New DL Monorail Delivered

Castor Oil · **Joined:** Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:14 pm **Posts:** 839

A friend forwarded this link: http://chrisaustx.smugmug.com/gallery/4027294#234412529

Not to be cynical or anything -- but is it just me, or does it appear they "basically" (oh yeah, I went there) just gave the Mark V some rhinoplasty? I was kind of looking forward to a fresh, original design, but oh well...

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:15 pm

Castor Oil wrote:

does it appear they "basically" (oh yeah, I went there) just gave the Mark V some rhinoplasty? I was kind of looking forward to a fresh, original design, but oh well...

Did you not see the concept drawing that's been plastered over the Internet and in folks' avatars, for months (years)? It matches it exactly.

What were you expecting?

S. Towler · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:36 pm

It sure does look like the concept art!

[img::]http://chrisaustx.smugmug.com/photos/234412453-M.jpg[/img]

For once they did something that looks like the concept art!

FreakOuter84 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:07 pm

Quote:

A 75-foot-tall crane hoisted the first of the new Mark VII monorails from a flatbed truck onto the beam way track this morning at Disneyland.

The five-car burnt-burgundy train is the first of three new monorails expected to go online at the Anaheim theme park starting in February 2008.

Three years in the making, the all-new bullet-nosed monorails were designed by Disney, built in Rhode Island and assembled in Vancouver, Canada.

Lead Disney Imagineer Scot Drake said the Mark VII design represents a “streamline optimistic vision” of a “fantasy future that never was.”

The sleek iconic exterior features color-shifting paint with gray pinstriping that evokes the stainless-steel side panels of the 1959 original designed by Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr.

The interior features an under-lighted central island seating arrangement that offers every visitor a view through color-tinted windows.

The other two trains in the monorail fleet should be delivered in spring and summer 2008.

To view a photographic history of the Disneyland Monorail, check out Yesterland (one of my favorite Internet destinations).

credit: http://travel.latimes.com/

Castor Oil · **Joined:** Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:14 pm **Posts:** 839

Steve DeGaetano wrote:

Did you not see the concept drawing that's been plastered over the Internet and in folks' avatars, for months (years)? It matches it exactly.

What were you expecting?

I've actually seen that rendering numerous times, but it just doesn't seem to depict certain elements, such as the side/roof profiles and those trapezoid-shaped vents, as being so strikingly identical to that of their predecessors. I also recall reading several claims that the design was "revised" since the widely-circulating concept art which were apparently rubbish.

Oh well -- in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

Rob Fendler · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:55 am

Rob Fendler wrote:

I wish I could show you the concept art I have on my HD. I did some freelance Flash animation work for part of the Spaceship Earth ride and was given a concept drawing by Scot Drake that has not been widely circulated like the one above. Some may have seen a low-res cell phone pic of it. Its basically a profile of the train. But it clearly shows that the middle segments are simply repainted, and without skylights. Sorry Sam!

It still looks impressive. That grey/white stripe area under windows has been given a corrugated aluminum look of the original Mark I's. I'm looking forward to riding in that new nosecone, I just wish it had a bubble!

Yep, it looks exactly how I thought it would, right down to the stripes on the sides. I really like the candy apple red paint though. I wasn't expecting the color to look so rich. I'm impressed.

Locoboy5150 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:26 am

I think that it looks great, especially that snazzy paint job!

Unfortunately, it looks like I'm just *barely* going to miss out on riding in it though.

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:37 am

I like the new look--a satisfying blend of old and new.

cgf2535 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:49 pm

Castor Oil wrote:

A friend forwarded this link: http://chrisaustx.smugmug.com/gallery/4027294#234412529

Not to be cynical or anything -- but is it just me, or does it appear they "basically" (oh yeah, I went there) just gave the Mark V some rhinoplasty? I was kind of looking forward to a fresh, original design, but oh well...

So basically you are saying give you a Mark V and some bondo and you could have done the job cheaper!

TDN44 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:14 am **Posts:** 233

So how is this going to work out? Is Disney going to wait til they get the other Mark VII monorails before they start using them or as soon as they finnish this one, are they going to use 1 mark V and 1 mark VII? Also, what do you think they will do with the mark V's? I think they will just through them away, like they do everything else when they are done with them. :cry:

Is there any word on if WDW will be doing the same thing any time soon?

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