it.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Modern day safety reasons and ops won't allow it.

There are no safety reasons or ops reasons that prevent the WDW RR from operating in reverse with guests. It was done on a daily basis with guests on the behind the scenes tour.

 

[marni1971]

There are no safety reasons or ops reasons that prevent the WDW RR from operating in reverse with guests. It was done on a daily basis with guests on the behind the scenes tour.

There’s a safety consideration that prevents the train running backwards on the route section unaffected by TRON.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

There’s a safety consideration that prevents the train running backwards on the route section unaffected by TRON.

What is it?