Why don't they just install real snow machines?

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

They could use wood chippers to fire out a spray of styrofoam packing peanuts. You'd have a somewhat realistic accumulation of "snow", no slippery water, and if somebody does fall down, heck, they'd land in a safe pile of packing peanut crumbs!

Removal would be easy. A team of three people wearing wool sweaters and double-knit pants and capes made of shag carpeting. This would create sufficient static electricity so that all of the styrofoam residue would instantly cling to them and they could simply walk backstage (looking a little like the Michelin Man).

 

Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl

About a year and a half ago, I made my first visit to the Grand Canyon. Just after lunch, I got snowed on for the first time in my life. It was essentially the snow equivalent of "ghost drizzle": a very few tiny flakes, melting and evaporating by the time they hit the ground.

Later that afternoon, it began snowing in earnest, and when I went out the next morning, to see the sunrise over the canyon (and get my Christmas card picture for that year), there were a couple of inches of snow on the ground (and on every other surface flat enough to accumulate snow).

In theory, a machine could be made to duplicate the "ghost snow," and maybe even chill it cold enough that it would stay frozen down to, say, a 3-year-old's eye-level. But I suspect that if the tiny flakes were to fall in the same density as the current fake snow, the pavement would still get orders of magnitude wetter than it gets presently. And they'd probably have to use copious amounts of, say, liquid nitrogen, in order to get the flakes to stay frozen long enough to make it to within a few feet of the ground.

"Allergic to real snow?" Are you any relation to the Wicked Witch of the West?

 

Originally Posted By SpongeBarb

They could sell some jackets and sweatshirts for the event.

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

"Are you any relation to the Wicked Witch of the West?"

She a cousin twice removed on my mother's side.

 

Originally Posted By Yookeroo

Are you green?

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

Yeah, but more of a minty shade.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

I'm kind of curious as to why ANYONE would want real snow. Help me out here... tell me what the attraction is. Personally I'd rather have paper confetti dumped on me than real snow!

 

Originally Posted By Goofyernmost

You got my backing Road Trip! It is either people that have never had to live with it 5 months out of the year or some of those "challenged" people that find fun in strapping Teflon boards to their feet and go uncontrollably sliding down the side of an ice and snow covered mountain with nothing to stop them but other people, mounds of ice, trees and the occasional chair lift support.

Whatever!

It's not unlike jumping out of a perfectly good airplane and calling it sky diving and finding it "exhilarating". Some of lifes mysteries, I guess.

 

Originally Posted By quincytoo

>>>>She a cousin twice removed on my mother's side.<<<<<

OMG After reading your posts, I always suspected we might be related but now I realize that we are indeed

<---real snow machines at Disneyland?? Really???? OMG, I like Kartoonman's idea better!

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

"Personally I'd rather have paper confetti dumped on me than real snow!"

Funny you should mention that, because I believe that's what they did for the first few weeks after the show initially premiered, before they had a chance to prepare and install all of the bubble machines, which were pretty new technology at the time. Can someone out there (Dug?) confirm that? I read it somewhere, and it seemed just strange enough to be true.

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

"OMG After reading your posts, I always suspected we might be related but now I realize that we are indeed "

I'll see YOU at Thanksgiving!

 

Originally Posted By friendofdd

>>>I'll see YOU at Thanksgiving!<<<

Yum, yum.

GBC

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

<--- High fives FODD.

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

I sure don't recall seeing paper confetti snow during the holidays...

 

Originally Posted By LuLu

2oony you have such a creative mind!! LOL @ your snow.

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

2oony, I hope you took out an insurance policy on that there mind of yers.

 

Originally Posted By wahooskipper

I don't remember that but the New Years bash at Pleasure Island used a lot of confetti and that had to be a maintenance nightmare...not to mention a pretty big waste of paper.

 

Originally Posted By fkurucz

>>I'm kind of curious as to why ANYONE would want real snow. Help me out here... tell me what the attraction is. Personally I'd rather have paper confetti dumped on me than real snow!<<

As a former SoCal person I understand the fascination they have with snow. It's pretty when it falls and accumulates.

Now that I live in the Centennial state I understand why those in the snow belt don't care for it. It makes the commute a mess. You have to shovel it and brush it off your car. I recall when a SoCal friend saw the snowbrush in my car (What's that for?). And you sometimes have to scrape the ice off your windshield.

 

Originally Posted By gadzuux

>> I sure don't recall seeing paper confetti snow during the holidays ... <<

I remember confetti during some parades - Party Gras for sure, and I think it was featured in the Hercules parade too - an underappreciated gem in the history of DL parades.