I apologize if this has been addressed before, but does anyone know why the paperboy in Spaceship Earth is turned away from guests facing the wall? You can still hear his dialogue clearly and swear he wasn’t like this a year ago...
He has been this way for a while. At least throughout this current version. I dont recall why he was moved to the back of the set.I apologize if this has been addressed before, but does anyone know why the paperboy in Spaceship Earth is turned away from guests facing the wall? You can still hear his dialogue clearly and swear he wasn’t like this a year ago...
Replace his face with Buzzy...oh wait, we can't do that...I read that there was some disfigurement to his face and rather than repair it, he was turned around.
I apologize if this has been addressed before, but does anyone know why the paperboy in Spaceship Earth is turned away from guests facing the wall? You can still hear his dialogue clearly and swear he wasn’t like this a year ago...
I tried looking for pics of his disfigured face but was unsuccessful!
I’ve never seen one in public circulation.I believe @marni1971 might have one or know more about his disfigurement
SSE is unique in it's definition and theme. The rumor is that it just simply wasn't thought of at the time, but, then a light went on and someone asked why he would be trying to sell newspapers to people that are traveling in time that he supposedly couldn't even see.. So to bring it back into theme, if we are to believe that Disney is all about theme, it makes perfect sense why they moved it and did the infrastructure changes to make it work. However, I don't remember, is he actually moving? If he isn't then it was a simple move. But, to go to the trouble of moving the whole thing when they could have easily just replaced the face is the part that doesn't make sense to me.The only reason I go with the disfigured face theory is because it doesn't make sense for a fully functioning animatronic with a detailed face to be turned away from us. Remember, anything the guests can't see isn't built (ex: three sided bath tub with only one side of arms and legs in Horizons). Given that this AA is full body with face it doesn't make sense for it to be turned away from us.
I hesitate to say you never have human AAs turned away from riders but I'm sure someone will quickly come up with a counterexample to this
Do you know the reason for his move?I’ve never seen one in public circulation.
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I tried looking for pics of his disfigured face but was unsuccessful!
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