Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey I just got back from WDW yesterday, and I viewed the new Dream Along With Mickey show in front of the castle. It featured Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy as the main characters. What I found interesting is that the characters had the ability to move their eyes and mouths! It was fabulous! When the character would speak on the recording, not only would their heads move, but their mouths would, too! I'm not really sure how it works, but it has something to do with a trigger in their gloves, because whenever they would move their mouths or blink, they would move their fingers in a certain way. I thought that it was very cool. Anyone else have feedback?
Originally Posted By Waistcoated Rabbit I saw a video of the show on youtube.. and maaaan those heads are creepy. I mean the technology is amazing! but I dunno.. the blinking is just too much lol. I wonder if they'll try to incorporate this technology in the meet and greet characters.. maybe with a voice modulator or something inside the head. o__o that would be crazy awesome.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Well, "face" characters speak now but I'm not sure about the step to costumed characters speaking. When someone says "Mickey told me to **** off" then things will get dicey. Man, my kids are already scared of the characters. If they see their faces moving then they are going to have heart attacks. (Young kids).
Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey Yea, I dunno if they will ever use them in meet and greet characters. They probably are pretty expensive and hard to maintain, so mixing with some of the character-abusing kids that I've seen in the past might not be a good idea. My prediction is that F! will be next to get these types of masks, and then parades will follow after that.
Originally Posted By WolvesTwilight I spoke to a performer once about the heads down in the Tunnels. The eye and mouth is moved by triggers in the gloves, one in each glove. When the technology was debut it led to some very funny malfunctions on stage. For example, one day I saw Goofy blink his speech, and the other times the eyes weren't working right. It was during the PnP event, one night almost all the night shows were canceled due to head malfunctions. And the castle went out, which was creepy.
Originally Posted By cassiedoodle wow! i'm not usually one for change, but i thought that that was great!! i'm very excited about it
Originally Posted By figment1986 <<For example, one day I saw Goofy blink his speech, and the other times the eyes weren't working right.>> Blinking in morse code The heads are great when they work, but they don't work always or in all weather conditions, I've seen the show with both heads, and I like the tech but old heads will always work too. I wonder how well they would work in fantasmic... parade would be interesting too, and since only mickey really talks it would be easy to test.
