I loved the Skyway, so much fun to get around the park. Much like the Peoplemover it was a must go when I was a child at Disneyland. I'm just glad I was able to experience them both.

Your channel is criminally under subbed …another great video sir and I learned a lot, I’m old enough to have ridden the skyway as a kid in the early 90s. Lots of great memories and photos from that skyway, I wish Disneyland would bring ‘em back 🤷🏼‍♂️

always love a hitchhikers drop in

I missed this video!!! Thank you! This ride is cemented in my childhood!!

I miss this so bad I literally dream of them constantly.... it feels like I'm mourning a loss of a family member

I miss those!! People Movers too...💚🎸

I loved the Skyway. It was a lot like the people mover. A nice refreshing ride for a change of pace. Oh well, as they say, it is long gone.

Love these fun series of videos. You don't realize what you had, until it's gone. Like the people mover and the astro jets at Disneyland, these attractions allowed guest to have a bird's eye view of the park and a brief escape for the busy park below. Loved how it went through the Matterhorn. I figured the Skyway's demise was a combination of multiple factors, which you had mentioned. But a few years back, I discovered a scale model of the original skybuckets in a backyard railroad exhibit.

Absolutely terrifying death trap that my brothers had me convinced would fall off the line! I do miss it now though!

Excellent video! Well researched and well made! Great job and it brings back a lot of memories for me! AFAIK, the reason for the placement of the Matterhorn and Skyway -- next to the Autotopia and submarine -- was to reflect the contemporary world. Disneyland is set up like an enormous clock. You enter and begin to go back in time up Main Street, go left, the continue clockwise forward in time. Several of the rides -- Train, Jungle Cruise, Pirates, Mansion, etc. -- are set in the past but give glimpses into the distant past. It's irregular, but you generally move forward in time, toward Tomorrowland. Thus, immediately before you go into the future of Tomorrowland, you go through the contemporary world when transportation was king: toboggan, submarine, autos, and skyway.

Here's the dark secret of why the skyway at Disneyland was closed. It was because of kids like my little brother and his friends. They would spit, throw popcorn, cups, ice, and anything else that they could find from the skyway onto unsuspecting guests below. It was a sport for the "regular kids of Disney" at the time. The new Skyliner cabs used in Florida are totally enclosed by design. No mischief can be caused by the riders. I dare say that the original skyway from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland could be resurrected if the new Skyliner cars were used because the problems caused by kids on the original version would be eliminated.

The buckets were infamous for some guests using it to smoke weed in the park. Other locations included Tom Sawyer's Island. This was hard to monitor and was an issue giving the management and security ulcers. It wasn't the primary reason for removal (maintainence) but it made the decision easy for management.

Interesting funny story, I was in the Air Force 1968, and buddy and I got busted for smoking pot riding thru the madahorn in one of those gondolas thinking it was a safe place and that the smell of pot would be disapated in the air, duh on us, they probably had look outs in the madahorn. My buddy was faster than me and got away, they took me to some secret room where I was Interagated for a while. The military police picked me up took me to Norton AFB and told me to knock that stuff off, thought for sure I was gonna get busted bit I didn’t, perhaps that’s why they removed the gondolas. Just a thought, I am 75 now but never forgot that night at Disney.

Fun 🤩 Fact: during the Fantasyland renovation at Disneyland in the early 1980s the Skyway made only roundtrips from Tomorrowland.

Always smoked a joint on the Skyway in the early 70’s in WDW

I remember riding that with my dad. I'm glad I still have the SD zoo one. I still know where to find the stairs in fantasy land

Your videos always give me some new Disney trivia that I didn't know before, and I know a LOT of Disney facts. I vaguely remember the Skyway as a kid. I loved them. I wish they'd bring them back. Please keep these great videos coming!

Great video, I remember riding this ride with my Mom. It a great Disneyland memory

Something I want to point out. Visit Disneyland and you look to the left of Casey Junior there are still concrete steps going up to a dead end. That is where it led up to the original Skyway in Fantasyland. I'm not sure why they left it but it is cool it's still there

Loving your content. I keep pushing the like buttons. Hope the algorithm start pushing you more. Great stuff.

It makes a lot of sense why they don’t immediately tear down the buildings. They don’t just tear things down because that cost time and money. If they do that they’ll have to reclaim the land and put effort into making it look nice. If they have a themed building and landscaping already there that’s the easiest solution UNTIL they want that space for something else.

I grew up with Skyway at Disneyland (and rode the WDW one at least once before it closed). I loved going on Skyway from the time I was a child into my twenties when it closed. I was down at WDW last May and got to ride the Skyliner and loved it riding it all the way from Hollywood Studios to EPCOT and back. I hope someday Disneyland brings this attraction back in some form.

I rode on this at WDW in the 70s as a little girl - and the swan boats lol

I miss the skyway at Disney World. I only rode them once or twice as a child. I loved the “Skybuckets” Awesome Disney history lesson! Another awesome film! I thought up into the lesson here that these were called sky-buckets not Gondolas. All my family and friends called these type of rides sky-buckets. I’m not ashamed to say I never heard the word Gondola until the Disney Skyliner at Disney World. 😂

Criminally undersubbed is my exact thought. Fantastic content and commentary!

Just heard this week from a senior Disney staff member who stated that the skyliner now at Disney World is classified as “Transportation” instead of an “attraction” or ride. The difference is apparently huge in terms of state regulations and requirements! Same with the boats around EPCOT and the ones that take you from the parking lot to the magic kingdom. And of course, the monorail. He said Disneyland changed its monorail from an attraction to transportation!!

"Hyperion" is a reference to the name of the airship in "The Island at the Top of the World." That airship was depicted in physical permanence in Discoveryland at Disneyland Paris. The airship in the film was named after Hyperion Avenue where The Walt Disney Studios had its second plant following the initial storefront on Kingswell Avenue.

Skyliners returned to Disney World in 2019. The current system has six stations and is used to transport visitors to/from several Disney Resorts & Epcot and Hollywood Studios.

The main reason was that the manufacturer(s) who produced the products necessary to maintain the skyway no longer produced the products or went out of business. It would require either Disney to start manufacturing products or find a vendor to make legacy products. As such they determined it was less expensive to remove the attraction. Similar to the motor boats and people mover. Thankfully the people mover has a massive following and we may get it to return. Hopefully this will happen in my lifetime.

Love your videos! I hope more people find you.👍

The "Skyway" built for the NY World's Fair I believe made its way over to Six Flags Great Adventure in NJ

Just stumbled across your channel while looking for videos about Milt Kahl. By any chance, are you planning on doing videos about the other 7 of the 9 Old Men?

I was born in 1972 and we always called them the buckets. Not even Sky buckets, just buckets.

The front part (ground level) of the chalet at the Magic Kingdom was used for stroller parking for Fantasyland, especially since the Peter Pan queue was right across the street. There were still buckets and machinery up in the enclosure, though guests couldn't see them.

Thanks for the video, very informative

Another excellent video, chock-filled with lots of information! I rode the Magic Kingdom’s Sky Way a few times as a kid, and I don’t remember much of it. What I have lots of memories of is from the park formally known as Great Adventure in New Jersey. That park has the skyway from New York’s ‘64 World’s Fair. You can still ride it today. There aren’t too many Von Rolls left in the world!

A little known fact is that located in the Disneyland Swiss chalet was the emergency back-up power for the sky buckets. It was a VW bug engine.

I’m pretty sure the Disneyland Fantasyland Station is still there. Galaxys edge is further back.

Your writing is amazing. I enjoy your videos brother. Keep up the good work. What rides are acceptable to people with disabilities? It must be frustrating for those with challenges.

Skyliner at WDW makes sense because it’s not a ride. The Skyliner is transportation. WDW has a bus congestion problem, just observing the size of the bus stations at the parks gives an idea of how much of a problem it is. Bus traffic is so bad Disney built bus only lanes around Disney Springs. The skyliner can move more people per hour with less labor than buses. The skyliner doesn’t get caught in traffic causing guests to miss reservations. And with advancements in technology it is far less dangerous for the operators. No longer does Disney need to employ big burly guys to stop swing and catch the buckets. No longer is there a step up or down, now wheel chairs and strollers are welcome. I would expect that sometime in the future we might see an expansion of the skyliner to include routes to more hotels and to Animal Kingdom.

Ugh, after the Disneyland Peoplemover, this is the next ride I wish I had a time machine to ride. I'd love to see them bring it back with Skyliner cars.

You are forgetting the tornado in Anaheim that damaged the Disney Skyway. Seriously... look it up.

Umm..... I have always heard that the reason why the Disneyland Skyway has closed was due to safety issues after the 94' Northridge earthquake.... Just saying

Day-Byou-Ted…lol

And ironically after they dumped it, they are now using it for inner park transport in Florida. Go figure.

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My friend, debuted sounds like "day viewed" and not like "day butte ed". I noticed you say it in another video too. Okay, carry on!

I once told my mom that the Fantasyland station was my dream house. I didn't know it used to be a skyway station until I was older. One day my dad told me that they were taking down my dream home. It was worth it though :)

Skyway went woke before woke was a word. Worried about lawsuits.

This is total misinformation. Disneyland has never paid minimum wage,... especially in the Attractions department! Back in the 1990's, Disneyland paid extremely well and had almost impossibly high standards when casting roles. You are discussing something you really know nothing about. Over the last few years, the compensation Disneyland has offered has steadily decreased along with its selection criteria. Disneyland's personnel are now being paid a fraction of what they used to receive, and this fact is repeatedly and rightly asserted by the various unions that represent Disney's employees. The standards for Disneyland's personnel are not at all like they used to be. Disneyland used to be a prestigious organization that had cachet, and the compensation packages allowed Disney to select the best from the largest pool of applicants possible. Now, Disneyland can hardly keep the place staffed with people who are barely competent, and that situation is a direct result of Disney continually offering the unions deals that privilege existing personnel over new hires.