Floating Leota

Rob562

Rob562

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Strings, with an internally-projected face. (I believe the Leota in Disneyland uses an external projector) I believe there's three wires holding the ball up. They're most visible when you're directly in-line with them (most noticable to me is the one opposite you just before you turn away to go to the Ballroom).
It's also one of those things that once you notice them, you always see them... (Of course, I have good night vision in general...) Perhaps try going at night when your eyes are already adjusted to the darkness.

-Rob
 
Master Yoda

Master Yoda

Pro Star Wars geek.
Premium Member
Ummm...It is a real levitating crystal ball with a head in it. Jeshe...Next thing that you will be telling us is that Mickey Mouse is just a guy in a mouse costume.:rolleyes:
 
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Disneylander07

New Member
Rob562 said:
Strings, with an internally-projected face. (I believe the Leota in Disneyland uses an external projector) I believe there's three wires holding the ball up. They're most visible when you're directly in-line with them (most noticable to me is the one opposite you just before you turn away to go to the Ballroom).
It's also one of those things that once you notice them, you always see them... (Of course, I have good night vision in general...) Perhaps try going at night when your eyes are already adjusted to the darkness.

-Rob
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Its not internally projected. If you look along the railing around the outside, you can see 3 masked projectors with a limish green light coming from them. If you look at the globe, you can see a green glare on the globe as well. Its front projected
 
Rob562

Rob562

Well-Known Member
Disneylander07 said:
Its not internally projected. If you look along the railing around the outside, you can see 3 masked projectors with a limish green light coming from them. If you look at the globe, you can see a green glare on the globe as well. Its front projected
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As your username is "Disneylander", I presume you're talking about Disneyland's Leota?
As I mentioned in my earlier post, the projection is accomplished *differently* between California and Florida. California has external projection, Florida has internal.

-Rob
 
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Disneylander07

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Actually since the upgrade at WDWs, they are both external front projection. With WDWs now floating, it would be impossible for it to be internal. without cables running down from the globe. If you look on the inner part of the room you will notice like i said the projectors that do it. At both parks.
 
unkadug

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Disneylander07 said:
Actually since the upgrade at WDWs, they are both external front projection. With WDWs now floating, it would be impossible for it to be internal. without cables running down from the globe. If you look on the inner part of the room you will notice like i said the projectors that do it. At both parks.
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How do you think that the ball floats? Magic? There are already cables.
 
unkadug

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Disneylander07 said:
No i was saying if it were internal right now, there would have to be cables for the projector hanging down from the globe since its floating.
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It is internal and there are cables, you just don't see them. :wave:

Let me quote from Doombuggies.com, since some people won't click a link:
With the "re-haunting" of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion in 2007, Madame Leota now floats above her seance table in Orlando as well. However, in the Walt Disney World seance scene, Madame Leota's face is actually rear-projected via a special LCD projector with a fisheye lens in reverse from inside the moving globe onto the static headform, rather than being projected from the front as the effect is accomplished in Disneyland. While interior projection for this effect was attempted and rejected in earlier years, this next generation of rear-projection technology produces a remarkably sharp, bright visage, as you can see in the photograph of the new Walt Disney World Leota pictured in regular room-lighting above, left (photo courtesy Jeff at WDW). The rear-projection also allows the Imagineers to use a full high-resolution image for Madame Leota's face, as opposed to Disneyland's projected "bouncing ball" image, which is essentially a very small portion of the full high-resolution projection, which covers the full moving path of the crystal ball.
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