Built our own Soarin Ride

[SueM in MN]

Thank you for all of the fantastic replies!

How great it would be to have a bunch of Disney fanatics for neighbors!

We could have house-to-house gatherings with different elements of Disney at each house!

 

[Rella Bella]

I totally agree!!


Thanks for sharing your magic!! What an amazing idea!

 

[Dan Murphy]

The Behind-the-scenes video is now up! Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3At6o90KOI

On a funny sidenote, someone pointed out a completely unplanned Hidden Mickey in the Soarin video re-make. We were shocked as it was completely unplanned...but it's there! I was going to post the location in the video, but it might be fun for people to seee if they can find it....

At 4:19-4:20 on the beach??

 

[gk90]

I see it at 4:20 as well, to the lower right of the screen--the scene right after the beach--is it a field with melting snow?

And congratulations on your effort, some truly breathtaking scenes there! I love the buffalo and the waterfalls.

 

[L107ANGEL]

Wow, just wow!!

 

[JulyGirl]

Oh my goodness!! I can't think of a better way to wind down after a hard day at work!

 

[dreamersempire]

Thanks again for your feedback

And just to confirm, yes, the Hidden Mickey is at 4:20

 

[epcotbob]

I see it at 4:20 as well, to the lower right of the screen--the scene right after the beach--is it a field with melting snow?

And congratulations on your effort, some truly breathtaking scenes there! I love the buffalo and the waterfalls.

Yep! The field with the melting snow.....it's not a perfect Mickey....but darn close!

One element of Soarin we forgot to mention in the videos was the fans. We had 2 small fans suspended above the chair that would turn on at the first fly-over shot, and then turn off at the end.

We talked about adding scents, but didn't have time to figure out to trigger them at the right times.....

 

[dreamersempire]

We were interviewed on this British Disney Podcast and thought some of you might enjoy it. It also has lots of great info from a "UK" perspective

 

[dreamersempire]

A while back we posted our Soarin and Illuminations videos at youtube and really enjoyed the response here and at youtube. We were pleased to be contacted by a Soarin "Pilot" whe said he and other Soarin workers approved our re-creation, and he recently posted this video and I thought it was a great look behind the scenes at those nicely dressed workers who usher us on and off this great ride. Thought some of you might enjoy this!

 

[L107ANGEL]

A while back we posted our Soarin and Illuminations videos at youtube and really enjoyed the response here and at youtube. We were pleased to be contacted by a Soarin "Pilot" whe said he and other Soarin workers approved our re-creation, and he recently posted this video and I thought it was a great look behind the scenes at those nicely dressed workers who usher us on and off this great ride. Thought some of you might enjoy this!

Very cool!

 

[TLinden16]

This type of thread is a better fit on the theme parks community board, so I'm going to move it over there now.

 

[Dan Murphy]

....We were pleased to be contacted by a Soarin "Pilot" whe said he and other Soarin workers approved our re-creation, and he recently posted this video and I thought it was a great look behind the scenes at those nicely dressed workers who usher us on and off this great ride. Thought some of you might enjoy this!

That was really wonderful, dreamersempire. Thanks so much for sharing that video, along with your others. The CM's in that video sure do have that Disney 'look' about themselves. Really enjoyed watching it.

 

[tikkycole]

Dude those recreations are awsome. I really liked illuminations. Great for holliday events.

 

[dreamersempire]

Thanks much for your comments, its appreciated. My brother and I have come up with a concept for next years event, we borrowed some of the concept from Horizons, so if you were an old Horizons fan we think you'll like it

 

[dreamersempire]

The behind the scenes was awesome to watch! The engineering behind your illuminations show is unbelievable! Great job! and thank you for letting us Disers share this Dis moment!

Don't stop now...what other attractions are you brewing up in Minicot?

FWIW - We decided against putting on Minicot this year. As you can probably imagine the time and $$ commitment is pretty big, and we have neither this year. Hope you will enjoy hopping on our 2008 Soarin ride again!

And ofcourse theres our Illuminations and Mexico too

 

[ilovejsparrow]

WOW-- I am so impressed. That's the coolest thing ever.

 

[dreamersempire]

WOW-- I am so impressed. That's the coolest thing ever.

Hey, thanks! It was a lot of fun and a great memory

 

[Amanda_the_awesome]

Great work very creative. It would be interesting to see what else you could do.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Thanks again, and maybe next year!!