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By Janine

Skyliner Update: What’s New with the Disney Skyliner?

Filed Under: BLOG, Disney Tagged With: Disney skyliner, skyliner disney world, skyliner stations, skyliner system

The Skyliner continues to near completion and we recently got to see the look of some of the character gondolas previously only seen in concept art. The Disney Skyliner system is a new transportation system Disney has developed to give guests at select Disney resorts some other options for getting to different parts of Walt Disney World. The Skyliner is based on the former Disney attraction the Skyway and even has some similarities to the people mover. It’s exciting that a new Disney mode of transportation is on its way. Here is a Skyliner update on everything we know.

Disney Skyliner Update So Far

SKYLINER UPDATE Whats New with Disney Skyliner

Unwrapped

On May 9th there was a big announcement for the Disney Skyliner System. Finally, we got a Skyliner update on this date. See 55 character gondolas were unwrapped and revealed to the public. Many of the Skyliner gondolas have character designs wrapped around their casing. This looks much like the Monorails that have themed wraps every once in a while, such as the current Mickey Mouse monorail for Mickey’s 90th birthday. The Gondola wraps feature characters from Disney attractions and cartoons, as well as animated Features and films from studios like Lucasfilm and Pixar and Marvel. The designs on the gondolas make characters like Belle and the Beast, or the Hitchhiking Ghosts appear to be riding inside. This will be fun in a “see what you get” kind of way.

Disney Skyliner Beauty and the Beast

Walt Disney World Resort unveils 64 stunning Disney Skyliner gondolas, including several with graphics based on Disney films, attractions and characters, May 9, 2019, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The reveal is a milestone for Disney Skyliner in preparation for it’s opening this fall when guests will be whisked between Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and four Disney resort hotels. (Kent Phillips, photographer)

Coming Soon!

The gondolas have been testing for quite some time and unwrapping them seems like a big step forward. With the opening date for Galaxy’s Edge looming we still anticipate an early fall date. However no official date has been released yet and there is no telling how soon we can expect it, even now.

Disney Skyliner Unveiling Chewbachca

Walt Disney World Resort unveils 64 stunning Disney Skyliner gondolas, including several with graphics based on Disney films, attractions and characters, May 9, 2019, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The reveal is a milestone for Disney Skyliner in preparation for it’s opening this fall when guests will be whisked between Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and four Disney resort hotels. (Kent Phillips, photographer)

The Skyliner System

The Skyliner System is Disney’s new transportation system in lieu of the monorail. Whereas the monorail connects guests between Epcot and Magic Kingdom resort areas, the Skyliner connects Hollywood Studios and Epcot guests to the ESPN Wide World of Sports resort area. It will stop at both parks which will make hopping from Hollywood Studios to Epcot easier than ever.

Disney Boardwalk ESPN Club 1

When Gondolas approach the station, they will slow down to one mile per hour and stack up tightly against each other front to back. It will resemble the loading deck for the Peoplemover. once out of the station the Skyliner will resume a speed of 11 miles per hour. The gondolas are wheelchair accessible with fold-up benches and they have ventilation to keep the interiors cool. Although they are equipped for AC installation, the initial run will not include air conditioning. Rather there is built in ventilation that is expected to keep the cabins cool.

Disney Skyliner Mickey and Minnie Mouse

Walt Disney World Resort unveils 64 stunning Disney Skyliner gondolas, including several with graphics based on Disney films, attractions and characters, May 9, 2019, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The reveal is a milestone for Disney Skyliner in preparation for it’s opening this fall when guests will be whisked between Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and four Disney resort hotels. (Kent Phillips, photographer)

Skyliner Stations

The Disney Skyliner has stations set up at Hollywood Studios and Epcot. Each is themed to the gateway where the guests are dropped off. The station at Epcot is just outside the International Gateway and matches well with the France Pavilion inside the park. The Skyliner also connects to the new Riviera Resort and Caribbean Beach. Each station is themed to match the resort surroundings. The final station at the end of the line is the one located between Pop Century and Art of Animation. This station will be designed with a more artful and imaginative flair than the others.

Walt Disney World Resort unveils 64 stunning Disney Skyliner gondolas, including several with graphics based on Disney films, attractions and characters, May 9, 2019, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The reveal is a milestone for Disney Skyliner in preparation for it’s opening this fall when guests will be whisked between Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and four Disney resort hotels. (Kent Phillips, photographer)

The Pile Ons

Although the stations and the gondolas are dressed up nice, the pile ons are not. They are big conspicuous polls that don’t do night lines any favors. Nothing yet is known about whether the pile ons will be dressed up or ignored, but they are pretty unattractive.

Disney Skyliner May 2019

There you have it with the skinny on the Disney Skyliner update thus far.

Are you excited for the Disney Skyliner to open soon?

Now, share with us in the comments.

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About Janine

Janine is a published author of the books, The Mother of All Meltdowns and Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee. She has been featured on The Huffington Post, Mamapedia, Today Parenting Team and SheKnows. She also runs her own graphic design company at J9 Designs.

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  1. Dara says

    September 12, 2019 at 9:04 am

    I cannot wait to ride them!

    • Janine says

      September 12, 2019 at 9:07 am

      Me too!!! 🙂

  2. Jen says

    September 12, 2019 at 9:26 am

    Can I just say that I love that they are enclosed now. The open ones always kind of freak me out…. Plus the awesome character wraps are super cool!

    • Janine says

      September 12, 2019 at 9:43 am

      I know and agree on both fronts. And oh the character wraps are seriously awesome!! 🙂

  3. William D Holland says

    September 12, 2019 at 9:48 am

    Really very cool! It really is amazing how much money Disney has….their projects must cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are constantly happening it seems.

    Thanks for the peek….Happy Thursday my friend!

    • Janine says

      September 12, 2019 at 9:51 am

      I totally agree, Bill and just love getting to show a sneak peek here of the latest for Disney. Happy Thursday now to you, too 🙂

  4. Tamara Bowman says

    September 13, 2019 at 8:36 am

    Yes! We are super excited. We saw them being built when we went last January. We are going to skip our annual Disney trip because of Scarlet and Cassidy going to Panama, but I talked everyone into just a more abridged one. I think this is wonderful.

  5. Kristi Campbell says

    September 14, 2019 at 1:21 am

    So super excited! Thanks, as always for your reveals on these things all Disney! Like OMG WHEEEE!!!.

    • Janine says

      September 14, 2019 at 9:44 am

      Aw, so happy to share with you and I know I can hardly contain my excitement either now 🙂

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