Paintball inside MGM/Disney Hollywood Studios.

[Master Yoda]

Given the equipment they are using it is more than likely mid 90's. The goggles the are Using are a brand called Vents. They went out of production well before 2000. The guns they are using are the AirGun Designs Automag. This was a staple of tournament teams in the 90's and into 2000. It was largely replaced by the Automag RT when it came out in 1996. This was later replaced by the Angel and the Dye. Another hint to the time frame is that they are still using CO2. Tournament teams began transitioning over to compressed air and N2 systemy by the late 90's.

Lastly,I am fairly certain this was put on by Fred Shultz who was very big in the paintball world. As near as I can tell from old publications, the Paintball at Disney was done around 94.

 

[DManRightHere]

Hey ! There's nothing wrong with this. Pretty awesome disney hosted an event like this and it's a great urban setting for paintball.

I was thinking very early 90's with the fashion styles but the marker cam makes me think a little after 95.

 

[Bairstow]

Given the equipment they are using it is more than likely mid 90's. The goggles the are Using are a brand called Vents. They went out of production well before 2000. The guns they are using are the AirGun Designs Automag. This was a staple of tournament teams in the 90's and into 2000. It was largely replaced by the Automag RT when it came out in 1996. This was later replaced by the Angel and the Dye. Another hint to the time frame is that they are still using CO2. Tournament teams began transitioning over to compressed air and N2 systemy by the late 90's.

Lastly,I am fairly certain this was put on by Fred Shultz who was very big in the paintball world. As near as I can tell from old publications, the Paintball at Disney was done around 94.

1994 sounds correct.

 

[bgraham34]

This is definitely mid 90's. Remember watching this on tv then. I was so jealous. I forgot about it though over the years.

 

[FettFan]

Unbelievable.

FINALLY something to make it a full-day park!

 

[FettFan]

04:00 -- "In terms of strategy, is there going to be a lot of holding off, a lot of waiting for people to expose themselves?"

 

[flynnibus]

Awesome clip. Would have been great fun

Another example of any production leaving the studios

 

[The Mighty Tim]

My friends and I once theorized strategies to a land vs land paintball war at MK. For anyone curious: Tomorrowland has a tactical advantage.

http://www.quora.com/Military-Strat...s-for-taking-Magic-Kingdoms-Cinderella-Castle

 

[BigTxEars]

That is some 1990s hair going on right there with the MJ of paintball. ESPN 2 must have been hard up to push paintball as a sport. Now a hot dog eating contest, that is sports baby!

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Gotta be way older than 2007, the clothes look closer to 90's style

The tight high-waisted jeans with massive bulge?

 

[tissandtully]

Unbelievable.

I'm sorry, but why is this so unbelievable? I'm more surprised they are actually FILMING something at the studios. Is it really that bad on here that we have to complain about stuff that happened in the '90s?

 

[Bairstow]

I'm sorry, but why is this so unbelievable? I'm more surprised they are actually FILMING something at the studios. Is it really that bad on here that we have to complain about stuff that happened in the '90s?

It's unbelievable that they would potentially subject a themed area like that to damage from the projectiles. Maybe New York Street was due for a repaint or something.

And who's complaining? I'm just mad I didn't get to play!

 

[Jwhee]

Not much the paint ball can break besides (MAYBE) a lamp or light. Plus the paintballs are not filled with real paint, I think it's like colored fish oil. So it wouldn't stain anything.

 

[m3owbox]

Nice mullet! Thats pretty awesome though.

 

[Bairstow]

Not much the paint ball can break besides (MAYBE) a lamp or light. Plus the paintballs are not filled with real paint, I think it's like colored fish oil. So it wouldn't stain anything.

The fill is polyethelyne glycol, or at least it would have been in 1994. The fill is advertised as water-soluble and non-staining, but this is only half-true. Most of the time the fill contains titanium dioxide in order to make it bright, like a lot of house paint, and even after being washed off the oxide can leave behind a permanent, faint residue, especially on painted surfaces and untreated cement. On top of that, though, the impacts themselves can be enough to put divots in softer wood.

I'm just saying, it's not the kind of activity you would think they would organize inside their meticulously-designed and painted theme park environment that cost millions to build so that it would open before Universal.

 

[Matt_Black]

That is some 1990s hair going on right there with the MJ of paintball. ESPN 2 must have been hard up to push paintball as a sport. Now a hot dog eating contest, that is sports baby!

That's the kind of thing they'd have on... The Ocho! "It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian."

 

[The Empress Lilly]

I wanna play that!!

Wish they would use SoA for paintball!

That's the kind of thing they'd have on... The Ocho! "It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian."

I'm in! Me against Canada, I'll show those lumberjack girliemen what manliness is really made off.

 

[mergatroid]

Gotta be way older than 2007, the clothes look closer to 90's style

Also on that clip at about 1:35 minute mark it look likes they have a WCW ring set up? I remember them doing this in the studios in the 90's? For those who don't remember, Disney used to host professional wrestling in the studios and televise it!

 

[EOD K9]

That's the kind of thing they'd have on... The Ocho! "It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian."

Effin A Cotton, Effin A.

 

[Bairstow]

My friends and I once theorized strategies to a land vs land paintball war at MK. For anyone curious: Tomorrowland has a tactical advantage.

Other than the chokepoint at the bridge, Tom Sawyer Island seems like an ideal place for a larger paintball game, as does the outdoor queue area for Splash Mountain.

The Boneyard at Animal Kingdom would be nice, but all the pathways under and around the Tree of Life would be even better.

I could see either the China or France pavilions at the World Showcase making for good fields if played back to front.

If people were brave enough to think they could get away with it, either Discovery Island or River Country would be a hell of a place for an outlaw game.