Originally Posted By skinnerbox Phooey on ITTBAB's film. I burned out on that, years ago. I like sitting on the far right, near the front, to watch Hopper. That is one helluva AA!!
Originally Posted By danyoung >...and I'm still confused why there are never any characters from the film on the screen...< If I recall correctly, the live show opened well before the movie came out. So I'd guess that when the show was in development, even Pixar didn't quite know all of the characters in the movie. Plus they wouldn't have been known characters until the movie came out, which would have hurt the show in its early days. Just surmising, of course.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Live shows have much greater repeatability than movies, even in 3D, do.> I think shows based on music have a greater repeatability than ones based on jokes and sight gags also. I think Philharmonic will have a much longer shelf life than HISTA or Muppets.
Originally Posted By gadzuux So was there any sudden rush by misty-eyed fans to visit HISTA on it's final day? I'm guessing no. I've said all along that I think returning Eo is a bad idea, but it does have a big silver lining in that it pushes out HISTA - hopefully forever. And as much as we'd all like to see something really for real "new" in that location, it's highly unlikely in the near term. And something/anything needs to be up and running in order to fulfill the sponsorship contract with Kodak - they can't just close the space indefinitely without losing one of the handful . Yet Eo will have worn out whatever welcome it has by the end of this summer. Let's hope those imagineers are working on a suitable replacement right now. Otherwise it's an open-ended run of an eighties music video or a return to HISTA, based on a movie franchise that nobody cares about and only the elders barely remember.
Originally Posted By danyoung Based on Al's latest column and talk about all the Disney bigwigs agreeing that DL needs new E ticket attractions, I can see the entire theater being buldozed (and maybe even Innoventions next door) for some new super attraction. We'll see. . .
Originally Posted By Hista98 they actually can't bulldoze the magic eye theatre as part of it holds up space mountian. unless of course they want to tear out space mounitan. I hope that innoventions still uses the carousel theatre effect, but iI'm having a hard time thinking what could go in that space it is fairly large though.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I don't think there's too much structural support for Space Mountain in the Magic Eye. If there is, it's likely all within a few feet of the mountain itself, holding up overhangs and entryways. If they were to take on a project that would be big enough to tear down the entire theater (thereby rerouting the Space Mountain queue, probably several different ways during construction), I'm sure they could figure out a way to add the needed support back in.
Originally Posted By gadzuux As most of us know, Space Mountain existed just fine for several years before the Magic Eye theater was ever in place. The 'Space Place' stage was a vast open air auditorium. However the Matterhorn is doomed if they ever remove the sub lagoon.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Yes, this is today's Disney. Pander to a bunch of nostalgic adults by ressurecting dead attractions rather than challenging yourself to do something new.>> Which is typical of today's "make do with less" Corporate America.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo The biggest problem is that the "Honey, I..." franchise is pretty dead while the properties that Fantasmic is based on are all time classics. The dated clothing style don't help.
Originally Posted By believe They can't and shouldn't get rid of the Magic Eye Theatre. It's the ONLY movie theatre in DL (not counting the Opera House) - DCA has about 3 theatres (Muppets, ITTBAB, Animation, Soarin, (Whoopi is gone))). It still fits the theme of Tomorrowland. Only recently in the real world are 3D theatres becoming normal, but none are 5D (motion simulator is #5). So, Magic Eye is still Tomorrow technology. Just make another movie. It doesn't have to be big budget, just fun, exciting, and repeatable. Also, show several movies thoughout the day like they do at Legoland. They can do Magic Journey's, Eo, and Hista throughout the day. With digital technology, you just click the button.
Originally Posted By danyoung >Only recently in the real world are 3D theatres becoming normal, but none are 5D (motion simulator is #5).< So if 3D has elements coming off the screen, and 5D is motion simulator, what's 4D?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Just make another movie. It doesn't have to be big budget, just fun, exciting, and repeatable.<< I don't know how repeatable any movie is. There is a ride component to Soarin' that makes it more repeatable than others. Even Circlevision films are more unique in giving that 360° view.
Originally Posted By friarthe Love me some Captain EO. I'm going, no matter how long the lines are, how creepy MJ became, how cheap a cash-in it is for the company. 2 random other thoughts: much as HISTA stinks, let's face it, Magic Journeys was wacked out. I can't believe anyone not on drugs sat through that thing. And... what did we get the last time they replaced a theater space with a ride? Anyone like some more Pooh? I'd take Eo any day.
Originally Posted By danyoung >...let's face it, Magic Journeys was wacked out. I can't believe anyone not on drugs sat through that thing.< I could not agree with you more! I have the music track on an old Disney CD, and I can't even listen to it! Creepy clowns!!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "So if 3D has elements coming off the screen, and 5D is motion simulator, what's 4D?" I think the 4th D is them shooting water in your face and tickling the back of your legs. Funny, I always thought that the fourth dimension was time, and the fifth dimension was a tesseract... : )
Originally Posted By gadzuux I used to work for a company named 'Tesseract' years ago, and my limited understanding of the word was a kind of a cube moving through space and it's speed was relational to it's dimensions. Surprisingly, it came into popular vernacular from a children's book "A Wrinkle In Time" that I admittedly never read. Apparently witches would use tesseracts to fly around on. And let's not forget gravity. Some hold that gravity equals the fifth dimension. Up up and away!
Originally Posted By friarthe Don't let the witches of Morva see you mentioning Wrinkle in Time. I'm sure she/they love that thing...
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>I don't think there's too much structural support for Space Mountain in the Magic Eye. If there is, it's likely all within a few feet of the mountain itself, holding up overhangs and entryways. If they were to take on a project that would be big enough to tear down the entire theater (thereby rerouting the Space Mountain queue, probably several different ways during construction),<< Those of us who were there .. during the days of construction ... the Space Mountain superstructure came first. And the SURROUNDING superstructures (Space Place restaurant, Starcade, Space Stage, Peoplemover supports) all came SECOND. I see no problem of a total demolishen to all surrounding superstructures .. but leaving the Space Mountain structure itself .. alone, basically, untouched.
