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Hmmm.... National Geographic just gave me inspiration for a Weather Pavilian...

DarkMeasures

New Member
Original Poster
....wow. Meteorogical technology has skyrocketed. The new issue of Nation Geographic had quite a good amount of info on weather and weather predicion. The coolest part, some storm chaser finally filmed the inside of a tornado. (No, it does not look like what it does in Twister.)

But anyway, I guess that is where we will begin.

Guests enter the pavilian in a line like Living Seas, there will be a place to skip the preshow though but the preshow will be worth it. The preshow itself is pretty neat. Guests enter through a circlevision theatre. It looks pretty normal and standard. But of course you can't forget the surround sound and high definition digital screens.

A movie plays on weather and blah blah blah. It starts out kinda boring. But then the video goes, to an actual video of the inside of a tornado. But not only that, but the whole room erupts with wind. At the end of the video, the room goes dark and lightning flashes and the speakers go lound. The lights go back on and half of the room has mysteriously dissapeared leading to an enclosement of what is kinda like the Wizard of oz. At least with the green fields. A small building stands near and guests enter through that to the main pavilian. (It all can be done, though it would be hard, but from use of powerful motors and digital projectors, there shouldn't be any problems.)

Inside, exhibits show off more cool stuff. Like a Weather prediction area. Here guests can look at the weather anywhere in the world and look at predicions in full 3D or even play games and predict the weather themselves.

This area is relatively small though. There are 2 other attractions though. (in reality, there wouldn't be a problem replacing Wonders of Life with this.)

First is Storm Rider. Most likely to be the DisneySea version. However, a completly new version could be nice. (If replacing WoL, it would use the Body Wars simulators but the ride would need to be redesigned).

Second is StormObservation. Kinda like Twister but not really.
First of all, guests will actually be able to sit. But the whole thing would be awsome to the max pretty much. I just don't feel like describing what I see right now. Just think what it would be like to be in a middle of a hurricane outside.
 

Epcot82Guy

Well-Known Member
I like the concept Dark Measures. I actually think that concept would be a better Pre-Show for StormRiders, brining the entire thing into a more realistic situation. What would you think if, instead of it opening up, once the storm hits, lights go out, etc. the room becomes "bombarded" by the tornado (i.e. fenceposts come out of the walls, we see large debris hanging from rafters, etc.) and then "you get the chance to take some photoage yourself")? I think this might be a bit too intense for parents with young children.

I have my own idea of the pavilion, and I saw it more as a family-oriented pavilion with a huge tower in the center that actually creates weather effects throughout the pavilion and has a larger area with similar games, etc. to what you had. However, I think this would be great for a way to make StormRider both unique and higher profile.
 

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