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Utilidor Tours?
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Tom
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Texas84 said:Best part of the tour was coming out of the utilidor and on to Main Street! Since this was a special geek convention tour, they took us to the central computer room door, but didn't let us in!
I took Backstage Magic a few years ago, and our guide took us in DACS. We looked around at the servers, and then at the comparison of the old tape-bin that originally ran CBJ, and the new computer sitting next to it. Then we went into Parade Control to witness the start of the 3:00 parade (I think this was sometime around 3:00pm, but I didn't look at my watch).
We headed up just in time to see the end of the parade by the Train Station - and he pointed out all the windows that closed over speakers at the end, and the light towers (if necessary), and how all the CMs bascially had the parade route cleared once the last float passes - seamlessly. All quite impressive, but things you never notice when just being a "normal" guest - quite intentionally, obviously.
I would recommend the BSM tour to anyone with $200 and 8 hours to drop. You see EPCOT, MK and MGM - with a great lunch, breaks, and looks inside attractions. KTK is awesome too, but focuses solely on the MK.
WDWRLD
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Everybody on KTK goes right up to the door to the DAK or "computer room" but you dont get it. Ive never been on BSM so I dont know about that one. If I remember correctly you go into the "tunnle" stairway between Tinks treasures and philharmagic, go down the stairs, and as soon as you get to the bottom of the stairs the door to the DAKs are to the left. But I cant remember for sure since its been a few years.Texas84 said:Best part of the tour was coming out of the utilidor and on to Main Street! Since this was a special geek convention tour, they took us to the central computer room door, but didn't let us in!
Enderikari
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Brian Skinner said:
We didn't... I asked our guide about this and it seems that due a plethora of reasons, some due to security(a bulk of it) and some due to CM complaints (mainly Entertainment) the tour can no longer go near DACS.
PintoColvig
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Brian Skinner said:
Not everybody. On my KTK tour in July, the closest we got to it was riding HM.
tirian
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Disney protects DACS like they protect their character integrity. I was wondering how so many people could claim to have "seen" it; then I realized that you meant that you saw the door. 
I have never been in there, but when I started working at Disney as an AI, my roommate got to go into DACS and described it to me in great detail...
...but I still want to see it for myself!
p.s. If your tourguide brings you down a Fantasyland staircase near Tinkerbell's Treasures, you will see a small, caged-in area that has a lot of computer equipment in it; but that's not DACS.
I have never been in there, but when I started working at Disney as an AI, my roommate got to go into DACS and described it to me in great detail...
...but I still want to see it for myself!
p.s. If your tourguide brings you down a Fantasyland staircase near Tinkerbell's Treasures, you will see a small, caged-in area that has a lot of computer equipment in it; but that's not DACS.
WDWRLD
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The room im talking about that I thought was near FL had 2 double doors with that wire embeded in the glass. It also I think had somethimg painted either on the glass of the door or above the door,it was some kind of logo but I cant remember for sure. We were allowed a few at a time to go up to the glass and look in, the room was very clean looking with white floors and no extra clutter. It had rows and rows of thease DACS as we were told that looked like large filing cabinets.
Tom
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tirian said:Disney protects DACS like they protect their character integrity. I was wondering how so many people could claim to have "seen" it; then I realized that you meant that you saw the door.
I have never been in there, but when I started working at Disney as an AI, my roommate got to go into DACS and described it to me in great detail...
...but I still want to see it for myself!
p.s. If your tourguide brings you down a Fantasyland staircase near Tinkerbell's Treasures, you will see a small, caged-in area that has a lot of computer equipment in it; but that's not DACS.
Our guide mentioned that the BSM tours didn't commonly go in there, nor did any tour for that matter - but he had access, and decided to use it. I'm not really sure what kind of "access" he had, but it worked. Our group, of about 8, went right in. We walked up a small ramp to the door, since the entire room is built on a Computer Room floor (an elevated floor made of removable panels so that you can access the miles of wire under the floor). It was row upon row of computer cabinets (the ones you've seen on the Travel Channel shows, where the guy plays the howling dog from the HM).
You walk past all of that and there is a little room with windows looking into it, where they run the parades. He showed us one of the pucks that track the floats, and we watched the start of the parade on the monitors - and saw the computer track the location of each float. It was amazing. I would have paid the price of admission just to hang out in there ALL DAY!
It's a bummer that you can't see it anymore - but I guess these are the times we live in now....*sigh*
Kwit35
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We did BSM about a year ago. We made the reservations a few weeks in advance. It was AWESOME. The utiladores (sp?) were boring as would most halls be. One of the coolest things was going behind and under the American Adventure. Very cool to see the hydrolics, computers, autioanimitronics (sp?)...makonyy15 said: