Originally Posted By DBitz2 >>^^Well, I guess I stand corrected! I'm impressed that they fixed it after so long (my first visit to DCA was in 2005, and I never saw it spinning). It would have been much easier to just say "we're taking it out soon enough, we might as well leave it as-is"<< They did do a refurbishment of the spinning sign and it did indeed spin for a short time prior to the "relaunch" of DCA. From what I remember reading somewhere, originally it was going to stay, thus the refurb, but Lassiter or someone thought that it distracted from Buena Vista Street and recommended that it go.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 It's too bad that Disney thinks they have to have the same movie in every park that has the attraction rather than each park having it's own. (I'm not talking about modified individual endings for each park.) Since the DCA Soarin' will be in an area themed around the National Parks, and, since I'm a National Park Volunteer, I would love to see the DCA film themed to National Parks.
Originally Posted By TP2000 The latest Miceage Update says they are turning Taste Pilots Grill into a new restaurant called Smoke Jumpers Grill, and the new restaurant will be 1940's themed and have a dancefloor built for swing dancing. This could work well just off Carthay Circle, don't you think?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt It's a great idea. Wish they'd do the same for the myriad of contemporary dance parties over in Hollywood Land.
Originally Posted By phruby I thought some cast member said it was going to be themed to Humphrey the Bear.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt So I just read the MA update. Most interesting tidbit: a Marvel coaster is in the works for DCA. Also, in the comments section Dusty claims that the article was written by a Disney employee.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I sure hope that Marvel coaster is indoors. Naked coaster track would look awful rising up behind TOT.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA If it's Humphrey - we could all pick up trash in Grizzly Airfield 'First you stick a rag put it in the bag Boom-boom 'Then you bend your back put it in the sack' Boom- boom That's the way you start, its a lot of fun Boom- Boom Cuttin' capers puttin' papers in the bag
Originally Posted By believe Lots of advanced video technology now. Even GoPro has 4k cameras now. Pair that with a drone, and you've got amazing soaring videos. I've always been disappointed with the projection on Soarin. It just didn't seem as sharp, clear, or colorful as Imax should be, especially at 48fps. The colors seem muted and it's just not crystal clear. Theoretically, Imax should be much clearer than 4k digital. I was hoping they would convert Soarin to 3-D 4k. There suppose to be better digital projection such as digistar - which is designed for domed screens and you get as much as 8k.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA In the early days, the film would get dust on it, projecting giant dust balls on the screen. So odd.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Theoretically, Imax should be much clearer than 4k digital.<< I'm not sure that Soarin' is Imax; I think it might just be 35mm on a really really big screen, rather than name-brand 70mm. I know it has been discussed before, but I'm not sure how that was resolved But I agree that film should be much clearer than digital, especially on that scale. I've often had problems with digital projections, which seem to blur motion. When it's a person moving in front of a stationary background, you don't notice it too much, but when the entire background is moving (like, say, flying over a landscape) it all smears together. That's what happens with several of the shots of Impressions de France in Epcot; the film is crisp and perfect until it gets some quick movement, and then it all goes to heck. I've never experienced a 4K projector firsthand, but I suspect these problems will persist. With how quickly digital projection continues to progress (several iterations of the definition of "HD", now 4K), it seems like this is a sure-fire way to have it system look really dated in a couple years. Hopefully this works out well, but I'm remaining skeptical at this point
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>In the early days, the film would get dust on it, projecting giant dust balls on the screen. So odd.<< It still happens fairly often in the Epcot version. It's because they didn't want to build a proper cleanroom for the projectors, and instead use a loop of clear film on top of the movie film, which is supposed to blow the dust off of the film before it is projected. The only problem is when dust gets stuck to the clear film (which happens fairly regularly), and then it keeps getting looped through the projector so the audience sees it over and over I suppose the conversion to digital will make it a non-issue, but this would seem like a good opportunity to finally get around to building that cleanroom
Originally Posted By phruby Do you think visitors at Epcot know they are watching scenes from California?
Originally Posted By danyoung >...and instead use a loop of clear film on top of the movie film, which is supposed to blow the dust off of the film before it is projected.< They also had a problem for a while with the clear film loop just stopping for 30 seconds at a time, showing every imperfection of the film scratches. This happened in WDW and in DL for about 6 months before they got it fixed in all theaters.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Do you think visitors at Epcot know they are watching scenes from California?<< I'm sure some do. There are enough visitors at WDW who have also been to DLR who could spot the similarities (though comparatively few DLR visitors make the trek to WDW). The pre-show loop that displays all of the location names is also shown in Epcot, so people who are paying attention might catch on that they're all in California. And I'm sure that most guests would recognize some of the more California-iconic locations like the Golden Gate Bridge, redwood forest, Halfdome, and Napa, but they may not recognize that everything in the film is from California. Disney never really tried to hide or deny that the film takes place entirely in California, but it just isn't highlighted like in DCA. The terrain is varied enough that it fits The Land pavilion well, though I'm sure that a global film could also work very nicely; it will be interesting to see how that will work at DCA, which has been increasingly losing the California-specific theme for about a decade
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I hope they keep the original film at DCA and offer the global one as well; either by showing one in one theatre and the other in the second, or by showing them at different times of day, as they used to do with American Journeys/Wonders of China in Circlevision. Best of both worlds, then.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle ^Why not just go for the full-blown Star Tours 2.0 treatment? Film 40 or 50 different "segments", and have each ride taken you over 10 or so, with randomized selection. Seems to me that would up the repeatability factor immensely, as it did for Star Tours.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 That would be great if they could do that. It might be a little tough with the music, considering how key that is to Soarin'.
