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Reflections of Earth inferno barge refurbishment
Jan 28, 2009
The fire breathing inferno barge that provides the flame effects for the Chaos portion of the show is set to go out for a refurbishment. The current expected start day is this Sunday for 3 or 4 weeks....
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Celebrate Today audio added after IllumiNations
Jan 24, 2009
A Celebrate Today audio tag has been added after IllumiNations. The voice is the mail announcer that is used for the "15 mins to go" voice. After the brief narration, Promise is played as normal. Afte...
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Changes to Reflections of Earth pre-show announcements
Sep 07, 2008
The IllumiNations pre-show announcement audio for safety announcements and "minutes to go" has been changed to a male voice. The original female voice is still used however for the 5 minutes to go. It...
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Earth barge out of the show for refurbishment
Aug 23, 2008
The Earth Barge has today finally made it into refurbishment for it's complete overhaul, including new LED display system. It is expected to be out for around 3 to 4 weeks. While under refurbishment, ...
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Inferno Barge returns
Feb 02, 2006
After a week of successful tests, the Inferno barge has now returned back to Reflections of Earth.
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Inferno barge testing and return date set
Jan 26, 2006
The Inferno barge from Reflections of Earth is set for overnight testing this week, leading to a planned public return in the show on February 1st 2006. Note, this isn't officially confirmed yet, and ...
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Reflections of Earth Inferno barge to return
Jan 25, 2006
Further to the 20 September 2005 below, the Inferno barge that has been missing from the show since September (due to technical difficulties) is currently set to return to the show during February 200...
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Reflections of Earth technical problems
Sep 20, 2005
Yesterday around 4pm, there was an explosion on the inferno barge in the World Showcase Lagoon. The problem was with the Air Launch Firework (ALF) system on the inferno barge. The ALF shell exploded w...
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GE to end sponsorship of Reflections of Earth
Jan 30, 2003
Reports are in that GE has ended their sponsorship of the show. Announcements are to be removed from the audio track, and the GE logos on the barges are likely to be removed shortly. This information ...
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Reflections of Earth extended beyond Jan 1 2000
Dec 04, 2000
As we all expected, the awesome IllumiNations 2000: Reflections of Earth, will be extended beyond the Millennium celebrations. The show is rumored to be running for the next 5 years - with minor tweak...
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July 4 show report
Jul 08, 2000
As rumored, the perimeters were not used. This was because when they were planning the show, the drought threat was real. So they decided that rather than cancel the fireworks as before, they placed 5...
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Details on upcoming July 4 show
Jul 03, 2000
This year's Fourth of July Fireworks at Epcot will be completely on the lagoon..NO PERIMETER fireworks this year...So everyone around the World Showcase Lagoon will get a great view...and because its ...
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New Years Eve show report
Jan 06, 2000
We all know RoE is an amazing show. Well, New Years Eve 1999/2000 took the show to new heights. Starting 11:45, the regular show began, finishing just before midnight. At this point a narration was pl...
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Reflections of Earth production credits
Sep 25, 1999
Reflections of Earth was produced entirely in Florida through Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney World Entertainment, Ride and Show Engineering, Central Shops and Buena Vista Construction.
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Preview show report
Sep 23, 1999
WDWGUY has sent us this great review of the first night of the show.
Well...the verdict is in everyone...Walt Disney World Entertainment has created...in my opinion....another QUALITY ...
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Preview date information
Sep 18, 1999
The current IllumiNations will now run through September 24, 1999.
IllumiNations 2000: Reflections of Earth will soft open on September 25, 1999.
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Earth globe testing and a few technical isses
Jul 27, 1999
Testing is continuing nightly on the new show. Besides running the inferno barge, and the BIG bang, the video ball is now running. Some problems have also surfaced over the movement of the ball. The b...
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Pyro testing last night
Jul 22, 1999
The BIG bang effect was tested last Tuesday night. All the windows of the surrounding hotels survived, but there were plenty of car alarms set off, and lots of calls to the resort front desks!
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More 2000 show details
Jul 16, 1999
The new show Illuminations 2000 will use a total of 17 lasers, up from 7 for the current show. Parts of the show have been under rehearsals at around midnight in the lagoon. Lasers and pyro have been ...
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Hardware delivered to Epcot for the new show
Jun 16, 1999
The new center piece ball has been moved from show area by the Magic Kingdom to Epcot. All of the eastbound lanes of World Drive were blocked off for about an hour around 3am this past Sunday morning ...
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More 2000 show details emerging
Apr 07, 1999
The laser barge (ball) in the middle of the lagoon will be replaced with a projection system using LED technology, similar to a giant laptop display (although much lower resolution, each pixel being 1...
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Refurbishment confirmation
Feb 19, 1999
We now have confirmation from the IllumiNations crew that the show will not be going down for rehab until mid September, most likely September 5th 1999.
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