Stupid Guest Tricks

Welcome to Disneyland! Your dreams don't come true until you work at the park for several years. At WDW they are more efficient in that they prefer to crush your dreams right away. :D: Just kidding, every job has its ups and downs, and aside from a couple of clueless managers, on balance I enjoyed ...

A few of my favorites: - I was working lagoon load (resort side) at the Magic Kingdom monorail station during an exit, and I had one guy with a double-wide stroller waiting to board one of the wheelchair-accessible cars (the two middle cars on each train). I explained to the gentleman that he'd have...

I think I know what you're talking about...I've seem them only up close at the Contemporary, walking from the parking lot towards the bus stop. There was a conduit running down pylons 45 to panels with a clear door with some electronic components. You can also see them at pylon 145 near the Poly bu...

PapaMouse wrote:Load tires are 445/65R22.5 Michelin XTE2

Sometimes. Goodyears are also used on the trains, but the Michelins seem to me to ride more smoothly.

Oh, and my answers :-) 1) How long is each Monorail at Walt Disney World? 203'6" 2a) How many cars did the Mark IV Monorails originally have? Either 5 or 6. The first batch of Mark IVs (prior to the expansion of the monorail shop) all had 5. 2b) How many cars did the Mark IV Monorails have when...

Hi, NormalVisual -- sorry, your first post seemed to get overlooked in the noise! Hehe, no problem, and thanks for the welcome! This is not Wikipedia. Do not come here and try and start trouble. Welcome....to my ignore list. Oooh, that stung. 'Tis always easier to put one's fingers in his ears and ...

Actually, I am not sure what the orange things are, but they are not part of the MAPO System. Actually, next time you're here I'll show you what the hold points look like from the ground. Unless you're riding with me, as I do everything I can to keep that monorail as close as possible to 40 mph at ...

Hi gang, and a big special hello to Zazu! This is Denise's husband, by the way. :-) That's 27,000 Watts or about 18 hair driers. Pretty efficient! It's actually 1.4 megawatts, assuming 700 VDC at 2000 amps. I personally have never seen the voltage go over about 620 VDC though, and the current is usu...