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I've got a few rather boring questions about the 20K lagoon area in the Magic Kingdom when it was being used for the character meetings and stuff...and the skyway... 1) Did the lights still come on at night? In many pics I see lights over near the dock and stuff. Did it light up at night or was it dark and creepy? 2) Any lights in the water at all? I'm guessing no. 3) Do the Skyway stations still light up at night? I know the Fantasyland one does as per my trip in June but I didn't notice the Tomorrowland one. 4) Is there ANY truth at ALL to the rumor that the Skyway could come back? (Read it on WDWMagic). As in, ANY POSSIBILITY whatsoever, with safer cabins or something? Or is it a totally not-gonna-happen rumor?
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If WDW's removal of skyway is as complete as Disneylands, I doubt there will EVER be another skyway. Disneyland removed all the towers and sealed the caverns in the Matterhorn that the skyway use to go through. When I was at WDW a year ago, I don't remember seeing any towers remaining. -
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The only remaining thig of the WDW skyway are it's 2 stations, and most of it's cabs are in storage in the TL station. the TL station does light up somewhat, just usually not as bright as it once did. the FL station is illuminated similarily.Comment
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If A - E tickets still exsisted I doubt if the Skyways would have been removed.Waiting forGodotMicechat.comComment
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TL's skyway station stays dark, it's creepy cleaning behind it at night. The exception being the MNSSHP, in which they illuminate the upstairs with an image of a Mickey ghost.Comment
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Skyway systems at Theme Parks throughout the country are/were being removed. After a few accidents and with states lowering the wind resistance standards that would automatically shut down the rides, it became too much of nuisance to parks to keep them running in that a gust of wind could kick in the safety mechanism and shut down the ride leaving guests stranded up in the air.
In many cases, guests themselves made the matter worse by rocking the cages unseating them slightly (very dangerous) between towers, and causing the ride safety mechanisim to kick in at the next tower, in addition to that, some guests found it fun to drop things from the cars to the unsuspecting guests below.
I have seen these rides removed from several theme parks, not just Disney's parks, but parks from Six Flags and Paramount as well. I doubt that we will see these types of rides in theme parks again.Comment
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Six Flags New England still has a sky way ride (I rode it about 2 weeks ago) but the chances of it returning to any Disney parks is extremely unlikely.Comment
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SFNE & SFoG still have them. Lots of parks still do...but they are not efficient rides for Disney parks.
And everything is gone that they used to travel on, including the turn around. They are not coming back.Comment
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sea world san diego has one. It goes out over the bay.
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Disneyland never got rid of the towers.Originally posted by musiken View PostFriend walks into line of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh-"Come on, Let's go see Country Bear- .......Oh."-August 1st 2010
And this elevator traverls directly toThe Twilight ZoneThe Gift Shop!-August 2nd 2010Comment
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"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
- Satchel PaigeComment
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Cedar Point still has their skyway.Comment
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So no Skyway, but what about 20K? Did it light up at night after the closure (1994 - 2004)?Comment
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I can't remember since it's been so long... but part of me wants to say they at least lit up the statue of King Triton that was in the water by Ariel's Grotto.Comment
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That must've looked cool! I wanna see pics of the lagoon at night now. Someone must have taken them in all those years...Originally posted by aimster View PostComment
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I would beg to differ. I remember there use to be one in the middle of the line for Mr. Toad. It is no longer there. Maybe a few more are still around, but at least that one is gone.Originally posted by Walt Jr. View PostComment
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Only the one encased by the Matterhorn supposedly remains. The others are all gone.Originally posted by Walt Jr. View PostComment
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That makes sense. I doubt they would bother ripping out the one inside there.Originally posted by lazyboy97O View PostComment
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