IllumiNations Globe / control

DMC-12

DMC-12

It's HarmonioUS, NOT HarmoniYOU.
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About 45-60min to Showtime... there is a lady who is brought out to the globe via small boat... She then gets in the globe cockpit if you will... and drives it out to position... she then parks the globe and will stay in there for about an hour/hour and a half after IllumiNations has ended... to make sure all the pyro has exploded and the thing has cooled down... it is then driven backstage.

When I asked my tour guide (during the Undiscovered Future World tour) what she does during all that time, he said, " Oh, well she tapes her soap operas and watches them while she is out there on the lagoon...." I asked, "Can she do that?" He replied, "Yep... she does it all the time... its like mission control in there...there are some Closed Circuit TV's to monitor things, plus a VCR and color TV."


:)
 
tenchu

tenchu

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Last time i went to florida, my sister met the driver of this in the hospital.

She'd broken her leg getting out of the globe.

:xmas:
 
guwag

guwag

Active Member
I should think that it's a pretty noisy job too (despite the obvious ear protection), you must be able to feel through your body the pyros going off from that position.
 
tenchu

tenchu

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Originally posted by ArchiDanDisney
that would seem like a perty boring job...
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Yeah, but you can say 'I drive the world!'

And it would be a great chick magnet 'Hey darlin, fancy taking the globe out the back, pull a few doughnuts, then test out the back seats? :animwink: '

:lol:
 
guwag

guwag

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Imagine walking around the WS Lake, seeing the Globe floating there rocking forwards and backwards :lol: Sometimes a visual imagination's a very good thing to have :lol:
 
DMC-12

DMC-12

It's HarmonioUS, NOT HarmoniYOU.
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Originally posted by tenchu
Yeah, but you can say 'I drive the world!'

And it would be a great chick magnet 'Hey darlin, fancy taking the globe out the back, pull a few doughnuts, then test out the back seats? :animwink: '

:lol:
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:lol: guwag... that would be funny

:lol: Tenchu.... did you hook up with the globe chick then? :lol:
 
TheOneVader

TheOneVader

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I'd like that job. You'd get paid to sit in a globe. At least she doesn't have to sit in the inferno barge... she'd be burnt to a crisp :lol:
 
tenchu

tenchu

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Re: Re: Soap Up?

Originally posted by DMC-12
:lol: No clue... He did not go that far into detail... :)
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I believe she liked watching the film 'Around the world in 80 days.' :lol:

And no Jerry, i didn't get to meet her, otherwise i probably would have come back with the answers to all these questions! :lol:
 
Figment1986

Figment1986

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Thats so neat, Driving the world and then sit and watch movies,

Ill have my disney attractions on tape, or have a camera set up and watch what im doing, lol
 
miamimickey72

miamimickey72

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not really.....

Sorry to say but thats not really true. I assume the CM who was doing the tour was joking with the group.

I have a book called "Making the Millennium" which was published by A Roundtable Press Book Company in 1999 (199 Disney Enterprises,Inc) which explains how the globe is moved.

Heres a few facts about the globe straight from the book on pages 66 - 69

- 28 foot in diameter
- 10 foot high pedestal
- 350 tons
- 6 computer processors
- 258 strobe lights
- moves on an infrared guidance system

But i must say that the old Illumination and Illuminations 25 shows both had a ball/globe which did have someone inside that use to control the laser images on the ball and some of the fireworks. But never floated out. This is one of the many great things of this show.....how you make that globe float accross the water......lasers guide it to its place.

Just thought I would share this info with all of ya.

:sohappy:
 
DMC-12

DMC-12

It's HarmonioUS, NOT HarmoniYOU.
Original Poster
Re: not really.....

Originally posted by miamimickey72
Sorry to say but thats not really true. I assume the CM who was doing the tour was joking with the group.
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:veryconfu

No he was not joking... and I was the only person there... no group....

Originally posted by miamimickey72
- moves on an infrared guidance system

lasers guide it to its place
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And I watched it being drivin out there a few times... at or about 2:30-3pm... then someone gets out of the globe... and gets on another boat that pulls up next to the globe... and goes back backstage....

Lasers may GUIDE it perhaps... but someone is definitely driving it. :)
 
miamimickey72

miamimickey72

New Member
Sorry, misprint in book?

Well Im sorry. Since you have seen it...then i assume this book is a lie or has a huge misprint.

Ill have to look and ask the next time i go out there.

Thanks for the info

MM:wave:
 

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