P3D RE; Spiderman 3D

["David W. Kesner" <drdave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In p3d 3501 Ron Labbe asks:

> I missed NSA (and ISU) this year, but my wife and I will be doing the
> Orlando 3D tour next month! Any hints?

Yes, see all of them *{;-)

Two of them are new.

The Amazing Adventures Of Spider-Man the ride is in Universal 
Studios Escape Islands of Adventure. Lawrence W Kaufman gave  
a great description on it so I won't go into that.

It's Tough To Be A Bug is in the Disney Animal Kingdom Park in 
the Tree of Life. It is based on characters from A Bug's Life. Nice 
story and some good 3D, but many of the shots looked like the 
background was in 2D and only the characters were in 3D. It also is 
one of the '4D' movies. That means you get some 'real' effects like 
a dose of foul smelling stuff when the stink bug lets loose and many 
others that I won't reveal so the effect will better for you.

The others have been around a while and have been discussed in 
detail here so I will let you cruise the archives for more info.

T23D is in Universal Studios proper. It is a combination of live 
action and a stereo movie on three screens. This was my second 
favorite. The transition between the live actors on stage and the 
movie screen was great.

Honey I Shrunk The Audience is in Epcot. It is also a '4D' and has 
some good startling effects.

Muppet Vision 3D is at Disney/MGM Studios. It also has live action 
with muppets.

Alfred Hitchcock's Making of a Movie is in Universal Studios. I 
didn't realize there was any 3D in this until we entered and were 
issued glasses. We were told not to put them on until Alfred himself 
told us. A short section from Dial M for Murder was shown and then 
a new sequence of birds tearing through the screen and flying 
around the now exposed set and into the audience followed.

Lucille Ball has a whole building devoted to her at Universal 
Studios. One display has a Realist camera with bulb flash and 50-
100 mounted slides in a display case. In front of the case are three 
displays with two sets of viewers. Each one is a Realist format slide 
taken by Lucy or one of her family. As I said before I was not able to 
fuse any of the slides because of the proor or improper mounting 
(pseudo). I can't believe they would do this. Obviously there are 
plenty of slides to choose from and they should be able to find at 
least six that were viewable.

If anyone is in the area they owe it to themselves to see all of the 
stereo offerings.

That's all for now,

David W. Kesner
Boise, Idaho, USA
drdave@xxxxxxxxxx