devoy1701
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well if they do a strobe AND fans....it might be a toss up! :lookaroun
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Mountains fixed?
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well if they do a strobe AND fans....it might be a toss up! :lookaroun
MerlinTheGoat
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I don't blame the falling rock scenery on anything besides lax maintenance and/or badly designed restraints. If they wanted to fix the effect and make it where it wouldn't fall on guests, i'm sure they could (doesn't seem too difficult to imagine that they could come up with a better way to hold it in place). While some sort of projection effect would admittedly be better than nothing, there's no excuse not to have the original effect up and working fine.
I'll take some kind of projection effect over nothing. Bring a creative imagineer in like Tony Baxter to work their magic. The digital mapping effects in both Snow White and the Magic Memories and You show are really impressive and convincing. With the lanterns on the sides still shaking, i'm convinced it could look decent with some effort.
I'll take some kind of projection effect over nothing. Bring a creative imagineer in like Tony Baxter to work their magic. The digital mapping effects in both Snow White and the Magic Memories and You show are really impressive and convincing. With the lanterns on the sides still shaking, i'm convinced it could look decent with some effort.
No, this was a shaking rock.
The falling rocks were deactivated at WDW years ago. Grrrrrr....
MerlinTheGoat
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I haven't seen the falling rocks since 1997, so my memory of what they look like is fuzzy. How was that effect produced? Was it a projection effect or what? Not talking about the shaking rocks on the sides, but the ones falling at the top of the hill.
Monorail_Orange
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Falling rock effect was very cool, and very convincing. Some of the various "AA" rocks literally tipped over the train, others actually seemed to crash down just to the side of the train, for even an older child (10-12) it still felt like the cavern was actually collapsing around you.
I'll not only call Martin's GRRRRRR...but I'll raise him a :fork:
I'll not only call Martin's GRRRRRR...but I'll raise him a :fork:
They were physical objects, attached to rods, that would simulated free fall down either side of and above the track at the crest of the lift. They would then reset before the next train came.
The vertical `tracks` the rods would travel up and down on are still visible.
wserratore1963
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Jedi Wizard
New Member
It shows what they could do easily but are choosing not to do. It also shows that they know it is unacceptable if they didn't want "the boss" to see it.
roadtripper
Member
Sounds like some safety cables or chains with some slack to allow movement but prevent the rocks from ever falling away from the mountain would be an easy fix. Kind of like a backup parachute. OOOPS! First one didn't work quite right. Good thing we have a backup plan. Considering it's rather slow for a coaster and there are no loops or corkscrews, loss of the one thing that gives some feeling of impending disaster is pretty sad.
Victor Kelly
Well-Known Member
Well I have an idea.................
B Mode Land.
All attractions they do not want to fix or maintain properly can be moved to this land. Heck even add some attractions and don't maintain them.
Like others have said, the rocks were fine for almost 30 years. It is an issue of maintenance period.
B Mode Land.
All attractions they do not want to fix or maintain properly can be moved to this land. Heck even add some attractions and don't maintain them.
Like others have said, the rocks were fine for almost 30 years. It is an issue of maintenance period.
Yodadudeman
Member
Wait, so maybe I missed something, what was the other mountain that was fixed? Thunder Mountain and then? Does anybody know? Maybe they fixed some of the faulty animatronics in Splash Mountain.
MerlinTheGoat
Well-Known Member
Yes, Splash is the other one apparently. I've not been to it since it was fixed up, but apparently they restored some of the range of motions of the figures (whether they've got ALL their original movement, dunno, but it's improved apparently).
Brenton Price
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AA and water dont mix lol
MerlinTheGoat
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WondersOfLife
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What happened in Disneyland Paris??
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The last original pavilion. :king:
mp2bill
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Awwww, that stinks.