[Disneyland Park] Nouveaux Monorails

Je veux aller aux states!

A special Friday update, but a chance to really look at the new Mark VII Monorail Red, which is still in test mode, and NOT available to guests.



















Here is the a look at the drivers seat...









Of course, a lot more photos of the new Mark VII Red can be found at this link...

http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/gallery/4946711_xqjGg

Ce nouveau monorail est magnifique, j'adore son style rétro.

J'aime beaucoup aussi, mais je lui préfère quand même, me semble-t-il, son cousin floridien, notamment dans le design de la coque.

Plus je le regarde, en fait, et plus j'aime

Quelques photos trouvées sur le site http://www.bigfloridacountry.com/monorail.htm

Je ne vais pas être trèsoriginla mais je le trouve vraiment magnifique!!!

Le poste de pilotage est vraiment très impressionnant!!!

Nico...

En parlant du monorail, quelqu'un pourrait-il me dire où sont situées les gares sur le resort? J'essaie de visualiser sur Google Earth, mais je vois pas...

Merci

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Quelqu'un aurait des photos de l'ancien monorail histoire de comparer ?

Voilà une photo que j'ai réussi à trouver sur le net de la version précédente :




Sinon il y a les premiers modèles, et c'est sur ces photos que l'on voit bien la reprise du style rétro mis au goût du jour :









Source : Yesterland.com

MickeyMouse1928 a écrit:

En parlant du monorail, quelqu'un pourrait-il me dire où sont situées les gares sur le resort? J'essaie de visualiser sur Google Earth, mais je vois pas...

Merci

Ce n'est pas compliqué, il n'y a que deux stations: une située entre DownTown Disney et le Disneyland Hotel (en rouge), et une autre à Tomorrowland (en bleu)!

C'est tout de même con de voir ce monorail traverser l'hôtel le plus cher du resort, le Grand Californian, sans qu'il n'y ait de station à cet endroit !

Peut être parce que les riches ne prennent pas le monorail!

Monorail Blues

Speaking of the Mark VII monorail, remember back in February when we broke the news that it may be "many months" before the new trains actually get put into revenue service? It's now four months later, and there still is no solid date available for the Mark VII debut. All of the problems with the chassis' that we told you back in February still exist, although a few of the problems have been solved at least temporarily. There's no telling how the fixes will behave once the trains are put into continuous 16 hour per day use month after month. But the WDI team continues to frantically try to fix a laundry list of other issues not related to the chassis problems that are also preventing the new trains from going into service.
There are issues like LED lighting under the seats that can easily be pulled on by little hands, or automatic door openers on the side of the cars that can be punched open from inside the cabin that will eventually be redesigned and fixed.
But then there are more serious concerns that seem to be inherently flawed, like the new windows that are no longer able to be pushed down to allow plenty of fresh air to flow in the openings. Instead, the Mark VII windows are framed in place and can only be popped out at the bottom by about two inches. The trains only have air conditioning in the nose and tail cones, and the compressors tightly wedged into the dead space between cars can barely keep those two small cabins cool. There is simply no way to add more air conditioning compressors to the new trains, and the windows are unable to be redesigned without ripping the cabins apart and starting from scratch.
Why would they take a design that worked well for 49 years and, pardon the pun, throw it out the window? You can blame the humorless bureaucrats in both the Disneyland Safety Department in TDA and the Department of Safety and Health up in Sacramento for that one. A design decree came from both of those groups, who were horrified to learn that the windows on a current Disneyland monorail could be pushed down almost completely, leaving a big two foot tall opening that anyone could put their head and torso through.

In theory, a person could lean way out of the monorail car while it zips down the beam and hit any number of passing obstacles that get within inches of the trains. In this age the concept of personal responsibility is no longer on the table when it comes to preventing accidents from happening. Instead, the bureaucrats answer was to hinge the windows at the top, and only allow the window to pop out a couple of inches at the bottom, without even enough room for an adult to squeeze a hand through.

The problem is that the tiny openings no longer allow fresh air to flow into the cars, and the current Mark VII quickly becomes a sauna in the sky on anything above a 70 degree day. There's no ability to pump air conditioning into the cabins, and there's no way to open the windows any wider. And the most troubling part is that while the interior temperature of the Mark VII cabins has been soaring into the 90 degree range while the train cycles around the track, Anaheim has been enjoying a typically mild spring with temperatures only in the 70's. Both WDI and Operations are terrified to think how hot those cabins will get in July through September when the temperature climbs into the 90's or above.
That's left the last Mark V monorail to shuttle people around the beam all alone, and that worn out train is not getting any more reliable. In recent weeks there have been monorail downtimes stretching for several hours as the Mark V train has to be towed back into the shop for emergency repairs, leaving guests at the Disneyland Hotel to schlep back to their rooms on foot wondering why they didn't just save the cash and stay at the Howard Johnson's across the street instead.

The short term fix for the poorly designed windows is likely going to involve installing baffles into the sides of the openings that can scoop a little more air into the cabin while the train is in motion. That should help a bit, but it's still not going to be comfortable on summer afternoons. At this point everyone involved is beginning an elaborate blame game, trying to decide who said what to whom at which stage in the design process that caused these new trains to show up in Anaheim with so many flaws.

The reality is that nearly everyone is to blame, with WDI not giving much thought to the demands from TDA, the bureaucrats not willing to budge on their self-imposed rules, and the designers in WDI and at the contracted facility up in Canada worrying more about deadlines and fanboy aesthetics than how the product will actually work and how it will be used by the customer. This story will likely end with lawyers involved on all sides, and it won't be pretty.

But for now the new Mark VII fleet is still off limits to Disneyland visitors with no ETA. As we wrote in February it would be "many months," remember?

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C'est malin de concevoir de beaux monorails censés fonctionner des journées entières si c'est pour qu'ils ne soient pas performants...

Sans oublier les problèmes de ventilation !
On est pas prêts de les emprunter ceux là.

Fort dommage effectivement... Le genre de choses qui me met hors de moi, car ce sont des produits conçus loin du terrain, sans questionnement sur la futur opération du produit... Pathétique!

En ce moment, seuls deux monorails circulent: un vieux aux couleurs de The Year of a Million Dreams (beurk) et le nouveau "Monorail Red" donc les frequences ne sont pas terribles...

Ceci dit, hier j'ai fait un tour dans le nouveau "Monorail Red":

MONORAIL RED TAKES FLIGHT
The first train in the latest generation of Disneyland Monorail is now
regularly taking park guests now that its issues have mostly been
worked out.




David "Darkbeer" Michael mentioned in his July 7 "Monday in the Parks" column
that newly-installed air scoops on top of the non-air conditioned
passenger cabins address the temperature issue aboard the new
Monorails. However, you can ditch the summer heat on the new Monorail
by requesting the front driver's cabin or the rear cabins - as they are
both air conditioned.


The new Mark VII is really beautiful and is sleek and futuristic in all the right ways.


Colored LEDs light Red's cabins in a cool blue glow and the new Monorail Mark VII logo is proudly displayed inside.


http://micechat.com/forums/blog.php?b=494

Le souci du détail, même le logo est rétro éclairé!
Sublime!

Ah, enfin ils ont arrangé leurs problèmes techniques, et l'intérieur tout comme l'exterieur est tout bonnement magnifique et montre qu'on est bien à Disneyland, loin (plus ou moins au premier degré) des classiques transports en commun !

Et les anciens monorails "Years of million Dream" que sont ils devenus ?

FLYING IN
As David "Darkbeer" Michael noted in his 7/28 Monday in the Parks column, the new Mark VII Monorail Blue is now making daylight test runs.








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Ils font la couverture du guide de Disneyland en ce moment:

Ouaou c'est vraiment beau O_o

il est magnifiqueeeeeeee