T-Rex Aquarium at Downtown Disney Ruptured Today

[SoupBone]

Ever see Jaws III?

I've heard that he's been rehabilitated.

 

[Bairstow]

Saw this video a little earlier

http://instagram.com/p/lqJIKTQdf4/

Wow, that is NUTS.
Hard to tell from the angle, but it looks as though the acrylic tube split lengthwise.

I'm always impressed at just how much force is released when these large aquariums fail.

 

[articos]

It's a picture of the Living Seas at EPCOT before Disney redid the pavilion with Finding Nemo. It still had the old "Seabase Alpha" theme back then. That in particular is a picture of the hydrolator. It was a room you entered that served as a "transition" from the surface to the deep sea. It was actually a clever little illusion though (you actually weren't moving any, it was just a room that gave the illusion of an elevator by making the floor vibrate and some small tanks of water surrounding you to simulate descent). Kind of like WDW's version of Haunted Mansion where the stretching room doesn't actually serve as a real elevator (Disneyland's does I know but WDW's does not).

If the tanks ruptured there, I doubt much bad would happen. It was a simple effect and likely wouldn't have been as big of a mess as a huge aquarium shattering. Nowhere near as creepy as the thought of that shark tunnel rupturing as you're walking through it.

If the hydrolator ruptured, people would be standing in a puddle, but that's about it. There really wasn't much water surrounding those things for the FX, and they aren't in contact with any of the tank sections. I loved that load room - the ending of the film opening onto the load station was a very effective story sell-through.

 

[The Duck]

Was this the tank just redone by ATM (Acrylic Tank Manufacturing) in Las Vegas the people from the show tanked?

During the opening credits of "Tanked" you can see the giant octopus figure over the bar in the T-Rex Cafe'. I'm not positive (but fairly certain) they built them.

 

[StageFrenzy]

If the hydrolator ruptured, people would be standing in a puddle, but that's about it. There really wasn't much water surrounding those things for the FX, and they aren't in contact with any of the tank sections. I loved that load room - the ending of the film opening onto the load station was a very effective story sell-through.

I cannot begin to tell you how cool I always felt when they showed the wireframe outline on the movie screen that changed into a video of the Hydrolator loading room. It felt like a scene out of a bond movie.

 

[The Duck]

I cannot begin to tell you how cool I always felt when they showed the wireframe outline on the movie screen that changed into a video of the Hydrolator loading room. It felt like a scene out of a bond movie.

Ah yes, I remember it well...

 

[Cesar R M]

Saw this video a little earlier

http://instagram.com/p/lqJIKTQdf4/

seems like the tank fractured where they glued the 2 parts of the glass?
or it just break down ? (aka a single unit round glass) ?

 

[articos]

I cannot begin to tell you how cool I always felt when they showed the wireframe outline on the movie screen that changed into a video of the Hydrolator loading room. It felt like a scene out of a bond movie.

"We welcome you to The Living Seas. We welcome you to Seabase Alpha" got me every time.

 

[TP2000]

Here's the YouTube version for those who just want to see the 10 seconds of gushing water from the tank...

 

[StageFrenzy]

Half full or half empty?

 

[olinecoach61]

That's freaky, can you imagine if that happened in coral reef?

 

[Disney Shib]

Half full or half empty?

THIS IS DISNEY! Come on the glass is ALWAYSSSSS half full lol.

 

[Mouse_Trap]

It's a picture of the Living Seas at EPCOT before Disney redid the pavilion with Finding Nemo. It still had the old "Seabase Alpha" theme back then. That in particular is a picture of the hydrolator. It was a room you entered that served as a "transition" from the surface to the deep sea. It was actually a clever little illusion though (you actually weren't moving any, it was just a room that gave the illusion of an elevator by making the floor vibrate and some small tanks of water surrounding you to simulate descent). Kind of like WDW's version of Haunted Mansion where the stretching room doesn't actually serve as a real elevator (Disneyland's does I know but WDW's does not).

Thanks, it looked familiar to me but I must have been quite young when I last saw it operating.

 

[Gabe1]

seems like the tank fractured where they glued the 2 parts of the glass?
or it just break down ? (aka a single unit round glass) ?

According to the Orlando Sentinel it was reported the seam opened.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...sney-fish-tank-t-rex-20140317,0,4406789.story

 

[dreamscometrue]

We rode 'The Seas with Nemo' last week and spent 20 min after on the 2nd level watching the dolphin 'training' with the CMs. Certainly glad there are no seams to rupture in there.

 

[Weather_Lady]

That's freaky, can you imagine if that happened in coral reef?

That was my first thought! Those crappy seats at the top tier suddenly wouldn't be so crappy after all...

 

[ABQ]

Ever see Jaws III?

Ugh. Unfortunately, and in 3D.
However, I think a physicist would tell you it's actually easier to keep the water outside a cylinder than inside, as the heavy pressure outside the walk through tunnel is supported better by the cylindrical tube then the inside pressure of T-Rex's tank. Time to call those guys from Animal Planet's Tanked show.

 

[Master Yoda]

Ugh. Unfortunately, and in 3D.
However, I think a physicist would tell you it's actually easier to keep the water outside a cylinder than inside, as the heavy pressure outside the walk through tunnel is supported better by the cylindrical tube then the inside pressure of T-Rex's tank. Time to call those guys from Animal Planet's Tanked show.

An engineer will tell you the same.

 

[sweetpee_1993]

Ugh. Unfortunately, and in 3D.
However, I think a physicist would tell you it's actually easier to keep the water outside a cylinder than inside, as the heavy pressure outside the walk through tunnel is supported better by the cylindrical tube then the inside pressure of T-Rex's tank. Time to call those guys from Animal Planet's Tanked show.

It was a question more in jest than anything. I saw it in 3D at the movies, too. As a kid that movie was like the worst the imagination could conjur. And I was a very imaginative kiddo! LOL!

 

[fosse76]

An engineer will tell you the same.

As well as anyone who has taken high school physics.