Replacement of the Fake Monorail Shuttles at MCO

[Shelly F - Ohio]

https://twitter.com/MCO/status/786319765707063296/photo/1

 

[rteetz]

Yep part of a multi-year project at MCO

 

[Flight]

Maybe they will also replace the announcement from the mayor of Orlando and bring back the original announcement that was welcome to many visitors.

 

[Polydweller]

Got to ask, why are you calling them fake. They are shuttles never were monorails, nothing fake about them.

On a different note, there have been problems with them for several years. One shuttle had a car blocked off for the last two years. After 35 years they aren't serviceable.

 

[rteetz]

Got to ask, why are you calling them fake. They are shuttles never were monorails, nothing fake about them.

On a different note, there have been problems with them for several years. One shuttle had a car blocked off for the last two years. After 35 years they aren't serviceable.

Fake-o-rail is a name given to them by a lot of Disney fans.

They are sort of monorails but also a bit different.

 

[disboardlover]

Maybe they will also replace the announcement from the mayor of Orlando and bring back the original announcement that was welcome to many visitors.

We were at the airport last week, and I am almost sure the announcements were voiced by Jack Wagner, Disney's man of a thousand voices.

 

[mcjaco]

We were at the airport last week, and I am almost sure the announcements were voiced by Jack Wagner, Disney's man of a thousand voices.

Depended on which way you were headed. Arriving - Jack Wagner. Departing - the mayor.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

So excuse my ignorance here but are they replacing them with the same thing or are they doing away with them in favor of something else?

 

[Skywise]

Ok - show of hands here -

Who's joked with their first time travelling companions that the terminal shuttles are actually monorails that take you straight to the park!

 

[rteetz]

So excuse my ignorance here but are they replacing them with the same thing or are they doing away with them in favor of something else?

Brand new Mitsubishi people mover trams

 

[wilkeliza]

So glad these are being replaced. Now perhaps the right side of Terminal A will have more than 1 car operating going to the terminals. The 2nd car has been down for as long as I can remember.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Brand new Mitsubishi people mover trams

Thank you!

I ended up googling them using your info in your response to me and saw an article from the Orlando Sentinel and this is the image from the article (eta which was from mid-march 2016):



I do like modernization here and there but I do hope they can still give people that Disney monorail feeling as cheesy and old school as that sounds.

 

[Polydweller]

Fake-o-rail is a name given to them by a lot of Disney fans.

They are sort of monorails but also a bit different.

Well, that's the first I heard that name. Helps understand. But they aren't monorails at all. Elevated automated trams is a better description.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Wow...slow news day, huh?

I find it ironic that the inter-terminal tram is even worth the ridicule of Disney fans on a pedestal...what is the angle with that?

I mean...it's not as though the Disney monorail system is in peak condition...

And they kinda gave up on that as a systems decades ago...

...and have spent the last 10 years looking for bigger and better belchers...

Haters gonna hate...I guess

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Wow...slow news day, huh?

I find it ironic that the inter-terminal tram is even worth the ridicule of Disney fans on a pedestal...what is the angle with that?

I mean...it's not as though the Disney monorail system is in peak condition...

And they kinda gave up on that as a systems decades ago...

...and have spent the last 10 years looking for bigger and better belchers...

Haters gonna hate...I guess

Where's the ridicule you are speaking of here on this thread?

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Where's the ridicule you are speaking of here on this thread?

The original title?

Fake-o-rail?

Don't get me wrong...it's harmless...but also kinda mindless, no?

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The original title?

Fake-o-rail?

Don't get me wrong...it's harmless...but also kinda mindless, no?

Ah.

I guess...but as mentioned earlier fake-o-rail is basically a nickname people have given it. I suppose you could take it in a negative way. I just take the nickname as it's a monorail but not the monorail that people are excited to be on in Orlando though I always took it as it built the anticipation up for the Disney monorail I would eventually be riding on.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

Never heard of fake-o-rail either.

Regardless, both trains were running to 1-59 tonight.

MG

 

[rteetz]

Never heard of fake-o-rail either.

Regardless, both trains were running to 1-59 tonight.

MG

I believe they are only taking one train down at a time and one closed today.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

I believe they are only taking one train down at a time and one closed today.

Just rode it... both were running.

ETA: many cars were roped off however.

MG