soupbone: kxs401: soupbone: Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

There are currently three movies like this in Epcot -- one in the China pavilion, one in France, and one in Canada. I think they call them "Circlevision" or something similar.


No this was back in the 80's and possibly the early 90's. It doesn't exist anymore I'm pretty sure. Wait maybe it was Canada. Man I know it had scenes like forests, water etc. and it seemed as though it was a flythrough. It was definitely a circle vision style attraction.

Good god, I hope you're kidding. Otherwise I'll have to hunt you down and kill you.

[It was "America the Beautiful" you communist bastard]

Gyrfalcon: soupbone: kxs401: soupbone: Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

There are currently three movies like this in Epcot -- one in the China pavilion, one in France, and one in Canada. I think they call them "Circlevision" or something similar.


No this was back in the 80's and possibly the early 90's. It doesn't exist anymore I'm pretty sure. Wait maybe it was Canada. Man I know it had scenes like forests, water etc. and it seemed as though it was a flythrough. It was definitely a circle vision style attraction.

Good god, I hope you're kidding. Otherwise I'll have to hunt you down and kill you.

[It was "America the Beautiful" you communist bastard]


Bwahaha! I was around 6 years old so I only have vague memories of it. i just remember the circle vision theater, the fly through scenes, and hanging on the hand rail and getting fussed for it. I'll youtube that and see if it brings back any more memories.

bown:
The Hall of Presidents was an E-Ticket attraction???? Wow.

Once upon a time resurrecting the dead was exciting. Nowadays it's become so routine that it has lost its glamor. I pine for the simpler times.

isamudyson: That said I wonder how many E-Tickets it would cost to ride this now?

The monorail system, as part of the WDW transport system, never charged a ticket...Disneyland may have been different.

Verlorenes Metallgeld,

if you are going to post a roller coaster tycoon screen shot, it has to be a monorail.

Damn... I'm hoping it's the asshat who decided the Swiss Family Tree House should be whatever the hell it is now...

knoxvelour: irving47: I moved to Winter Springs in '86 and we got year passes the first week or so we were there. Awesome 5 years... Must have been to each park 30-odd times.
Go ride thunder mountain? OK, then off to The Land restaurant at EPCOT for dinner.
Back when Imagination still had Dreamfinder and the Imageworks was upstairs and cool. (The whole thing has sucked for years, now)
Back when If you had Wings was still there.
Mission to Mars too.

Why do I remember the Pirates sometimes having a drop/fast descent at the beginning, sometimes not?

Disneyland's Pirates has two drops at the begining to take you under the train tracks and into the show building, while Disney World does not have the drops.

SLight correction: WDW does have a small drop, but it serves no real purpose other than storytelling.

soj4life: Verlorenes Metallgeld,

if you are going to post a roller coaster tycoon screen shot, it has to be a monorail.

Still, it was pretty funny.

Mono meaning One and Rail meaning Rail.

Gordon Bennett: TheHopeDiamond: DarthBrooks: gimme Monsanto's Journey to Inner Space and TWA's Rocket to the Moon, biyatch!

Or at least re-create the Monsanto Houseof the Future:

House of the Future (new window) I'd give just about anything to live in that house.

What a pity that it is gone. I adore mid twentieth century futurism. It's so artificial, geometrical, and unflinchingly optimistic.

I want my jet pack, dammit.

Heck, I'd be satisfied just with a flying car.

itazurakko: ZeroCorpse: However, I did see Captain EO when it debuted, so now that MJ's dead I have one more MJ recollection than a lot of the younger crowd. They can buy Thriller, but they can't experience Captain EO as it was those many years ago.

I remember "Captain EO," it was at Tokyo Disneyland for a long time, complete with subtitles (subtitles in 3D movies are weird they sort of float in the mid-ground).

But, I actually preferred the original experimental showcase film they had before "Captain EO." That one didn't really have much of a story but it just had scenes designed to show off the 3D technology. Part of it is a shot of kids on a merry-go-round and they have to grab the brass ring, it floats in front of your face (you can't get it of course) and then one of the kids reaches out and grabs it.

In fact on NPR yesterday there was some feature about new 3D movies in American theaters that don't have red and blue cellophane cheap glasses but rather polarized fancy plastic lenses, and I was wondering, surely that's the same ones they had at Disneyland way back when, it was explained to us those were polarized, and it was interesting to borrow my brother's one and stack it on mine opposite eye to opposite eye and see it goes opaque, even though it just looks like sunglasses.

Honestly though I don't think I've seen a 3D movie SINCE "Captain EO."

Magic Journeys and Captain Eo used the polarized lenses trick to preserve color quality. If you ever want to lose the effect, simply tile your head left or right and you will see the double image.

We are working on a glassless 3D system for the movie in 2009 that uses a dynamic parallax illusion to achieve the effect. am excited on this one :) Watch for it.


mAGIC jOURNEYS AND

Nightmaretony: We are working on a glassless 3D system for the movie in 2009 that uses a dynamic parallax illusion to achieve the effect. am excited on this one :) Watch for it.

no WAY - I'd like to hear more about that

skink: isamudyson: That said I wonder how many E-Tickets it would cost to ride this now?

The monorail system, as part of the WDW transport system, never charged a ticket...Disneyland may have been different.

(Very late to the party but...)

Originally the Monorail was a stand alone ride in Tomorrowland (Disneyland). There were no hotels then, the ride was a closed loop.

I wonder if subby is from Seattle and never been to either Disneyland or Walt Disney World? Up here the monorails have drivers seats at both ends, there is only one track and they go back and forth.

Our family got to ride in the front with the pilot our first trip to WDW. The man was a veteran and kept us entertained with many tidbits of Disney trivia.

My most heartfelt condolences to the young man's family.

>>Has to do with the watertable at Orlando being so much higher--there wasn't the depth to put in a big drop in DW. You may be remembering DL, because DisneyWorld never had Mission to Mars--that was only at DLand, and it was 86'd in the early 90's.

DisneyWorld has a drop, but if the DL drop is bigger, I don't know.

DisneyWORLD DEFINITELY did have Mission to Mars at one point, because I rode it and I've never been to California.

20,000 Leagues ride was only marginally better than the lame-ass gokarts.

Bring me the head of the asshole who keeps farking with classic rides and decided to close Horizons!

Sorry, I miss the old "Hope for the future" way of thinking at Disney.

DL, because DisneyWorld never had Mission to Mars--that was only at DLand, and it was 86'd in the early 90's.
DisneyWORLD DEFINITELY did have Mission to Mars at one point, because I rode it and I've never been to California.

Yes, there was definitely a Mission to Mars at MK/DW. I was reading about it on Wikipedia last night. Closed in '93. Building re-used as the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. Before being re-vamped to the Stitch teleportation thing. Apparently, he broke out of containment by sneezing mucus onto stuff.

Got to do 20,000 twice, back when you had to tear tickets out of a book.

I was too freaked out by Inner Space and Mission to Mars....I wish I could have gone on them, I was 9 in 1979.

Now the kids get that stupid Stitch motion simulator thing.


but nothing, NOTHING compares to the retro awesomeness of Space Mountain

Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

At Disney World, it was Magic Carpet Around The World. I forget the sponsor, though. I remember three other things very distinctly:

1. It was blessedly air-conditioned in the theater
2. There weren't seats...you just stood in rows, hanging onto a rail.
3. People would lean left or right to avoid stuff that was heading "toward" them. It was funny as hell to watch.

It looks eerily like a BART accident that just happened here in the Bay Area.

What, no love here for the WEDWay Peoplemover at WDW? It was the perfect thing to do when our munchkin overheated and started biting people. No line, nice shady relaxed ride around Tomorrowland...

There was definitely a "Mission to Mars" ride @ WDW; we passed by it several times ON THE WEDWAY PEOPLEMOVER! With awesome CGI effects that were easily of the order of a high-quality Space Angel or Clutch Cargo episode. Not to mention the awesomeness that was "Seat Shifting G-Force Simulation Technology".

crunch-o-matic: but nothing, NOTHING compares to the retro awesomeness of Space Mountain

Unless you're standing in the loading area when a glitch forces them to turn on all of the lights inside the mountain for 15-20 minutes... sorta ruins the illusion when you have time to study the layout ("Oh... it's a fairly undramatic roller coaster ride inside of a rather nasty-looking building").

CMVenom: knoxvelour: irving47: I moved to Winter Springs in '86 and we got year passes the first week or so we were there. Awesome 5 years... Must have been to each park 30-odd times.
Go ride thunder mountain? OK, then off to The Land restaurant at EPCOT for dinner.
Back when Imagination still had Dreamfinder and the Imageworks was upstairs and cool. (The whole thing has sucked for years, now)
Back when If you had Wings was still there.
Mission to Mars too.

Why do I remember the Pirates sometimes having a drop/fast descent at the beginning, sometimes not?

Disneyland's Pirates has two drops at the begining to take you under the train tracks and into the show building, while Disney World does not have the drops.

SLight correction: WDW does have a small drop, but it serves no real purpose other than storytelling.

No real purpose other than of course ... going under the train tracks. Granted, the tracks are built up on a bit of a berm, but yeah, you go under the train. And then you ride the moving sidewalk style ramp going back up to exit the ride. Here's an aerial shot from WikiMapia of the POTC area of Magic Kingdom, and you can see where the WDW Railroad passes between the 2 buildings that make up POTC. Clicky (new window)