Crazy EPCOT Lights Question

[Disney Spaz]

My DH wanted to know if anyone knew how or where EPCOT got the lights that are in the ground near Innoventions that change color and have different designs.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

It is Disney Magic. (Actually, it is something from Imagineering, and they won't tell.)

 

[BroadwayGirl]

Do you mean the "Pixie Dust Refueling Stations?"

Easy...Tinkerbell and the other Fairies hang out in caverns beneath the stones and keep tossing out bunches of Pixie Dust for the guests to absorb through the pavement.

 

[thepianoman]

The lights in the ground are produced via fiber optic cables embedded in the concrete. A light source shines into the other end of the bundled fibers -- this is the light that you see. There is often (as in Epcot) a rotating color wheel in between the light source and the fibers to produce various color-changing/chasing effects.

 

[BroadwayGirl]

The lights in the ground are produced via fiber optic cables embedded in the concrete. A light source shines into the other end of the bundled fibers -- this is the light that you see. There is often (as in Epcot) a rotating color wheel in between the light source and the fibers to produce various color-changing/chasing effects.

Yeah right...this is SOOOO much more believable than Pixie Dust.

 

[ms.yt]

I've seen a website before that sells fiber optic stepping stones. They didn't look as cool as the Epcot ones, of course. But they were still pretty neat. I don't remember the name of the site, but I think I found it by searching for fiber optic stepping stones.

 

[Robo]

I've seen a website before that sells fiber optic stepping stones. They didn't look as cool as the Epcot ones, of course. But they were still pretty neat. I don't remember the name of the site, but I think I found it by searching for fiber optic stepping stones.

http://www.crownhill.com/products/landscape/starstones/index.shtml

http://www.starstones.com/

http://www.improvementscatalog.com/home/improvements/index60.html

 

[Disney Spaz]

Wow thanks you guys for all the help. DD loved the lights when we were there in Nov so DH is trying to recreate it for her.

 

[bret]

I saw those lights years ago (back when there were only white lights) and thought it was one of the coolest things. I wanted to do something similar. I hope to this year create a paito with fiber optic lights. I have made a proto type of a 1' x 1' x 1" paito block. I tried to make a mickey head but some of the fibers came loose. I make a form from the soild pink insulation. I drew out the micky head and inserted the fiber optics into the insulation. I poured in the conrete and then fibrated the form to get the air bubbles out (thats when some came loose).

I had wanted to do a 10 by 10 patio with 32 points of light per square but when I priced out the fiber optics it was to expensive. So a wont be able to do every block.

If anyone else has tried this I would love to hear from them.

Embedding fiber optics in concrete countertops to a big thing now.

Bret