Tower of Terror debuts new on-board video souvenir with Memory Maker and MagicBands

[BoarderPhreak]

<sarcasm> Oh boy! </sarcasm>

 

[WDWFantasmicFan]

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/bl...r-of-terror-drop-at-walt-disney-world-resort/

 

[Tom Morrow]

So do you get that whole sequence customized for you? Or just your footage?

The lights don't bother me, because from a distance at night you can't normally tell if an elevator is up there, but now you know, "they're about to drop"

Last year it was worse when you rode. Doors open and bang! Not sunlight - LED lighting panels, scaffold bars and cabling. Nighttime was even worse. Hardly 1939.

Hopefully it's still a work in progress.

As far as I can tell, there's an additional camera and the light panels, but doesn't look much more cluttered than it always did.
(I prefer DCA's ToT's view, where the sign does not block your view)

 

[WDWFantasmicFan]

So do you get that whole sequence customized for you? Or just your footage?

The lights don't bother me, because from a distance at night you can't normally tell if an elevator is up there, but now you know, "they're about to drop"

By the looks of the video posted by Disney Blog, along with the fact that it can take up to 24hrs to upload, I would hope for a full customised sequence...

 

[cbettua]

I think this is pretty cool and I already got the memory maker so it adds some value for me

 

[wdwmagic]

By the looks of the video posted by Disney Blog, along with the fact that it can take up to 24hrs to upload, I would hope for a full customised sequence...

The 24 hours is to screen the video for inappropriate activity. It won't be individually customized. It is an automated system that inserts the video into the predetermined clips.

Remember, they are doing this for potentially EVERY single ride through the attraction. Absolutely no way it could be individually customized.

 

[Tom Morrow]

It is an automated system that inserts the video into the predetermined clips.

That's what I was wondering about, if you get the whole introduction as seen in that example video, or just your on ride footage and nothing more. But that answers my question.

 

[WDWFantasmicFan]

That's what I was wondering about, if you get the whole introduction as seen in that example video, or just your on ride footage and nothing more. But that answers my question.

The 24 hours is to screen the video for inappropriate activity. It won't be individually customized. It is an automated system that inserts the video into the predetermined clips.

Remember, they are doing this for potentially EVERY single ride through the attraction. Absolutely no way it could be individually customized.

That's what I was meaning by the full sequence - if we would get the whole lot, not just the clip. The 24 hours thing makes more sense now - does someone have to individually watch each clip for screening, or is it automated??

 

[RSoxNo1]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Memory Maker is one of the better options to come out of Next Gen.

 

[dreamfinder912]

My family and I have often wondered how many family photos and videos we are in the background of, but something about an onride video is just...creepy to me. I just wanna enjoy the ride, not worry about what my body does or what my face looks like etc etc.

 

[Tom Morrow]

purchasable on-ride videos have existed for a while now at other parks. What makes this one a little weird, though, is that 21 people are in your video, instead of the usual 2 or 4.

 

[JungleTrekFan]

At least with the regular PhotoPass pictures, 24 hours is their safety window on the longest it should take pictures to show up. I've had them come over in as little as an hour. From my understanding there are really two separate PhotoPass systems, one in park, and one in a remote data center that handles the online portion. So accounting for time for pictures to be spot checked for profanities/add magic shots (We call that area of the department QA), and then having delays from the replication from the local system to the remote system, it could take a while.

Exactly. Plus each photographer’s photos are sent via the wifi from their camera’s PDAs to the QA server. So wifi strength or issues can account for untimely uploaded photos.

So, this is my question as well, as I was considering getting Attractions+ for my next trip and a video feature might tip the scale to the "buying" column.

Strictly Memory Maker with a magic band, otherwise it will not automatically associate to your account, and currently that is the only way it will be seen.

That's what I was meaning by the full sequence - if we would get the whole lot, not just the clip. The 24 hours thing makes more sense now - does someone have to individually watch each clip for screening, or is it automated??

The video given out is the exact same type of video you saw on the blog, where it has the intro and two parts with your whole car is being captured in video. As for moderating the answer is both, the QA system has a lot of auto moderation with some specific things that are done by cast members in that area.

Expect things like this to come to HM and 7Dwarfs, as well as magic shot videos from Photopass, in the future.

 

[dreamfinder912]

purchasable on-ride videos have existed for a while now at other parks. What makes this one a little weird, though, is that 21 people are in your video, instead of the usual 2 or 4.

Oh I know on-ride videos have been around, I have a magnificent gem of myself on Rip Ride Rockit at Universal. It's the fact that this isn't just a quick photo that I'm in, it's the entire ride. You can combat the "aw crap I'm in a stranger's photo on this ride" with one quick, silly face. But the length of the ride?

 

[ABQ]

Oh I know on-ride videos have been around, I have a magnificent gem of myself on Rip Ride Rockit at Universal. It's the fact that this isn't just a quick photo that I'm in, it's the entire ride. You can combat the "aw crap I'm in a stranger's photo on this ride" with one quick, silly face. But the length of the ride?

Time to put the ol' "video bomb" face on for the entire ride now. Ugh.

 

[xdan0920]

Just three quick points on this from me.

• I don't like like the light. It looks real bad from the ground.
• Who on earth needs a video of themselves on ToT? What do you do with this video after you have watched it once?
• The big one for me....I don't like the idea of a stranger having a video of me. If I was a well endowed female, I would like it significantly less.

 

[boufa]

Just three quick points on this from me.

• I don't like like the light. It looks real bad from the ground.
• Who on earth needs a video of themselves on ToT? What do you do with this video after you have watched it once?
• The big one for me....I don't like the idea of a stranger having a video of me. If I was a well endowed female, I would like it significantly less.

- 1) Yup, the light looks bad, but might be easier to ignore with time. If a regular elevator were to open up to the outdoors, it would be lit, and there would be a flash of light to the outdoors too... maybe, ok its a stretch.
- 2) Each to their own, don't want it delete it. This isn't a valid argument against
- 3) The big one for me too.. PRIVACY.. Guess what YOU DON"T HAVE ANY AT DISNEY, and only a fool thinks that they do.

First whats so important about your privacy? Its your image, not your checking account number! At MK you are there with anywhere from 20,000-75,000 people each day. Guess what... you are in a lot of photos with strangers, and there are a lot of photos of strangers in your photos. Go ahead and look, I'll wait.......... see, lots of people. Murderers, criminals, bankers, teachers, etc... every walk of life. Having them in your photo doesn't change them in the slightest, so why would being in their photo make 1 tiny little difference in your life.... and as for the well endowed part... that makes even less sense. Most of those thousands of people in the parks look at you and see you, and move right on with their lives never really having noticed. I would imagine that I might even have a photo of you, or another member of this forum, and not even know it. Who knows, and why does it matter.

When you voluntarily PAY to enter PRIVATE PROPERTY with tens of thousands of other people, you should have absolutely zero expectation of privacy.. at least photographically. (Sure bathrooms, account numbers, etc are a logical expectation everywhere you go).

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

 

[xdan0920]

- 1) Yup, the light looks bad, but might be easier to ignore with time. If a regular elevator were to open up to the outdoors, it would be lit, and there would be a flash of light to the outdoors too... maybe, ok its a stretch.
- 2) Each to their own, don't want it delete it. This isn't a valid argument against
- 3) The big one for me too.. PRIVACY.. Guess what YOU DON"T HAVE ANY AT DISNEY, and only a fool thinks that they do.

First whats so important about your privacy? Its your image, not your checking account number! At MK you are there with anywhere from 20,000-75,000 people each day. Guess what... you are in a lot of photos with strangers, and there are a lot of photos of strangers in your photos. Go ahead and look, I'll wait.......... see, lots of people. Murderers, criminals, bankers, teachers, etc... every walk of life. Having them in your photo doesn't change them in the slightest, so why would being in their photo make 1 tiny little difference in your life.... and as for the well endowed part... that makes even less sense. Most of those thousands of people in the parks look at you and see you, and move right on with their lives never really having noticed. I would imagine that I might even have a photo of you, or another member of this forum, and not even know it. Who knows, and why does it matter.

When you voluntarily PAY to enter PRIVATE PROPERTY with tens of thousands of other people, you should have absolutely zero expectation of privacy.. at least photographically. (Sure bathrooms, account numbers, etc are a logical expectation everywhere you go).

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Well, to your big point, you are right. In a public place, there is no expectation of privacy. Thems the breaks. That's how Disney is able to do this at all. I know I am in the background of literally thousands of other peoples pictures, videos, whatever. Just going about my daily business. I see this differently though.

Now I am on a ride vehicle, doing very abnormal things. For example, and my comment about well endowed comes in here, bouncing up and down. And it's not just some silly still frame picture, it's an entire account of my actions for the duration of the drop sequence. And it's provided by Disney, to people I don't know. I don't like it. At all. And it is definitely going to have a very negative impact on my on-ride enjoyment. Not cool, IMO.

 

[boufa]

O.k... I see your point on the well endowed comment. However you must not have seen the video. As on ride experiences goes, it kinda sucks. You are proof that one would think it is a camera mounted on the ride vehicle and you get to see everything jiggle, and heads bounce, and hair fly as you go up and down the ride. That might be what it should be... it definitely isn't what it is.

It is a stationary camera, at the top, and it simply shows you there, and then the ride vehicle falls out of frame. It is barely more than a still photo in this case. I'll see if I can find the one posted to you tube. Its a nice product, about 35 seconds long, but 30+ second of it are stock video, spliced between 2 very short pieces of your ride vehicle. (one rolling down the hall, and the drop I mentioned)

 

[cbettua]

Well, to your big point, you are right. In a public place, there is no expectation of privacy. Thems the breaks. That's how Disney is able to do this at all. I know I am in the background of literally thousands of other peoples pictures, videos, whatever. Just going about my daily business. I see this differently though.

Now I am on a ride vehicle, doing very abnormal things. For example, and my comment about well endowed comes in here, bouncing up and down. And it's not just some silly still frame picture, it's an entire account of my actions for the duration of the drop sequence. And it's provided by Disney, to people I don't know. I don't like it. At all. And it is definitely going to have a very negative impact on my on-ride enjoyment. Not cool, IMO.

Did you look at the video, It only appeared to be the first drop. The video didn't record the whole drop. So I don't know where you get the up and down and up and down thing from? I have decent size tits and it doesn't bother me the slightest if they jiggle on video.

 

[boufa]

(official posted by Disney)

(posted by some other disney blog)

Compare the 2 and you can easily see where the stock footage is most of the video. Actually as a purchase it would be a rip off... as an add in to an existing package, its o.k.