Walls Now Up for Little Mermaid-Ariel''s Undersea Adventure

TP2000

TP2000

Well-Known Member
^^^ The whole thing just looks fabulous, doesn't it sponono88?!? They poured on the custom details all over this facility. :sohappy:
 
hpyhnt 1000

hpyhnt 1000

Well-Known Member
TP2000 said:
IMG9998-L.jpg


So close, and yet so far! :lol:
Click to expand...

Please tell me those black things aren't speakers. With all the custom details covering the building I'd like to think they could have made the speakers blend in better.

That said, the building looks amazing. The many details are a great touch and the lighting is stunning. :)
 
TP2000

TP2000

Well-Known Member
hpyhnt 1000 said:
Please tell me those black things aren't speakers. With all the custom details covering the building I'd like to think they could have made the speakers blend in better.
Click to expand...

WDI generally puts decorative grills or boxes over speakers like that. There's still some stuff on the exterior that hasn't been installed, or fixtures that haven't been turned on yet. It's all about at the 98% level now; close, but not quite completely done.
 
dweezil78

dweezil78

Well-Known Member
Awesome, thanks! Just realized the DL.com website was no longer associating my account w/ my AP pass so I wasn't getting those emails. Said it had expired even though I know I re-entered it earlier this year after renewing... grrrr! At least now I know though. :)
 
mimitchi33

mimitchi33

Well-Known Member
I'm so excited to ride this ride when it comes out (in Florida, that is!). Or maybe I could ask if we could go to Disneyland for summer vacation to ride this! I only went once to Disneyland in 2003 and remember eating at the Little Mermaid restaurant. Does anyone know if it closed and would move closer to the ride, or was the ride built near the Little Mermaid restaurant?
 
Disneyfanman

Disneyfanman

Well-Known Member
The restaurant is still there, and is located directly across the lagoon. I don't know of any plans to move it. It's about a 5 minute walk around the lagoon to get to the ride.
 
nemofinder22

nemofinder22

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
[youtube]qEib1uTem94[/youtube]

Jodi Benson(Ariel) and Pat Carroll(Ursula) take a ride of The Little Mermaid-Ariel's Undersea Adventure.
 
sponono88

sponono88

Well-Known Member
Al Lutz is reporting that a few changes are coming to TLM at California Adventure this Spring:

The most noticeable change coming to the Mermaid ride will be a complete rework of the Ariel animatronic figure that appears in the big Under The Sea production number. Her swirling bouffant hairdo in that scene never quite looks right, and the hair on that figure will be changed for a more flowing version similar to the animated ‘do she sports at the beginning of the ride. Luckily for Imagineering there was an extra animatronic figure available that was slated to be used in the Florida version of the attraction, and they will instead send that figure to Anaheim after it receives its new look and reworked hairdo. A third version of that figure will then be created for the Florida version, based on the new look now headed to DCA.

Another change has been dictated by John Lasseter and several other artists from Disney’s animation studio in Burbank, and that’s the computer-generated projections of Ariel seen in the digital screens placed in the rocks at both the down-ramp and up-ramp in the ride. Lasseter has decreed that the computer animation created for the ride should be scrapped in place of new hand-drawn versions of that track-side animation. The computer version of Ariel getting her legs will soon be replaced with footage that more closely matches the hand-drawn look of the film from 1989. The Imagineers, prodded on by Lasseter and funded by TDA, are also planning to swap out some of the foliage, props and smaller sea creatures in the ride that don’t quite look right or that come across as looking two-dimensional. Most of those changes coming to the DCA version this spring will also make it into the nearly identical Florida version of the attraction that opens in late 2012.

[..]

While it’s unusual for Disney to go in and make major changes like these to a new attraction, it’s a good example of just how important TDA and Burbank view this summer’s re-launch of DCA. The plan we’d told you about last year, dubbed Project Sparkle, is moving full steam ahead to make sure nearly every remaining DCA facility from 2001 has had a full refresh and refurbishment before the big party this June.
Click to expand...

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al011712a.htm
 
nemofinder22

nemofinder22

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
The Little Mermaid- Ariel's Undersea Adventure has shown up on the refurbishment list being closed on April 30 through May 3.

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al040312a.htm
There’s other good news arriving even earlier this spring, as the Little Mermaid ride is now scheduled to close for rehab for the first week of May. John Lasseter has bought off on the plans to rework some of the weak links in the ride (he doesn’t just care about Anaheim’s Pixar rides), and the updated attraction should open by Saturday, May 5th. As we noted before, new hand-drawn animation of Ariel is coming to the projection screens near the beginning and end of the ride, and the computer animation has now been scrapped for the Florida version as well. Additional projection bubble effects are being added in the descent and ascent tunnels, and reworked lighting and additional props are being added to the Under The Sea and Kiss The Girl scenes. And, most noticeably, a new animatronic hairdo will be installed on the swimming Ariel figure in the middle of the ride, erasing her similarity to a Soft-Serve ice cream cone.
Click to expand...
 

Register on WDWMAGIC. This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.

Back
Top Bottom