Disney technology

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: Circle-Vision 360° films, Omnimover attractions, WEDway people movers, Haunted Mansion, The Timekeeper, Spaceship Earth, Walt Disney Imagineering, 12 basic principles of animation, Fantasound, Horizons, If You Had Wings, World of Motion, Audio-Animatronics, Disney's Fastpass, Boo Blasters on Boo Hill, Disney attractions that have used Audio-Animatronics, Computer Animation Production System, Multiplane camera, O Canada!, Disney Digital 3-D, DGamer, Wonders of China, Reflections of China, Inter-terminal train, Autonomatronics. Excerpt: The Haunted Mansion is a dark ride located at Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Park in Paris (as Phantom Manor). Each incarnation of the attraction features a ride-through tour of a haunted house in Omnimover vehicles called Doom Buggies, preceded by a walk-through show in the queue. The attraction showcases a number of age-old tricks, advanced special effects, and spectral Audio-Animatronics. Entering the queuing area through a pair of ornate gates, guests find themselves in the mansion's well-tended gardens and courtyards. The queuing path leads guests past a mausoleum featuring humorous epitaphs, and a white carriage hearse, led by an invisible horse, out of which sounds can be heard. The path leads guests onto the porch, where they are led into the mansion's foyer by somber maids and butlers. The guests are ushered into an octagonal portrait gallery and encouraged by the staff to move into the "dead center" of the room. As the wall behind them slides closed, the Ghost Host (voiced by Paul Frees) introduces himself with an eerie voice: "Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion. I am your host - your 'ghost host.' ...and taunts them: "Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis. Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it your imagination, hmm...?" As the voice speaks, the guest's eye is drawn up to four portraits on every other wall of the octagonal room. The floor quietly sinks downwards, elongating the paintings and revealing the morbidly comedic fates of previous guests: "...And consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows, and no doors... which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a way out! Of course, there's always my way..." The lights go out, lightning and thunder effects fill the gallery and, in a rare instance of Disney dark humor, a glimpse of the earthly remains of the Ghost Host is shown hanging fr