DisneySteamTrainFan1996
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2016
I'll admit I've been in love with Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress since I was a kid. Now that I've grown older, I find some things that stand out to me more than the others. For intance, the curtains in the unload theater, do they ever close? or are they always open? And what about that VR game in act IV? Who did that as that looks pretty incredible and is it a real game? Was it Nintendo who did that? Sega? Or did disney do those graphics themselves? and is it broadcast to the TV with a DVD/bluray player? or is it a live feed from a media server? and what about that panel on the left hand side wall in every theater? What is that for? are those auxiallary controls? Status lights? Maintenance? And WHO re-composed the wonderful varaitions for each scene like thebanjo for the Loading Theater and first act and then the synth driven variations in act 4 and the unload theater (I love that version! Wish someone could send me some audio of the whole thing from start to finish because all the soundtracks from the ride have it from "man has a dream" and then some on ride videos have it from "Is just a dream awaaaaayyyyy!")? Whoever did so deserves a medal and some big recognition because of how catchy they all are (mainly the last 2 though, the others not so much lol 
). and what about the music that plays during loading, unloading, the intro, and the conclusion? Who composed those pieces (not the song itself, i know that was the sherman brothers)? and what orchestra performed it? Is there a sheet music of those pieces available (not that i'd play them or anything, but just curious! And how about that incredible voice cast? WHO decided on that? I mean Jean shepherd (R.I.P.), BJ Ward, Janet waldo (R.I.P. as of recently 
), basically an allstar cast (It's funny that walt had hired Mel Blanc because since he did looney tunes, he was in someway the competition lol, but he's still incredible)! And that script? It's fit for the comedian of the house, mr Shepherd (I especially love the "ain't she a knock out? she's the star of the worl'ds fair in st. louis and *ahem* now you put that away before your mother finds it!" it's like he doesn't want sarah to know that he's possibly oogling another girl LOL JK 
)! Who wrote that script? He/she is a comedic genius! And what about the motor underneath the theaters? Is that the same make and model as the one from the world's fair and or disneyland carousel building? and that oven, is that a real one that was modified for the show (i.e. the display would change to 375 degrees when the father told it to do so) or was that something disney made themselves?
I DO know though (at least i think so) that the dog's breed is a schnauzer (or a saint bernard and schnauzer mix
) and that the tv was updated in '09 or '10 to match the current technology as well as the ballet/boxing scene is run from a projector to the tv, the animatronic father does move during the black out, the light show was changed in '13 (i think) to have the lights change color (now it's multi color) on the curtain insead of the blue lights that went on and of around it (still happens, just not on the center) and that the logo's light show is now all different colors instead of the growing blue light and occasional solid green light over the red spotlight (hard to describe it visually, it's something you have to see to understand), the vacuum in act II has an ad of it for sale on ebay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920s-antiq...LIANCE-Art-Deco-Junior-Model-AD-/321839734880), and a few other things. I do appologize for the long post, I just thought it would be nice to share my thoughts for once and see if people could answer them. Now rember, There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, just a dream away
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). and what about the music that plays during loading, unloading, the intro, and the conclusion? Who composed those pieces (not the song itself, i know that was the sherman brothers)? and what orchestra performed it? Is there a sheet music of those pieces available (not that i'd play them or anything, but just curious! And how about that incredible voice cast? WHO decided on that? I mean Jean shepherd (R.I.P.), BJ Ward, Janet waldo (R.I.P. as of recently ), basically an allstar cast (It's funny that walt had hired Mel Blanc because since he did looney tunes, he was in someway the competition lol, but he's still incredible)! And that script? It's fit for the comedian of the house, mr Shepherd (I especially love the "ain't she a knock out? she's the star of the worl'ds fair in st. louis and *ahem* now you put that away before your mother finds it!" it's like he doesn't want sarah to know that he's possibly oogling another girl LOL JK )! Who wrote that script? He/she is a comedic genius! And what about the motor underneath the theaters? Is that the same make and model as the one from the world's fair and or disneyland carousel building? and that oven, is that a real one that was modified for the show (i.e. the display would change to 375 degrees when the father told it to do so) or was that something disney made themselves?I DO know though (at least i think so) that the dog's breed is a schnauzer (or a saint bernard and schnauzer mix
) and that the tv was updated in '09 or '10 to match the current technology as well as the ballet/boxing scene is run from a projector to the tv, the animatronic father does move during the black out, the light show was changed in '13 (i think) to have the lights change color (now it's multi color) on the curtain insead of the blue lights that went on and of around it (still happens, just not on the center) and that the logo's light show is now all different colors instead of the growing blue light and occasional solid green light over the red spotlight (hard to describe it visually, it's something you have to see to understand), the vacuum in act II has an ad of it for sale on ebay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920s-antiq...LIANCE-Art-Deco-Junior-Model-AD-/321839734880), and a few other things. I do appologize for the long post, I just thought it would be nice to share my thoughts for once and see if people could answer them. Now rember, There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, just a dream away.
