What happened to Monorail Pink?

[Randy B]

I have GOT to remember that acronyms are different on different boards and you are NOT talking about Trying To Conceive. :D:

That would give a whole new meaning to "the express". :D:

Randy

[Shorty82]

To Clarify,
20K Refers to the old twenty thousand legues ride which was dismantled and the lagoon filled. This was later built over with Winnie The Poohs ride, as well as the Pooh corners play area Characters Meet and Greet. There may have been more, but I forget how large it was.

Actually, the Pooh ride was built in the building Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was in and has been around since long before the lagoon was filled in. The only thing built over the lagoon was the playground and Meet and Greet

[Goofyernmost]

To Clarify,
20K Refers to the old twenty thousand legues ride which was dismantled and the lagoon filled. This was later built over with Winnie The Poohs ride, as well as the Pooh corners play area Characters Meet and Greet. There may have been more, but I forget how large it was.

See below!

Actually, the Pooh ride was built in the building Mr. Toad's Wild Ride was in and has been around since long before the lagoon was filled in. The only thing built over the lagoon was the playground and Meet and Greet

Ya, beat me to it. Sadly nothing else has replace that huge space. Seems wrong!

[Cranbiz]

To Clarify,
20K Refers to the old twenty thousand legues ride which was dismantled and the lagoon filled. This was later built over with Winnie The Poohs ride, as well as the Pooh corners play area Characters Meet and Greet. There may have been more, but I forget how large it was.

Have to disagree with you just a bit. 20K was not dismantled for the WTP ride.

You are correct about that it was where the current Pooh's playground is.

[Planner]

Last Fall I was waiting to get my one big dream to come true (ride the front of the monorail, I know groans from the CMs) I had the nicest conversation with this stately older CM at the MK stop who noticed my collection of monorails and asked if I had the pink one yet (nope) but much chatter on which trains were what color as the coral and pink seemed to get confused. This thread brought that back to mind, thanks for the memory tickle

[Shorty82]

Ya, beat me to it. Sadly nothing else has replace that huge space. Seems wrong!

I've heard rumors that Imagineering is planning to put some kind of E-ticket attraction there in the future and that the playground is only a temporary use of the space until they can start on the attraction.

[PapaMouse]

Not up on the reference, but it seems like they take out the old stuff and refurbish it to something that takes getting used to, the Mission to Moon/Alien escape/stich as an example. They should have just updated the Mission to the Moon and left it at that.

In WDW MK they closed 20K becasue it was too costly to maintain, and literaly burried it under dirt. Then they replaced it with something about Pooh's forest or something.

I agree 100% with them "killing" one attraction to create another. WDW has more land the the city of LA. I am sure they would haveno problem finding space to put new attractions.

To Clarify,
20K Refers to the old twenty thousand legues ride which was dismantled and the lagoon filled. This was later built over with Winnie The Poohs ride, as well as the Pooh corners play area Characters Meet and Greet. There may have been more, but I forget how large it was.

The Pooh Ride is where Mr. Toad used to be. The attraction that replaced 20K is "Pooh's Playful Spot"

[Big Wallaby]

I am sure they would haveno problem finding space to put new attractions.

The only real logistical problem is with space around the parks. Magic Kingdom has all sorts of stuff behind it that rule out adding on too much there, Epcot is surrounded on all sides by well-travelled roads, Studios is a little cubby carved in between World, Osceola and BVD. I guess it could expand East if they wanted to. The only park with any real space around it is AK. And that, I get the feeling, is because when they built it they weren't exactly sure what they wanted it to be.

[Cranbiz]

I think that there is enough space around Magic to do some limited expansion. You have space near Frontierland if you relocated a few buildings and Park3 and could also do something near Tomorrowland if you did a little relocation of World Dr and Pluto Park. Another spot is in the HM area.

Epcot has space for another World Showcase pavillion or 2.

Studios would need some serious rethought.

[Randy B]

Last Fall I was waiting to get my one big dream to come true (ride the front of the monorail, I know groans from the CMs) I had the nicest conversation with this stately older CM at the MK stop who noticed my collection of monorails and asked if I had the pink one yet (nope) but much chatter on which trains were what color as the coral and pink seemed to get confused. This thread brought that back to mind, thanks for the memory tickle

Having painted my toy monorails to fit the color scheme of the WDW trains I know that the way to recognize the last two colored trains is, Coral and Lime have a white patch in the middle of the stripe on each car. All other colors have a solid stripe.

Randy