Originally Posted By oc_dean Tomorrow's weather forecast for the city of Anaheim: 97 degrees. Imagine you are in one of the Mark VII cabins .. with just a slit opening in the windows ... and the cabin temperature is roughly another 5 degrees warmer - then add people sweeting - 20 per cabin ... increasing the humidity levels .. making it feel even hotter .... THEN add the smells that will trigger from those other bodies. Yes, we have the equivilent of Rocket Rods for the '00s !! I really don't see how they can go through with this design .. at all. I really can't!
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer I just read the Miceage article and can't say that I'm too impressed nor should you believe everything that you read. There's a whole going on that they don't seem to know about. The temps inside of the center cabins might very well be the least of the problems. Just for the record, although the center cars do not have air conditioning, each car has 4 ventilator fans that were designed to supplement the air flow that comes in through the pop-out windows. They have not worked as well as anticipated and Disney has been working to improve their efficiency.
Originally Posted By oc_dean With WDI outsourcing so many things these days ... I wonder if the cliché: "Right hand does not know what the left is doing" come in! And while all this is going ..... Peoplemover 2.0 is supposed to be a more enclosed unit than the first - 1967. Rocket Rods has been gone since 2000. 8 years have passed ...... Sure can figure out --ONE-- reason why a new design is taking forever! What a conundrum! In order to keep us wild animals from not sticking our hands, feet, arms, legs, heads outside the vehicle .... the vehicle has to be a more enclosed design. Inhibiting air flow! And lesser air flow means the need for A/C units ...Which they seem to want to steer away from. Seems sending astronauts to the moon is easier!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Between the construction of DCA, the Nemo Subs construction, and now this "new" monorail fiasco, it hasn't been a very good decade for the Disneyland Monorail System.
Originally Posted By believe >>>> I just read the Miceage article and can't say that I'm too impressed nor should you believe everything that you read. There's a whole going on that they don't seem to know about. <<<< Yup, nail miceage for being wrong about the monorails going online in Feb 08 (or was it April?). Miceage's sources were obviously way off. What kind of uncredible, lousy source did Al have for the monorails going online anyway? Yup, don't believe everything you read, especially from miceage. --- what? huh?! Just found out the lousy, uncredible source was officially from Disney themselves - oooops!
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer >>what? huh?! Just found out the lousy, uncredible source was officially from Disney themselves - oooops!<< good point, I wouldn't believe everything that Disney is releasing either. BTW, I certainly don't blame Disney for repeatedly postponing the date that Monorail Red was scheduled to go on-line. They were acting upon the best information available at the time and, as new issues arose, had to respond accordingly. I doubt that anyone wants the new Monorails to be transporting guests until all operating and safety issues have been resolved.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I guess I can just chock this off as any other project where things could go wrong, and do. How about the number of times Splash Mountain's opening kept getting pushed up .... and up .. and up. I believe the original date was mid 1988. I think a year and a half went by between the first date planned .. and the date it actually opened. As Ethel Merman says in the "Mad World" movie clapping her hands very "matter of fact" : THESE THINGS HAPPEN!!!
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I doubt that anyone wants the new Monorails to be transporting guests until all operating and safety issues have been resolved. >>> Absolutely not. But one must ask: what was the underlying cause of the operating and safety issues?
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer >>But one must ask: what was the underlying cause of the operating and safety issues?<< SuperDry, that's probably the most valid question that has been asked on all three of these monorail threads. <--removes Mouse Ears as a sign of respect.
