Originally Posted By sobal Why are the Mickey and Friends trams moving so slowly? My wife and came to the parks on Sunday (11/9) evening and the trams were driving less than 5 miles an hour. I guess we'll see if they're still going slowly today, but the speed was amazingly slow. This happened ways. Did someone fall off the tram and now they all have to drive at a snail's pace?
Originally Posted By dlkozy I know that last year 2 ladies who had much too much to drink in DTD fell off-but I don't think that that is why your tram was so slow.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I noticed the same thing last night. They go painfully slow any time they're next to the loading areas (from the time they leave the M&F loading until the entire tram has made the turn; as soon as the front car makes the turn under the Monorail on the way into DTD; until the last car has passed the Monorail on the way out of DTD; and from the tim the tram goes inside M&F until it reaches its final destination). It wasn't just that they were going slower than usual, but they were going slower than walking speed. We figured the first time we must have gotten a first time tram driver, but on the way back it seemed like they were all doing this. I have no idea what the reason is, but I'll be back again later today, and I'll see if they're going any faster. If they're not, I'll definately consider walking through DTD.
Originally Posted By dl1956 I personally didn't notice any speed reduction on my late October visit, hard to tell. If so, perhaps a tightening of the rules in response to the incident involving a tram and one of the display boards at the M&F loading station?
Originally Posted By Toy Maker I've heard from a few CM on the back of the tram that one time coming around the last turn at Mickey & Friends that the back few car hit the bushes and almost push a some people out of there seat. I also heard that there was another tram, again at Mickey & Friends, that hit the sign hanging on the bushes. I was told that the driver of that tram was trying to go around another tram and ran several car into the sign. In both cases the trams were going way to fast.
Originally Posted By submarine-maniac ^^^^ That happened a while ago though. This slow tram thing seems to have just started this weekend. I noticed it yesterday as well. Very strange. I will find out what I can tomorrow.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Alight sm, here are your credentials. And as usual, if your are captured we will disavow any knowledge of you. (sorry, there was just a 007 ad on the tely)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Last night (Monday), it seemed that the trams were back up to their usual speeds for most of the route. It did slow down a little once we went inside M&F, and that continued until we had made it all the way around the unloading area to the last loading spot (in front of the signs). It was still probably 2 or 3 times faster than what had happened on Sunday though. What had been unreasonably slow was all changed back to the usual speed, at least as far as I could tell. On the way back, the CM got on the loud speaker as we were going past the Christmas tree on the right side and said "Ladies and gentlemen, please direct your attention to the driver's left hand side where you will see something amazing, not the right hand side. I repeat, there is nothing to see on the driver's right hand side." At which point, everybody looked to the right and oohed and aahed at the tree, which had spotlights on it so we could see it pretty clearly through the fence.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin The tree was there on Oct 18, we saw it from the tram then...we were there the day before and didn't notice it. Whether we were too excited to look or it just wasn't there I don't know. Have the Halloween decorations on the tram route been removed and been replaced and when? I won't get to see them this year, I won't get to go back until February. bah!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The Halloween decorations are down, but they haven't been replaced by anything. In the past, there have only been decorations there for Halloween, and nothing else. It's kind of strange, considering that they are leftovers from one of TDL's different years (they have different character displays in the hub each year for all the different promotions they do, probably about 4-6 different ones each year), so I kind of wonder why they haven't done anything for Christmas. I know that TDL has stuff that they've used in the past, but I don;t know what happened to it. Unless it's been destroyed (which I hear is not uncommon for TDL decorations and unsold merchandise), I feel like DL could get some pretty cheap ones from them that are in great condition.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Nope. The Christmas stuff all officially starts this Friday, which doesn't leave much room for Thanksgiving. They should be getting the pardoned turkeys again this year, which will take up residence in Big Thunder Ranch, but that will be about it. They're selling Mickey and Minnie plushes at the Disney Showcase on Main Street dressed as pilgrims, but I couldn't find any other Thanksgiving merchandise last night.
Originally Posted By TeamRuster Wow, I just assumed they would. Being an American Holiday and this being an election year. American Spirit and all. Well the Christmas decorations are great!
Originally Posted By ArchtMig I went to Disneyland this past Friday, 11-14-08. The trams were running as slow as molasses in winter. It was really noticeable, and somewhat bothersome. Add the time it took to wait to get on the tram (why can't they stack those things up one after another like airplanes queued up to land at O'Hare International during times when the parks let out and the load/unload area is flooded with people all at once?) - plus the slow, slow running trams themselves - might almost have been faster just to walk all the way back to Mickey and Friends. And what's the deal with empty trams just sitting there, doing nothing, in the load/unload area when all of those people are waiting to get back to Mickey and Friends? Meanwhile, only one or two of the trams are actually DOING anything, and you have to wait forever for the next one to get here after the current one leaves.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones It was unfortunate that the same bozos responsible for DCA decided to rely on awful trams to get people from their behemoth parking structure to the park. It's too bad there isn't anything like this at Disneyland. <a href="http://www.tdrfan.com/around_the_resort/disney_resort_line_monorail/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tdrfan.com/around_t...ndex.htm</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>evening and the trams were driving less than 5 miles an hour. << Not only that .... but since 2001 .. when all this infrastructure went into place ... I can't tell you how frustrating it is in the evening ... and the tram system is jugging along like it's 1906. Meanwhile ... the crowds are heavy .. and I know it will take 3-5 cycles till I get on one .. which will take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes. At the end of the day ... when your legs and feet are beat after walking all day ... the last thing anyone wants is to STAND waiting for a tram! It's been this way for years .... and the company does nothing about it.
