by Cindy White | Nov, 2024 | No Proscenium: The story of the now-defunct ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter attraction at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is legendary among theme-park fans. A co-production between Walt Disney Imagineering and Lucasfilm, it invited guests to witness a demonstration of a teleportation device inside a darkened 360-degree theater.
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This was a really fun interview to read. The directors’ total lack of hesitation when it comes to “scarring people for life” definitely piqued my interest (if I saw this as a child I would definitely have been scarred for life!) The original attraction could certainly be viewed through a theatrical lens itself. The idea of using air puffs and spraying water to make the audience actually feel like they’re being covered in blood is certainly innovative, which seems to have been carried into this adaptation (hence the warning to bring a rain poncho). It’s also fun that the theme park queue experience has been preserved in this show. Also, trepanation mentioned! I think it’s great that the English language has a word for the action of drilling a hole in somebody’s head. I think about it frequently because every episode of my favorite podcast Sawbones ends with Justin McElroy telling you not to drill a hole in your head. So usually I think about trepanation in a medical history context and not in a theatrical one but it’s cool to see another little overlap between my interests I guess.
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