Honestly, I hemmed and hawed about touching upon this subject, but, over the last three days it became clearer and clearer that I just HAD to put my thoughts down on paper…err…SubStack.
Bob, yes there are some “reaches” in TGMR. I agree whole heartedly. It just strikes me that the effort for that attraction seemed to have had better success than this one.
It appears that the animatronic itself has incredible movement and sophistication. The only thing I can imagine is that the machinery to make the face and head move with such nuance required more equipment that a narrower head could accommodate? Hard to tell.
John the same thought occurred to me as well. One would hope they would have done enough research to determine whether or not this undertaking was viable.
Yeah - I was kind of looking forward to this, but they really struggle with some visages we know particularly well. I don't think they do great with the hall of presidents, and I disagree with your evaluation of the great movie ride. While it was a great ride, many of the sculpts did not look convincing to me. Some of it may have to do with watching it for 3 minutes - perhaps if it was only 20 seconds (or less, as on TGMR) we would be able to be more forgiving.
Bob, yes there are some “reaches” in TGMR. I agree whole heartedly. It just strikes me that the effort for that attraction seemed to have had better success than this one.
Because we needed Blaine Gibson on this job!
It appears that the animatronic itself has incredible movement and sophistication. The only thing I can imagine is that the machinery to make the face and head move with such nuance required more equipment that a narrower head could accommodate? Hard to tell.
John the same thought occurred to me as well. One would hope they would have done enough research to determine whether or not this undertaking was viable.
Yeah - I was kind of looking forward to this, but they really struggle with some visages we know particularly well. I don't think they do great with the hall of presidents, and I disagree with your evaluation of the great movie ride. While it was a great ride, many of the sculpts did not look convincing to me. Some of it may have to do with watching it for 3 minutes - perhaps if it was only 20 seconds (or less, as on TGMR) we would be able to be more forgiving.