Recent content by MrPromey

I really wish they'd stop "improving" the mansion and channel some of that lower budget energy to attractions that could actually use it like Peter Pan's Flight (will we ever get the 20 year old DL upgrades?), the show scenes in People Mover including the now pitch black Space Mountain segment...

For a company that describes themselves as doing interesting cool stuff, their "gallery" is pretty boring and full of "corporate" work (though the work seems really professional). Wonder if it's a case of them not being able to advertise their theme park projects.

I'm sure there will be plenty of people excited for another place to buy booze. That just killed all interest in this project for me, though. 🤷‍♂️

I'm thinking this could either be a merch location or a pre-order pickup location or both. They have a fairly extensive amount of merch online you can't get at either existing location. I think there's definitely enough interest in the branding and theme to support such a walk-in style shop. I...

Your son and I could hang. The Bambu A1 Mini is the printer I wish could have been my very first printer. (I recommend the combo with the AMS lite, even if you're not planning much or any multi-color printing -it's useful for more than that and you save about $100 by getting them together) FDM...

Honestly, my suggestion would be to learn from my mistake and start with FDM first. Resin has a lot of advantages when it comes to fine detail but you'll find yourself limited almost entirely to only ornamental objects going that route. You're dealing with toxic chemicals that you're not...

I suspect many people here have never made a real effort to focus heavily on the background elements of scenes in attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean and Spaceship Earth at WDW. ... and why would they? We're not supposed to. The scenes are intentionally designed to draw our focus to the...

I wish the artifacts in the temple scenes were made from real gold, too but Disney works off the Hollywood model of if it's cheaper, faster, safer and/or more durable to imitate, that's what they generally do, everywhere - similar to how the boat in the Venetian scene of Spaceship Earth is not a...

Every construction/manufacturing technique has pros and cons compared to others. Same with materials. That's all this is - just a different manufacturing technique. The article explains the advantages of this pretty clearly so if you haven't read the whole thing, I'd suggest it. What would you...

More or less, yes if you're just taking someone else's design. If you're designing your own in CAD or general 3D design software, that's a talent and skill of it's own but to get a sense of what people design and give away for others to use (usually for non-commercial use, only*) for completely...

🤷‍♂️ I think this was an article targeting a particular audience and it got shared here where there are a lot of people of a more "general audience" sense who frankly, don't know what they're talking about. Which I mean, is fine. This is a Disney fan site - not a 3D printing reddit sub. Though...

If you were 3D printing to make a mold, you could absolutely go WAY more detailed than necessary for something like that. 3D printing is more commonly used for rapid prototying or one-off projects but there are lots of people out there who use it for creating the positive for a traditionally...

Thank you - I read the article. I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was just saying that there are situations it's not well suited for either in time or cost but that it's really no different than many other processes used already that are less artisan in nature. A "purist" really has no place...

It can be more "rich and detailed" than most conventional methods and if you're expecting them to just spit out a print and drop it in somewhere, there will likely be plenty of post processing and additional work done to make it look appropriate - just like would be done to something similar...

3D printing is generally not an efficient process for making things in volume. It's also has limitations in the materials that can be used though commercial range where they can even do metal is much wider than consumer. Disney has long used computer aid both in design and in construction so...