Originally Posted By DizneyGurl I guess you guys are right. and now that I think about it, it really wouldn't fit in with the Tomorrowland theme.
Originally Posted By carnotaurus Please don't talk about pulling out HISTA! I've already seen ray guns from Stitch's Great Escape at various DLR merch stores. I'd hate to end up with that show or MILCF.
Originally Posted By spiritofelias Philharmagic blows Muppet3D out of the water. I have seen both at WDW and there is no comparison. Philharmagic is far more beautiful and has the real Disney spirit, while MV3D is a tired old relic that gets very little audience these days. I was sorry to hear that DCA wouldn't be getting Philharmagic. You guys in CA don't know what you're missing.
Originally Posted By spiritofelias I just wanted to add, I'm puzzled by the comments about the Muppet theater not being adaptable for Philharmagic. The Philharmagic building at WDW is hardly massive; in fact it's rather intimate. I don't see why the Muppet building couldn't be gutted and used to house Philharmagic.
Originally Posted By Hista98 its because for philarmagic they need a scrren that can strech all across the theatre and have the audience form the back with muppet vision this is not possible as there isn't enogu hpreshow space to change the setup.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster Ah. Ok. It couldn't be scaled down to fit the existing showspace? Or is the building simply the wrong shape to accommodate that?
Originally Posted By gadzuux The 'aspect ratio' for 'phil' is really wide, and uses three separate projectors to accomplish. Sure, you could reduce that down some, but then you'd end up with disney spending a bundle to bring an attraction that's compromised and less impressive in it's cloned form. That's the last thing DCA needs. I enjoy 'phil' and I'd love to see them install it ... in 'toontown' where it belongs.
Originally Posted By danyoung >..and uses three separate projectors to accomplish.< Not to be picky, but it actually uses FOUR projectors - 2 for the center screen (one for each eye), and then one each for the side screens.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Is there a way that they could reconfigure the layout a little if they really wanted it to fit into the Muppet building? It seems to me that they could do several things. First, they could turn the audience 90 degrees, so that there are a couple very long rows, instead of many short rows. This would allow them to have a much longer space to project the movie. However, it would also require them to reconfigure the queue and exit, as the doors would have to move to the other walls of the theater from where they currently are. They could also use a screen that's the same size, with the audience configured the way that it currently is, and just have it wrap around the audience. This would make the side screens run over the doorways, and fairly far back into the audience (if I remember correctly). I don't know how it would work, since they would have to curve the whole thing, which could prove to be kind of difficult, but it would be neat to see a 3D film from 'inside' the screen. Or they could just come up with an original attraction for that space.
Originally Posted By danyoung I thought, back when they first started talking about this as a possibility, that they could just make the side screens much smaller. It would still have close to the same impact as the Florida version, as long as the center screen is still projected in 3D.
Originally Posted By mstaft just yesterday I posted a pice of the original concept for Muppets to go into DL. www.insightsandsounds.blogspot.com - just in case someone is interested.Rather have it in DCA than DL anyday!
