Yesterday was a special lighting ceremony for out Tower of
Terror (Friday the 13th.)
The band you see is called something like the Bellhops.
They played a couple songs to warm up the crowd. Then
Gallagher came out and goofed around for a bit. Sorry - no
watermelons but he did toss out candy and marshmallows.
Why did he do that?
Well, in order to get the Tower to light the screams had to be
loud enough. He wanted us hyped on sugar.
The show started with a 3 person screaming contest in which
we, by applause, voted on the loudest. She then stepped up
to the microphone. The Tower cutout you see in some of the
pics has floor 13 as the highest. If the scream reaches there,
the Tower lights.
She screamed and it went to 4.
So they bring out the Guiness World Record holder. Her scream
went to 7. They screamed together and we got to 9. They
invited the crowd to help and we got to 11.
Then Gallagher tossed out more sugar. The countdown begins
and we let lose our scream and hit 13.
Lightning hits, sparks fly, the sing pops and sizzles -
eventually lighting up.
And of couse the message pops up, Open May 2004. (In case
you are wondering it will be May 5th for public.)
And now the anticipation builds.
I have posted hi-rez photos of the event in alt.binaries.mulimedia.disney. I have also posted reduced images in the Photo Gallery here in WDWMAGIC. Follow this link to the first one. There are 6 images in the series numbered 11 to 16. (That is the proper order)
http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/showphoto.php?photo=7674&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1
RU
Terror (Friday the 13th.)
The band you see is called something like the Bellhops.
They played a couple songs to warm up the crowd. Then
Gallagher came out and goofed around for a bit. Sorry - no
watermelons but he did toss out candy and marshmallows.
Why did he do that?
Well, in order to get the Tower to light the screams had to be
loud enough. He wanted us hyped on sugar.
The show started with a 3 person screaming contest in which
we, by applause, voted on the loudest. She then stepped up
to the microphone. The Tower cutout you see in some of the
pics has floor 13 as the highest. If the scream reaches there,
the Tower lights.
She screamed and it went to 4.
So they bring out the Guiness World Record holder. Her scream
went to 7. They screamed together and we got to 9. They
invited the crowd to help and we got to 11.
Then Gallagher tossed out more sugar. The countdown begins
and we let lose our scream and hit 13.
Lightning hits, sparks fly, the sing pops and sizzles -
eventually lighting up.
And of couse the message pops up, Open May 2004. (In case
you are wondering it will be May 5th for public.)
And now the anticipation builds.
I have posted hi-rez photos of the event in alt.binaries.mulimedia.disney. I have also posted reduced images in the Photo Gallery here in WDWMAGIC. Follow this link to the first one. There are 6 images in the series numbered 11 to 16. (That is the proper order)
http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/showphoto.php?photo=7674&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=1
RU
I taped the show, too, but since I was running out of tape, a lot of it was a "highlights" video... and the guy in front of me decided to put his daughter on his shoulders and then keep moving around, so I had a hard time trying to tape around him.
