What Would YOU Do with A Monorail Car?

[Disney4family]

We would probably just use it for selfish reasons and pretend. Maybe have a film outside pretending we're there.
My husband thought of when we first went to the DVC place in a mall near us (which is no longer there). We walked into a Bay Lake Tower room replica in the mall. It was such a time warp, Stat Trek experience, he asked if he could stand on the balcony.
This monorail piece would be just that. An escape route to the real World for us.
And a lot of wine to help the trip. Cabernet...lots of Cabernet...

 

[Disney4family]

Sorry - Star Trek - not Stat Trek
Reminder to self. - post before the Cabernet...

 

[WhatJaneSays]

If I had 160k to spend on a monorail car . . . I’d build a fake "hole" in my den wall and make it look like it was crashing through my wall. In the cab part I’d have it all wired up to control the spiel/doors/lights/whatnot. In the seating area I’d take out all the seats (if they were still in there) and have some couches installed to match the original colors and probably some low tables to make it a little sitting room.

 

[Monorail Mike]

The guy who put the monorail up for auction, actually bought it last May for $40,000, from a store in Orlando that specializes in Disney Memorabilia. He said that if He doesn't get a buyer than He is going to move it cross country on a flatbed truck to California, where He lives. This was in an article in today's Orlando Sentinel. So if He gets anything close to $160,000, than I'd say it's a pretty good return on His investment.

Good find @Dgeek!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/trav...s-disney-monorail-burning-man-ebay-story.html

 

[FettFan]

Disney Apartment.

Good find @Dgeek!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/trav...s-disney-monorail-burning-man-ebay-story.html

"Our plan is to tell a story with it," Nowak said of the monorail. "This monorail worked for years for corporate America with its only choice of going around and around in a circle."

Oh god the guy's a Class-A hippie. :|

Guess I'd have to Fabreeze the thing and get out any pot smell first.

 

[acishere]

I don't know if I would want to own a monorail. I hear those things are awfully loud.

 

[FettFan]

I call the big one "Bitey".

 

[disneypearl]

Did he ever sell the monorail on eBay?

 

[copcarguyp71]

Anyone know the final sale value?

 

[Brian]

Hopefully someone more responsible bought it. That is a huge piece of WDW history and needs to be preserved.

 

[Bairstow]

Did he ever sell the monorail on eBay?

He may have sold it, but not through eBay. The auction was de-listed.

 

[draybook]

50 inch television+two seater couch=coolest man cave ever.

 

[FettFan]

50 inch television+two seater couch=coolest man cave ever.

Especially if you get a motion sensor on the door to play Jack Wagner's "Please Stand Clear of the Doors" spiel every time you enter and exit.

 

[ShookieJones]

Build the biggest bong evah!

 

[Phonedave]

I call the big one "Bitey".

What's a monorail without opossum?

 

[Monorail Lime]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Retired-Dis...-Train-Locomotive-Passenger-Car-/171748468436

For those who couldn't afford the last one, another Mark IV monorail is now up on eBay at a much more reasonable starting price. Sadly it had been left to rot in the Las Vegas desert for the past few years and requires major restoration.

I'd be interested if I had a place to store it. The Vegas monorails were former Lime and Coral so I'd have a 50/50 chance of owning my namesake.

 

[mergatroid]

Probably turn it into a Pole Dancing Club. A little cramped? Maybe, but then again all the customers would get a decent view

 

[Matt_Black]

I'd make it into a man-cave.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Here's the auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Wa...994?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item234d5ab2c2

I'd totally turn it into a bus. Imagine how cool it would be to take like a youth group to Disney World in that thing and the parking employees are like "Wait a minute.. o.o"