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Ever noticed rides at most amusement parks are lit with dmx intels. From color changers to Moving mirrors, to moving heads. It can be guarentted youll run into one. Check out indiana jones at Disney land. There are tuns. Please, help me list the various places that you have seen intels at.

Note: I met the lighting designer at Disneys Terris Stage. Very cool guy, you must meet him, he let me play with the lighting board between shows. Very cool guy.
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Hold on... so you met a Lighting Designer at Disneyland? On the Tomorrowland Terrace Stage?

I'd guess it was most likely a Board Op... it's rare to see the actual Designers out and about...

Anyways... how did you like the Jands 1000? (And what did you have more fun playing with: The Roboscans or the Scrollers?) Wink

-Griffin
scrollers? hmm well, to me, there were 8 robo scans, i only messed with the two on the stage. Umm after i set a quick chase on those two, i got to use the robe american Single are moving head washes. Sorry i dont remember the modle name. ANywas, they had a really cool pulsating shutter system. I really liked that. I like prizms but they didn't rotate.
o forgot to mention, it was a board op. I think i want to be a board op. He just about did what ever the hell he wanted to. I mean, how cool that just to spend everynight making new chases on 8 robo scans and 4 moving washes. PLUS on a stage that hydrolically lowers into the ground, and hmm o yea, almost forgot, its at a theme park, DISNEYLAND!
I'm pretty sure the rig for that stage consists of:

2 Roboscan 518 (Frontlight)
4 Roboscan 518 (Sidelight)
2 Roboscan 518 (Backlight, On the Stage)
4 MiniMac Profiles (Backlight, On the Stage)

Source Fours for Frontlight
Pars with Wybron Scrollers for Sidelight
Short Nosed Pars for Backlight

Jands 1000 for Control

If I remember correctly there were two ADJ Avengers up in the AP, but that might have been before the rehabbed that stage.

Sounds like you had a good time... if you ever run into this technician again, have him bring you up to the Fantasmic! Control Room... Yes, the show is based on PC-Spots... but they're on a Wholehog II!

-Griffin
Scrollers! The concept is soooo simple, yet so difficult to implement! Those things can be such a nightmare. I vividly rmember one show... 20 Rainbow Scrollers, the power pack dies three times during tech week, the rental house claims it's our fault. And now Scroller 7 is stuck on Magenta! Ahhhhh!

-Griffin
The Whole Hog II is amazing. I just took a 2 day course on operation of the board. It was so cool. The first day of the course was getting to "know" the beoard and learning how to program and operate fixtuers. The second day I actually got to program a show and use the show with like 20 fixtures. Studio Colors, Studio Spots, Techno beams, you name it was probably there. It was so cool!!
-AMP
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Originally posted by Griffin:
[qb] Scrollers! The concept is soooo simple, yet so difficult to implement! Those things can be such a nightmare. I vividly rmember one show... 20 Rainbow Scrollers, the power pack dies three times during tech week, the rental house claims it's our fault. And now Scroller 7 is stuck on Magenta! Ahhhhh!

-Griffin [/qb]
haha! I know, they're simple little things, yet they cost more than some intelligent lights (dj scan, pocket etc.). Smiler Roll Eyes Cool
im so dumb, i cant believe i had no clue what you ment by scrollers. The jels that scroll through the little machine scroller that are attached to the front of the par cans. nope didn't touch them. I didn't know what channel they were on. THe board was hug. Like it made a dmx operator board look like a family home light switch. I liked the mini macs the most. The robos were fun, but ive used them befor.
Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA had one of their rollercoasters lit by parcans which chased, but they went to the ELation Par Can color changer things. Its really cool. They still chase them in the 1-2-3-4 manner, but when the chase starts over, the colors are different. Pretty cool. Plus in certain areas they have scanners mounted on buildings, in trees etc for their parade thing. Oh yea, if you think the lightshows for the Disneyland stage events are cool, you must somehow meet someone who can get you anywhere! My cousin is a security manager, and if you didn't know, Disneyland has a club build underneath the Indiana Jones ride area, and where the stores are. The entrance is like a shed made to blend in, and is covered with plants. They also store extra equipment down there. SO AWESOME. Its loaded with like, a billion lights, great speakers, and a pile of all their old dented/broken/needs a fixin/not working/or just old lights and stuff, which they go through every season and throw stuff away. Its insane! "This robe moving head has a broken gobo wheel, lets toss it in the trash". It's a lighting designers graveyard. Frowner
Ok man, your full of it. No ride at six flags has chasing par cans, except batman, they have multy colored jels on each par and the lights only dim when the coaster train enters the room. THE ONLY 2 PLACES IN THE PARK WHERE YOU CAN FIND SCANNERS ARE: THE RIDDLERS REVENGE (trackspots) and the Lazer SHOW THEATRE WHICH IS NOW CLOSED, but they had "roboscans and joys".
Those lights in Riddler's Revenge... "Trashspots". The last time I went to Magic Mountain (A few years ago) those Trackspot really looked pretty sad: One had the lamp/housing cover removed, hanging by it's saftey; another had gum on its mirror; and to top it all off none of the fixtures were on but the two on the Unload Platform... jeesh.

As far as this "Club" at Disneyland... do you mean to imply that there is an actual "Dance Club" below IJA? If so, I'd doubt that's completely true. I does seem possible to have a storage facility below the attraction, but a club? I just don't know... Wink

-Griffin

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