TP2000
Well-Known Member
Are the planes they using saffron and toner ink as fuel? Soarin is a 5 minute film, a 5 hour flight in a 737 costs 30k in fuel.
In several public presentations, the Imagineers who worked on Soarin' have stated it took them many months to get all the footage needed for the Soarin' Over California film. It took many retakes and botched days of filming due to weather.
You don't think all those rafters and skiiers and horseback riders and golfers and surfers and hot air balloons and Marine Corps jets and Navy destroyers and Disneyland Christmas Parades all just fell into place over a week or two of filming, do you?
Interesting thing, the big sweep over Lake Tahoe where the skiiers are jumping off the ledge and skiing down the mountain while the copter crests the top was supposed to reveal the sparkling blue waters of Lake Tahoe. But on every day that they set up the filming, the fog on the lake surface just refused to lift. They finally had to give up, mainly due to an exhausted budget and timeline.
That shot of foggy Lake Tahoe that looks like this in Soarin'...
![lake_tahoe_fog_looking_northwest.jpg](http://sierracgaux.org/blog/blogs/media/blogs/b/AFoggyDay/lake_tahoe_fog_looking_northwest.jpg)
Was actually supposed to look like this fog-free version of that stunning Northern California lake...
![Lake%20Tahoe%20Skiing.jpg](http://www.travelenvogue.com/app/webroot/img/userfiles/Lake%20Tahoe%20Skiing.jpg)
And those problems were just filming in one American state, near Disney headquarters. I can only imagine the handicaps and headaches and heartaches they'd be faced with filming these epic film-attractions in a foreign country. Not to mention the HUGE pricetag for it all.
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