BBC's Shoot for the Moon - Space Mountain, Paris [DOCUMENTARY]
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- čas přidán 15. 03. 2012
- Space Mountain was the basis for the 1995 BBC2 documentary Shoot for the Moon, which looked at the creative process and the history of engineers, technicians, and musicians of The Walt Disney Company, featuring project manager Tim Delaney, music producer Aarin Richard and Disney Legend Ward Kimball. The 45-minute documentary was directed by Philip Martin, and was first broadcast on 30 August 1995 at 6:45pm. This BBC documentary you're going to see today is probably one of the best "making-of" ever done for a Disney theme park attraction - if not THE best. "Shoot for the Moon" was filmed in 1994-1995 during the building of the Disneyland Paris version of Space Mountain. Tim Delaney, show producer of the land appears in person, with many others WDI imagineers.In 1995 the BBC made a documentary about the creation of Space Mountain, called "Shoot For The Moon". It was a fascinating 44 minute programme, following Tim Delaney and his team in bringing Jules Vernes' "From The Earth To The Moon" book to life.
The report shows the whole development of the attraction, from conception, over contruction up to testing and fine tuning the final attraction. Of course also problems during this process arise ...
The documentary was orignally broadcast on BBC2, but was also aired on other channels in many different countries.
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Cracking documentary! 😉 O.O.K 👌🏼💙
I must have seen this 40 times over the years and it's still completely magical. Those guys were the true imagineers. Certainly not the frauds who killed Space Mountain with that horrible "mission II".
The theme, the music, the atmosphere... everything was perfect. If I could only have one ride for the rest of my life that would be that one, no matter how rough it was towards the end...
the ride will be closed for major refurbishments for 6 months starting in January. various sources say that due to public feedback they'll be bringing back more original elements lost after the 'Mission 2' changes. For example the on-ride soundtrack will be changed (rumours suggest something very similar to the original) and the 'Smiling Moon' will also return. The carriages used will also be modernised to give a smoother ride
Yes I heard about it. I really hope they will bring back most of the original theme. Space Mountain is a victorian themed attraction and nothing else!
UncommonManFromEarth damn right!
They're just making it a Star Wars ride. And also I like mission two. I think it has a nice score that made the attraction feel faster and more like a thrill ride, as well as (some of) the effects working better. I love the wormhole at the end, the supernova (though the projection was a bit dark when I did it around 2008) and I really enjoy the longer launch. At the end of the day it's just an attraction, Disney almost NEVER puts an old ride back because they believe in moving forwards not backwards. Now if after the Star Wars attraction they turn it into something like country bears go to space I can see the frustration, but honestly it's good to have memories of what was then being mad about what is. Look at spongebob, now it's run its course and most fans want it to go away, but when it started it was seen as a fantastic show. So Disney just modernized it before majority would have seen as dated.
2:25 I would have loved to see a talking water fountain at Epcot
Nice to see this again. To bad that in Space Mountain Mission 2 the canon shell doesn't move again any more. You can also see signs of the original intended name Discovery Mountain (DM) on the cars (when understood correctly they changed only shortly before opening the name. Hence the DM sign on different positions on the ride).
Brilliant - thanks for posting!
Awesome.