in Disneyland Paris - The Grand Canyon comes right AFTER the Main Street station before you reach Frontierland.
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in Disneyland Paris - The Grand Canyon comes right AFTER the Main Street station before you reach Frontierland.
We can't help it that they goofed up so badly because Walt wasn't around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prof. Emelius
That's fine, but like Steve said above the diorama at Disneyland was placed as a finale for the DLRR. Paris is entirely different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prof. Emelius
Why are some people griping that the Grand Canyon is not futuristic? Barring some major global catastrophe I would expect the Grand Canyon to look pretty much the same for hundreds if not many thousands of years into the future. Just use your imagination a bit and pretend you have traveled to the Grand Canyon in the year 2374 or whatever year you would like it to be. I assure you the Grand Canyon will look the same then as it does now.
If you really want to be a stickler about it, maybe they could project spaceships flying around in the painted sky on the back wall. But other than that I don't think the Grand Canyon will look that much different at all.
The passage of time is not something to be taken lightly. The T-Rex lived roughly 65 million years ago. The Earth’s surface looked much different back then. The Western North American continent was an island continent known as Laramidia and was separated from the rest of the US by the Western Interior Sea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prof. Emelius
By comparison, the Colorado River Basin was only formed about 40 million years ago and the river is thought to have begun carving the Grand Canyon itself about 17 million years ago.
Therefore, the area would be completely unrecognizable during the time of the dinosaurs as depicted in the Primeval World Diorama.
They don't need any of that since it isn't part of Tomorrowland.Quote:
Originally Posted by DisneyIPresume
Love the music! last year I noticed the same music in 'A Christmas Story'.
I love this whole scene , being from Az, my family always got a kick out of 'The Grand Canyon'. I still find this funny and love this part of the train, being inside a tunnel for more than a few moments,and hearing and feeling the train move is a wonderful feeling!
And I learned from futurama you have to go into the future to get back to the past.....so it fits!
I still like it no matter what, no i really don't think it needs to be taken out
In the end, this is really what it is all about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poisonedapples
--thanks calsig.. :)
Was the Grand Canyon Diorama part of the World's Fair? I thought it was original to Disneyland. It's the Primeval World that was at the Fair, and even then, this is an "original" installation using the same figures - it wasn't set up this way at the Fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malina
As for the topic at hand... I enjoy the dioramas just because it is a 2-minute trip back to the Disneyland I used to see on Sunday nights on TV when I was a kid. Disneyland isn't a museum, but it *is* a place of nostalgia.
If anything they should make the Grand Canyon/Primeval World dioramas more immersive. Have stuff on both sides of the train, lose the glass, better sound, up-to-date special effects, etc. It would be awesome.
Christopher Nolan agrees with you. None of his Batman flicks were in 3D, no matter how much the studio wanted them that way. However. all three films featured sequences shot in IMAX.Quote:
Originally Posted by explodingboy
Okay, back to the thread.
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This is really cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve DeGaetano
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I wouldn't change the diorama at all. But they should make the dinos more like what we know now about them. For example, the brontosaurus never really existed. Believe it or not, a paleontologist combined the skull of one dino with the neck of another and called it "brontosaurus"", which is Latin for "thunder lizard." Also, the animal never lived in swamps, but in dry floodplains. (See this article: www.unmuseum.org/dinobront.htm .) The dinosaurs seen in the opening section Of Universe of Energy at Epcot are much more correct. God, I love GOOGLE!
Science lesson over. Thanks for your patience.
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Originally Posted by PiecesOfEight
OKAY see now your talking .... not MORE special effects, but they should of put it on both sides of the train yes, and no glass yes i agree...the sound is fine i think..but this is a part of Disneyland that should never ever ever ever go away or get taken out.ever. i really can't even believe someone suggested it
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Originally Posted by PiecesOfEight
Losing the glass would be very bad for the taxidermy-treated animals in the diorama.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poisonedapples
there's a problem with having dioramas on both sides of the tunnel though - I can't remember which one, but one of the trains' cars has the seating facing to the side rather than the front and you wouldn't be able to see anything on the other side of the tunnel if anything was placed there (unless you turned around in your seat). Unless the cars had their seating reformatted, which I imagine people wouldn't want to do (for the sake of keeping them in their original state).
As for the dioramas, I absolutely love them. It's always been tradition in my family to do a round trip tour on the train as our first activity in the park, and we love the dioramas (the Primeval World being my favorite, loving dinosaurs since I was a kid). I would be really bummed out to see either one of them go.