Friday, September 11, 2009
Robo-Lincoln Wants to Terminate John Wilkes Booth with Extreme Prejudice
Gizmodo: "The D23 Expo is a Disney fan event, apparently, and at it was displayed a robotic Honest Abe from the Hall of Presidents. And man, without his clothes he looks intimidating as hell."
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I'm not sure what this has to do with theatre but it's SO FREAKIN COOL
I think it is interesting to see how a show element in Disney's hall of Presidents operates. I have a few friends who went to the expo and said he looked incredible. All this intense complex circuitry and gadgetry that makes up, what appears onstage as a simple real life man is pretty incredible.
I will keep my personal Disney comments to myself (-coughcoughD23isthebiggestjokeofafanclubIhaveeverseen-), but I will applaud the brilliant complexity that is our 16th president on the stage. It's wild to think about the fact that the Hall of Presidents originally opened in 1971 and that this type of technology was developed and has been maintained for so many years. As Disney moves into a new phase away from using traditional Audio-Animatronics in their attractions (the most recent examples I can think of being Turtle Talk with Crush, a show that uses instantaneous motion-capture animation to put Finding Nemo's famous turtle live and interacting with the audience and Toy Story Midway Mania, which uses 3-D projection technology to expand the ride-along shooting game concept they first developed for Buzz Lightyear Astro-Blasters a few years back), it's worth reflecting on what technical marvels these early Disney characters are.
Am I the only one who thinks this is INCREDIBLY random?? I mean, does this have some kind of symbolism I'm missing out on? Or were there just two guys sitting around with the eureka moment of "DUDE! We should totally make Abe into the Terminator!" I think the circuitry, style, and general execution are amazing, but the meaning is lost on me. I'm the kind of person who wants there to be a reason behind this stuff, and this just seems very lacking to me.
Oh please don't count this comment. I posted 6, no worries
I find this really cool and cant wait for them to apply it to different things. Im wondering if they will change the original gizmos from 1971 to make a more updated and state of the art exhibit. i also am wondering where it could possibly go. It makes me think back to the article about the talking interactive paintings.
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