Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for discussion of the October 3 article: Disneyland Resort Update at <a href="News-ID507530.asp" target="_blank">http://LaughingPlace.com/News-ID507530.asp</a>.
Originally Posted By Ursula Thanks for the update. Am I the only one shocked that it's that time of year again for Nightmare at the HM? It was JUST summer! Great pictures of the Tower, Doobie!!!
Originally Posted By Britain You know, it sure is nice to not nitpick over that sketchy, line-drawn rendering of Tower anymore. We've come a long way, baby!
Originally Posted By Daannzzz Finally getting to see what was intended now that all the scaffolding is down I can see that the "story" of what occured to the ToT is much more obvious than the one at WDW though it is a hair fake looking. I do like the architecture of this one. It definately feels like a L.A. style building with a bit of styling from a cartoon city ala the buildings inside Roger Rabbits Cartoon Spin.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Thank you, as always I really like and appreciate your eye for different details.
Originally Posted By arstogas >>>I can see that the "story" of what occured to the ToT is much more obvious than the one at WDW though it is a hair fake looking.<<< Thank you. I like the building as well, but the distressing and aging techniques are not among the best they've done.
Originally Posted By koobar yah, i dislike the lightning effect paintjob...a bit overdone and too bright. Overall, very nice looking structure.
Originally Posted By MouseBear Salutations Doobie and Rebekah, Thanks for the update. My kids will be very excited about the Brother Bear show. Lee
Originally Posted By socalguy I was wondering about the brightness of the "damage" also. Two questions come to mind... 1. Has lightening damage ever left purple damage behind? I wonder how this color model was decided on? (I'm not downing the choice, I'm just curious because I really don't know). 2. Due to environmental regulations, paint these days just doesn't keep it's color as long. I wonder if the tower's damage area was purposely painted too bring in order to fade to a correct level and last longer before repainting is needed.
Originally Posted By BrigmanMT 2 good point on the fade thing. I think Purple Lighting is one of those, ooh thats evil kind of things. Bright lights of fire falling from the sky and stuff like that. It is most likely ment to add to the supernatural story of the attraction.
Originally Posted By arstogas >>>1. Has lightening damage ever left purple damage behind? I wonder how this color model was decided on? (I'm not downing the choice, I'm just curious because I really don't know)<<< I was thinking about that. I have seen purple "welding scars" left along various surfaces, concrete and metal. I think it's plausible. In this case, it is SO purple... it is probably one of those things that looked better on the model or the paint swatch. I don't have an explanation for DCA's TOWER, but I have mentioned before, when they started painting the EPCOT Center pavillions before it opened, the colors were WAY too garish. Seems they'd been chosen under the California sun, the BURBANK, smog-ridden sun. Under the pollution-free Florida sky, the colors came off too bold, too intense. So virtually every exterior color was adjusted, toned down. Things change. And I do know that purple as a pigment in many paints has a bleed through quality. In latex, it also DULLS pretty quickly, so they might have allowed for that.
Originally Posted By Britain One thing I always liked about WDW's tower was that the lightning marks were mostly a whitish gray with a little purple around the edges. I liked to think that this communicated either a "white-hot" or a "cumbling ash" look. Now, my guess as to why they changed was that white doesn't contrast as well against golden beige stucco as it does against reddish orange stucco like in WDW. Plus, this way they seem to have more detailing of the "interior hallways" of the hotel, which you might not "get" if it were whitish gray.
Originally Posted By Disfan1022 I always enjoy your updates Doobekah. Thanks again. Tower is looking nice and I'm interested in getting a closer look at the build-your-own Mr. Potato Head display. Looks fun! =)
Originally Posted By Brer Rabbit Why is Tower of Terror so wide? I've never been in the WDW version, but I thought that it was mostly just the space that would be taken up by one of two(?) elevator shafts that go up and down. Is it because the queue is fairly extensive inside the building as well? -nico
Originally Posted By koobar <Is it because the queue is fairly extensive inside the building as well? > the answer is YES.
Originally Posted By Britain Sorry, I meant to say that YES the queue is really detailed, but NO, that's not why the building is so wide. There are three shafts, that's why.
