News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

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gorillaball

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TrainChasers said:
I’m expecting those pathways to become one way. They aren’t wide enough for 2 way traffic to an e-ticket.

Unless there is some weird exit plan that I’m not aware of like the exit going through the light and power company or something.
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I can't imagine they'd be one way, maybe for when the ride first opens temporarily or just after rope drop but for them to be one way would swing you clear to another part of the park.

If you think about the walkway past the arcade it's not significantly more narrow than some other bottlenecks, you just have to get through it and then it opens up. Disneyland laughs at what we call at bottleneck at WDW.

Also - I swore when they closed Indy for a while they were going to remove the slope next to the track that is right there (I envisioned retaining wall), that would have widened the walkway. Maybe they deemed it unsafe to have people that could bet that close to the cars going by?
 
Beacon Joe

Beacon Joe

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Andrew M said:
I saw a rumor on FB, which I'm taking with about a tablespoon of salt, that they 'messed up with the clearances and the train doesn't fit', which from an Engineer's perspective seems completely ridiculous that something could progress this far without being caught.
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I don't know. My systems engineering and design lifecycle courses were chock full of such examples. And class discussion once made great hay from another Disney World railway less than 1.5 miles east southeast of the Magic Kingdom's railway, a great example of poor planning and complete disjointedness between multiple shops under a theoretically unified project plan.

One would also think that a critical requirement for the Tron ride project would be that its construction not prevent the park's iconic railway, a signature feature from Walk Disney himself, from operating during the park's 50th anniversary celebration, too.
 
Seanual757

Seanual757

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Beacon Joe said:
I don't know. My systems engineering and design lifecycle courses were chock full of such examples. And class discussion once made great hay from another Disney World railway less than 1.5 miles east southeast of the Magic Kingdom's railway, a great example of poor planning and complete disjointedness between multiple shops under a theoretically unified project plan.

One would also think that a critical requirement for the Tron ride project would be that its construction not prevent the park's iconic railway, a signature feature from Walk Disney himself, from operating during the park's 50th anniversary celebration, too.
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The railroad would have been open if construction had not been halted because of the pandemic. When Disney put the project on hold crews were dispatched to other jobs the plan was to not start back up until the fall of 2021 on Tron. The GC and Subs have run into issues getting the crews at 100% Disney does not care how and who they get as long on construction moves forward but they lost close to a year so Yes the railroad suffers from not being open for the 50th at this time.
 
Beacon Joe

Beacon Joe

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Seanual757 said:
The railroad would have been open if construction had not been halted because of the pandemic. When Disney put the project on hold crews were dispatched to other jobs the plan was to not start back up until the fall of 2021 on Tron. The GC and Subs have run into issues getting the crews at 100% Disney does not care how and who they get as long on construction moves forward but they lost close to a year so Yes the railroad suffers from not being open for the 50th at this time.
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I understand the impact of the company's decision that slid the schedule massively to the right. But then again how many years did the same company take to build a bridge connecting the Grand Floridian walkway to the Magic Kingdom walkway?
 
Beacon Joe

Beacon Joe

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DoleWhipDrea said:
In my experience at the parks on both coasts, it doesn't matter how much room you have - guests will still walk in a way to make it difficult for any other person to walk there, too. The amount of large paths I've had blocked by one party walking together horizontally... :banghead: :rolleyes:
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And there seems to be a strong positive correlation between the average size (headcount and waistline) of the party and its propensity to walk abreast. :D
 
Andrew M

Andrew M

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Beacon Joe said:
I don't know. My systems engineering and design lifecycle courses were chock full of such examples. And class discussion once made great hay from another Disney World railway less than 1.5 miles east southeast of the Magic Kingdom's railway, a great example of poor planning and complete disjointedness between multiple shops under a theoretically unified project plan.

One would also think that a critical requirement for the Tron ride project would be that its construction not prevent the park's iconic railway, a signature feature from Walk Disney himself, from operating during the park's 50th anniversary celebration, too.
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Ha yes, I've seen that when a project gets broken up between different groups. Everyone works on their own piece and they don't exactly mesh in the end.

I have no idea how WDW Engineering operates, but I would've thought they would have a more streamlined process by now, I guess not.
 
corran horn

corran horn

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DoleWhipDrea said:
In my experience at the parks on both coasts, it doesn't matter how much room you have - guests will still walk in a way to make it difficult for any other person to walk there, too. The amount of large paths I've had blocked by one party walking together horizontally... :banghead: :rolleyes:
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or drive their scooters...or push their strollers...
 
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celluloid

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lazyboy97o said:
Even with all of the things that get missed in a project, not having the envelope of the Walt Disney World Railroad modeled seems too big of an item to have been forgotten and repeatedly missed in coordination.
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We are talking about the same company that made a calm boat ride in 2017 that did not have the ADA accessibility it should have when Pandora opened.
 
JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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celluloid said:
We are talking about the same company that made a calm boat ride in 2017 that did not have the ADA accessibility it should have when Pandora opened.
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Or the capacity or the length then put them in the same building so one has an alarm both shut down? Planning is not what this company is about any longer but I have a hard time believing they screwed up the clearance.
 
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celluloid

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JoeCamel said:
Or the capacity or the length then put them in the same building so one has an alarm both shut down? Planning is not what this company is about any longer but I have a hard time believing they screwed up the clearance.
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Maybe they were just jealous of the Space mountain re-entry tunnel grandfathered in. Put those hands up/out.
 

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