Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
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| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Attraction type | Interactive 3-D film |
| Theme | Inventor of the Year awards |
| Hosted by | Dr. Nigel Channing |
| Ride duration | 23 minutes |
| Replaced | Captain Eo |
| Epcot | |
| Land | Future World, Imagination! Pavilion |
| Opening date | November 21, 1994 |
| Sponsored by | Kodak |
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| Disneyland | |
| Land | Tomorrowland |
| Opening date | May 22, 1998 |
| Sponsored by | Kodak |
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| Disneyland Park Paris | |
| Land | Discoveryland |
| Opening date | March 28, 1999 |
| Sponsored by | Kodak |
| MicroAdventure! | |
| Tokyo Disneyland | |
| Land | Tomorrowland |
| Opening date | April 15, 1997 |
| Sponsored by | Japan Credit Bureau |
Honey, I Shrunk The Audience is a 3-D film at several Disney theme parks themed to the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids film series. It first opened at Epcot's Imagination Pavilion in 1994, Disneyland in 1998, and Disneyland Paris in 1999. It also opened at Tokyo Disneyland in 1997 under the name MicroAdventure!.
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[edit] Story
Viewers enter the Imagination Institute's theater for the Inventor of the Year Award Ceremony, in which professor Wayne Szalinski is receiving the award. Attendees are asked to don their "safety goggles" in preparation for the scientific demonstrations. The show opens with the crew of the show searching for Wayne, when he suddenly flies on stage miniaturized and in a transportation device called a Hoverpod.
He accidentally drops the control box and sends the machine flying off behind the stage out of control. The Hoverpod comes back and destroys the neon Imagination Institute open house sign over the audience (at first only some letters are knocked out, leaving "NERD" spelled diagonally).
Wayne's son Nick demonstrates some of his father's other inventions to kill time while the crew searches for Wayne. This does not go smoothly, and the audience ends up screaming with loose mice running under their seats and a holographic "Holo-Pet" lion in their faces. While the demonstrations go awry, Wayne manages to use his shrinking machine to return himself back to normal size. He brings out the machine to demonstrate its uses by shrinking a family's luggage, saving space when traveling.
Unfortunately, the machine goes out of control and shrinks the audience. The viewers are antagonized by obstacles such as Wayne's younger son Adam taking a picture of the audience with a blinding flash and picking up the theater to "show the little people to Mommy." Then Nick's python Gigabyte, much larger than the miniature audience, nearly eats the theater. Quark, the Szalinski's dog, then chases Gigabyte away. Luckily, Wayne fixes the machine and returns the audience back to normal size, but Quark is momentarily affected by the enlarging ray and then runs backstage out of sight.
Wayne accepts his award and begins his speech, but he is interrupted by Nick warning of a "big problem." The now giant Quark walks out onto the stage and the curtain closes while viewers hear the Imagination Institute's crew trying to stop the dog from crushing the theater. Quark then finds his way through the curtains and sneezes on the audience for the finale. As the audience leaves, they can hear the commotion from backstage continue.
[edit] Technology and More Facts
- The movie is presented in 3D by using polarized glasses and projectors.
- The entire audience is on a platform that moves up to four inches high during the presentation to simulate the theater moving and the floor shaking.
- The attraction can cause discontent for guests at the nearby Disney-MGM Studios Park, where guests looking for the movie may end up at the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" playground; a play area for children featuring over sized objects to create the feel of being shrunk. Because of this, cast members are advised to ask if guests are looking for the playground when somebody asks where "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" is.
- The sound effect used for the shrinking machine when used to enlarge Professor Szalinski (the first time it is used in the show) is the same sound effect that is used in Captain EO as the noise his space ship makes when he leaves the planet with his crew at the end of the show.
[edit] Credits & Cast
[edit] Cast
- Eric Idle as Dr. Nigel Channing
- Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski
- Robert Oliveri as Nick Szalinski
- Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski
[edit] Production Credits
- Directed by Randal Kleiser
- Produced by Thomas G. Smith
- Production Executive - Steven Keller
- Visual Effects - Eric Brevig
- Original score - Bruce Broughton [1].
[edit] References
- ^ Bruce Broughton "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience – Disney Theme Parks / Epcot Center, Florida" http://www.brucebroughton.com/filmography/filmography.html
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Honey, I Shrunk the Audience at the Internet Movie Database
- Bruce Broughton's Website
- Disneyland Park's "Honey..." Website
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| Films: | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Honey, I Blew Up the Kid | Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves | Honey, I Shrunk the Audience |
| Other: | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show | Walt Disney Pictures |
