Originally Posted By Disney_Blonde Over the years I have never thought of this, but my boyfriend and I were questioning, where the heck do they hide that thing during the day? I figured someone on here would know... :-D
Originally Posted By -PLP- I'm not positive but I 'Think' they have a spot on the backside of Tom Sawyer's Island where the floats are docked and hidden from sight..we will soon hear how far off I just may be. LOL
Originally Posted By submarine-maniac I'm just going to say that when you are on the train, as soon as you are finished passing the river, there is a fence...look real hard thru the wood cracks.
Originally Posted By wonderlandd If you walk to the back end of the island there is a huge painted wooden fence of sorts that says cast members only..everything from Fantasmic is probably stored there.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If you look at satellite pictures, you can see where they hide those sorts of things. There's a canal that runs parallel to the train tracks, just north of the Indian village, and west of the Festival Arena. In the link you can see the black monkey/princess barges pretty clearly, and the bright green of the crocodile is also a little visible from under the trees. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1313+s+harbor+blvd,+anaheim,+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.885543,78.75&ie=UTF8&ll=33.814149,-117.921058&spn=0.001052,0.003422&t=h&z=19" target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=...t=h&z=19</a> Funny, since I thought I read somewhere that they took all the extra watercraft out of the water each day, and stored it on land backstage. You can see the canal that leads to the dock quite easily from the rivercraft, but the dock itself is very well hidden (maybe not so much from the train). They hide a lot of the costumes and props on the island behind the mysterious fence, but they also have quite a well equipped underground lair (from my understanding) that goes about 3 stories down, and houses most of the things needed to run the show. It's also interesting that they always talk about the construction on the front of the island and in the viewing areas before the show initially opened, but this area never gets mentioned. Has it always been there, and if so what was it used for before all the F! came along?
Originally Posted By LacyBelle We were on the lower level of the Hungry Bear early evening once and saw an army of CMs loading up the TSI rafts with gear to take over to the island. The boxes and the CMs were all dressed in black. I had imagined they were taking props over for that night's F! shows. Perhaps the on-island storage only holds so much and the rest of the show items are kept backstage in Critter Country?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If anybody ever has the chance and hasn't already done it, it's really neat to watch a production of Fantasmic! from the canoe docks and secret path by the Harbor Galley. You get to see a lot of backstage stuff, and the characters all wave to you, pretending that they're not doing the gritty work stuff. It's also kind of funny to watch Eric carry Ariel onto the barge, since she doesn't walk so well on her own.... : )
