How does the American Adventure work?

[metsfan11]

I just saw that show for the first time on Friday night and while all of the audio-anamatronics kept coming up from the stage, I thought to myself "How do they do that? I have to ask that on the DIS" haha. I just thought it would be interesting to know how they fit all of those, I want to say "scenes" below the stage. My guess is that it is on some kind of storage "carousel". Thanks!

 

[Robo]

I just saw that show for the first time on Friday night and while all of the audio-anamatronics kept coming up from the stage, I thought to myself "How do they do that? I have to ask that on the DIS" haha. I just thought it would be interesting to know how they fit all of those, I want to say "scenes" below the stage. My guess is that it is on some kind of storage "carousel". Thanks!

Close.
Its not a carousel, but a "platform" that rolls forward and backward allowing the different "scenes" to be thrust upwards into view on-cue.

The platform (I've heard it called the "War Wagon") rolls in an area below the audience and below the huge rear-projection screen.

 

[iwynlea]

As I understand it, you actually get to see how this works on the Backstage Magic tour. I'll be doing the tour myself in October, so I can't say that for sure first-hand yet, but that's what I've read elsewhere about the tour. Just a thought, if you're really interested, the next time you go!

 

[1000th happy haunt]

We took the Backstage Magic tour, and Robo's description is correct. We also got to see Mark Twain without his hair and jacket (he was being worked on at the time).

 

[Robo]

We also got to see Mark Twain without his hair and jacket (he was being worked on at the time).

I "got" to see Dolly Parton that way too, when SHE was being "worked on."

She, however was not an animatronic.

 

[welovedis]

I "got" to see Dolly Parton that way too, when SHE was being "worked on."

She, however was not an animatronic.

 

[metsfan11]

Thanks for the info!