Space Mountain/Tomorrowland Transit Authority update...

[EpcotServo]

the negativity of this thread is great! Stitch mountain! crapppy icky plants ! Just stop the prefurb! put it back the way it was. No new track. Has anyone been on it yet? Inside yet? Even outside yet exceppt for pictures? Such sceptics.

“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
-Stendhal

 

[Rob562]

People have been inside and seen the old track structure?

There was video taken by someone (posted in another thread, though i'm not sure which one) who used a tripod to lift their camera up above the level of the blacked-out wall to see into the Mountain. At least from the TTA, nothing much seemed to have been changed in terms of structure.

-Rob

 

[Vernonpush]

There was video taken by someone (posted in another thread, though i'm not sure which one) who used a tripod to lift their camera up above the level of the blacked-out wall to see into the Mountain. At least from the TTA, nothing much seemed to have been changed in terms of structure.

-Rob

Screen captures from that video:

 

[Jasonflz]

Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part but to me it looks like the head of the SM ship is being worked on.

 

[ChrisFL]

We technically have a tree forest of sorts. Now if they can ever function again...

Function? They did something?

 

[juan]

Function? They did something?

the leaves folded in at night and extended during the day

 

[DisneyParksFan1]

the leaves folded in at night and extended during the day

OMG that's sooooo cool!!!! Ugh TDO is soo cheap! lol.

 

[ChrisFL]

wow, I didn't know that...if only they were SOLAR PANELS and could be useful also....that'd be even cooler

 

[DisneyParksFan1]

There's sooo many cool things that can be done with Tomorrowland. Just wish Disney would at least attempt to make it into fruition.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

the leaves folded in at night and extended during the day

Woah...Never knew that! Very cool.


Thankfully, they still light up, though.

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

the leaves folded in at night and extended during the day

Are you serious??? I never knew that! Well, we'll never see that effect working again...

 

[Lee]

Day and night shots:

 

[EpcoTim]

Those are shopped. I've seen a lot of shoops in my.....


Looks like the one in the background of the day shot is having some mechanical difficulties.

 

[EPCOTPluto]

Day and night shots:

Nice comparisons.

Was it once true that when they worked before, Imagineers left one closed as to signify that not everything in TL is perfect? I also remember reading that somewhere & thought that was interesting...

 

[Lee]

Not shopped. They actually do that....at least they did....
And yeah...one of them has some issues. Imagine that...

Was it once true that when they worked before, Imagineers left one closed as to signify that not everything in TL is perfect?

Doubt it...but it sounds like a good excuse...:lol:

 

[EpcoTim]

Not shopped. They actually do that....at least they did....
And yeah...one of them has some issues. Imagine that...

I was just kidding, I always find it amusing when someone chimes in like that.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Not shopped. They actually do that....at least they did....
And yeah...one of them has some issues. Imagine that...


Doubt it...but it sounds like a good excuse...:lol:

When was the last time they worked?


I wonder if you can move them by hand...?:lookaroun:lol:

 

[imagineer boy]

I always knew that the trees did that. All thanks to the WDW Explorer.

 

[Rob562]

the leaves folded in at night and extended during the day

The trees never actually moved. They were designed the way they are to LOOK as if they folded in and retracted down at night. One was specifically designed as being in the "half folded" position so that it would appear that they did actually fold and one got stuck.

I saw the original concept artwork at the "Architecture of Reassurance" exhibit when it was at the National Building Museum in D.C., and the notes by the Imagineers specifically stated that's the intention. I have an accompanying book for the exhibition here somewhere, I'll see if I can dig it up and see if that concept artwork was in it, or in the Imagineering book.

-Rob

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

The trees never actually moved. They were designed the way they are to LOOK as if they folded in and retracted down at night. One was specifically designed as being in the "half folded" position so that it would appear that they did actually fold and one got stuck.

I saw the original concept artwork at the "Architecture of Reassurance" exhibit when it was at the National Building Museum in D.C., and the notes by the Imagineers specifically stated that's the intention. I have an accompanying book for the exhibition here somewhere, I'll see if I can dig it up and see if that concept artwork was in it, or in the Imagineering book.

-Rob

Are you serious?:lookaroun:lol:

Lee's picture really shows movement...