Originally Posted By capteoyes I am going Wednesday! I heard crowds weren't bad at all. 1500 per hour for a theater show is pretty good capacity. Bring it on!!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I feel like the problem with 95% of the people who have been talking about EO since last summer is that they are all really big fans of the idea. There really hasn't been much objective discussion..." Ya think?
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones By the way, all those arguments about Disneyland not being a museum sort of fly out the window when the powers that be decide to make a quick buck of an eccentric pop star's death, eh? Captain EO should have been an exhibit at LACMA, haha.
Originally Posted By mousermerf So far I've heard the print was blurry and that around 5-6pm there was no one in line, it was a walk-on.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Probably due to the fact ... many people were worried about opening day crowds from h*ll! It was in the middle of the week - hence, people had to work. AND Disney has not promoted this. Only us online fans have known. Given all that ... I would expect a walk-on .. for an attraction with a very high capacity of 600 every 20 minutes.
Originally Posted By danyoung >I feel like the problem with 95% of the people who have been talking about EO since last summer is that they are all really big fans of the idea. There really hasn't been much objective discussion...< I disagree with this. I am a fan of EO, and I think I've been very objective about its arrival and potential success or failure (for the record, I think it'll do great business over the summer, and then taper off to more or less HISTA levels after that). It's not fair to say that to be objective you have to NOT like the idea of EO coming back. I think there's been excellent discussion on both sides of the fence. And I think the feedback on yesterday's debut was pretty fair, with the good and the bad. I'm hoping the blurry print is not really the print but just a focal adjustment - it's easy for projector lenses to slide a bit, and easy to correct.
Originally Posted By capteoyes Off to Eo! I will report later! Hooter! Stop being a pain! BTW, watch for the "bouncing trashcan" behind Hooter after Wicked Evil Witch threatens to turn them into trash cans. The continuity person for this movie should have been fired. Errors everywhere!
Originally Posted By phruby Actually I was there at 6pm. It was not a walk on. The 6pm show was full. I did get there about five minutes before and got in. The audiance was lively and really enjoyed the show. The show is very basic compared to Muppets or ITTBAB. They had the wind effect working and the lighting in the back helped the 3D feel. I liked the thumping floor. The print looked ok to me. It was a little faded but that could be because we are so use to bright colors in movies. Its a good show the year.
Originally Posted By danyoung >BTW, watch for the "bouncing trashcan" behind Hooter after Wicked Evil Witch threatens to turn them into trash cans.< In that same shot, watch the direction Hooter is turning. In the wide shot he's turning one way, but in the cut to the tight shot he's rotating the OPPOSITE direction! Just one of many "fun" moments in the show!
Originally Posted By Bellella I'm not sure when I'll be able to go see this. For how long is it staying?
Originally Posted By believe >>>>>I'm not sure when I'll be able to go see this. For how long is it staying?<<<<<< I forgot where I saw it, maybe AP Associated Press - they said it was going to play "indefinitely".
Originally Posted By believe I haven't seen it yet, but I'm alittle bummed from the reports so far. Sounds like they spent more on the theatre rehab then they did on the movie and spfx. New prints for the film would cost maybe $5000? How much would reprogramming the inhouse effects cost? Just WDI labor, right? Doesn't sound like they went wild with the motion base (although it's probably not capable of wild movements). If they had gone digital projection, they could have reedited the film and added the 4D effects to the movie itself - ie, starfield and lasers. But probably quite a bit more expense. Also, I have memories that the film was never really crystal clear in the first place, even with 70mm.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Also, I have memories that the film was never really crystal clear in the first place, even with 70mm.> Your memory serves you well, oh Disney nerd. Truly -- the 'Captain EO' print always had a bit of that double image and fuzzy edges -- of course the 3-D technology was not as good 20+ years ago as it is today.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>they said it was going to play "indefinitely"<< It will be there until they finish refurbishing Space Station X-1.
Originally Posted By phruby New digital projectors are way to expensive for a temporary attraction. Hell, even perminate ones like Muppetvision and ITTBAB don't have that. This was also not budgeted so they probably spent at most $50K. I'd say the sign and the reprogramming of the floor cost the bulk of it.
Originally Posted By danyoung >How much would reprogramming the inhouse effects cost?< From what I've read, they DID reprogram the in-house effects, like the motion table and the wind effects. I'm betting the equipment to make the fog and the lasers and the starfield are long gone, and would be cost-prohibitive for a short run like this.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I don't think so. These "floor progammers" - they're already on the payroll, right? So if they weren't doing this, they'd be doing something else. I understand about 'billable project hours' but I'm not overly impressed by claims of this project being some extraordinary effort. Fog machines and lasers aren't hard to come by either - ever been to a mexican disco? As I recall, The original run had a blinking beacon at the back of the theater. And I was corrected on this before, but I seem to remember a sequence of five bright white lights above the screen - not lasers but more like showspots - that fired off in sequence to accent the rat-tat-tat-tat-tat of "Better Part of Me". It would have likely taken the recent installation longer to install every original bell and whistle, and somebody along the way just decided to skip it. But - except for the fiber optic star field - the rest of it was cheap and easy to come by. And they could have if they wanted to, but instead decided to just get by with the basics.
