The monorails are nearly 50 years old (not new and shiny), are at resorts with typically 2 other ways to get to the parks (busses and boats), and and are at resorts that are destinations in and of themselves. Plus, the hotel monorails aren’t the only monorails. You can take them to ttc and from mk to Epcot. Not the same situation.
So, that may be where the suggestion that maybe you’ll have to tap in to go to Pop but not between DHS and Epcot. Also, there’s not a boat from Pop to the Magic kingdom and nobody is going out of their way to Pop to shop or eat. There’s the busses and this gondola and they’re trying to take pressure off the busses. The point is to improve the capacity of their transit system before their 50th anniversary and before Star Wars hits.
There's no practical way to restrict access by destination. If the line from Epcot to CBR continues on to either Pop or DHS, all cabins slow and the doors open at every intermediate station. I assume the doors are opened mechanically by a device along the rail (there's no power to the cabins other than a battery.) I suppose it would be possible to invent a mechanism on the cabin that inhibits the doors opening, but it's not likely they would want to introduce that complexity and the additional safety implications.
That’s true that they have to build the rat show building. I’m just worried that one or all of these is going to mess with the forced perspective on the Eiffel Tower
That would be all or none, like I said. There's no way to allow Guests access for one destination but not another, because all cabins follow the same route.
It depends on if it’s one big loop and you just stay in the same cabin until you’re ready to exit or if you have to take a series of gondolas to get to your destination.
The only route that will be a through route is CBR to Epcot, with a slow to load/unload at Riviera. Hourly capacity on each gondola route is projected to be in the 4,000-5,000 range which means that they likely won't be resort exclusive. A single monorail only holds about 240 people for comparison.
The only reason they’d restrict it is if they foresee capacity problems. And I don’t know if they do or not. Just saying that’s the one argument to do it.
To be clear, I don’t care who rides it. Someone essentially said they didn’t understand why Disney would limit it. I’m just saying I think it depends on what Disney is trying to achieve and if capacity is an issue. I don’t actually care. I’m planning on visiting Feb 2019 and halfway talked myself into POFQ so the probability of me riding it any time in the remotely near future is low.
