DarthBrooks: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Give us Delta Dreamflight back!

Screw that - gimme Monsanto's Journey to Inner Space and TWA's Rocket to the Moon, biyatch!

Get your e-tickets ready, folks!

Now that's old-school!!! (and hotlinked)

/old enough to remember e-tickets
//knows the meaning of "more fun than an e-ticket ride at Disneyland"

andrew131: We're getting pretty close to the point that guys are sex offenders if tell a woman she looks pretty.

Pervert!

RealFarknMcCoy2: Get your e-tickets ready, folks!

I still have some A, D, and E tickets and the 1978 book they were in. Not really collector valued, as some of the other tickets in the book are gone.

From what I understand the driver was not a CP, but rather a local who was working and attending school at the same time. However I know for a fact that College Programmers do operate monorails, so you could theorhetically have someone as young as 17 or 18 driving, though I have no proof of this.

Had to work directly under a monorail today, but they weren't running so it was ok :X

RealFarknMcCoy2: Now that's old-school!!! (and hotlinked)

Japanese amusement parks I went to as a kid had that system - but by the time Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983, it was single price admission. Expensive as fark, but single price.

With the older amusement parks, used to be if you got a kid's admission you didn't get any of the best rides in the little book of tickets it came with, so you had to buy those extra from vending in the park.

When Tokyo Disneyland first opened and all the rides were brand new, everything was smooth smooth. There was a room where you saw some dioramas of history and the room turned to different stages, but it was so smooth we couldn't tell at first if the room is moving or the stage is moving (the American one had a similar ride "America Sings" I found out later). Anyway, one of the sections had a robot girl on a piano who gives a speech. My mother actually thought it was a real kid and made a loud comment about how that must be an awesome summer job, and people laughed. Ah, good times...

Much later I went to the one in Anaheim (original Disneyland) and was kinda disappointed to see that so many of the rides were identical other than being in English, just because I'd thought all the parks would be completely different.

All right, I'll do it:

Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail!
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
[big finish]
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!

Walt Disney World monorails collide head-on, one killed.

According to witnesses, a monorail was returning from Epcot when it slammed into the rear of the other train.

Submitard.

tiggerfan: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Forget 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Give us Delta Dreamflight back!

That ride was just a rip off of Eastern Airlines Dreamflight :)

The original was Eastern's "If You Had Wings"

Tui: tiggerfan OT: Do you happen to post on MiceChat under the same screen name?

No.jtown: "According to witnesses, a monorail was returning from Epcot when it slammed into the rear of the other train."

How is this a head-on collision?

It's not. It just looks that way.

featherspy: From what I understand the driver was not a CP, but rather a local who was working and attending school at the same time. However I know for a fact that College Programmers do operate monorails, so you could theorhetically have someone as young as 17 or 18 driving, though I have no proof of this.

Had to work directly under a monorail today, but they weren't running so it was ok :X

You have to be 18, hold a valid drivers license, and not be color blind.

Babbs: All right, I'll do it


You really didn't have to. I have the capability of looking up lyrics on Google as well.

tiggerfan:

No.

Oh good, because the one who posts there is kind of creepy,

jtown: "According to witnesses, a monorail was returning from Epcot when it slammed into the rear of the other train."

How is this a head-on collision?

One of the trains bonked its head on the tail end of the other train.

mike.thesauce: if you're over 12, and don't have kids, and are STILL going to any disney park, mr. hanson would like to have a word with you.

/please have a seat over there.

Piss off. Michael Jackson loved to go to Disney World when he was alive. I suppose Chris Hanson would have wanted to talk to him? Hmmm?

chewielouie: The original was Eastern's "If You Had Wings"

This!

That ride is why I fell in love with the romantic age of the Pan Am Clippers:

I took the fam out there last night. We rode the monorail hours before the crash, but not that line.

My question is,

are the trains running today?

thrgd456: I took the fam out there last night. We rode the monorail hours before the crash, but not that line.

My question is,

are the trains running today?

No.

skink: MattyFridays: A bunch of crap about how he is protecting kids by being a suspicious jerkwad

Not to be a total dick, but who made you the arbiter of what is and is not appropriate subject matter for my hobby?

I understand our collective fear of child predators, and share it, having two daughters of my own. However, candid people photography is my favorite kind of picture taking, having grown up on the classic photo essay work of National Geographic.

This means I take pictures of people...Lots of people. The history of 20th century art photography is on my side, here. Candid pictures of other humans, regardless of their age, is acceptable. If you have a problem with that, too farking bad.

Unless you have a law enforcement officer with you, or are one yourself, I have no responsibility to allay your suspicions.

How about my simple right not to have my picture taken?

I have a friend currently divorcing her amateur photog H over mostly this issue. He has exactly your attitude; doesn't get the BFD at all.

Yet protests CCTV and speed cameras. WTF??????

This is him, from his Facebook.



No matter what the reason, this is sad. He was young, and in college. :(

skink: RealFarknMcCoy2: Get your e-tickets ready, folks!

I still have some A, D, and E tickets and the 1978 book they were in. Not really collector valued, as some of the other tickets in the book are gone.

If you still have some unused E tickets in your possession, then either you, your parents, or your entire family was extremely lame.

It's_A_Farking_Secret: How about my simple right not to have my picture taken?

If you're in public, your picture can be taken.

Ouisch: HalfPiper: Is there a chance the line could bend?

Not on your life, my Hindu friend.

Were you sent here by the Devil?

Red Fist Of Harmony:

DarthBrooks: The one with Figment in EPCOT.

The guys that came up with that entire part of the park should be fed into a chipper-shredder feet first.

It was cute when it was new and I was a kid, but now it's just weird and crusty. Need I mention Captain Eo?

I hear they are bringing it back as Captain Ped-EO-phile.

FuturePastNow: It's_A_Farking_Secret: How about my simple right not to have my picture taken?

If you're in public, your picture can be taken.

This. In a public place, you have no expectation of privacy regarding photographs taken by others. That "simple right" you tout doesn't actually exist, Mr. Armchair Constitutional Scholar - and it's not a farking secret.

It's_A_Farking_Secret: How about my simple right not to have my picture taken?

If you ask me not to take your picture, or your family's I will respect that wish...Even though I don't think I am legally obligated not to do so, unless the photos are inappropriate. In all the years I have been photographing people, I have NEVER been confronted about it. So don't start now.

chewielouie: If you still have some unused E tickets in your possession, then either you, your parents, or your entire family was extremely lame.

Or we lived 90 miles from Disney World, and went whenever we wanted to :-P...I actually think this book is from when it changed over from ticket books to single admission.

Let's at least be fair about the "lone single guy over 25 in any disney park" thing.
A single guy over 25 running through all the EPCOT rides and sights is a lot less creepy than a lone guy with a DSLR camera in Fantasyland (Strollerland) or Tomorrowland...

almandot:
Video after the incident. (new window)

I am quite struck that the one Disney employee on the scene is more concerned with video being recorded than with providing meaningful help to the occupant of the immobile train.

hoyt clagwell: I am quite struck that the one Disney employee on the scene is more concerned with video being recorded than with providing meaningful help to the occupant of the immobile train.

I'm not.

radioshack: 20,000 leagues: Worst Disney ride ever.

SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

My first "real" job (other than slave labor in the family business) was driving a submarine at Disney World.

Yes, we actually "drove" them (big stretch of the word). It was a really cool summer for a 16-year-old. People didn't seem to realize that when the "submarine" - a really good carnival ride car - went back under the waterfall and "dived" - just some bubbles - it really went back into a room out of sight.

When I worked there, parts of that room was a break area for employees, complete with high school kids like me hanging out and smoking. For parts of the ride, the sub cruised along platforms that allowed friends to walk next to me an talk to me thru a little hatch.

It was also really fun to watch idiots on the ride below me. You would be amazed at the number of people who didn't seem to realize it was all just a stupid illusion and I was perched up above looking down at them. At least 10 times in a shift I sat there and watched completely oblivious couples get stinky fingers.

Hey - it relieved the abject boredom.

too2ez: At least 10 times in a shift I sat there and watched completely oblivious couples get stinky fingers.

True story. One night late on the Epcot Beam I get a call on the intercom from the back car. Pick it up (Not unusual that late at night, people asking if parking trams are running, can I go through the closed park to get to Boardwalk etc.). This guy goes "Can you slow down, we aren't finished yet".

And there have been a couple of cameras left behind too. We usually look at the pics on the digital ones to see if we recognize someone that just got off recently. Well, in this case the pics were a bit adult in nature. About an hour later we get a frantic call from a couple that lost their camera. Yes we have it. They come down, I ask them to describe it. Guy describes it perfectly, I go to give it back to him and he says "I can show you that there are pics of us on it if you want me to". Hardest straight face I've ever had to keep as a cast member.

As a former operator of the Six Flags Over Texas LaSalle's River Adventure, I'm getting a kick, etc.

/watch your step as you head out.
/watch your head as you step out.

Another chronic masturbator meets his doom.

almandot: Allow me to quote user NormalVisual from disney fan site micechat.com

The short, short version is that Monorail Central cleared Monorail Pink in reverse into the Concourse (the Epcot side of the TTC) station without being aware that Monorail Purple was still in the station.

The short, short, short version is that Disney outsourced their maintenance to the Washington, D.C. Metro system.

Came for the FAIL pic.
/Too soon apparently.

1) Adventurer's Club
2) Innerspace
3) Mr. Toad
4) They need a new version of Muppets 3D

madblader: Another chronic masturbator...

Hey -- let he who is without sin cast the first stone...

itazurakko: RealFarknMcCoy2: Now that's old-school!!! (and hotlinked)

Japanese amusement parks I went to as a kid had that system - but by the time Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983, it was single price admission. Expensive as fark, but single price.

With the older amusement parks, used to be if you got a kid's admission you didn't get any of the best rides in the little book of tickets it came with, so you had to buy those extra from vending in the park.

When Tokyo Disneyland first opened and all the rides were brand new, everything was smooth smooth. There was a room where you saw some dioramas of history and the room turned to different stages, but it was so smooth we couldn't tell at first if the room is moving or the stage is moving (the American one had a similar ride "America Sings" I found out later). Anyway, one of the sections had a robot girl on a piano who gives a speech. My mother actually thought it was a real kid and made a loud comment about how that must be an awesome summer job, and people laughed. Ah, good times...

Much later I went to the one in Anaheim (original Disneyland) and was kinda disappointed to see that so many of the rides were identical other than being in English, just because I'd thought all the parks would be completely different.

you rode MEET THE WORLD, and yes, the stages rotated around the audience center. It is no longer there, sadly.

\

RealFarknMcCoy2:
Get your e-tickets ready, folks!

Now that's old-school!!! (and hotlinked)

/old enough to remember e-tickets
//knows the meaning of "more fun than an e-ticket ride at Disneyland"

The Hall of Presidents was an E-Ticket attraction???? Wow.

Nightmaretony: you rode MEET THE WORLD

Ha! Yes, that's it. I'd not looked that thing up ever, definitely remember the signs now I googled it.

Ah, good old 80's memories!

Years ago some friends and I were waiting to board a monorail at the Polynesian resort. I had been told by another pilot earlier in the day that you could ride in the cockpit if you asked, so I did, and the captain told me that would be OK as he exited the vehicle.

We stook there for quite a while, and when he didn't return, I figured out how to open the door and we climbed inside. When he returned, he was a little upset we'd done that, but eventually settled down. As he pulled out of the station, he told us the story of another monorail crash that had happened some time before. Must be the '74 incident that's related in this thread:

http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?t=6118

I should add that it was late, late at night when the above happened.

Tom_Slick: It looks like it happened at a station, so it was probably a rear-end crash.

It was rear-end. There is no possible way for monorails to crash head-on, since they all go the same direction on one track.

And I didn't even have to RTFA to know that.

HalfPiper: Is there a chance the line could bend?

Not on your life my half-Scot friend.

/track, not line

Maybe he was distracted by...

http://monorail-girl.com/

NSFW

dstanley

Just to let you know, the people mover is actually the blue train ride thingy in Tomorrowland inside the Magic Kingdom. But thanks for playing :)

Monorail/subway trifecta now in play? Where will it strike next?!

amster77: dstanley

Just to let you know, the people mover is actually the blue train ride thingy in Tomorrowland inside the Magic Kingdom. But thanks for playing :)

Just to let you know, that's actually the Tomorrowland Transit Authority

knoxvelour: Just to let you know, that's actually the Tomorrowland Transit Authority

Originally named the Wedway People Mover :)

tiggerfan: knoxvelour: Just to let you know, that's actually the Tomorrowland Transit Authority

Originally named the Wedway People Mover :)

Prior to the 1994 refurbishment