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Islands of Adventure Preview Center

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Manx27 said:
OK the Islands preview center took over the space when the "Star Trek Video Adventure" attraction/shop closed up. This space is now the first part of the Mummy queue. You could pick up a passport at the entrance and each Island's room had a stamper machine to stamp your passport. I wish I still had mine. http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mLi0SzpK4RT2T7Xlpzi5r2w.jpg
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well if i can remember.first in the preview center was the Jurassic park behind the scenes. followed by the mummy then came the islands preview.
 
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Wow, it was still there til 2001? Definitely shows off how nerve-wracked they were about selling this as a Disney-esque resort. This is before Cali, Tokyo and Paris all got 2 parks so the concept was pretty foreign outside WDW.

The video is certainly cheesy, but cute. You can tell that they're really going for Toontown in Toon Lagoon and the Seuss room looks, appropriately, downright incomprehensible. Marvel definitely has that 90s edgy comics idea down, which was a little toned down to the actual island itself. (it reminds me almost more of the USH Marvel Mania restaurant) Jurassic Park easily seems like the most confident land and it shows.

They seem to be showcasing a slightly lesser product than what actually appeared and was done. I remember vividly a Travel Channel special in 1999 talking about just how technically advanced and gorgeously themed IOA was for the time, which of course used the actual park. That was 100% closer to what the park is than this preview center. Still, it got the idea across and was cute.
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Even now when I think of IOA, 'The world's most technologically advanced them park' still rings in my head.
 
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well in America at least.I think Tokyo sea has that title now.
 
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Gambit said:
Boy do I have a treat for you guys. Luckily I had it bookmarked from a couple years ago.

veoh - Islands of Adventure Preview Center
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Gosh, yes! I remember it so well.... I would have been about 15 or 16 then depending on when I saw it!
 
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deathcab4cutie said:
well in America at least.I think Tokyo sea has that title now.
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DisneySea was opened 2 years after IOA and I would agree.
 
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Didn't know where else to toss this. Anyone know what this is about?

 
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Didn't know where else to toss this. Anyone know what this is about?

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The Adventure Is Over
 
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what the shiz?? that looks so wrong
 
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Didn't know where else to toss this. Anyone know what this is about?

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Hulk Smash??
 
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Funny enough, I posted that on the UORMisc Refurb page..should've posted it here, hehe.
 
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just found this video
 
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deathcab4cutie said:
just found this video
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Woah! Nice subject but the camera work?
 
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I hope they do something like this for the 3rd dry park. When I saw the construction walls around the Mummy queue, that’s where my mind immediately went.
 
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pat_naughty05 said:
I hope they do something like this for the 3rd dry park. When I saw the construction walls around the Mummy queue, that’s where my mind immediately went.
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They probably have a model built by now, but they won't show it to us :ugh:
 
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They probably have a model built by now, but they won't show it to us :ugh:
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Didn't Jim Hill stumble across the model by accident when visiting Richter's Burger?
 
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Honestly, with streaming video being so easy to produce online now, there's no reason to build a physical preview center anymore. More people from all over will see online previews of a park than would ever come through a preview center. Much more cost effective too...
 
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scott_walker said:
Didn't Jim Hill stumble across the model by accident when visiting Richter's Burger?
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I hope this is sarcasm.
 
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I hope this is sarcasm.
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If memory serves me correctly, he was with an Imagineer at the time. His rumours are extremely hit or miss but his history is pretty much spot on.

Your profile photo gives me a chuckle every time I see it. :lol:
 
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If memory serves me correctly, he was with an Imagineer at the time. His rumours are extremely hit or miss but his history is pretty much spot on.

Your profile photo gives me a chuckle every time I see it. :lol:
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:grin::grin:
 
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he found the model for diagon alley.Its in one of his earlier podcast
 
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