Our family visited Disneyland the week before Thanksgiving. My daughter really wanted to meet Tinker Bell in Pixie Hollow. Watching Tink's new movie (I was disappointed, but she loved it) made her even more excited. After seeing the lines (and reading about them online) I decided that using EE to our advantage was our best strategy for avoiding 45-90 minute waits. So we rode some rides, had breakfast in Tomorrowland, and then got into line 20 minutes before rope drop for Pixie Hollow. ...
Date: June 28; location: Oakland; weather: sunny and hot, but not too bad; crowds, not so bad! Disney changed the station from Redwood City to Oakland -- it made it much easier for me to get us there, as I am so much more familiar with all the streets and freeways. We were in line at about 40 minutes after opening. And luckily the line was very short (~20 minutes). I heard that Saturday was crazy, with the line stretching to 90 minutes of waiting to get on the train. ...
At approximately 2:00 this morning, Monorail Pink collided with Monorail Purple at the Transportation and Ticket Center (TTC), killing Austin Wuennenberg, 21, the pilot of Monorail Purple. The pilot of Monorail Pink was injured in the accident, but the six park guests aboard Monorail Purple were not injured. Austin Wuennenberg's profile photo on Facebook. This is the first ...
Updated 07-05-2009 at 12:03 PM by Mark Goldhaber (Continuing updates as information becomes available.)
I had barely set foot on Disney World property when I learned of this morning's fatal Monorail crash. The pilot, just 21, trapped in a stationary Monorail as a second vehicle backed into his cockpit. Attractions like the Monorail (in fact, ESPECIALLY the Monorail) are loaded with safety devices and procedures to ensure such mishaps are rare. In fact, WDW hasn't suffered a major multi-train collision for 35 years. And today's was the first WDW ride operator to be killed on site. (In 2007, an Animal ...
Austin Wuennenberg, the monorail operator killed in Sunday morning's accident, may have helped to keep the passengers on Monorail Purple from injury. The National Transportation Safety Board released a "factual information" media advisory today related to its investigation into the collision. The facts appear to be very similar to those that were reported in Monday's Walt Disney World Update and Tuesday's MouseStation Podcast. Here's a map to let you follow along. Satellite ...
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