Tower of Terror effects status watch

[Disgruntled Walt]

Here's something interesting from Delta in a live stream from yesterday, something with air is on during the full corridor scene, maybe related to the ghostly breeze? That effect did not work on Delta throughout my trips up to March of last year, so I'm not sure if it's still been broken up until this stream, though normally it isn't something you can hear. I know the effect worked in the other 3 shafts.

Wait, what's the ghostly breeze?

 

[Rodj]

Wait, what's the ghostly breeze?

When the ghosts first appear until they disappear, there is a cool breeze you can feel. From my last trip, it seemed the strongest in Bravo.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

When the ghosts first appear until they disappear, there is a cool breeze you can feel. From my last trip, it seemed the strongest in Bravo.

I never once noticed that. I'm not surprised, though, the ride is a masterclass of Imagineering in every way, when it's firing on all cylinders.

 

[Chef Mickey]

I want to say it was around 2009 that the CRTs were swapped out.

I get it, CRTs are not made anymore, but there were solutions all along. They could mock up a fake curved CRT glass screen with a tiny projector behind it. They could at least purchase LCD monitors that shut off the backlight when receiving no signal or a pure black signal (I have an LG LCD TV that does exactly this as long as the settings are correct). Today, OLED monitors are pretty cheap (especially for a mega corporation) and would accurately replicate a CRT. Especially if they added in a CRT scanline effect to the pre-show video.

It's very frustrating how, unlike something like the yeti or the Rise cannons, 90% of Tower of Terror's show quality issues for the last 15 years have just been comparatively cheap A/V fixes and tweaks that they just have not cared to bother with for a very long time. Whoever is in charge of the show quality at Tower of Terror for all of this time should be fired. Recent fixes to long time issues suggest that maybe someone new is in charge.

The problem with OLED is burn in. See Avatar. Looks ridiculous.

They could haves mocked this up with high quality LCD but Disney is lazy, cheap, and doesn’t care.

 

[Tom Morrow]

The problem with OLED is burn in. See Avatar. Looks ridiculous.

They could haves mocked this up with high quality LCD but Disney is lazy, cheap, and doesn’t care.

Burn in isn't really an issue with OLED displays anymore, as they now come with built in tech that prevents it. Even then, the Tower pre-show wouldn't cause burn in as it doesn't have any logo or stationary graphics staying on the screen.

But yeah, they threw likely the cheapest LCD monitors possible in there.

 

[Chef Mickey]

Burn in isn't really an issue with OLED displays anymore, as they now come with built in tech that prevents it. Even then, the Tower pre-show wouldn't cause burn in as it doesn't have any logo or stationary graphics staying on the screen.

But yeah, they threw likely the cheapest LCD monitors possible in there.

Maybe now it’s better, but look at the Avatar show. I don’t think anything needs to be stationary other than the same content playing over and over.

Also, I don’t think they’ve completely eliminated from the technology even in the newest panels. You have to remember the content is played 12-16 hours per day 7 days/week.

 

[VicariousCorpse]

Burn in isn't really an issue with OLED displays anymore, as they now come with built in tech that prevents it. Even then, the Tower pre-show wouldn't cause burn in as it doesn't have any logo or stationary graphics staying on the screen.

But yeah, they threw likely the cheapest LCD monitors possible in there.

Burn in with OLED displays will always be a possibility due to the technology its built with. Pixel refreshers and shifters only help for so long. Due to it being black and white, they would probably last even longer, but it WOULD happen given enough time. Organic materials decay and the areas around it can only compensate for so long before they burn out as well.