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About LinkBacksI read that the hydrolators in the Living Seas don't/didn't actually move anywhere short of two inches. How do/did they achieve this effect of descending if they don't actually move anywhere?
I read that the hydrolators in the Living Seas don't/didn't actually move anywhere short of two inches. How do/did they achieve this effect of descending if they don't actually move anywhere?
My top favorite Disneyland attractions:
1. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Splash Mountain
4. Mad Tea Party
5. Peter Pan's Flight
6. Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
Actually they didn't even move two inches. One time I was "riding" them with my brother. We were the only ones in it and started arguing whether or not it moved at all. He said they didn't. I said they did. After a few back and forth words, he pulled the entrance door open (there are two doors, enter on one side, exit through the opposite side) and said "SEE?!" There I saw the next people waiting to get on, standing right where we had just been. We didn't move at all. He quickly shut the door and then our "descent" ended and the other door opened.
The effect was completely based on a slight vibration to the cabin, and outside the windows were basically elevator-shaft-like patterns on a conveyor belt going round and round, with some air bubble for extra effect, to make it look like you were indeed going down.
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How do they do the air bubbles?Originally Posted by Pizzapants
My top favorite Disneyland attractions:
1. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Splash Mountain
4. Mad Tea Party
5. Peter Pan's Flight
6. Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin
With air, in water. More than likely a very thin tank between two thin panes of glass outside each window. Hose at bottom with tiny holes, allow small bubbles out that rise slowly through the thin tank while conveyor belt of texture rotates behind that. Lighting from above.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. mycroft16 on Twitter
What really threw off the effect was that not all of the special effect windows moved at the same speeds. It was convincing I you stared at one, but if you stepped back and got two or more into your view, it was game over.
That is so funny! I did the same exact thing to my little brother! I wonder if he remembers it...?
He felt like his life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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He's in therapy because of it.
That would've sucked if I was wrong...
So, the OP has been answered, are we just taking over this thread now?
Seems that way. Good story on how it worked though... Made me laugh maniacally.
Yeah could you imagine if you were wrong and when you opened the doors, all the water came rushing in and the chamber decompressed and we all drowned and/or imploded from the water and pressure change? Craziness.
i think i would be more then a little concerned if a kid could open a highly pressurized chamber deep in the ocean on an underwater elevator designed to keep millions of people a year safe while traveling to an aquatic sea base. wheres a hydrolator mechanic when you need one!
Just to put a(n unnecessary) fine point on it...
It wasn't that the cabin vibrated, per se. It was mainly the floor. Once the ride "started", the floor would drop a half-inch and shake back-and-forth slightly.
People from Idaho/Utah... they like to high jack things all the time!
And the fact that there was a half inch drop and the swaying made it feel real.
Near the end of the life of the Living Seas, at the exit I used to open the Hydrolator doors on the exit side, and just walk out, because I was "too cool" to wait.
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I really loved that effect. I knew from the first visit that it wasn't really dropping. But the illusion, the show, was so integral to the whole entry of the pavilion that you really did feel like you were somewhere other than at surface level. Every once in a while, when either the ride or the hydrolators were broken, they'd have you enter through the exit doors, which completely ruined the illusion. Call it a willing suspension of disbelief, but I miss them ol' hydrolators!
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