*** Quoting John Tatum to Kit Ballantyne ***
JT> KB> The reasons I cited came from cast members who were willing
JT> to frankly
JT> KB> discuss these matters.
JT> KB>
JT> KB> Throwing of things may occur on all rides, but people don't
JT> get hurt by it
JT> KB> unless theitem is dropped from above. If someone throws a
JT> package in Space
JT> KB> Mountain it lands on the floor. If they drop it from the sky
JT> tram or
JT> KB> peoplemover it can really hurt people. Haven't you ever
JT> watched people
JT> KB> spitting from those rides?
JT> KB>
JT> KB> I don't wish to make this into an argument. This is a Disney
JT> echo and I
JT> KB> want it to remain fun. I was just writing what I was told.
JT> KB>
JT>
JT> Kit,
JT>
JT> I am never wanting to debate an issue or start an arguement.  I
JT> am just giving
JT> you information from Disney Corporate as to why the attractions
JT> are
JT> discontinued.  This is a "corporate" decision and not one that
JT> anyone at the
JT> parks really have any input in.
JT>
JT> My background is working for Disney Corporate in the Imagineering
JT> division, it
JT> comes from my division.
JT>
JT> I agree, I have seen people throw things and spit from a number
JT> of rides, but
JT> Space Mountain for example (more people have been injured from
JT> thrown or
JT> dropped objects on that ride than on any other... with the
JT> matterhorn being a
JT> close second).... neither the matterhorn or space mountain are
JT> scheduled to be
JT> closed... and if the SkyWay and the PeopleMover were closed for
JT> the reason
JT> that the Cast Members told you, then we would have to close the
JT> matterhorn,
JT> space mountain, and many other rides (the Haunted Mansion also
JT> has had similar
JT> problems).
JT>
JT> I again am not trying to create an arguement, I just wanted to
JT> share with you
JT> the real reasons why we at Disney Corporate in Burbank have
JT> discontinued the
JT> sky tram and the peoplemover.  The cast members may have their
JT> opinion, but I
JT> am giving you the reason that was printed on the memos that were
JT> part of the
JT> decision to close the rides.
JT>
JT> Hope this helps,
JT>
JT> John
JT>
JT>
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JT> (1:103/505)
did it have to do at all with the man that jumped from the skytram by the 
alice in wonderland ride? i was wondering about that.
Also while we are discussing the skytram and the peoplemover, what is to come 
of the peoplemover. it was not a very popular ride toward the end of its life 
but i hear they are going to put a rocket sled ride in its place, can you 
confirm this? also are they going to put in an indiana jones ride in Florida, 
i had heard that rumor as well, and the last question, how serious are they 
in redeveloping tomorowland and putting in a second gate at disneyland? what 
will that second gate be (westcot, tinsletown?)
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