Mice At Work Podcast : Episode #9
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Hey Fans! After a long delat, here is Mice At Work Podcast’s 9th Episode! In it, we talk mainly about Captain EO and Alice in Wonderland. Please excuse us for the quality of the audio, as we are working fast to figure out ways to improve it! THANK YOU for listening to Mice At Work Podcast!
On topic from beginning to end! I like the new format of putting the facts first THEN commenting afterward. So long as everyone isn't talking over each other, I will give a big thumbs up to this format (thumbs down to the lousy audio though. Had my fingers on the volume knob the entire time). Funny that Ian isn't present for this one. Having trouble pinning him down, hmmm? The show must go on!
I have seen Captain Eo at least a couple of hundred times when it was originally playing. I thoroughly miss the in-theater effects! The lasers (often syncronized to the music), the fog effects, and the starfield are sorely missed as Disney did a really cheap job in bringing this back. I think they did it grudgingly and really dropped the ball. I appreciate that the film itself has returned, but it is hardly the pristine, restored, remastered print that Disney had been teasing us with. I'm thinking it's just a new transfer made from a vintage print. I am horrified at how dated the print looks while at the same time thrilled to have it back...in a so-so presentation. Hell, the theater was BUILT for Captain Eo, to say that they were not able to bring back the effects is disingenuous to the guests. Prices just went up, they can afford to put the effects back into the theater. All we have now is a shaky floor. That attraction was "down" for almost 2 months between the closing of HISTA and the opening of Eo. Not sure just what they were doing in there during that time but the end result is less than satisfying to me. It's effects going back into a room that was built to house them, and Disney says they couldn't do it. I'm calling shenanigans!
Stupid is as stupid does! The idiot who fell off the railing on ToT should be slapped. If his act of stupidity means that Disney has to child-proof their queue, I will personally hunt down this moron and lobotomize him with a pixie stick! I am getting pretty steamed at attractions being overly "safety-fied". it just seems that DLR is having these issues. I never see rides at Knott's or Magic Mountain (which are infinitely more risky) getting the idiot-proofing treatment.
I'm speaking of Alice. To dummy-proof the outside clovers screams of an organization (Cal/Osha) needing to find SOMETHING in order to justify their existence. There should be some sort of grandfather clause that Alice could have fallen under. The "fix" has destroyed the outside asthetics of the attraction and ruined one of it's best sections. If their afraid that workers are going to go stepping off the edges of those clovers, then there needs to be a strap that can be attached to the track that only lets them get to the edge before going taught. It works for skyscraper window washers. Are people really that stupid? I have no sympathy for someone who must be protected from themselves. That just puts the responsibility on someone else to look out for them. Everyone's a victim (or a "victim in waiting").
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