VicariousCorpse
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This took a lot longer to find. Credit to @marni1971. Not a diagram or video but it gives you an
idea of the layout.
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Spaceship in Spaceship Earth
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idea of the layout.
WaluigiTime
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That is so cool...
It was. A mixture of fibre optic and laser. Laser projected onto the city model, and fibre optics with laser illumination. Add in some standard and UV lighting, electro luminescent plastics and liquid neon and it was quite impressive. Just a shame they butchered 180 top for the start of it.
muddyrivers
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Is that a Disney beverage cup on the right hand side of the picture? I guess someone was drinking on the job
aladdin2007
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It was creative ingenuity and art direction at its best! I don't think they would know how to do that today if they were asked to.... Like I said in another thread the parks are regressing instead of progressing, all thanks to the precious app and lightning lane which is destroying show quality and creativity, they don't care. They just want everyone buying into it, care and show quality are out the window. Not everything of course, but they could sure spend how many millions to put all the fancy lights outside while the show inside deteriorates? Almost two decades of that unfinished mess in there. Its as if they are so proud of it.
Figments Friend
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Yes, it is!!Is that a Disney beverage cup on the right hand side of the picture? I guess someone was drinking on the job
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Figments Friend
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Has this been shared here yet…?
If not, enjoy!
If not, enjoy!
It has. It’s taken from my video.
Figments Friend
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Never forget…..!
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VicariousCorpse
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Came across this really cool post by user EPCOThistory on reddit.
"Recently a reel of 1” tape came up for auction on eBay. All the reel said was “Disney Spaceship Earth HD Clone Of Edited Master” with a run time of 7:59:10 and a date of 12/22/94. I was intrigued, because I love Spaceship Earth and 1994 seemed very early for anything to be HD, especially on a 1” tape format, so I bought it.
I reached out to the amazing group of people at Futureport 82 and they were able to determine that it was an HDVS tape. HDVS was an experimental pre-HD format developed by Sony in the mid 80s. Even more amazing, they were able to connect me with the a video archiving group called OP Workshop run by u/ReelyInteresting . They had the exact model machine needed to transfer this 3 decade old tape! That is no small feat considering this format was very rare, and this particular machine was very expensive and had a short shelf life.
As soon as OP Workshop received the tape we found out what was on there. It was the virtual classroom scene from the 1994 descent in beautiful uncompressed HD! The video is about 32 seconds long and loops for 8 minutes. The reason for this is the master tape was most likely pressed on to an HDVS laserdisc for use in the attraction and that format had a time limit of 8 minutes.
I’m so glad the stars aligned and we were able to connect with the right people to preserve this small piece of EPCOT history!"
Here's the video backed up on internet archive.
"Recently a reel of 1” tape came up for auction on eBay. All the reel said was “Disney Spaceship Earth HD Clone Of Edited Master” with a run time of 7:59:10 and a date of 12/22/94. I was intrigued, because I love Spaceship Earth and 1994 seemed very early for anything to be HD, especially on a 1” tape format, so I bought it.
I reached out to the amazing group of people at Futureport 82 and they were able to determine that it was an HDVS tape. HDVS was an experimental pre-HD format developed by Sony in the mid 80s. Even more amazing, they were able to connect me with the a video archiving group called OP Workshop run by u/ReelyInteresting . They had the exact model machine needed to transfer this 3 decade old tape! That is no small feat considering this format was very rare, and this particular machine was very expensive and had a short shelf life.
As soon as OP Workshop received the tape we found out what was on there. It was the virtual classroom scene from the 1994 descent in beautiful uncompressed HD! The video is about 32 seconds long and loops for 8 minutes. The reason for this is the master tape was most likely pressed on to an HDVS laserdisc for use in the attraction and that format had a time limit of 8 minutes.
I’m so glad the stars aligned and we were able to connect with the right people to preserve this small piece of EPCOT history!"
Here's the video backed up on internet archive.
VicariousCorpse
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I knew the astronauts were static but this is the first time I've seen that they gently swayed. It adds a lot to the effect, very cool.
Dragonman
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The large satellite had a moving hinged panel that gave the illusion of the astronaut floating but the smaller one never had actual movement to my knowledge, just the illusion of it from the vehicles passing by and the star projections.
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VicariousCorpse
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He's not moving at 6:45? I'm not talking about it being an animatronic, just movement from being suspended from cables. You can see the shadow from the astronaut's arm moving side to side on the satellite.
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Dragonman
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Hmm. I believe @marni1971 previously confirmed there was nothing up there mechanism wise so unusure how it could be moving in the video. I do see what you mean however.
Btw here’s the flash frame from that scene which shows a cable attached to the figures legs.
Can’t remember if I did or not ! Definitely looks like movement there. Unless it’s blowing in the wind (or aircon)
VicariousCorpse
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Curiosity got the better of me and I had a look through some other videos. Then I remembered there being some good shots of the astronauts in the Imagineering Story. It turns out this astronaut DOES have movement! You can see this at 33:41 in the second episode, What would Walt do? They begin to hoist the satellite into the air and the astronaut begins to pivot side to side. He is attached by his hand and moves back and forth. Looks to me that it's done in a similar way to the bigger satellite's moving arm.
xxlove
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Omg!!
