Skyway
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| Skyway | |
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| Disneyland | |
| Land | Fantasyland and Tomorrowland |
| Designer | WED Enterprises |
| Attraction type | Vonroll Type 101 detachable monocable gondola lift |
| Soft opening date | June 10, 1956 |
| Opening date | June 23, 1956 |
| Closing date | November 9, 1994 |
| Vehicle names | Cabin, gondola cars |
| Vehicle capacity | 4 |
| Guests per car | 4 |
| Ride duration | 3:36 minutes |
| Skyway | |
| Magic Kingdom | |
| Land | Fantasyland and Tomorrowland |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Opening date | October 1, 1971 |
| Closing date | November 10, 1999 |
| Ride duration | 3:36 minutes |
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| Tokyo Disneyland | |
| Land | Fantasyland and Tomorrowland |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Opening date | April 15, 1983 |
| Closing date | November 3, 1998 |
| Ride duration | 3:36 minutes |
The Skyway was a gondola type attraction at Disneyland Resort, the Magic Kingdom, and Tokyo Disneyland. It took riders from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland, and vice versa. The skyway traveled through the Matterhorn. It's counterpart in Disneyland was the first aerial ropeway in the United States. All three versions are now closed due to their low hourly capacity and poor wheelchair accessibility.
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The Skyway at Disneyland opened on June 23, 1956. It was built by Von Roll, Ltd. based at Bern, Switzerland. It was the first Von Roll Type 101 aerial ropeway in the United States. Walt Disney Imagineering bought the ride from Switzerland. It was a 1947 Vonroll sidechair model. In 1959, a major renovation added the Submarine Voyage, the Disneyland Monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds (now part of Fantasyland), and the Motorboat Cruise, but when the Matterhorn was planned, it was designed to be built right in the path of the Skyway, so without a single closure of the Skyway, the Matterhorn Bobsleds was built around the Skyway.
During the Fantasyland renovation at Disneyland in the mid-1980s, the Skyway made only roundtrips from Tomorrowland.
The Disneyland Skyway permanently closed on November 9, 1994 due to stress cracks in the Matterhorn Bobsleds roller battery supports. At Disneyland, the Fantasyland Skyway station remains but is off limits to guests and completely empty (no machinery), and the Tomorrowland Skyway station has been demolished. The holes in the Matterhorn were filled in and the Skyway support cables were dismantled within weeks.
In 1998, Tokyo Disneyland closed their Skyway, the Fantasyland station was demolished to make room for the attraction Pooh's Hunny Hunt, while the Tomorrowland station was remodeled into Stellar Sweets, a store which sells candies, chocolates, and other sweets.
At the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort, the Skyway was removed in 1999. The Tomorrowland station was demolished in the summer of 2009, while the Fantasyland station is now used for stroller parking, but will soon be demolished to make way for the expanded restrooms of Peter Pan's Flight.
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