Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 EH>>> The one for Washington doesn't have the lifts. You just sit down in
 MG>> a seat.

 MG>>>> It feels like hang gliding (or so
 MG>>>> I've been told, I've never actually been hang gliding),
I love that
 EH>>> ride
 MG>>>> it's so realistic, when you're flying over the citrus
groves you can
 MG>>>> smell oranges, over Big Sur you can smell the ocean. :)

 EH>>> It's amazing how realistic they can make the experience getting your
 EH>>> other senses involved.

 MG>> Yes, along with the smell of the ocean at Big Sur there's a salty
 EH> wind.
 MG>> It really is worth the price of admission to the park (DCA) by itself.
 MG>> As I said earlier the park is more for adults than kids. There's a 3D
 MG>> (they give you special glasses to view the movie) movie of the history
 MG>> of California narrated by Whoopee Goldberg in the role of Califia.
 MG>> Califia, for whom California was named, is the Amazon goddess from a
 MG>> romance novel written in Spain shortly before the Spanish
"discovered
 MG>> Baja California. At that time they believed Baja was an island,
 EH> instead
 MG>> of a peninsula. The show goes from the Indios to the Spanish, to the
 MG>> Mexicans to the US to today. It's a marvelous performance. :)

 EH> That sounds like quite the experience.

 EH> There was a program on the History Channel that shows the technology
 EH> behind those rides (the 3D I-Max projectors and the devices they used to
 EH> introduce smell and such to the experience.

Disney has been doing 3d for a long time now. In addition to the Califia
show DCA has a 3d show staring the Muppets and one based on the movie Bug's
Life. Years ago before he became known as a pedophile Michael Jackson co
starred with Angelica Houston in the 3d extravaganza Captain Eo at
Disneyland itself. 3d tech has certainly come a long way from what it was
in the 50s. :)

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