Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10030570.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Minicot -- Recreating Disney's Epcot in a Minnesota Backyard</b></a> Skipping that next Disney vacation due to rising airfare and a tighter economy? That isn't stopping a couple of Minnesota brothers who decided to beat the gas crisis and build Disney in their own backyard. What started as some lighthearted joking between two Mickey fans is now becoming a reality. Brothers Bob and Dean Rice seem to be taking dreaming as serious as Walt himself.
Originally Posted By Elderp I went to the site but I there were no pictures or video. Who sends out a press release with out at least photos?
Originally Posted By beamerdog Is this for real? I googled the two guys and went to their site which looks like, well, strange. No pictures there, either. Looks like the story comes from a self-promotion site. Is this the case? Anyway, here's the contact information for anyone interested enough in calling or contacting those fellows: Dean Rice Dreamers Empire <a href="http://www.dreamersempire.com" target="_blank">http://www.dreamersempire.com</a> 763-350-2570
Originally Posted By trekkeruss From the title, I thought someone had built a miniature model of Epcot. It seems like it would be "easier" to model than a Disneyland/Magic Kindom, because Epcot is basically just buildings; aside from the monorail, there are no rides with vehicles that would have to be recreated. Anyway, I looked too. It does say they hope to have pics and/or video up by the end of this month. From what is written in the press release though, it sounds like no big shakes.
Originally Posted By dreamersempire Hi, Dean here from Dreamers Empire. The reason we posted a press release was to get some local attention on the event, but none of the local media came out for the event. That is why this is rather confusing and why we don't have our video or photo's posted yet, but will soon. The press release does accurately describe the three elements of Epcot that we put on, Soarin, Illuminations and Mexico. It was a ton of work and we are still working on it. We went out and re-shot the Soarin part on Wednesday night. My nephew is the editing genuis and he hopes to get it all together on time, by the end of the month. I can assure you this was the real deal, you'll appreciate it most when you see the video. Hope that answers your questions, let me know if you have anymore.
Originally Posted By dreamersempire Hey, I promised the video when we got it uploaded. This one will lead you to the two we posted, Soarin took up too much time so we put Illuminations and Mexico on the second post. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTzMQAVWxpI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...MQAVWxpI</a>
Originally Posted By Bob Paris Just watched the Soarin' one and I have to say it was mighty impressive! I wonder where you got all the film pieces for your film. Is there a different film shown in Florida than California? I have only been on Soarin' at DCA.
Originally Posted By dreamersempire Thanks much! Its been great to get some positive feedback on our effort, it was a lot of work. The video in Florida is the same, its still Soarin over California. We bought other dvd's of "Soarin-Type" footage over other states like Arizona. I suspect if we do this next year it will be somewhere else, like Europe.
Originally Posted By dreamersempire Thought you all might want to know we just uploaded a third minicot video at your youtube channel. To see all three including the "How we did it.." one just posted, go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/dreamersempire" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/dreamersempire</a>
Originally Posted By dreamersempire For anyone interested we were interviewed on the Disney Brit Podcast found here <a href="http://disneybrit.podbean.com" target="_blank">http://disneybrit.podbean.com</a> and its about 49 minutes in.
