The PeopleMover is one of our favorite rides in Disney World and a great way to relax and enjoy a leisurely ride through Magic Kingdom.
Sometimes the PeopleMover has issues, like many Disney World rides understandably experience from time to time. Today, the PeopleMover was evacuated, and we have photos to share!
While we were walking through Tomorrowland in Magic Kingdom today, we noticed the PeopleMover was not running.
From our spot, we saw PeopleMover riders evacuating the ride and waiting on the track.
Then we saw a Cast Member evacuating more riders.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on the PeopleMover today as it remains “temporarily closed” for now. Keep reading AllEars for breaking news from Disney World!
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Evacuated from Space Mountain – were near end of dark part getting ready to enter tunnel to unload. I could feel the back of our car “jumping” as we went through the dark part. They stopped all cars, we were in dark for about 3 minutes (seemed longer when you have a 6 year old leery of the dark), than the lights came on. Pretty cool to see. They started at cars nearest beginning and checked all of them, I don’t remember people actually getting out of their cars. When they got to us, the cast member pushed REALLY hard on the back of our car to get it back on track. They than pushed us through to unloading.
I suspect that the incline conveyor belt wasn’t designed to handle the weight. People are a lot heavier now then they were in the 1970s. I don’t know if this effects the ride vehicles in the same way or not.
The PeopleMover has long been a “hidden gem” at MK. A nice relaxing ride which you could hop on at any time check out the sites and enjoy some downtime, especially with the little ones. This has changed dramatically over the last couple years, with wait times in the 30-40 minute range becoming common (with no cover from the sun) and constant breakdowns becoming the norm instead of the exception.
I’d love to see a feature article on this attraction and what’s going on with it today. Why is it breaking down so often, and why have a large number of cars obviously been removed from the attraction? Why is it now necessary to shut down the inclined walkway constantly because of slow loading when it rarely needed to be shut off for years?
For years, the PeopleMover served a nice little role as a no-wait relaxation stop for our family. Unfortunately, it’s now become a “poster child” for much of what is wrong with Disney today.
Saw two of your reporters filming under the ‘mover this morning. Didn’t have any issues when we rode it at that time.
Never evacuated, but I do wonder why so many of the attractions are having issues? Is it possible that there is a maintenance personnel shortage?
Wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. A lot of tribal knowledge was lost and it’s going to be hard to get that built back up. Look at the simple crowd handling mistakes of the Boo Bash. Disney has darn near perfected crowd and people control over the years and suddenly they can’t run a special event entrance? Stuff going down more often due to lack of maintenance and lack of knowledge about fixing the attraction is going to be a longer term issue.
We were evacuated from Everest once-almost to the top of the “mountain”! We had to use the ladder running along the track and climb up to the top, then down through the inside of the mountain. It was an unexpected behind the scenes tour!