Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=1680" target="_blank">The Latest: Latest: Lifelike Character Costumes Coming to Magi</a>
Originally Posted By Doobie I saw this show and the costumes were great. This would be soooo cool! Doobie.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 What is "Mickey's Magic Show", and where was it performed? I'd love to see pictures or video of these new costumes. I'm curious how they look and work.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I believe it was a traveling stage production produced by the Feld people, the same company that produces Disney on Ice. I too am interested to see what these costumes look like.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh, thank you! With that information, I went and did a little searching and found Disney's site for it. <a href="http://disney.go.com/disneylive/" target="_blank">http://disney.go.com/disneyliv e/</a> There is a short video clip, although small, that shows the characters in action. I have to say, it's pretty cute and a great idea for live stage shows. The mouths move quickly. I'm not sure how it would work for Character meet & greets, but for shows it's great!
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Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I suppose in large scale stage shows, with lots of loud music and some distance from the audience, these new rubberheads would look pretty cool. But imagine the innards -- with the mechanisms to make the mouth open and close -- would be a bit noisy in a one-on-one character encounter in Mickey's ToonTown.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Now the characters could scowl at you as well as punch you in the kisser. (Kidding! Tigger was totally framed!!!)
Originally Posted By mickeymeg looks good in the video. I noticed on the website there was no schedule information.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "I suppose in large scale stage shows, with lots of loud music and some distance from the audience, these new rubberheads would look pretty cool. But imagine the innards -- with the mechanisms to make the mouth open and close -- would be a bit noisy in a one-on-one character encounter in Mickey's ToonTown" I was just thinking that.
Originally Posted By leemac DLP's Lion King show currently uses a Timon character costume that features mouth movements. I believe that is the first one of its kind to be used inside the parks.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I doubt that they would use these for the walk around characters, at least for a while, because what good is a moving mouth if the characters can't talk? I'm sure, with time, they will develop a system similar to Turtle Talk or Push, where there is someone controling what the characters say from a distance, whether from recorded clips or live talking into a mic. Either way, it will be really complicated, and I'm sure would take a long time to work out properly.
Originally Posted By Shadow wolf Looking at the video, I agree with everyone else that the new faces would work out very nicely for stage shows. Meet and Greets...that will take a lot of tinkering to get it right.
Originally Posted By Labuda I'm with the rest. And, l;ike the person who posted post #10 - I noticed there's no schedule info for this show. Which STINKS, as I'd LOVE to get to see it!!!
