Guests boarded small trains that ran on elevated tracks for a "grand circle tour" above Tomorrowland.

The term "people mover", now in wider use to describe many forms of automated public transport, was first coined as the name for this attraction.

[citation needed] The ride closed on August 21, 1995, but its station and track infrastructure—which it shared with its short-lived successor, Rocket Rods—remain standing as of 2025.

Each car included its own sound system which broadcast a continuous audio commentary and soundtrack, relative to the train's location.

Originally, each four-car train was colored either red, blue, yellow or green with white roofs.

They were repainted all white with colored stripes in 1987-88, similar to the new Mark V Monorails that began operation around the same time.

[7] In 1985, these safety rails were modified to completely wrap around each car, making it even more difficult for possible accidents to occur.

In August 1967, a 16-year-old boy from Hawthorne, California, was killed while jumping between two moving PeopleMover cars as the ride was passing through a tunnel.

He stumbled and fell onto the track, where an oncoming train of cars crushed him beneath its wheels and dragged his body a few hundred feet before it was stopped by a ride operator.

[8] The PeopleMover closed on August 21, 1995 since Imagineers thought the ride was past its time and no longer a prototype, but rather a place to rest one's feet and also as part of Michael Eisner and Paul Pressler's program to save money by shutting down expensive attractions.

When Toy Story Funhouse operated as a temporary attraction during the 1996 season, a few character statues from the film sat on the PeopleMover track.

[citation needed] The ride track infrastructure, as well as the loading station, which served both the PeopleMover and Rocket Rods still stands unused in Tomorrowland as of 2024.

In September 2010 at D23's "Destination D" event, then-president of Disneyland Resort George Kalogridis said that while there may be plans to bring back the ride, the park would not be able to return the attraction to its original form due to stricter regulations.