It's 1870 and you're on a volcanic island in an uncharted part of the Pacific Ocean. But it's not the real 1870, it's Jules Verne's. It's not even a real island... It's an eye-poppingly massive monument to exactly what Walt Disney Imagineering can do.
The startlingly realistic 167 foot tall (it looks much taller) Mount Prometheus, with its billowing smoke and sudden thunderous eruptions of fire... its face which subtly changes to better suit the land it can be seen from (a mountain that looks like it's about to explode doesn't lend itself well to a relaxing afternoon at Cape Cod at the American Waterfront)...
The Caldera! So realistic, yet so other-worldly at the same time. A bizarre environment of geothermal activity which envelops one in its walls and is made even more strange by the threatening devices of a mad genius. Those devices include a large scale exterior mock-up of the Nautilus submarine, a research submarine base, and an automated drilling device in the process of boring into the side of the live volcano. Captain Nemo! What were you thinking? |
