(apparently someone is selling the estate of someone who was in Disney Imagineering, the folks who design all those rides).
https://www.estatesales.net/CA/Ventura/93003/4961454?picture=226080574
it's nickname is The Maus for a reason
Does @pluralistic know you have this trove of Disney park manuals?
@ai6yr Thanks for popping up a fun memory.
living in Oklahoma briefly (do not recommend!) as a child in the 90s, one of the grocery stores had an animatronic situation for parents to park their kids. Felt very… <that pizza place I’m forgetting>
Wow haven’t thought about that in a very long time
@ai6yr *Country Bear runs amok
"Hurry, the shutdown codes!!""
I had the "pleasure" of supporting a customer who'd purchased several used "action theater" type installations from Disney, and installed them in a few theater venues in the NorthEast USA.
They were hydraulically actuated seats with air jets, water mist sprayers, rumblers, and so on - the idea was you sat and watched a movie (shot in first-person view) that had a bunch of stored haptics commands configured to match the movie's action. If the characters were bumping along on a horse, your chair bumped along with your viewpoint. If you were sliding down a curvy slide, the chair sloshed side to side. If it was raining, you got a little wet. If a rat ran by, you felt your pants legs rustle.
Boy, howdy - would have been nice to have had a set of manuals like that! We had to sort of reverse-engineer how everything worked - in doing so, we found out enough about how it could go sideways that we said "We'll advise, but we're absolutely not touching anything here." The speed those chairs were capable of moving was, well, I'll just say "things were not well thought through" and leave it to the imagination.
@PhilSalkie @ai6yr Paging William Castle:
@ai6yr the "engineering records" on the left there was typeset in the future
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostile/
@bstacey Oooh, cool. I will have to make all my signs in Eurostile from now on! LOL.
(actually, I tend to use the National Park font)
@ai6yr maybe Kevin Perjurer who runs the youtube channel Defunctland?
He does deep dives into the history and inner workings on some of the disney rides. He's got a contact email at [email protected]
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