Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> 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
 MG> 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
 MG> 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
 MG> 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
 MG> used to
 EH>> introduce smell and such to the experience.

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

I remember hearing about Captain EO. Disney closed that one when Jackson
started getting negative press on his strange lifestyle.

Ed

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