SSE Triangles Have Lights!

[aladdin2007]

The triangles have glowed around the edges since 2007 I`m afraid. Simple UV canons next to the trackbed. Often a car - or a guest - will pass infront of them and the effect is lost for a moment. If you can call it an effect.

The eyeball image wasn`t monitored unlike the onride photo. The generic image was added to avoid you-know-what type of images.

I`d like the boiler room smoke floor to return. Like the exterior sparks the infrastructure is still in place and still works. It`s just off for operational reasons.

True they have been glowing for some time now around various edges on some of them, not all of them, so really nothing new. However it makes me wonder cause his post said it was different from two weeks ago when he rode. Maybe they are starting to try something out and work on them again? One can only hope, because its still very trashy through there with all that junk hanging and laying around. Its ridiculous. :brick:

 

[rsoxguy]

The good news is that the Imagineering Department has come up with a solution to the problem with a new, high tech version of the triangles.

 

[Wannabe Walt]

Also rode ToT earlier it was great. All the fog was working in the queue, super crisp audio and video. Not sure if this is new or if I have always missed it before but as the elvator begins to move foward there was a projection to the left of people riding, I couldn't look quick enough to see if it was our car or not though.

Ahhhhh so it appears no one knows yet --- from what I've been told, the old eyeball effect has been updated for Summer Nightastic. I haven't riden yet (going Sunday I think), but from what I've been told the projection or reflection (not sure), is of your vehicle. I'll see for sure on Sunday. Also heard that there are more stars that play with your brain a bit --- and, as we all know, new more intense drop sequences. Something about up to 7 false endings, and multiple FULL drops?

 

[GymLeaderPhil]

Oh they're not done with the descent. In association with Frito-Lay I heard they plan on stringing up all of the varieties of Doritios tortilla chips with fishing wire.

 

[BrerFrog]

Oh they're not done with the descent. In association with Frito-Lay I heard they plan on stringing up all of the varieties of Doritios tortilla chips with fishing wire.

Yummy! :slurp:

 

[Timekeeper]

I'm not sure that I like the idea of being able to see the "triangles" - as that creates a visible finite space (literally a wall) instead of what might have seemed like an infinite nighttime sky.

How about this:

Create a an open framework of triangles (like the sphere's exterior) a little bit smaller than the actual sphere's ceiling. The framework is any color lighter than black, subtle yet visible. Then, in the same nearly-black low light, create effects on the black ceiling itself (fiber optics, projections, whatever). At the "top" of the ride, the illusion would be that of an "open-air" view through the framework of the sphere into space - or whatever the effects are; similar to sitting in your screened-in pool and gazing up at the stars... :sohappy:

Alternatively, riders could be given 3D glasses, and instructed to put them on when passing through the tunnel into the top scene. 3D effects would begin in the dome and continue through the notoriously-boring descent.

Imagine how cool the IMAX segments in Horizons would have been if in 3D; they were already impressive in 2D!

 

[marni1971]

I thought it was turned off due to moisture concerns. :shrug:

Those were the smoke machines in the 5thD :wave:

I dont think I have ever seen either working ... what are the exterior sparks?

4 of the outside neon letters have spark machines to randomly produce sparks which fall down the side of the building. They still work as of late last year, but have been turned off virtually since opening due to concerns about panic and the appearence of a fire.

 

[Timekeeper]

They still work as of late last year, but have been turned off virtually since opening due to concerns about panic and the appearence of a fire.

Let me get this straight, sparks might generate panic, whereas a free-falling-drop-to-your-death-elevator-filled-with-22-screaming-passengers... :brick:

 

[Horizons1]

4 of the outside neon letters have spark machines to randomly produce sparks which fall down the side of the building. They still work as of late last year, but have been turned off virtually since opening due to concerns about panic and the appearence of a fire.

I'm having trouble picturing this. Letters in the ride?

 

[Timekeeper]

I'm having trouble picturing this. Letters in the ride?

The letters that comprise HOLLYWOOD TOWER HOTEL, the can't-miss-it sign on the building's facade. A particularly cool effect at night.

 

[marni1971]

I'm having trouble picturing this. Letters in the ride?

Noooo.... the neon letters on the exterior of the building. You know... The Hollywood Tower Hotel?

 

[mcjaco]

The triangles have glowed around the edges since 2007 I`m afraid. Simple UV canons next to the trackbed. Often a car - or a guest - will pass infront of them and the effect is lost for a moment. If you can call it an effect.

Yep. They were lit up on my trip on October of 2007.

 

[aladdin2007]

I'm not sure that I like the idea of being able to see the "triangles" - as that creates a visible finite space (literally a wall) instead of what might have seemed like an infinite nighttime sky.

How about this:

Create a an open framework of triangles (like the sphere's exterior) a little bit smaller than the actual sphere's ceiling. The framework is any color lighter than black, subtle yet visible. Then, in the same nearly-black low light, create effects on the black ceiling itself (fiber optics, projections, whatever). At the "top" of the ride, the illusion would be that of an "open-air" view through the framework of the sphere into space - or whatever the effects are; similar to sitting in your screened-in pool and gazing up at the stars... :sohappy:

Alternatively, riders could be given 3D glasses, and instructed to put them on when passing through the tunnel into the top scene. 3D effects would begin in the dome and continue through the notoriously-boring descent.

Imagine how cool the IMAX segments in Horizons would have been if in 3D; they were already impressive in 2D!

Fantastic idea timekeeper, too bad they dont implement something like that. It would have at least been better to have created fiber optic stars all over the place instead of panels that look ugly and chicken wire that is falling apart and wrinkled sheets. I hope one day someone at either Siemens or Disney wakes up and finishes what was started. They are embarrasing themselves. Afterall look what they printed in the new Epcot Imagineering Guide. "in the descent video we place a photo onto the animated version of the future after asnwering questions, bla bla bla, (then it goes onto say) surrounding them guests see an abstract version of the triangular panels that make up the surface of the exterior space. The panels explode into a burst of energy, representing the genesis of the next great idea. These panels follow us down the ramp, increasing in density as we reach the bottom-affirming our return to Spaceship Earth."

Dense is right, they were dense to leave it like it is.

 

[Timekeeper]

Yep. They were lit up on my trip on October of 2007.

"They?" If you're referring to Disney executives, they were lit up back when they decided to revamp [read: destroy] the classic Journey Into Your Imagination, which was prior to 2007... :brick:,

 

[Timekeeper]

"The panels explode into a burst of energy, representing the genesis of the next great idea."

That would be a both simple and incredibly inexpensive effect to create. If you take a look at the video below (from a live Jonsi concert), watching exactly from 2:10 to 2:30, you'll see a visual effect of glass from a window pane shattering and breaking away in the midst of a storm. It's very convincing and accomplished with a simple animation/projection (with the strobe/lightning, you can see that the "windows" are actually still intact).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQxX9s-EJFA

 

[rsoxguy]

I hope that this doesn't create a backlash of criticism, but I have always thought that the ending to SE before the triangles were implemented was pleasantly nice. The people communicating, the kids in the classroom, the music, etc., were all a nice ending to a fantastic ride. I really do like the other changes made to the attraction, but I wonder why they felt the need to dismantle the previous descent.

 

[aladdin2007]

I hope that this doesn't create a backlash of criticism, but I have always thought that the ending to SE before the triangles were implemented was pleasantly nice. The people communicating, the kids in the classroom, the music, etc., were all a nice ending to a fantastic ride. I really do like the other changes made to the attraction, but I wonder why they felt the need to dismantle the previous descent.

Yes many of us agree it was all wonderful and is missed. They could have saved alot of money and yet infused the new screens with what was there already. Gutting it and then not finishing it was very poor and tacky.
That kind of thing use to be beneath Disney but TDO doesnt care, or Siemens even though their name is on it.

 

[Horizons1]

Noooo.... the neon letters on the exterior of the building. You know... The Hollywood Tower Hotel?

Oh, haha. I must have spaced out. I thought you were talking about SSE. :lol:

 

[enoe01]

Not to hijack this thread, but Martin do you have video of the sparking letters on the tower?

Thanks,
Erik

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

Potter will be cacking himself