Overview
- Imagineers detail a blend of projection mapping with UV prints and UV paint to create a rare daytime black light look, staged using a multiplane approach and a custom gray “happy color” for seamless media-to-set matching.
- The team built the first pre-show theater as a working prototype to test the screen-tearing moment and smoke cues, with the visible smoke actually produced by a concealed, animated ceiling prop.
- Built-in maintenance tools let crews display labeled projection targets to index images precisely to scenery, a safeguard for an attraction intended to operate for two to three decades.
- The ride features a record number of hidden Mickeys at Walt Disney World, including one rendered in Mandarin in the Chinese Theater chandelier, plus a recurring Easter egg character named Crabstacia that appears in every scene.
- The factory finale merges all projection techniques with physical set transformations, including magnet-driven, internally lit lamps, while speakers are visually camouflaged using black light and white paints with flat clear coats.