PHOTOS - Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover reopens with new color scheme

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Wednesday August 6, 2014 11:47am EDT · "Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover"
PHOTOS - Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover reopens with new color scheme
A new orange and red color scheme is in progress at Tomorrowland

New paint scheme
Photo: WDWMAGICNew paint scheme
The Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover has reopened after its refurbishment with a new orange and red color scheme.

The ride opened yesterday following its 2 month refurbishment, but had a delayed opening, and an early closure. The ride was also not operational this morning.

Although new paint has been applied to sections of the station, there have been no changes to the ride or audio. The new paint does not appear to be complete, as sections still remain unfinished, and the upper section with the Astro Orbiter remains in refurbishment.

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↩ replying to rct247
they should have left the prior version alone and maybe they wouldnt have such problems. whomever is making these choices should be, i dont know, as the queen of hearts would say off with their heads.
↩ replying to aladdin2007
You know what they really need is...
↩ replying to rct247
Interesting but why are some sections playing parts of the audio but not all of it then? Is it like a multi audio track kinda thing where some of the tracks aren't playing but some are? Because you can hear Roz for example but not the rest of the Monster's Inc. part of the audio.
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PHOTOS - Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover reopens with new color scheme
Personally, I'd rather see the ride cars changed in color and the original spiel brought back.
It makes sense to have the support columns be orange/red since it's supposed to be a Rocket Tower, I think that looks great. The orange escalator just looks bizarre, hopefully they fix that.

Someone suggested earlier that this is the start of a long term painting project in Tomorrowland - which I think is kind of strange considering not long ago they went away from the orange trim and went with the more futuristic looking blue, silver, and green.

Considering how people dress these days retro/vintage seems to be back in, so maybe they are just going with that trend? :p
Hideous. No one has a clue anymore.
Who the ef makes these decisions?!?! Better yet, who approves them? Did they just decide to use leftover puke colors from the FutureWorld job? And based on what I've read in previous posts, there's going to be mooore????
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: oww...been doing that a lot lately here....
I actually don't mind the paint scheme. What I like about it is that it highlights that there is "something" there. It draws your attention. The old paint scheme made it look like it was just an escalator for CM use or something. It was hidden away due to the paint scheme making it disappear into the existing building.
Half this thread pretty much exposes the horrible dilemma WDW deals with every day. Some people despise the new paint others like it. In this one way, I sort of feel bad for TDO. Just this one way though.
it looks like someone threw up and painted it
I really thought we would finally see the removal of that turn style. I also thought they would build a better queue line for when it does get busy. I have seen the line become a crazy mess lately.
↩ replying to ABQ
Yeah. I like the red for the pillars but the orange on the escalator I'm kind of iffy on.
↩ replying to ABQ
You're right about the paint. On the other hand, there's pretty close to universal dislike of the current audio, and I think we'd all agree from these reports that the attraction probably needed another few days in refurb to get closer to show quality.

People on this site can agree on stuff after all!
I think the new "retro" color scheme looks great, it's all 1960's/70's earth tones which are a perfect fit for the midcentury/Eero Saarinen parts of Tomorrowland, and I think those new colors tie the original 70's parts of Tomorrowland together with the 90's remodel pretty well

plus the funky verions of "if you had wings" at the end of this video was a nice touch too, I don't know if I ever noticed they played that before