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Cool Demolition
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:57 pm
by hobie16
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:59 pm
by darph nader
Wonder what cost more? The fireworks or the explosives? :D:
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:00 am
by Walt Disney
National Geographic did a special program about this. The guy who set up the fireworks was interviewed. The equipment that controlled the pryotechnic countdown and plunger effects was super expensive, and they didn't want it destroyed in the demolition. So they connected it to a zipline from the roof to a safe spot clear of the blast zone, and right before the main charges blew, the control equipment slid safely out of the way down the zipline.
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:32 pm
by CujoSR
Dammit. I had reservations.
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:26 pm
by kcberlin
Call me weird, but I find it hilarious that you could hear carr alarms going off int the background.
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:49 pm
by Zazu
kcberlin wrote:Call me weird, but I find it hilarious that you could hear car alarms going off int the background.
Yeah, that's sort of how I feel right after Magic Kingdom fireworks. Especially knowing that it's some blue-card who's going to get called on the carpet for it.
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:36 pm
by mapo
Zazu wrote:Yeah, that's sort of how I feel right after Magic Kingdom fireworks. Especially knowing that it's some blue-card who's going to get called on the carpet for it.
lmao...yup...totally agree! Maybe we can get rid of a few more of those lovely blue card holding idiots....we seem to have so many more these days.
mapo
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:40 am
by BRWombat
The "7" didn't light up properly. Do-over!! :D:
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:47 pm
by Freak
Well at least that place went out with a bang!
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*crickets*
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Man that was so corny. *hangs head in shame*
Re: Cool Demolition
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:33 pm
by darph nader
kcberlin wrote:Call me weird, but I find it hilarious that you could hear carr alarms going off int the background.
Whimps,,,,,,,,damn near every day,two F-16s would take off from the base. (full after-burners) At least 3 alarms would go off. Later in the day a C-130 would swoop in for a landing and it would happen again.