6/9/2023 0 Comments Disney hang glider rideThey all showed it! Even riding on the parking shuttle from LAX to the airport, when they show the images of places all around the world, it was that Monument Valley shot." I was looking through the airline magazines and I noticed that when tour packages talked about America and the West, they all showed Monument Valley. It was in part because as I was traveling to Paris where I also work on our parks. "That's when we switched to Monument Valley. It didn't deliver when we looked at the footage, and it wasn't what we thought it was going to be." But we found that when you shoot the Grand Canyon from a helicopter, the time it takes to get from way up high where you can see it soar into it down below takes forever. "We asked: 'What is the shot we're going to use for the United States?' Knowing this is a global film, we thought it was going to be the Grand Canyon. The new Soarin' Around the World ride simulates the sensation of flight (photo: Disney Parks) We flew over it, but it wasn't dramatic in our medium." We actually looked at the Summer Palace and I thought, 'Oh this will look really beautiful.' But it didn't really work in Soarin'. "There were some that places worked really well in scouting and in the ride and some that didn't. Part of it is that we want to encourage people to want to travel the world after they see this." We wanted to blend natural and real places. We hit everything but Antarctica, I think. We put together a list of places we'd want to go and we sent our film crew around the world to scout them because certain places looked fabulous on the ground and certain places looked fabulous from the air." Soarin', I think, is a combination of natural wonders and manmade wonders, so that divides it up even further. As you can imagine, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out where we would go, if we could only go to 12 places. "A Soarin' film is basically a dozen shots. How Disney Picks The Filming Sites For Soarin' That really gave us the trigger to say: 'Let's make this happen." After California, it's a pretty logical jump to say: 'Wouldn't it be great to go and do the highlights of the world?' Like many things at Imagineering, some of these ideas can take years to come to fruition, and it really was initially Shanghai Disneyland that provided the impetus for doing a new Soarin' because the team for the Adventure Isles land at that park wanted to do a Soarin' adventure to fit in that land, and California didn't make a lot of sense over there. "I think as soon as we opened Soarin' Over California , we almost immediately asked what we wanted to do next. We Can Thank Shanghai Disneyland For The Ride Upgrade He opened up about the process of filming the new footage, the custom camera rig Disney created specifically for this ride, and the subtle ways each iteration of the ride is actually different. To get a behind-the-scenes look at the new Soarin' Around the World (as the ride is now called), I spoke to Tom Fitzgerald, creative executive for Walt Disney Imagineering.
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