All Epcot, All the Time (aka Has Disney given up on SSE?)

[SirGoofy]

So they can spend tons of money/make a cool corporate lounge, but they wont finish the ride and instead leave it undone and looking like crap. :brick:
Sorry but something is wrong there.

Believe me, the ride being unfinished is NOT Siemens' fault. They pumped a lot of cash into that thing.

I was very please/surprised to see the interest Siemens' executives seemed to put into the ride on their visit. It was very cool.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

You rang?

DACS - Digital Animation Control System - was indeed part of Central at EPCOT Center - running the attraction show elements.

MACS was the Monitoring and Control System of the park, monitoring for any potential problems park wide.

ECS (pronounced X) controls the environment; exterior lighting, water features and event lighting and PA control.

I believe MACS and X are still controlled from Central; DACS was disbanded and moved to each individual attraction for local control.

Martin!:sohappy::lol: Awesome as usual. So DACS is in EC and MK? Is there one for every park?

I am bookmarking this, BTW.:lol:

 

[marni1971]

Is there one for every park?

I`m a bit hazy on this, but I believe Disney MGM had no centralised DACS when built since it had a handful of attractions, was a working movie studio, and DACS was being slowly removed from EPCOT Central. For example I know that all the sound effects in Indiana Jones used to be triggered live by hand in the show booth using MIDI and Commodore Amiga 2000's. I *think* MGM did have a form of X, and I`d guess DAK does too, if only for area loops and park lighting.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

I`m a bit hazy on this, but I believe Disney MGM had no centralised DACS when built since it had a handful of attractions, was a working movie studio, and DACS was being slowly removed from EPCOT Central. For example I know that all the sound effects in Indiana Jones used to be triggered live by hand in the show booth using MIDI and Commodore Amiga 2000's. I *think* MGM did have a form of X, and I`d guess DAK does too, if only for area loops and park lighting.

Wow. Very interesting...I'm surprised that IJ was hand done. I guess it was easier for the actors?

Either way, facinating...Now, where's that book?

 

[marni1971]

Wow. Very interesting...I'm surprised that IJ was hand done. I guess it was easier for the actors?

More for show.... they had to match to variables for each individual show. Hand punches, whip cracks. They could slip a tenth or several of a second either way.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

More for show.... they had to match to variables for each individual show. Hand punches, whip cracks. They could slip a tenth or several of a second either way.

Right. The CM's working the booth must have very good reflexes.:lol:

 

[WDW Monorail]

DACS doesn't do as much as it used to. Most aspects of DACS are now controlled locally at each attraction.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

DACS doesn't do as much as it used to. Most aspects of DACS are now controlled locally at each attraction.

Shame, really. I thought that would have been more efficient.


Certainly seemed cooler, to have one big room of huge computers running all of WDW....:lookaroun:lol::lol:

 

[marni1971]

Central was great until it crashed...

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Central was great until it crashed...

Oh,goodness! When? That must have been horrible, the entire park down...:dazzle:

 

[marni1971]

I believe it was. I`m told of at least 2 times in the 80`s when it happened. Very surreal with no fountains, no BGM, no nothing apart from standby systems.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

I believe it was. I`m told of at least 2 times in the 80`s when it happened. Very surreal with no fountains, no BGM, no nothing apart from standby systems.

Indeed.:dazzle: Must have been erie...You think of an area in EPCOT, you think of it's music. Must have taken an age to get the systems back...IO was busy.

 

[Tink313]

I just read touring plans and it said SSE decent was done? :shrug: What do you guys think about that

We asked the managers. We asked the CM's. We asked guest relations. We sent a letter to Siemens and we even annoyed their PR guy.

We have been told enough times to finally accept it: Spaceship Earth is finished in its current state. There are apparently no plans to add anything to the bleak black curtain finale and nothing is just sitting there waiting to be turned on.

Its pretty sad

 

[Disneyson 1]

Where'd you quote from?

 

[Tink313]

From touring plans recent news section. :shrug: I hope it was ok :lookaroun

 

[Lee]

Nope.
Don't believe it.
There is work being done. There is more.
No chance that a major hoax has been perpetrated on me, Martin and others.
Nope.

Better not be.....:lookaroun

 

[Disneyson 1]

I feel as if I'm on the border of "deranged and ever-hopefull fanboi" and "Grounded in reality optimist".

 

[Captain Chaos]

Nope.
Don't believe it.
There is work being done. There is more.
No chance that a major hoax has been perpetrated on me, Martin and others.
Nope.

Better not be.....:lookaroun

Still talking about the descent in SSE??? I am beginning to think it was a hoax... Sorry Lee....

 

[aladdin2007]

Still talking about the descent in SSE??? I am beginning to think it was a hoax... Sorry Lee....

Yeah I think its reality check time. Sadly. Although it did still appear little things were being worked on but as for the curtains coming down? I dont think so.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Yeah I think its reality check time. Sadly. Although it did still appear little things were being worked on but as for the curtains coming down? I dont think so.

The curtains may come down, but i suspect there is NOTHING behind them... I feel like what you see is what you get with the descent, maybe a few extra triangles... But, I have little hope for much more... Even for Tomorrow's Child's grand return....