Originally Posted By FerretAfros Reporting to you live from the Disneyland Hotel...Yesterday we went on Splash Mountain, and to the surprise of both myself and my cousin, the owl at the end next to the photo screen was actually moving. But wait...there's more! He was talking about pictures, and low and behold the pictures were being projected onto the screen that has sat blank for so long. Our picture flashed up just as we were leaving, but we still had enough time to see it. Hopefully this change will stay for a long time.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Other news, the wall around the bottom of the PM loading structure is down, and there was a sign on the building that said "Tomorrow Landing: Gifts from Outer and Liquid Space." I'm not entirely sure what the bottom part of the sign said, but it did include referecene to Liquid Space and something else, but my picture on the camera isn't big enough to see off the small screen. There is also a new sign at the Tomorrowland Terrace stage that conects the different spires and really unifies the area.
Originally Posted By Ryuki I remember when it was a huge surprise whenever Barnaby Owl DIDN'T move, and the picture WASN'T projected up there. And excuse my newbie-ness. PM? Is that People Mover?
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter How cool that the owl is talking and the projections are working again! I don't think it has worked since I started going to Disneyland in 2002.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Yes, PM is the PeopleMover. My guess as to what the sign said was in fact correct. There were some other minor things that I noticed (like the top of the Storybookland lighthouse is gone again), but nothing too major. I will probalby write a trip report, since I had an interesting experiene at the DLH.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I was also very surprised to see that Barnaby Owl was showing our Splash Mountain photo, and recommending we stop by his photographic emporium. The New TomorrowLandings shop does, indeed, say gifts from outer and liquid space. For some reason many here have been saying that it was a new location for Hatmosphere. I have heard no plans to move that shop. TomorrowLandings apparently will carry gifts, including items themed to the new Sub Voyage with Finding Nemo.
Originally Posted By Ryuki I hope Barnaby Owl continues to stay active. I remember the dissapointment of when he stopped working, and how stupid it was to sit there staring at a dead owl and blank screen. lol. Now if only they can get a bamboo pole in the spike room at Indy that always works. It makes me worry about the technology in the rest of the ride when the dang bamboo pole keeps breaking.
Originally Posted By Ryuki I hope Barnaby Owl continues to stay active. I remember the dissapointment of when he stopped working, and how stupid it was to sit there staring at a dead owl and blank screen. lol. Now if only they can get a bamboo pole in the spike room at Indy that always works. It makes me worry about the technology in the rest of the ride when the dang bamboo pole keeps breaking.
Originally Posted By tonyanton DlandDug...another thread has shown pix and the new "TomorrowLandings" shop has the hat embroidery machines. The old "Hatmosphere" had its machine removed and has what looks like all Autopia products. I'm guessing the name will be changed shortly to the "Winner's Circle" or something themed to Autopia.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Eh, just bring back, ahem, Mod Hatter, and redo the Autopia cars to look like Chick Hicks and Lightning McQueen for Pixarland, er, Tomorrowland... Speaking of #86... anyone have a mint condition, still-in-box, diecast car of Chick that they want to sell or give to the World's Most Evilest LPer for his Collection of Evilâ„¢? Getting back to the topic of hand, it's good to see that Professor Owl is up and working, and that it'll be fun to see your picture before seeing it with the others in the preview area (maybe the execs rode the ride for the first time in years and noticed something was wrong). And now the memory of Dug doing his impersonation of Barnaby Owl for me during Labour Day weekend is coming back. That man did his spiel almost verbatim. You know... my little fantasy refurb of Splash would include *all* of the America Sings characters (and heck, I'd even try to fill up more space with the Country Bears). I thought it would have been nice to have Sam the Eagle and Ollie the Owl in the photo talking about the pictures and singing along (since Burl Ives was alive at the time, he could have provided Sam's voice again).
Originally Posted By dresswhites it is wierd that suddenly this feature is back. i wonder why they brought it back.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins On the last time we rode Splash, we were just talking about how we missed that feature. I'm very happy it's back, but it seems like a silly repair to make priority-wise. The market for these pictures must be declining with the increased use of camera phones.
Originally Posted By Karnever That feature was brought back because the exit was getting clogged with guests trying to see there pictures holding up or dispatch causing saftey issues. One of the Many Dave CMs
Originally Posted By FerretAfros And I did notice that there were only about 1/3 as many people stopping to look at their photos as usual, which really made it easier to see yours, and to get by, since there was actually enough room for everybody. I never would have thought of doing that as a way to control crowds, but it works really well.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer On Monday, Tommorrow Landing was about 50% hats and had 2 embroidering machines. Plus some Jedi merchandise, and general stuff. I presume with the "Liquid Space" comment, that Finding Nemo will join the Jedi stuff nest year... As for the Hatmosphere, the sign is still there, but all the hats have been removed (except the Autopia branded Cone hats). Funny it was open when the ride was closed.... <a href="http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/gallery/1960911" target="_blank">http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/ga llery/1960911</a>
Originally Posted By Pixiedust345 I assumed that this feature left because the photos were too often out of sync with the logs. For awhile I remember they had pictures of characters from SotS going down the mountain. I wonder if they've changed something to improve the timing...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 What I always heard, true or not, is that they shut this feature down because of the prevalence of young ladies to, well, flash themselves for the camera (leading to the nickname "Flash Mountain"), which in turn would lead to inappropriate pics being shown on the monitors. For a while they tried to catch it in real time and squelch those photos while still displaying good ones; then they decided it was too much trouble and just stopped displaying anything, except of course at the photo pick-up place itself. Whether that was the real reason or not I don't know.
