Was anyone else expecting Dallin to frame himself so it looked like he was sitting in the peoplemover vehicle?

I’m 46 years old & I clearly remember the People Mover at Disneyland. It was one of my top favorite rides along with the train (my #1) and the Monorail. I do miss the Disneyland of the late 70s and 80s when I was a child. Ah, good times.

I was just at Disneyland a few weeks ago and I can confirm that PeopleMover tracks are still visible from the main Star Tours queue. However, it is walled off from the other side where the security droids are. I also noticed that just outside the tunnel into Star Tours, there is an entire plant growing on the track. It's very depressing.

1990 This was the last year I ever rode a PeopleMover! Fun fact: before TRON was added in the mid-1980s, the tunnel featured a motorcycle race! The lightcycle race was a natural progression.

Riding with Offhand Disney on the Disneyland Peoplemover is the video I always wanted, but never thought possible! Thank you!!! 😁

Mary Blair mural supremacy!!! I just really can't get behind those star tours and space mountain murals! They look cheep, and they add to the really flat tone of tomorrowland. The Mary Blair murals always felt so full of heart and they lent themselves to a depiction of a bright future. They were so hopeful and vibrant. Everything in tomorrowland is now stiff blues and whites. We need more colors, more plants, and less space-themed attractions. Tomorrowland doesn't have to be about space, just a hopeful future! That's why I think the Mary Blair murals were so special and important to the land.

The #1 thing that makes me feel old (I'm 40) is that there are adults who either do not remember or never even rode Peoplemover

The Peoplemover was uncomfortable, bumpy and loudly rattled the whole time. kids made out in it, threw things from it and smoked in it. It was a ride to escape crowds. But I love your video of it! Thanks!!

I am old enough to have ridden the People Mover in Disneyland when I was young. I do have found memories of it and tried to ride it as many times as possible whenever my family would visit the park. I think it would be great to have it back, even though I understand the tracks are so damaged now. The Rocket Rods were ok, but the speed made you miss out on the charm of the People Mover, the great views. I have been on the People Mover in Orlando, it is at least similar in style, but it is just not the same.

In the original incarnation of the People Mover, where the TRON bit is you looked into the Giant model of the City of Tomorrow. The whole 360 degrees of it was right there. You could see the tiny monorails and road vehicles moving around everywhere. It was very kinetic and hypmotizing to behold. I think that part of, but not all of it was moved to Disney World with the Carousel Of Progress. Yes you could also walk around and peer into it during your journey through the Carousel as well! Thanks for this nostalgic travelogue Dallin! PS: Where it travels through the "Starcade", that what we saw was the upper floor of the Starcade that is now used for extended queue for Space Mountain (yes, where the satellite/probe hangs from the ceiling)!

This and Captain EO were my absolute favorites as a kid. I adored the Tron bit, and still got happy enjoyment out of seeing it in this video, though the camera was looking at the exit instead of the amazing wall projections. Oh my God, and Circlevision! That is one of the biggest inspirations for me to be a filmmaker still to this day!

Bring back the PeopleMover! It ha so much potential! Covering up the Mary Blair murals was tragic, too.

Oh man I remember as a kid going on the people mover and now as an adult I miss it so much. We didn’t know how good we had it! I went to Disneyland for my bday in April (39 yrs old) and sat in Tomorrowland and saw the tracks and wished I could go back. It makes me sad that we don’t have it. This video was great. I completely understand why you’re always talking about the people mover. We need it back Disney!

My first trip to Disneyland ever was when I was 16, and was just a few weeks before they closed the People Mover forever. I'm with you - I really want my family to be able to ride it, and I want to again! It was SO cool. The one and only time we've been to Disney World was last April, and theirs was still closed even though it was supposed to open a week before we went. 😭

We need a Living With The Land ride along with you offhand!!

Been on the People Mover many times and loved just riding through the other rides and enjoying the view. Really miss it. Did they make Rocket Rods in order to compete with the big roller coasters of Magic Mountain? People Mover is part of the whole Disneyland experience just like eating at the Bayou restaurant inside of Pirates. It is like being part of the ride--being part of the magic. Walt knew how to put the park visitor inside of the experience--look, we are going through this new, modern Tomorrow Land together--and we are all happy about it. Now, it seems like there is no one really at the helm of the ship.

My favorite part comes at about 10:30 where you see the monorail - the track dipped sharply enough to feel like you were going much faster. The beginning of Tron was where the "ghost" was. The story (urban legend, not true) was of a grad night accident. A boy was goofing off, trying to climb from one people mover car to another and fell. He was dragged under the next car and as he went under, he grabbed his girlfriends hair. Girls with long hair would feel his ghost pulling their hair. And that part was true! I felt it! A LOT of us felt it. Because Tron had giant fans to make you feel as if you were going faster (the fans were already there from the previous Tunnel of Speed) The fans would blow your hair back and if it was long enough, a few strands would get caught in the hydraulic lift bars that opened the roof of the cars.

This is so wonderful! 💙 I was born in 1965. Tomorrowland was our afternoon downtime. Adventures thru inner space, Space Mountain, the people mover, the carousel of progress then America sings, and circle vision we’re all air-conditioned attractions to beat the afternoon heat. Tomorrowland was perpetually in motion and felt like Walt’s utopia. At the end, we would take the skyway back to fantasyland, over the parade, Alice in Wonderland, and captain hooks pirate ship. Then we’d head off to frontierland. Sigh 😔 I miss it!

dallin please make more videos like this!! these are some of my favorite videos of yours... i just find them so comforting and calming

The Tron section also had a bunch of fans trying to make it feel faster than it was - but since you could see the exit the entire time, it never actually felt fast. Even as a kid, I always thought that was funny.

Thanks so much for making this video! I never managed to make it to the Disneyland Peoplemover, but the WDW version is one of my favorite rides in the Magic Kingdom. On a more personal note, while I’ve always enjoyed your content and your sense of humor, I feel like you’ve really come into your own as a host/writer/narrator lately. The videos just keep getting better.

I was in your livestream earlier today. Thanks for responding to me Dallin, interacting with you was joyful. I wish you luck in your adventures, Disney or otherwise. Again thank you.

Oh how I miss the Peoplemover!! I can still hear the music and narration in my head without even watching anything. Something about that ride was so relaxing. Such a simple ride and so underrated! I wish wish wish they would fix the darn track and bring it back! Darn Rocket Rods ruined it for us 🤣 I absolutely love your videos Dallin! Keep doing what you are doing and spreading the magic!! Fellow HUGE HM fan here!

I spent my senior year of high school & freshman year of college in Pasadena, CA in 89/90. I went to Disneyland as many times as possible (about 10 times, if I recall). Rode the PEOPLEMOVER every...single...time. My dad taught me the value of the PEOPLEMOVER and Carousel of Progress in WDW when I was a kid. I never forgot it.

Originally the people's mover did not have the awning and the guard rails then one grad night someone decided to jump from one people mover into another one moving in the other direction on the final run before you get off, so they shut it down and put in guard rails. Yes, they got badly hurt and had a free trip to the ER. Originally, the section with Tron looked over the City of the future which was the last scene for the Carousel of Progress (which got shut down cause they needed more audio-animatronics for Splash Mountain). The model city sat unused for a while with just the people mover going by then they converted it to Tron. There was a sweet spot in which it felt and looked really good and had fans blowing to simulate the swish of the air going by on the cycles. You failed to mention the speedboats which are now gone. The sky ride got taken out because the support inside the Matterhorn developed a crack and to replace it meant taking out half the Matterhorn, so it got shut down. Then later at some point, they patched up the two holes.

To all the comments about the rough ride at the Disneyland Peoplemover, you're right, but as an old timer I can tell you that it wasn't always that way! The ride used to be very smooth, even on the hills. After Goodyear stopped sponsoring the ride, I suspect that Disney went to the outside and bought tires that were cheaper and ALMOST the same size? At any rate, it was great that it could go outdoors, weave through a three-dimensional Tomorrowland going above, beneath, beside and through other attractions, unlike its Orlando counterpart, which must remain level (if the power were to fail, it might become a roller coaster?). I loved the canopies on each car, rather than a roof overhead, and that they tilted up inside the station for ingress/egress as the doors opened.

Awesome! The original colors of the People Mover were so much better. The model of city of tomorrow was inside the Carousel of Progress building, I believe, before the Tron treatment was added. The Mary Blair mural is still there, preserved behind the space mural.

I'm old enough to remember that whole ride through. I vaguely remember the mission to mars (it scared the heck outta me because I was very young). Enjoy your trip to Disneyland! It will be nice to escape the "heat advisories" we are getting here in the Denver area. (I'm in Lakewood.)

I was there...as a kid..at the opening of New Tomorrowland in 1967...it was so cool..as I got older...it was a prime spot to...puff on some pakalolo(Marijuana)...at night when no one was riding much you could stay on no problem.. One more thing I loved was the roof of the PM would raise as you came into the station and close down as you left.. I really want it back.now I'm 68 and it would be a great ride.. Thanks for your work

You forgot to mention the floor fans blowing in your face in the Tron room so you felt like you were going reaaaaaalllllly fast! Memories! Thanks so much for showing this! RIP America Sings paintjob. Xoxo

Fun fact: In the Tron speed tunnel, there were giant fans blowing air on your face to give you the sensation of speed. Was amazing as a youngster.

See Disneyland's tomorrow land is so pretty ...if they'd fix the ppl mover ..an switch the autopia cars to electric cars. I just love the idea of subs, autopia monorail, an ppl mover.

I met a lady who shared her memories of riding the WDW Peoplemover as a kid. She was desperate to ride Space Mountain but she was way too small. So her parents would take her on the Peoplemover and tell her it was Space Mountain. She never caught on until the first trip where she was tall enough to ride the real SM.

I grew up in Anaheim. I loved the Peoplemover in the 70s and 80s. There was just something so cool to me about how it wound around through so many of the other attractions and such. And it was so mellow and relaxing, after all the walking, it was a great break.

Two of my favorite PeopleMover experiences (at WDW): going through Space Mountain with the lights on and going right past the castle as the fireworks finale ended

Cool ride along video Dallin! That Tron part would be awesome with an updated version or something that ties into Tomorrowland. I enjoy these ride along videos, they're fun. Hope one day we all get to see a live ride with Dallin video on the PeopleMover.

Peoplemover was one of my favorite rids as a kid! I was devastated the year we went back and it was no longer there. I don't know what it was about the ride that I loved so much. Kinda like how I loved the train ride around the park and could have sat on that for hours and never get bored (my parents DID, however, so we usually only went on it once, as with the peoplemover). Disney are idiots for not bringing this back. We seriously need to start some kind of petition or something and just hound those Disney execs

This is definitely my favorite ride I've never been on. The 70's commercial music really makes it too -- I'm pleasantly surprised it lasted on the attraction till it closed in the 1995. On my last visit to WDW I made a point of riding their PeopleMover while playing the Disneyland soundtrack on my phone. 😅

One of the songs for the Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Space ride is September by Earth, Wind and Fire. Two of their other songs were used in the Muppet From Outer Space movie. Another is Conga by The Miami Sound Machine with Gloria Estefan. Gloria Estefan was the name given to a baby Penguin by Miss Piggy in The Muppets. And a third is One Way or Another by Blondie with Debora Harry who appeared on the Muppet Show.

I know you mentioned not seeing much in space mountain on the peoplemover at WDW. I don't know if you are aware or not but I remember when I was a kid (like maybe around or before 2010 for reference) you used to be able to see a little bit in the peoplemover. The space mountain rockets used to glow in the dark. It was very cool to see them fly through the ride seemingly on no tracks because you couldn't see them, just the glowing rockets. You used to also be able to see the queue if I remember correctly. Someone shoudl back me up on this whether I'm right or wrong. But I think maybe on the omega side of the queue in the corner above your heads (about where the magic band scanners are now that divide alpha and omega) you could slightly see the peoplemover cars ride by every once in a while. That was before the above your head portion of the queue was replaced by screens. You used to be able to see the glow in the dark rockets fly by overhead as well as the peoplemover peeking through the corner as it went by. Just a fun little fact if you didn't know. Hopefully you might see this! I love your vids!

Don't say that you might be able to see People Mover tracks in Star Tours because you know Disney, they will cover it up the second they see this! Great video, it was truly amazing. Code word: Jean Lafitte

Just came from the livestream! Can’t wait to see the full vid

Thx Dilland I really hope u get to ride it someday. I was lucky enough to ride it and also the Skyways . Seeing those brought up some cool memories. The PM ride was my fave cause it started my crazed fandom in Tron. So thx for the love of the OG park.

I enjoyed the People Mover at Disney World. It was the first Disney ride I went on after a terrible time at an off site (non-Disney) hotel and I wanted something quiet and relaxing. This was perfect.

As someone who rode the People Mover as a teenager in 1990, I can tell you the only reason my friends and I rode it was to sit down for a while. It was slow and went nowhere. I miss the Skyway, personally. It took you across the park and you went through the Matterhorn. 💖

That was great. I've never agreed with your obsession but after this ride thru with you, it needs to come back. As with many things, the Disneyland version was superior and that's coming from someone that grew up going to Disney World. Great job as usual!

Another great video, I rode the People Mover at Disneyland year after year from the late 60s until it was closed, it was always one of my favorites and I too wish they would restore and reopen it.

I remember riding this as a kid. I remember all of it. More so of the Storm trooper moving right to left. Passing by the Star Speeder 1000. Lol! Entering the grid of Tron. At the end the top of the PM would open like a trunk. And closing right back up to “secure “ people in.

I remember riding through Innerspace on the Peoplemover. And going through the Matterhorn on the Skyway. Everything was moving in Tomorrowland.

My family went to Disneyland almost every other summer for vacation when I was young and the PM was my favorite ride. It just felt magical. I'm so grateful videos of the ride still exist.

Fun video, great commentary, thanks! I'm 61 and first rode the People Mover at the end of the 1960's when it was very new. This was the height of the patriarchy. There was a role for a strong male presence to explain the morality of plans for the future. That was generally the purpose of the People Mover, it helped make sense of a looming chaotic future. Tomorrowland included Autopia because it was unexpected to be in control of your own destiny by owning your own car - parents owned cars to get back and forth to work. Holiday Inn Hotels were still a new experience for most, providing safe and clean experiences over the motels that were otherwise the normal. When Disney Imagineers build a new People Mover it will be more individualized, there won't be a single track and single presentation. It will be more like HBO Westworld, with many overlapping experiences that change according to our interests and habits. -Frank

This Tron version is the only People Mover I got to experience, and that section scared the absolute crap out of me as a little kid. I would've been about 5 when this video was shot. The cars got HOT lol, and they were smaller than the Florida version if I remember right. Still though imo this People Mover was way better than WDW. There were no french fry rocks until the Rocket Rods era. Also, at that time I think Innoventions was still an empty America Sings building. I miss the early 90s Tomorrowland and the Mary Blair mural so much, it was my childhood. 🥲 While I'm forever sad that the People Mover is gone I am grateful that I got to experience Rocket Rods too before it broke so quickly.

I first rode the People Mover about a week before Star Tours opened (I was sooo bummed to realize that) and Captain EO still had an hour wait. Even as a kid, I was big enough of a Tron fan to catch the error in the VO as you go through the World of Tron ("the Master COMPUER Program..."). To my little ears, that was like a record scratch.

This was a great "ride". I was an 80s kid in Southern California, so I was taken to Disneyland a number of times throughout the 80s and 90s. I got to ride the Peoplemover while it still existed, though I was fairly young. I don't remember that Tron overlay at all so it probably didn't exist at that time, but I do recall the loading platform, the rotating signs, and some of that scenery (particularly going over the submarine lagoon). When I visited Disney World for the first time a few years ago, riding the Peoplemover was a nice bit of nostalgia and I got mad at Disney for destroying it in Disneyland, ha ha. I also rode the Disneyland Skyway a few times. I distinctly remember standing in line at the Fantasyland station, surrounded by the music and visual theming that matched the Pinocchio areas (like Village Haus), and riding the gondola through the Matterhorn. The monorail actually ran through the middle of the Disneyland Hotel at that time, too, much like how it does at The Contemporary in Florida.

Wait, you've never been on the original Disneyland Peoplemover? I thought for sure you had, given how often you talk about it on your channel. You're kinda blowing my mind a little here, Dallin.

The People Mover is my favorite ride, too, so it was such a joy to see its old counterpart in Disneyland. 🙌🏻

That was very cool thank you. I went to Grad night in Disneyland that year and it sure seemed familiar. It was longer than I remember but I still like how you felt after walking a long time to be able to sit and relax without standing in line. What a ride

Thank you. I just rode the PM at WDW for the first time in 30+ years and it was great. They really need to figure out a way to bring this back. The energy you mentioned by having the PM moving along with the other attractions is right on. Tomorrowland at WDW definitely had a better energy than DL and a lot of it had to do with the PM movement. 🤞🏻 on it coming back.

I always go and look at the old tracks every chance I get when I go. This is so cool

There’s also a People Mover ( an actual Disney People Mover ) I believe it’s at the Dallas airport. It’s their shuttle service between the different terminals

In the Magic Kingdom you used to be able to see out into Space Mountain. They added a wall when they added the ceilings on the cues.

I’ve ridden all versions of the Disneyland People Mover and would love if it came back! This brought back great memories!

You should totally do more of these: Commentaries on videos of extinct attractions.

I remember the Peoplemover from the mid 70's to the late 70's to the late 80's and the nineties. The part that cannot be captured very well, was the Space Mountain preview. You could see the cars going around the track by their lights. But there are many rides at Disneyland lost to time. Because the technology available to the average tourist could not capture the scenes very well. Which makes me wonder if Disney ever cataloged the old complete rides on film.

I saw Dan's video, and he said that due to someone doing the challenge before him, and posting about it, Disney had to change the rules of the people mover. As someone who never got a chance for the people mover, and has yet to go to WDW, I would love a people mover. It would be a cool attraction, and like you said, be a cool kenetic addition to the parks.

Tony Baxter said in a Season Pass podcast interview that not enough people went on the PeopleMover so it was an easy decision to turn it into the Rocket Rods. I remember going on the PeopleMover a lot when I was a kid (Dad liked it) and it was always a walk-on. Seemed boring as a kid but Rocket Rods were a bust. They would have to slow down wayyy too much on the turns it killed the thrill and wasn’t worth waiting 2+ hours back then. But as an adult I really enjoy these rides now… PeopleMover, train, Mark Twain, Monorail, sky buckets. Hoping at D23 they announce a PeopleMover 2.0 even if they have to rebuild the track… I’m sure Disney knows how much we talk about it!

I was here during this time, and it was the Mark 5. I use to go to Disneyland all the time back then. I love the People Movers, and miss not having it

Damn so many trees on Main Street/the hub, that looks amazing

I loved that ride from my childhood

I saw an old poster for the Tron section of the Peoplemover in a Disney Parks Poster book I have but I didn’t really know how the Peoplemover was Tron related until now. The projections looks pretty awesome!

I have good memories of running the People Mover as a kid. I was around 10 when star tours opened so I also remember riding on journey through inner space and being on the people mover going through that show building. Think my kids get tired of me pointing out when we are at Disneyland today…”hey, that’s where the skyway used to board…hey! That’s where the people mover used to go…hey, this didn’t used to be a pizza place….”

woah this was a blast from the past for me! used to live in socal so the occasional disneyland trip was definitely a treat! I fondly remember the dark tunnel parts with the clips from the OG TRON movie and the bit about 'america the beautiful,' which was part of 'Circle vision' if memory serves? was sponsored by PSA airlines, if I remember correctly.

The model at WDW used to be at Disneyland. Also the Tron tunnel used to be the speed tunnel before Tron came out.

I remember the people mover, tram cars, and the shrinking ride (this ride scared me to no end).. Honestly miss the tram cars the most. The people move was alright, the ride through star tours was awesome because of the xwing you went by and being able to see admiral ackbar up close.

People mover was nice & relaxing for when you wanted to sit & decide on the next ride or get a second wind or whatever. Plus, you could get glimpses into the backstage area from certain parts of the track and that was always fun.

The first time I went on the Peoplemover, the Speed Tunnel was still there(which was later replaced with Tron).

Great video! I rode it many times. Sad to see it go...

Wait, you never had the chance to ride the Skyway through the Matterhorn? Then you never saw the Matterhorn with the empty interior. That was a treat, and a blast to ride through in the sleds.

Disney humungous mistakes: Disneyland PeopleMover closer, Disney World Horizons and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride closers.

People mover track in CA is visible from inside the Que at Star Tours, just it’s painted so her black you can’t see it. Other than a door to the right because of its shiny handle. I’m a CM there so I’m always analyzing the whole building. Also want to be a imagineer for Tomorrowland but current states of the part are intense so you know chillin for now.

Liked your comment on putting the cell phones away at the end of the ride. Most people did not have one nor did they have video capability. Also you missed the motorboat ride which was closed at the time but you could still see the boats sitting there

If I can remember correctly, some of the visuals of the Tron area were also used in World of Motion in OG Epcot, there were speed tunnels in that one as well

I love all the ride alongs

On a hot day the People Mover and Circle Vision was a great break.

This People Mover is so much more interesting than the one in Disney, minus the Epcot model of course. My family and I basically just use it to cool off and sit down, but I'll be sure to pay extra attention next time to really see the Epcot model now that I know it's there, still I'd rather ride this one

I've been on the People Mover many times. I also been on Rocket Rods over 100 times. I loved the People Mover. I really liked Rocket Rods. Even though Rocket Rods was not well received and broke the structure of the People Mover, I did enjoy it. I agree, Disneyland needs to either remove it altogether because it is an eye sore to see an abandoned track or rebuild it with newer technologies. How about a true transportation system that has stops, expanding it to the edge of fantasyland near Small World and take passengers near Harbor Blvd as well like the monorail. Anyway, a rebuild or destroy is necessary. Rocket Rods, in my opinion was cool. The People Mover is original Disney and needs to come back. How about a maglev system, that is tomorrow.

I know it's been said time and time again, but I really do hope Disney shows off the Tomorrowland Refurb at D23 this year.

I enjoyed the Disneyland People Mover particularly when it went through and spied on attractions, but out on the open track with all the elevation changes it rode kind of rough and jerky. The DW People Mover is a much better ride imo. Getting rid of the canopies and all of the elevation changes made a big difference! The sound is excellent as well!

I rode the Tron version of this. I also remember a car racing sequence, though I was like 10 so don't hold me to any details.

I adore your ridealong vids

When I was a teen in the 80's, Tomorrowland WAS Disneyland. The Peoplemover was what we just assumed the future would be like. It seems quaint now, but it was believably futuristic then. BTW, no one asked us to stop filming with our cellphones at the end of ride. It wasn't THAT futuristic.

The Disneyland Peoplemover was longer but slower, squeakier, and especially bUmPier than Disneyworld's. The one in the Magic Kingdom is very smooth and comfortable and overall better imo, so at least there's that. If I can make a suggestion for future Ride Alongs, it would have been fun to see you seated like you were on the ride, so when the camera zooms or pans away you go off camera accordingly then when it pans back you reappear sitting in the same spot you were on the ride.

This brought back so many happy memories🥹🥲🎈🌸💙💛🌺

I feel old. The last time I went to Disneyland, the people mover and the skyway were still operational.

The Tron speed tunnel was the best part of the ride and I still miss it to this day.. and I'm sixty !

It’s a ride that gets other lines to go down, if people are on this ride they aren’t necessarily in line for something else it’s great! BRING IT BACK

You’d think that at this point there’d be some sort of construction resin or other high tech adhesive that could be poured into the structure of the ride to reinforce the damage and allow the peoplemover to reopen. Even if it needed to slow down a little further than the original, it would still be a fast enough loader that it’d be totally worth it. And to replace the trim screen, it’d be cool if they did a scene from the new Mickey cartoons, like the one where Mickey has to walk Pluto in space, or a time travel one.

This is peak tomorrowland, miss this so much!

I've seen that video before. The People Mover moves slower than the DisneyWorld version and it's very squeaky. Makes me wonder if the track was already bad.

This is my first time seen the Disneyland TTA. I really really like it. Such a shame it may never open again