Rides with moving walkways

[SueM in MN]

Everything here is correct except Imagination does not have a moving walkway.

Thanks. It did used to and I wasn't absolutely sure if it still did. (I can count on one hand the number of times we have been on it witout someone using a wheelchair.)
Imagination is a ride where wheelchair users board at the exit (after waiting in the regular line until just before the regular boarding area).
I was not positive that it still had a moving walkway, but I do know that we have to use the wheelchair car for that ride, which does make a full stop even if the other ride cars don't.

 

[SueM in MN]

Imagination pavilion USED to have a moving platform to load, but no escalators that I remember. Since the rehab, there is no longer a moving platform and the vehicles make a full stop. Wheelchair (not ECV) guests can stay in their chair, but may need to wait for the wheelchair car to come around.

Even before renovation, Imagination never had an escalator. It did have a stairway to go to the second floor where the "play" area was, but I don't think there was an escalator, just a stairway. There was a small elevator to take guests in wheelchairs/who couldn't do stairs up to the second floor.

 

[SueM in MN]

i think maybe imagination?? ( you come down an escalator and get on a circular track and into a big old style blue vehicle( kind of like the old horizon pods) then the doors atuomatically shut..think it's in epcot somewhere in case i have the wrong ride maybe someone knows the right name...I was thinking norway but that's a boat) i always lose my balance on those things due to "technical difficulties" in my nervous system and look like an idiot stumbling around so i remember it

You may have been thinking of the Peoplemover in Tomorrowland, (which is still there as Tomorrowland Transit Authority). You go up a moving walkway to second floor level and come right up to a moving walkway that leads to the ride cars. The walkway is sort of rounded because the track goes around a snack area on the ground level. The cars are blue and the door automatically shut as the ride cars pass a certain point on the track.

 

[peter11435]

Thanks. It did used to and I wasn't absolutely sure if it still did. (I can count on one hand the number of times we have been on it witout someone using a wheelchair.)
Imagination is a ride where wheelchair users board at the exit (after waiting in the regular line until just before the regular boarding area).
I was not positive that it still had a moving walkway, but I do know that we have to use the wheelchair car for that ride, which does make a full stop even if the other ride cars don't.

All of the cars come to a stop on Imagination now. Im surprised you were loaded in the exit. Everytime I have been with someone in a wheel chair we were brought in the normal load area.

 

[BroganMc]

Imagination is a ride where wheelchair users board at the exit (after waiting in the regular line until just before the regular boarding area).

Not to my memory. I rode it in March and went through the regular queue then through the wheelchair gate to the left. It was the same boarding area for everyone, except my party waited an extra 5 minutes for the wheelchair vehicle to come through the ride. They stopped the ride for us to get on.

Most rides with moving platforms can be stopped. Nothing too severe about that. (Folks in Haunted Mansion tend to like it since they get to really study the area.) Just ask the CM to stop it so your party can safely board.

Only rides I gave up entirely are Peter Pan and Tomorrowland Transit Authority. (I gave up Splash, Big Thunder, Space Mountain and Rock-n-Roller Coaster because of limited leg room.)

One tip: Haunted Mansion has a special car without a side lip on the seat. That way you can sit on the seat and swing your legs around rather than stepping on. I discovered it by accident but ask the CMs if steps are problem.

Also, if doing Kali River Rapids prepare for an hour. It takes an exceptionally long time to wait for a trapped raft, especially when busy or the staff is just not manning the handicap gate. I usually wait the longest fo this ride. And since it takes so much time to get a raft then load and unload your party, they tend to let you go around at least twice without getting off.

 

[SueM in MN]

Not to my memory. I rode it in March and went through the regular queue then through the wheelchair gate to the left. It was the same boarding area for everyone, except my party waited an extra 5 minutes for the wheelchair vehicle to come through the ride. They stopped the ride for us to get on.

I must be thinking about going thru that wheelchair gate. I thought that was the exit (as far as I remember, the exit and entrance are only separated by a small area). DD does stay in her wheelchair so we are waiting for the wheelchair car and on our last trip in March, we had DD with her wheelchair and my FIL who was using an ECV. The ECV was a fairly new thing to us and I have to say I was kind of worried to make sure he kept going where he was supposed to go.

Most rides with moving platforms can be stopped. Nothing too severe about that. (Folks in Haunted Mansion tend to like it since they get to really study the area.) Just ask the CM to stop it so your party can safely board.

CMs have posted in the past that if you need a moving walkway ride slowed or stopped, you should board at the exit (or designated handicapped boarding area). There is usually more space and time for boarding there than the regular boarding area.

 

[jann1033]

now this is really starting to bug me that i can't remember what ride this is....this was in Jan of 2004 and i know the imagination ride was revamped unless they redid it again since. living seas was closed so not that. it was inside a building with regular walls so not tta( doesn't that load outside under the porch like thing.) i know you moved down a moving something that looks like an escalator, could be a moving walk way before you get on the circular walkway because the change of one moving thing going in one direction to a different directional moving thing made my brain go haywire. then getting in the moving cars and sitting down and the door shutting about melted my circuitry .oh well guess i'll know if it's still like that next trip (or i'll wake up at 3 am sometime before then and remember)

 

[kaytieeldr]

Sorry, Jann, but that sounds like an almost perfect description of Tomorrowland Transit Authority - except it doesn't have full walls, they're only a little higher than the cars.

 

[Forevryoung]

My DD10 uses a wheelchair, and, if I recall correctly, there was only ONE ride (that we thought she'd like--not into thrills etc) that she would not be able to ride at all--the Tomorrowland Transit Authority. From the Passporter for Your Special Needs "You must be ambulatory to ride--there's a sharply inclined moving walkway to enter, then there's a moving platform" A bummer too, as I thought she'd really enjoy this.

I have a pretty funny story about this ride- It is one of my favorites and in June I was in Disney with a family who has a 10 year old who is in a wheelchair. She cant stand unaided/cant walk. I went to help out So the rest of her family went on Stitch and we decided to sit it out and ride some other rides instead. I demanded that we ride TTA (because her parents would tell me I was nuts if I told them first) I was determined to carry her onto the ride (all 70+ lbs of her). I left her stroller in the stroller parking and she and I made our way onto the line and onto the first moving walkway. We were doing great! We got onto the ride without too many issues (doorway was a little small but I managed). When we got off, I thought that the down ramp was an esculator and expecting her to be lower than me somehow and I became off balance and she wound up sitting on the ramp . It was very funny People were trying not to stare at us but we were laughing too hard. I made it back to the stroller- she loved the ride by the way

 

[jann1033]

i think it must be imagination...i started a thread to see if i can find a pic of the whole area instead of where you just get on the ride...I'm just a mite "obsessive" and when it stopped moving which would be good for me, one less ride to worry about falling on or off of ( not a smilie... an "artist's interpretaton" of me and the moving walkways )