Originally Posted By ssWEDguy At the entrance to Studios Mickey is high up on a spinning globe, waving and greeting guests. For quite a time this summer the globe wasn't spinning. Now it is again, but spinning backwards, from west to east. My question -- was it always spinning backwards from Day 1 at this park, or is this an interesting feature of the rehab?
Originally Posted By deephil We were at Studios today and the world which mickey stands on was going clock wise which is the way the earth spins isn't it??
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: I don't know. First I gotta figure out which direction my poor head spins!!!
Originally Posted By mickeyboy43 Earth spins counter-clockwise I believe. If the globe is spinning clockwise, somebody probably needs to fix it.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy If you're standing in the USofA, the real world spins towards the east coast of the US. (That's why the sun rises in the east) The globe at Studios is spinning instead towards the California coast. Backwards. Now, was it always this way and is it supposed to be a joke? Or is it spinning backwards now and I'm the only one who has noticed? I've reported to Disney management, and I've heard nothing back.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I think that clockwise is just a natural direction that we think of (kind of like heading to the right). It was probably simply done by mistake.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Last night on the news, they were doing a story about the bailout, and they showed an American flag blowing in the wind. I don't think they realized that they were showing it backward so that the waves in the flag moved toward the pole, while the flag was pointed away from the pole. People screw things up all the time these days...
Originally Posted By deephil OK, we checked out Epcot tonight and the world from illuminations rotates anti clockwise. One of them has to be wrong and we figure its the Studios.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Not sure what you mean by anti-clockwise. Clockwise would depend on whether you were looking at the spinning earth from above the north pole (counter clockwise) or from above the south pole (clockwise). It's easier for me to think of standing in the USA, and the earth then spins in a direction towards the US east coast. Which is in fact the way the globe spins in Illuminations. Correctly. Therefore Studios is wrong. All this talk about such an arcane technical subject. Now you know why my UserID = ssWEDguy.
