Every omnimover should have a wheelchair car similar to Mermaid and Nemo. There’s no excuse for rides like Buzz, Haunted Mansion, Spaceship Earth and Figment to not have a roll in option. I’d imagine Peter Pan’s Flight could also manage it would just be tricky given the aerial track.
Nemo is able to load without stopping the ride vehicle it sees cast members handling the wheelchair as they get the wheelchair onto a car. The car itself has a ramp that swings out onto the moving walkway allowing for a wheelchair to glide right in.
Nothing new, it has been like that for years and years. Yes, some disabled need help to get from their wheelchair to the ride car and back out at the end..
They're actually are many rides that are accessible by wheelchair and have special cars. I agree there should be more.
Yes... Exactly. There is no reason more attractions cant be fit with accessible features. Ever since DW and I started WDW trips Ive seen Disney get more and more disabled friendly.
Just wanted to add that DW's service dog also is able to ride in the accessible cars with her. Depending on the ride car set up, they have me pre load and bring the dog on until DW loads or they load her with the dog together. On the Safari ride truck they tether the dog on his collar with a second leash attached to the w/c tie downs.
I haven't been on RR so I may not be understanding what you are saying, but by not having a special roll in car and rather a separate load area, I would think it gives Disney more flexibility in handling wheelchair people as they do not need to wait for a specific car to load them into. Rather, they can have any car sent onto the side track to load in a wheelchair party thereby allowing multiple parties to be on the ride at once.
So for Runaway Railway after the preshow there’s a special side room for guests who may need more time to load onto the vehicle to exchange from their chair to the vehicle.
That is indeed when the larger numbers arrived, however, not everyone waited for the government to tell them what to do or what they wanted to do, so there were still a few that ventured into the parks. In the early days they were accommodated mostly at the exit to the ride because many of the entrance line stanchions were not large enough to accommodate a wheelchair.
I thiught that too but Mermaid does vary in elevation as well as the ride goes down and up when you go under the sea and back to land. I’m not sure how it compares to Haunted Mansion but it’s def a lot less than Spaceship Earth. Bit hey if Spaceship Earth gets that long refurbishment cpuld be a nice surprise
I only saw one attraction that had the no stop system and that was Wheels or Motion. That one, however, did require a standard Wheelchair and a CM to carry off the loading to maintain some control. Tp the best of my recall they had to get a semi running start behind the lowered ramp, precision dropping into the cutout depressions for the the wheels to drop in and to raise the ramp. Then or course, the reverse at the end of the ride. Motorized vehicles would probably be to much of a risk so even if they have a car the can handle the extra space, with the variety of vehicles out there to day, they would have to stop things to get them situated in the proper place to keep it safe for everyone.
