Posts Tagged ‘Soldiers’

Changing Colors

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The steel structure shown on the picture is not a Chameleon ride that has just changed color to fit in its environment, but a hangar that will function as the queue area for the new Toy Story Playland attraction “Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop”.

The structure has transformed from white to black and is now ready to get covered up. The two pictures shows you the “before and after” look of the structure.

The final and main color for the complete building will be green to match the attraction’s Tower. The models doesn’t show any camouflage colors as the attraction itself does, so the final paint job for the hangar might be the plain green as is used on the model. (you can see a picture of the Parachute Drop model here in our forum)

Ready for the Parachutes

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

The Toy Story Army Man are waiting anxiously to get to work and make their first Parachute jump. Looking at the work that is being done on their Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop attraction it wont be long anymore. The big metal arms that will hold the parachutes are put into place and are sticking out on the newly vertical erect tower. On the pictures you can see the Disney crew being lifted up to work on them and to make sure all is in place and ready for the next phase.

The tower is already turning into a real eye catcher and will be even more once it starts “dropping” screaming guests.

But not everybody might like the new eye catcher as, unfortunately, the Parachute drop will also be very visible from Frontierland. This is a real disadvantage for the atmosphere  of Frontierland. This is an unfortunate problem with the Disneyland Park and the Studios being build so close together. While it makes it easy to park hop, guest will encounter the sometimes unfitting panoramic views.

This has been mentioned many times when the Tower of Terror was put in place, but with this new “tower” added could become another heated topic on many Disney Boards. What do you think about about the tower so far? Is the camouflage ride appealing to you or will the view from Frontierland be to disturbing to like the ride?

… and are you ready for your first drop?