Originally Posted By Donny Check out <a href="http://youtu.be/DpXL72cMNV4" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/DpXL72cMNV4</a>
Originally Posted By Donny To see it from the People mover it looked like some kind of huge secret government project.
Originally Posted By tashajilek I have been on SM in DL with the lights on, and it was kind of neat to see all the track.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 When I was a manager in Tomorrowland I used to let the closing crew ride SM with the lights on if they ran all night without a breakdown. Doesn't look that impressive from the ground but it is kind of scary from the vehicle. The CM's loved it
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom That is an lot of steel! But my initial reaction is that it doesn't look like anything way done to the inside ceiling. It is badly in need of a paint job ( which I thought was one of those things done during the year long shut down and refirb a couple years back ). You can see where the ceiling has been patched up. Makes me wonder why WDW Space Mountain was shut down for a year with little to show for it.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 The answer is tracks, tracks, tracks. The tracks were in terrible shape in several places
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Would the year long shut down have been a great opportunity to demonish everything build a one track coaster instead of tandem coaster that could seat quests side by side, had music in the cars, fix the leaky roof, paint the ceiling, add better lighting effects inside? I know where they could find a disco ball on property what would improve the lighting effects. I thought they had also removed asbestos during the year long shut down.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Why would it need painting when the ride is in the dark? Kinda of a waste of paint isn't it? That's picky beyond the call of duty.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <<Why would it need painting when the ride is in the dark?>> Apparently it is not run in the dark all the time, like this past Monday when someone shot this video. A quick check on youtube.com also shows that there are dozens of other videos filmed inside various Disney parks' space mountains with the lights on. Paint serves many purposes. Not only does it make things look good but paint also provides protection against harsh humid environments like those of central Florida. Just smell inside any Disney WDW resort or WDW Disney park attraction and you can quickly determine WDW has a major mold problem. The roof of WDW's Space Mountain leaked like a sieve for years until recently repaired. Repairs that took a year and as this video proves with only patches to the interior ceiling damage. I have been on Space Mountain during a rain storm ( which are fairly frequent in most months in Central Florida ). I got soaked! So what your telling me is that it is better for Disney Company to spend obscene amounts of money ( Disney has committed 1 Billion USD ) on technology for RFID chip refillable mugs right now only available at their All Star Resort, and despite shutting down the Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain ( one of the single most popular rides in that park ) for a year. That this is somehow better than providing routine maintenance on the interior ceiling of Space Mountain on those rare ocassions when the attraction might be run with the lights on. And yes exterior and interior painting in central Florida is rountine maintenance. And quite frankly I have no idea what kind of material was used on the interior of Space Mountain. I do know that many buildings contructed during the 70s were insulated using asbestos. Goodness knows there was plenty of it in the World Trade Towers. I also know that whatever material that was used on the ceiling of Space Mountain hung from the inside ( from rain damage ) so much it looked like stalactites. What ever was used to insulate the interior ceiling of the MK's Space Mountain, I would rather not be breathing it in. In my opinion is should be sealed up with paint.
Originally Posted By Manfried If it was run with the lights on, it was probably because it had broken down and they had to clear the tracks.
Originally Posted By Bellella Rained on while on Space Mountain? How could they let that happen? It's not meant to be run while all wet!
Originally Posted By MrDisney72 Hm, if I remember correctly, Space Mountain was down perhaps two years ago for maintenance that lasted around 6 months. Is it down again for an entire year? What are their actual plans on the refurb this time? As far as tracks go, I remember that the tracks were in pretty bad shape when they renovated last time, but they decided just to 'repair' the tracks rather than replace it altogether.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom We are talking about the same repair MrDisney72. I'm not sure how long space mountain was down for. A year, six months? You'd think more would have been done than just changing our the tracks in that amount of time such as needed repairs to the interior ceiling, including painting it.
Originally Posted By MrDisney72 I really would have liked to have seen them really redo a lot of the scenery within the ride. I like the fact that the setup of the ride is so much different than the other Space Mountains (two tracks), but the scenery on the lift hill and the other random tidbits on the ride could definitely use a sprucing up. Also, what is this garbage about $1 Billion being spent on the refillable plastic mugs? I hadn't heard anything about this!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Disney hasn't spent $1 billion on the technology yet. Disney has committed to spend $1 billion USD on what they call Next Generation Technology ( or Nextgen). <a href="http://emergingdigitalmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/01/disney-to-spend-billion-on-next.html" target="_blank">http://emergingdigitalmuseum.b...ext.html</a> So far the only thing to have come out of this are the RFID chip refillable mugs being tested at they All Star Sports resort. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6dVh7-cY5Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...Vh7-cY5Q</a>
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Here is a better article. <a href="http://disneybythenumbers.com/blog/blog_files/d2466aa8627f5d46adf95ea83511fbe5-671.html" target="_blank">http://disneybythenumbers.com/...671.html</a>
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Althought most people don't have a problem per se with RDID technology in refillable mugs or wrist bands. Most objections are with the allocation of the obscene amount of dollars ( between 1 and 1.5 Billion USD ) being spent on this Disney folly. Which will not enhance any Disney park. Most Disney fans would much rather have seen these monies spent rather on Disney park features, shows, rides/ attractions, maintenance, expansion and upgrades to monorail systems and other modes of Disney transportation.
Originally Posted By MrDisney72 Ah, when I first started reading the article, all I could think of were some kind of identification on park passes that would allow a 'personalized' experience. They must have extremely big plans in the works to justify spending that much money on it. As a huge fan of the monorails, I really would have preferred that they update or expand the monorails. It would be awesome. The busses could also use a huge overhaul, as they were in pretty bad shape last time I went. $1 Billion is the same amount that I remember being spent on the DCA expansion. Can you imagine what could be done at WDW with that kind of money?
