How to destroy forced perspective in one fell swoop.
Everyone dunked on this, and I first saw the message this morning. I've had it rattling in my head for a while and thinking of it now... I don't know.
I'd never thought of Space Mountain in terms of forced perspective. I suppose I took it at face value as a conical structure with the ribs coming together naturally making it appear as it does and the spires being at the size that wouldn't look goofy. It's big. I don't think it as fake big. I think of it as big. Perhaps it's a matter of it not trying to look like anything. It's its own thing.
But in terms of ruining the effect, the building looks like a giant box. I don't see any windows or doors and the HVAC has been hidden by a parapet. Instead, it looks like a big box. There's nothing much to establish scale. When I look at the Soarin' building, I don't find that the Hotel du Canada looks smaller. I find that the building looks friggin' huge.
But that doesn't really matter because the show building is set back so that from looking through the pictures and street view it appears that the only time it will be visible is on the turn the bus makes into the bus stop and the express monorail coming in. That's most guests, but it's still an off-stage moment.
On-stage and from around the rest of Seven Seas Lagoon, it appears the backward position of the building will cause it to be hidden by Space Mountain itself. What you will see instead is a large white canopy which is scaleless. There's not really a good comparison that will cause its size to be judged by anything but what you feel. It will be like a large white mountain range behind Space Mountain. The only scale marker I see is the Tron sign that was visible in early art. Will it be there, or will it be placed on the ground instead? That remains to be seen.
The biggest problem is the fairgrounds sightlines. I was shocked looking at street view pictures from inside the park how well Space Mountain is hidden. Tron, on the other hand. It's going to be hard to not notice that.
