My new weekly show will bring you photo updates from Walt Disney World, with an eye toward details, recent changes, and new-to-me tiny upgrades throughout the parks and resorts. Called WDW Clicks, it will also feature a "Where in WDW" type guessing game with a twist (you'll have to see the end of the show to witness the first one!)
Here's the link, or watch in the embed window below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IpjkvRWLu8
Enjoy!
P.S. I will not be the host of Photo Finds any more. That show may continue without me - not sure what they plan to do - but we parted ways amiably because I wanted to branch out a bit.
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Kevin Yee is the author of numerous independent Disney books, including the popular Walt Disney World Earbook series and Walt Disney World Hidden History.
Showing posts with label Glow with the Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glow with the Show. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Glow with the Show ears debut at Wishes and castle projections (pics)
The $25 Glow with the Show ears had their east coast debut earlier this week at Fantasmic, and Disney handed out hundreds of free light up ears so their press photos would look very cool.
Here's what it looked like at Fantasmic:
The ears respond to radio signals in the show, and and it was that technology - the signals - that had their debut tonight (Saturday) at the Magic Kingdom.
First up was the castle projection show, Celebrate the Magic. They were not giving out free ears on THIS night, and only about 80 or 100 people seemed to be wearing the hats of the hundreds we saw around us in the Hub. It was sparse, in other words. But: it wasn't TOO sparse. I kind of think this program will 'work' here in Orlando, since many folks on vacation buy glow merchandise anyway.
It seemed to us that the ears worked pretty well with the projections, at least for a few minutes. It didn't look like there was much synchronization after a few minutes though - was the programming even done? The ears were dark completely for the final parts of the show. Maybe there was a glitch.
For the fireworks (Wishes) itself, the ears worked well and all the way through to the end. We saw a few occasions where an individual set of ears didn't light up on command, so maybe there are communication issues with some headsets. But by and large, they worked just as advertised!
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Kevin Yee is the author of numerous independent Disney books, including the popular Walt Disney World Earbook series and Walt Disney World Hidden History.
Here's what it looked like at Fantasmic:
The ears respond to radio signals in the show, and and it was that technology - the signals - that had their debut tonight (Saturday) at the Magic Kingdom.
First up was the castle projection show, Celebrate the Magic. They were not giving out free ears on THIS night, and only about 80 or 100 people seemed to be wearing the hats of the hundreds we saw around us in the Hub. It was sparse, in other words. But: it wasn't TOO sparse. I kind of think this program will 'work' here in Orlando, since many folks on vacation buy glow merchandise anyway.
It seemed to us that the ears worked pretty well with the projections, at least for a few minutes. It didn't look like there was much synchronization after a few minutes though - was the programming even done? The ears were dark completely for the final parts of the show. Maybe there was a glitch.
For the fireworks (Wishes) itself, the ears worked well and all the way through to the end. We saw a few occasions where an individual set of ears didn't light up on command, so maybe there are communication issues with some headsets. But by and large, they worked just as advertised!
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Kevin Yee is the author of numerous independent Disney books, including the popular Walt Disney World Earbook series and Walt Disney World Hidden History.
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