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Disney Dreams
WDC application for "Excellence In Live Design Awards"
Disney Dreams was created for the 20th anniversary of Disneyland Paris and is an innovative and colorful nighttime spectacular that celebrates the childlike spirit of imagination. Peter Pan and Wendy take us into Disney "dream worlds" as we follow Peter’s shadow and meet many Disney characters along the way. System Design Challenges The team needed to create a control system to integrate multi disciplines into a cohesive programming environment—one that would integrate lighting, video playback, audio, lasers, fountains, flames, fireworks, and show action equipment into a highly accurately programmed show. They chose the MA Lighting grandMA 2 lighting control system as the operators interface. The desk directly controls the looks for all show elements, allowing for a single programming interface. Many of the systems presented safety concerns. Dreams utilized a central safety monitoring system, based on Beckhoff Twin Safe hardware and software. The safety system constantly monitored the critical systems to ensure that all required parameters were being met prior to allowing the grandMA 2 to trigger the show cues. […]

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Inserted 2016-04-19