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Quick look at radiator springs

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 3:32 pm
by drcorey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVECChJlgk

hmm, looks just ok to me. but I guess I like the older type fantasy stuff. a world of cars? kind of wierd to me.
I do like the flying tires thou, it's like a new high tech version of the old flying saucers from decades ago. I would go just to look at it from a techinical point. the saucers died because of the air jets always cloging. I guess the new system dont suffer from that.

Re: Quick look at radiator springs

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 9:12 pm
by Zazu
drcorey wrote:I do like the flying tires thou, it's like a new high tech version of the old flying saucers from decades ago. I would go just to look at it from a techinical point. the saucers died because of the air jets always cloging. I guess the new system dont suffer from that.
The original Flying Saucers attraction failed because the air valves in the table started to fail. From sources close to the action, the call to the vendor when somthing like this:

"Hi, we're having some premature failures on those air valves you sold us, wanted to talk to you about them."

Then the vendor asked a very strange question, "How many times have you operated the valves?"

The Imagineer did some quick calculations on the back of an envelope and said, "It varies, but on average, perhaps 1.5 million times."

"Wow! Really? Gee, they were better than I'd thought," replied the vendor.

"Better?" Just how many operations did you design them for?

"Three."

"Three?!?!?"

"Yeah, those valves were meant for the main engines of the Saturn V rockets. We figured that if they lasted for a test or two, then a launch, they'd done their job. We were very happy when Disney came along and ordered twice as many as NASA."

"Oh," said the Imagineer, "I guess we can work with 1.5 million ops. What's the price to order more?"

"Not available."

"What? Why not?"

"Um, in case you haven't noticed, the space program is over. We scrapped the tooling a couple of years ago. Right after we finished your order, in fact."

So now you know ... the *rest* of the story!

Re: Quick look at radiator springs

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:37 pm
by TiggerHappy
I remember reading about that somewhere on the Internets. Kind of funny when I found out about it. :D:

As for the new air jets on the flying tires, I'd give it about six months before a rogue candy wrapper messes up the system or something to that effect.