how are the mice simulated at HISTA?
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HISTA mice
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Rob562
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A small, flexible plastic tube pops out from the front edge of each seat and wiggles around. They use compressed air blowing out through the tube to make it flail around, similar to a garden hose that you've turned on full blast.
As you go to sit down, there's a small hole front and center on the front edge of the seat. And every once in a while as you're entering or exiting the theater you'll see one that's failed to retract back into the seat.
There's also most likely some kind of sensor/switch so that the effect only runs on the seats that are folded down with someone sitting in them. Otherwise, you'd have them popping out of folded-up seats and both ruining the effect, and also flailing around at eye-level to a child in an adjacent seat.
-Rob
As you go to sit down, there's a small hole front and center on the front edge of the seat. And every once in a while as you're entering or exiting the theater you'll see one that's failed to retract back into the seat.
There's also most likely some kind of sensor/switch so that the effect only runs on the seats that are folded down with someone sitting in them. Otherwise, you'd have them popping out of folded-up seats and both ruining the effect, and also flailing around at eye-level to a child in an adjacent seat.
-Rob
WDW Monorail
Well-Known Member
The air is pumped through said tubes.
there are tubes, some that did not retract
Rob562
Well-Known Member
Are you thinking of the air jets in the Stitch/Alien Encounter seats that blow at your hair? Or the puffs of air at your face in Philharmagic or Tough to Be A Bug?
-Rob
no the mice in HISTA
no the mice in HISTA
Rob562
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It's always been compressed air blowing out through a thin plastic tube. About the only change I can think of is that at some point I believe the color of the tube changed many years ago. I seem to recall them originally being white, but the last time I saw one stuck out it was black.
-Rob
-Rob
pathollywood
Member
I remember a different sort of metal like tube under the seat that shakes whenever the mice are released. Because I got bored as a kid one time and starting to check out my seat. Must be connected with the "feelers" on the edge somehow.