Gadgetory

60 years after Disneyland first open its gates the Magic Kingdom is reinventing and reinvigorating some of its most elaborate shows and beloved rides with technology the new paint the night parade now lights up the park with 1.5 million LED lights performers like Tinkerbell can change the floats colors using handheld devices that rely on wireless infrared technology to Zelda tap out the float and cause a float to come to life in a different fashion with different lighting looks Disney is bringing its famed fireworks show a bit down to earth in addition to the fireworks in the sky special projections transform several landmarks now during the day Main Street looks like this but at night it's a whole new anybody the projections are created by layering video imagery in a process called video mapping so you have one piece that's moving and that piece of stained static and all those layers stacked in a digital way on top of each other when you have different layers back and forth this could be out of focus and this could be in focus you have to actually adjust that digitally projections also change the Matterhorn from a snow-capped mountain to finding Emo's mount on a hook on loogey inside the Matterhorn Disney aim to make the rollercoasters scarier with the abominable snowman we looked at new ways of motion new ways of using technology to bring the most animation to the figure the old snowman first appeared in 1978 the new one stalks riders in several places with a more menacing room so our audio engineers took some of the original pieces of sound of the roar and crust it up with some other and animal and panther and lion sounds to give him this much more breathy bigger voice in the Haunted Mansion Disneyland resurrected the hatbox ghost it vanished shortly after the mansion's 1969 opening when it didn't perform well Cheever Moskowitz says the technology used to bring it back to life wasn't available even ten years ago it's a mixture of using projection lighting effects and and some really cutting edge technology inside the animatronic itself to be able to achieve the effect that we've been looking for it so we'll just have to wait and see what new tricks Disney has a bit sleep for the 70th anniversary oh my gosh guys for cnet.com I'm Brian Tong hmm you want cotton candy