One can hope that means the train will be running again soon!!
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It would help if the track was laid all around the park of course.
But yes, letâs hope so.
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Beside hearing about MagicBand+ and itâs interactive elements with 50th statues, I donât hear much anymore. The sporadic Disney commercial on TV advertises it, but not like thereâs a ton of limited time offerings associated with it.
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Even the special photo shots and similar stuff would be good. By the time we go all the banners will presumably have gone because of the parties. Just things like that.
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The merch is still there and plentiful and new merch does seem to be released (or maybe become available is more accurate) all the time. Youâll still hear CMs in the shops talking about shipping troubles.
Merch doesnât make a celebration and theyâve definitely fallen down on this.
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Good news on track replacement. Bioreconstruct posted on Twitter. Track on May 7th
Track area yesterday
Actual signs of work. Fresh gravel going down in the rail bed being compacted
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Steam tunnel roof
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I was just wondering about thisâŚanyone see how theyâre going to get the steam/smoke from the locomotive out of the tunnel so no one is suffocating for the duration of the tunnel? It looks completely enclosed with just windows on the side.
I canât imagine thatâll be enough airflow? Or is it more likely they will just pause steam/smoke until they get through the tunnel (not even sure if thatâs functionally possible)?
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Maybe pause it? The tunnel for the train at DLR is a lot longer and also fully enclosed so they must do that
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Iâm not sure what solution they are using, but the tunnel doesnât look like it will be all that different from going under Splash Mountain. But with the open ends and windows, it probably doesnât need much more. I know that in longer tunnels (such as those for cars that go under mountains or rivers, etc), they install an airflow fan system, which Disney could potentially do.
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Len seemed to guess that this would open around December 1 this morning on the Disney Dish! Maybe Iâll catch a DVC preview in Nov?
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He did? LOL I think I zoned out for a minute.
MondaysâŚ
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The splash tunnel is much shorter and had significant head room (several feet) from what I remember. This tunnel is going to have a much smaller amount of clearance and longer. From what I saw the train is going to juuuust barely fit.
As far as an active airflow system, I thought they were adding one, but given that it doesnât seem to be along the ceiling (which, to me, would be the obvious place to put it given thatâs where the steam would be), I figured they went with a different solution (or no solution). But I canât think that any active airflow system, that isnât on the ceiling, would be efficient enough to clear it out fast enough that wouldnât make you feel like you just entered a wind tunnel.
And then Iâm thinkin Disney wouldnât want to do that because itâd be a very jarring change from a âscenic ride around the kingdomâ .
SoâŚpausing the steam seems to make the most sense.
Iâm the Sept-oct 1st camp. Itâd be a nice promotive cap to the 50th (especially given how pathetic itâs been) and itâll be a good bolster to low-crowd time and allow them to get that loaded into the ILL revenue faster, which Iâm sure theyâre salivating over.
EDIT: And given the Fiscal Year will end around there, itâll make olâ Bobby look RRRREALLY good if he can get the Tron ILL fees added to his bottom line.
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I think so? I selfishly remember because we leave November 20⌠But Iâve also lost a teeny bit of faith in Len after Remy opened about 18 months after he thought it would.
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Agreed.
I actually think they (Disney) got things Backwards. Tron should have opened BEFORE GotG due to the fact that GotG could have nicely opened up for the 40th Anniversary of Epcot. So, now they have this awkwardness of Tron opening AFTER GotgâŚpotentially in time for Epcotâs 40th, even though it isnât in Epcot!
(Does Disney not actually THINK about these things???)
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I think Epcotâs attendance numbers were plummeting with the construction. Which is why the hours have been so skimpy (2nd only to AK)
They had to get SOMETHING in there to redraw in the crowds. Cause Remy sure didnât do it.
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I might have missed it when I was FF through all the universal survey stuff.
Oh it reminds me though that I wanted to post in the Disney Dish thread about a question had about one of the Disney survey questions.
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I definitely expected Tron to be open in time for our July trip and GotG to open later - though considering construction was going on 3 years ago during our last trip on both of them, I am shocked that theyâre not both open.
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Good point.
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You mean like how Remy opened at the MK 50th? 
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