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Who’s ready for a ride on Monorail Monday?!
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Walt is seen here with the scale model for the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair “Carousel of Progress.” Premiering as part of the Progress City exhibit, the attraction moved to Disneyland after the fair closed, then later on to Walt Disney World.
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Today in Disneyland History:
The Flying Saucers Attraction closes in Tomorrowland. The Attraction which allowed guest to steer their own Flying Saucer into other guests was troubled from the beginning as the mechanism which powered it was partial to a certain weight. Small openings on the Attraction’s platform allowed for pressurized air to lift the saucers off the ground and enabled guests to steer by shifting their weight in the direction they wanted to go. The only problem however was that if you weighed too much you stayed in place & if you weighed to little you bounced up & down uncontrollably. In addition, if you hit another saucer at the right angle it was possible to flip it upside down which wasn’t good for anyone.
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I know it’s not vintage but I thought it was a cool look at the PeopleMover tracks and what the view would look like today if the attraction was still in operation.
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Today in Disneyland History:
The Flying Saucers Attraction opens in Tomorrowland. The Attraction rested on a 916,00 square foot air hockey like platform and allowed 32 individual guests at a time to pilot their own saucers by leaning in the direction they wanted to go. The objective: crash into as many other people as possible! & thats exactly what 5,313,882 guests did until the attraction’s closing on Aug. 5, 1966 (just about 5 years after it’s opening). Though the original attraction hasn’t been seen since it’s closing, it’s operating system served as the inspiration for Carsland’s “Luigi’s Flying Tires”.
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