Disney Sky Buckets…Really???

Disney World has this new people mover transportation thing that’s like big ski lift gondolas (like at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, Canada) to move people between EPCOT and Hollywood Studios and a couple of resort hotels. It’s officially called the Skyliner but I call it the sky bucket (can’t take credit for that) cuz it looks like buckets hanging from a wire.

So I pretty much love all things Disney (and have spent WAY too much money at Disney World to prove it) but these sky bucket things? Not my thing! First, Disney built a sky bucket station at my quiet, hidden, unknown, back entrance to EPCOT so that’s a bummer for me now with extra pagan hordes of people at my favorite entrance (not to mention the ugly buckets coming and going from the new (and big) station). Second, the sky buckets don’t go anywhere I need to and/or want to go from EPCOT (it’s like taxation without representation???). Third, the sky buckets will not operate when lightning is in the vicinity. Isn’t Orlando the lightning capital of Florida? Fourth, the sky buckets have NO air conditioning. Whoa!!! Are you kidding me? Sometimes it’s so hot at Disney World you can’t even stand outside in the shade. Shove ten sweaty stinky Disney crazed people into a glass and metal enclosure in the hot Florida sunshine? Do you think that will feel good for twenty minutes? Do you think that will smell good for twenty minutes? Do you think those buckets will ever smell good after twelve hours of that every day (I picture a sumo wrestling gym’s locker room)? BARF!

Probably shouldn’t judge it until I’ve actually seen it but I guess one could say I have developed a significant bias. We’ll see. Skyliner (I mean sky bucket) officially opens in a few days and I will get to see it for myself in December.