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  1. Robert Childers
    June 6, 2025

    Also, I was there the day the compressed column of air blew out this walls. We weren’t in the “T&A” phase of the ride at that point, we were, and had been, open to guests for some time, and when the walls blew out there were guests in the AGVs, in the drop shaft, at that time. I and most other of the maintenance staff spent weeks on a lower floor, with the shaft doors open to vent the pressure, while we guarded the open shaft doors to make sure no one could fall down the open shafts.

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  2. Robert Childers
    June 6, 2025

    I worked there in Engineering Services for nearly 3 decades, the last several years at Tower of Terror. The “corridor” scene you refer to is the 1st stop for the guests in the lift elevators; no AGVs leave their lifts in this scene. The next, and final stop for the lift elevators are The 5th Dimension. The AGVs leave the lifts at this floor, 2 on the Echo side, 2 on the Foxtrot side, all synced so that there’s only 1 AGV in the 5th Dimension at any given time. They travel from their respective “load” lift, across the 5th Dimension, enter the Drop lift, go through the sequence of “drops” (by virtue of a massive GE 3-phase, SCR controlled, ROTARY, 600VDC, 600Amp VFD driven motor, not LIMs and end up at the Unload floor, where the AGV leaves the drop lift and navigates the unload dock, where the guests exit the vehicle. Unless Disney has completely torn out the electronic guts from the entire ride control system, there are no linear induction motors in the entire building.

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