Rivers of America (plus Railroad & Dioramas) Re-Imagineered 2017

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Animatronic of composer Ferde Grofe standing on the edge of the canyon conducting his Grand Canyon Suite?

Am I getting close?

you're too smart!!!! surprise ruined!

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

OK, animated figures of the cast of Home on the Range.

haha nope.

 

[vancee]

tell us please

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Guys, I've sat on this info for months. I won't crack now.

Gosh, now I really hope I haven't over-hyped it...

 

[Disney Analyst]

Inside the magic on train as we speak.

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Inside the magic on train as we speak.

I'm heading to the parks myself...see you all on the other side!

 

[SSG]

Spoiler: Diorama

Fresh Baked!‏ @FrshBakedDisney 2m2 minutes ago
If you guessed projections om the back wall for the diorama, you win!
Fresh Baked!‏ @FrshBakedDisney 46s47 seconds ago
Theres also a cool lightning strike effect in the FOREGROUND. looks pretty cool.

 

[Travel Junkie]

Spoiler: Diorama

Fresh Baked!‏ @FrshBakedDisney 2m2 minutes ago
If you guessed projections om the back wall for the diorama, you win!

Spoiler: Diorama

I saw something else in a video. There is a projection of a lightning strike on the back wall and then a practical effect of the lightning strike in the scene.

 

[britain]

Just caught Laughing Place's live periscope of riding the Mark Twain. Looks great! Nice Fantasmic cave!

 

[britain]

From Dusty's live vlog at MiceAge's Facebook page: Check out this great angle with the train track aiming toward Big Thunder!

 

[Phroobar]

I'm disappointed. You guys said the train couldn't turn left.

 

[britain]

Can't wait for some hi-def SILA action on this railroad & river!

 

[SSG]

 

[TP2000]

This looks great! But what we really need is just a normal trip with the regular recorded dialogue and music.

This appears to be a "special trip" with a live narration performed by someone on the boat, with the jazz band on the bow providing the background music. The recorded narration that other blogs had caught testing in recent days was muted for this trip. Which is kind of odd. I guess they really wanted that live band to do the music and went this artistic direction for the media instead.

 

[brb1006]

 

[Curious Constance]

Well, in the end it looks like they cheapened out and decided not to add the sunshine rays.

 

[dweezil78]

Well, in the end it looks like they cheapened out and decided not to add the sunshine rays.

I blame Chapek of course. All things considered though, they did a pretty solid job of delivering what was sold to us in the concept art! I am pretty surprised at how close the end result was to this -- I'd even say it turned out better now that we can see all the minor details.

 

[dweezil78]

POV ride thru of the railroad!!

 

[brb1006]

 

[Stevek]

Stitch's Great Escape > Grand Canyon scene

The Stitch burp > Grand Canyon scene.

Banned