Now you are reading the last report of the New Frontiers! In this report, the Gazette will point out what special about Toy Story Land, and ALSO we will look into the New Frontiers in a wider perspective, for instance, interesting techniques which are being applied in the New Frontiers and the uses of colour.
The story happened when Andy was just a child. He has left his beloved toys unattended while he was playing at the backyard one day. The footsteps in the soil proofed Andy has just left in minutes ago. The toys welcome every guest, who has shrunk to the size of Green Army Men, to attend the backyard carnival.
The major difference between Imagineers and engineers would be, Imagineers are not only required to design the size and shape of a building, but also with the time and space. The Toy Story Land is immersed in ever green plants to emphasis when does the story happens. The green colour representing the season of Spring and Summer and life blossoms. Speaking as a family fun themed area, green colour also refers to energetic, leisure and good health.
其實在迪士尼主題樂園中，顏色本身就是一種語言。而透過這種語言，可讓我們了解更多遊樂設施的背景。大家又可知道「迷離莊園」的主調顏色 – Tyrian Purple，背後的故事嗎？而灰熊山谷的主調顏色棕色又有何用處？先讓大家猜猜謎，謎底稍後分曉。
In Disneyland, the colour itself is a language which converting messages into the environment. By studying the language of colour, we could know more about the background story of the attractions. So, what is the story behind the Tyrian Purple in Mystic Point? What is the use of brown paintings in Grizzly Gulch?
Andy’s toys was being enlarged thousand times to create a visionary illusion, or you may say, we have drunk the ‘Drink Me’ and shrunk to the size of Green Army Men. Therefore, Woody, Rex and Slinky Dog are larger us, and we could get onto the RC Racer and into the body of Slinky Dog.
The RC Racer in Toy Story Land is 2,600 times heavier than the real toy, while the height of Toy Slider Parachute Drop equals to the sum of the height of 18 Green Army Men models in Toy Story Land, which roughly equivalents the height of to 492 Green Army Men. In addition, the length of each Andy’s footstep is 10 metres.
Tom Fitzgerald, the Executive Vice President and Senior Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, mentioned when they wanted to design a family fun themed land for Walt Disney Studios in Paris, they decided to take inspiration from a Disney movie. In the other words, the movie must be welcomed by all generations. Therefore, they came up with 2 choices – “Toy Story” series and “The Incredibles”. Eventually, they have chosen “Toy Story” based on the popularity of the movie series and the launch of “Toy Story 3”.
They collected 60s and 70s toys from eBay and traveled all over the world to try on the latest thrilling rides. Fitzgerald has also pointed out the 2 major trends of future rides after the field trip, 'The rides are increasingly becoming more software driven. For some rides we can change them simply by updating the software. We are also aware that the nature of storytelling has changed. Visitors want more interactivity and more control of the rides. However kids still want to meet real character and be wooed by that experience the same as they have always done.'
On the third day of Walt Disney Museum’s Disneyland 55th Anniversary Celebration public audience, July 18th, 2010, the expansion of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort 1st phase was brought up at the discussion. Although the company has the experience in running theme park in Asia before they entered Hong Kong, but the perception of Chinese and Japanese are totally different. There are many amusement parks in China, visitors would make choice between the numbers of attraction and compare against the admission fee. Whenever they visit Hong Kong Disneyland, disappointment was raised in the lack of attractions. Even though the park was designed to merge with the stunning landscape, it is not enough to satisfy them. Surprisingly, they would count every single Meet and Greet as an attraction. Therefore, the Imagineers came up with 37 attractions in the New Frontiers, including every single Meet and Greet location.
The founder of Pixar Animation Studios and the director of Toy Story, John Lasseter once said, Hot Wheels was one of his favourite toys in his childhood, especially the eye-catching orange racing track. When he was invited to create the Toy Story Playland in Walt Disney Studios, he thought of the orange racing track that would go perfectly with the theme of RC Racer immediately, and those 2 toys were both in appearance of “Toy Story”. The house-like object in the attraction is called “Super-Charger”, it was a product from Hot Wheels launched in Lassiter’s childhood. Whenever the Hot Wheels racing car passes through the Super-Charger, the spinning engine inside the Super-Charger speeds up the racing car, and that is the inspiration of RC Racer in Toy Story Land.
When John Lasseter designing an attraction for Slinky Dog, he would like to see Slinky Dog chasing his tail in circle, then he wanted to add in wave curve to make it more fun. By the way, the production team of “Toy Story” modified the Slinky Dog and created a look for him. The manufacturer of the Slinky Dog toys, POOF – Slinky, Inc., re-produced the new Slinky Dog after the movie was launched. The queue of “Slinky Dog Spin” is the packaging of Slinky Dog toys in 60s and 70s, but the illustration of Slinky Dog was specially drawn to match with the present design.
“Toy Solider Parachute Drop” was inspired by the scene from “Toy Story”. The waiting area is full of different military toys, as if Andy put all the military themed toys together and created a unique military base.
To construct the atmosphere of a grassy backyard, the bamboos were divided into squares to match with the outlook of the grasses.
Disney fans generally think that the “RC Racer” interrupted the landscape of Fantasyland, actually, it is a tasty “Wienie” (Hotdog)! Yes, “Wienie”! As a matter of fact, attractions including Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, Orbitron, Tarzan’s Treehouse, etc, are all “Wienie”! We are not talking about the edible hotdog in here, but refers to the “Beckoning Hand”. Beckoning Hand called as Wienie because hotdog was Walt’s life-long favourite. Walt observed that people move towards architectures which are attracting them the most, as if a hand beckoning and inviting them to visit. An effective Beckoning Hand usually has an iconic outlook and special architecture style which could fit into the environment, Sleeping Beauty’s Castle would be the best example to illustrate.
As we have mentioned in the beginning, the time and space are important in designing Disney parks. The time and space not only goes with the background stories, but also the space of the park and the visiting time. Imagineers can set up a regular time and space for some attractions, just like playing movie in the theatre, those are including Main Street Vehicles cruising up and down in Main Street, Jungle River Cruise, Space Mountain, etc. But for most of the area, they cannot control and predict how long the guests would stay and go, like Main Street U.S.A, Tarzan’s Treehouse and rest of the open area. So, Wienie become effective tool to guide guests move towards places that interest them the most.
Wienie just like a door at the end of the corridor, at the time you open the door, you could find another Wienie, and there are more Wienie behind a Wienie. Just imagine you are standing at the Main Street Railroad Station and you decided to walk towards Toy Story Land, so, you move towards the Sleeping Beauty’s Castle. When you are at the hub, you could see Cinderella Carousel through the arch. You could see another Fantasyland attraction after you pass the arch. By standing before Dumbo the Flying Elephant, you could see the RC Racer. If you look closer at the models in The Magic Continues… Gallery, you could find that the Wienie in 3 new areas are having almost the same height. For the lands hidden in the deep jungle, Wienie within a Wienie is definitely be a great helper!
某程度上，顏色也可發揮與「熱狗」相同的作用。同時顏色亦可告訴我們故事背景、有著實際用途及作出對比。說到顏色，還記得報道開首的問題嗎？首先，揭開謎底！
Colour can help guests in make decision where to visit consciously and unconsciously. It can also tell us the story, serve as practical function, and make comparison. Do you still remember the question the Gazette raised in the beginning? Let’s find out the answers together!
The story of Tyrain Purple could chase back to ancient Mediterranean region. Blue dye was a rare dye and the royalty’s favourite, especially the Tyrain Purple. Tyrain Purple had to be extracted from several kind of spiny shell, including Bolinus brandaris, Hexaple trunculus and Stramonita haemastoma. It was named after Tyre, the Phoenician port city, which was well-known by producing this reddish purple. In Roman Empire, colour was used as the classification of social classes. The use of Tyrain Purple was highly restricted under the Empire law, it could only be seen on the togs worn by generals, senators, magistrates, priests and the Emperor. After the Roman Empire collapsed, Tyrain Purple was widely used and exclusively on the clothing of the Pope, the patriarchs of the Orthodox Church and the Emperor of Holy Roman Empire. Eventually, it was passed to the European aristocratic family in medieval. For Lord Henry Mystic, as a member of aristocracy, Tyrain Purple is the best and the only colour to represent the honoured title.
Brown is one of natural colours of the rocks, and it is regarded as the grey colour mixed with black colour. Compared to the grey paintings on the Grizzly Peak at Disney’s California Adventure, brown paintings on Grizzly Mountain have better resistant to the sunlight and weather. Furthermore, Hong Kong’s sky is greyer and less blue than the skies in other resorts. Because the particle in the atmosphere blocked the shorter wavelength blue while allowing longer wavelength red light to pass through. Therefore, brown paintings could make the Grizzly Gulch looks more outstanding under the greyish sky.
The theme colour of Mystic Point is deeper than the theme colour in Grizzly Gulch and Toy Story Land. The deeper colour could draw guests’ attention and guide them to walk toward the Mystic Point, the mini-land located in between Grizzly Gulch and Toy Story Land. On the other hand, the Tyrain Purple is a cold colour, whereas brown and green are the warm colour. The warm colour is more easily to establish guests’ emotional feelings than cold colour, therefore, the warm colour could simulate the guests in the Mystic Point move toward either Grizzly Gulch or Toy Story Land
顏色也可引領大家前往不同園區。從「探險世界」往「灰熊山谷」看（暫時被樹木擋著），棕色在深綠色中突顯出來。從「灰熊山谷」往「迷離莊園」看，棕色伸延至偏紅的紫色。在「迷離莊園」往「反斗奇兵大本營」看，偏紅的紫色與鮮綠色造成對比。在「反斗奇兵大本營」往「幻想世界」看，鮮綠色襯托出鮮艷的粉色。
Colours can also the guide guests to move toward different area. For instance, if you looked toward Grizzly Gulch from Adventureland, you could see that the brown mountain stands out from the deep green jungle. If you were at Grizzly Gulch, you could observe the brown mountain spreads toward the Manor in reddish purple. If you were at Mystic Point, you could find that the Manor and the green bamboos is a good use of contrast. If you were at Toy Story Land, you might discover the bamboos set off the pinkish Fantasyland.
由左至右： 「百貨店」、「馬車蘆舍」及「小鎮百貨店」
From Left to Right: Emporium, Carriage House and Main Street Merchandise
由左至右： 「百貨店」、「馬車蘆舍」及「小鎮百貨店」
From Left to Right: Emporium, Carriage House and Main Street Merchandise
由左至右： 「百貨店」、「馬車蘆舍」及「小鎮百貨店」
From Left to Right: Emporium, Carriage House and Main Street Merchandise
華特．迪士先生在設計迪士尼樂園時，為免賓客從某一區域到另一區域時產生混淆，因此把一種名叫「Cross-Dissolve」的製作電影手法應用在樂園內。舉例說，使即大街的「百貨店」、「馬車蘆舍」及「小鎮百貨店」三者相鄰並排，但我們仍可在店內透過地板、支柱、吊燈輕易分辨出所在的位置，情境就像電影過渡情節一樣。同樣，在每一個園區的顏色、樹木、建築特色等等亦有助我們區別所在位置。同時，我們可透過這些不同的線索去察覺場境的轉換。
When Walt Disney was designing Disneyland, he used a very special technique to avoid contradictory in area transition. It is “Cross-Dissolve”, a directing technique to change one scene to another scene in movie making. Walt Disney is the first person who applied Cross-Dissolve in three dimensional world. Take an example from Main Street, although Emporium, Carriage House and Main Street Merchandise are standing closing to one another, we could still know where we standing at by identifying the interior designs, like, the floor, the pillars and the chandeliers. The change in colours, trees, architecture style, etc. in the theme lands are the clues that indicate the transition is actually happening.
由左至右： 「「探險世界」的油吊燈竹柱、「木筏」及「泰山樹屋」一帶的電吊燈木柱
From Left to Right: Bamboo Oil Lamp Poses & Wooden Electronic Lamp Poses in Adventureland
上圖： 「灰熊山谷」的電吊燈木柱
Above: Wooden Electronic Lamp Poses in Grizzly Gulch
In the transition of a theme land to other theme lands, Cross-Dissolve is particularly important, because the confusion may happen if it is not used in the transition. The walkway connecting Main Street U.S.A and Tomorrowland at Hong Kong Disneyland, is an example of Cross-Dissolve. The walkway is acting as an inter-universe tunnel. Whenever guests passed through the tunnel and the Tomorrowland logo, they will find themselves are already in the area of the space port. There is also a change on the ground, the brick floor in Main Street is changed to the outer space rock (concrete) floor. The wooden bridge in Adventureland and Sleeping Beauty Castle are the Cross-Dissolve as well. Another example of Cross-Dissolve would be the lamp poses in Adventureland and Grizzly Gulch, the transition starts from the bamboo oil lamp poses, than changes to the wooden electronic lamp poses in the Tarzan’s Treehouse and the area near the Rafts and finally the wooden electronic lamp poses in Grizzly Gulch. By using this interesting method, the New Frontier can transit in a more nature way, and to avoid confusion.
In all 3 New Frontiers reports, we could know that the story, technology, sensory feelings, space and time are having significant influence over the park design. The Imagineers purposely add in those elements to provide a better experience for all of us. Their work will not come to life unless you get on the ride and join in the adventure. They are not asking for any material rewards, but the smile, applause, joyful expression from you. So, who says there are only JUST 37 new experiences at the New Frontiers!
你知道嗎？
Did you know that?
In “Toy Story” and the real world, Slinky Dog has 17 rings on its spring. Due to the design issue, the rings on Slinky Dog’s spring were added up to 34 in Toy Story Land. The queue area of the Slinky Dog Spin also illustrated 34 rings Slinky Dog on the packaging drawing. The photo is from the model of Slinky Dog Spin in The Magic Continues… Gallery, Hong Kong Disneyland.
Reference:
www.shinyshiny.tv
http://www.magicalkingdoms.com/blog/
http://samlanddisney.blogspot.com
Toy Story 3 DVD Bonus Features (or YouTube video: John Lasseter about Toy Story Playland at Disneyland Paris)
Designing Disney
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