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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 1:05 am
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Originally Posted by Steph3n
That is because the mickey mouse train is so stinkin slow.
It's more "mickey mouse" than you may think: It was purchased from Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI). It's the same system used for the Tomorrowland Transit Authority at the Magic Kingdom in Florida. It's one of a handful of projects that WDI has done under contract outside of the Disney theme parks (another being the remodeling of the iconic "theme building" at LAX).

I walked it last year and was only about 20 steps behind it at E when I started in A.

I find that hard to believe. The underground tunnel (both the pedestrian walkway and the adjacent train) is almost a mile from A to E. Even though it's slow by train standards and makes stops, it still moves much faster than walking pace. Unless you got a long head start or there was a stoppage, I don't see how you could keep up with the train on foot for a mile.
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