WDW - Seven Dwarfs Mine Coaster Update - 14/04/14

Seven Dwarf’s Mine Coaster - May 10, 2013

     Allot has and continues to happening at the Seven Dwarf’s Mine Coaster construction location! Sure signs that the opening date is  only weeks away!

    Some finally touches are being added and completed on the mountains so that the Imagineers and start testing the ride system. The testing faze can last quite sometime actually! 1) They have to make sure the ride system works perfectly,  2) They have to make sure the audio-animatronic characters, the lighting, projection, music and etc are properly timed with the roller coasters speed and such. This face last 2 to many even 4 week. When Radiator Springs Racers opened up at Cars Land in Disney California Adventure, the testing face took ruffly a month, if I remember correctly. So it is speculated that the Seven Dwarf’s Mine Coaster will be opening up sometime in May 2014. It will most likely be a soft opening, sort of like the rest of Fantasyland. 

    Here are some photos of the Seven Dwarf’s Mine Coaster, that WDWMagic took. As we can see in the pictures the scaffolding on the mountain has been removed which is a sign they are finished building the mountain, which helps proves our hypothesis that the testing stage will begin soon.

Seven Dwarf’s Mine Coaster - May 11, 2013

     Disney released this past weekend a video showcasing some of the audio-animatramic characters figures. Here is the video. This next generation of audio-animatramic characters have improved on facial expression and the speed of the movement is amazing. Their movement are not as clean as some of the other A100s audio-animatramic characters, but they are by far the best that Fantasyland has ever had.

   As we can see in the video they have focused on their characters facial expression rather then the cleaned of their movement, which is reminiscent of the film’s animation. The way it works is the face of the characters are mapped and projected onto the audio-animatramic characters face which allows an extreme amount of realism that can be added to their face.

    So that is it for know! Please check back with me for the latest on the Seven Dwarf’s Mine Coaster!