Ok Dis, riddle me this...

[Ursula J]

There *must* be an explanation, Dis fam! Why is it "Astro Orbiter" at one park and "Astro Orbitor" at the other?

 

[WaltsFrozenHead]

Orbitor naming rights got sold to universal for east of the Mississippi

 

[Westerner]

Found some rumor that Astro Orbitor was misspelled by someone related to Eisner and it was left that way.

You could also consider Orbitor a proper noun in which case you can spell it any way you like

 

[k5xs]

LOL! What a great question.

Webster spells it "o-r-b-i-t-e-r" and does not even offer "o-r-b-i-t-o-r" as an alternate spelling.

Thinking the Disney app image you posted may have had "o-r" as a typo, I went to the Disneyland website, and sure enough, they spell it "o-r" on the website attraction description as well (and presumably in DLR as well).

But as Westerner points out, as it's a proper noun they can spell it however they like.

It is a curious thing. Thanks for pointing it out.