Five Senses of Disney (Part 5)

Touch the sense we probable think of the least about when we go to a Disney theme park.  Disney uses it just as much as any of the other senses in the parks.  Now especially with the new interactive queues for Winnie the Pooh and now the Haunted Mansion touch is becoming a sense you use more and more in the parks.  Touch is sense that Disney is trying more and more to incorporate into its attractions.  The touch revolution probably started way back with the birth of EPCOT Center back in 1982 with the opening of one attraction Imageworks inside the Imagination pavilion when it opened it was the most interactive attraction Disney had designed.  When Imageworks opened it had stations setup where guest could touch and experience all of senses not just touch.  Imageworks had three two main touch areas a huge wall of pins where you could make a mold of your hand. Also they had touch screens and now a days a touch screen is common place we have them on iPod's and Phones and even computers, but some of the first touch screens were at EPCOT Center  in Imageworks.

The new interactive queue lines being created and implemented all over Disney World in various new and old attractions have lead a revolution in entertaining the guests at all times.  The first of the new interactive queues appeared at Soarn' it started with just random pictures of 5 different Eco systems on the wall fallowed by trivia about those Eco systems.  It was neat until the new interactive games appeared pitting different sections of the queue agents each other in 3 games that capture motions of the people in front of the screens.  This was the first of the new interactive queues to appear.  The new barrage of interactive queues came at the D23 Expo with the accoutrement of the Fantasyland expansion.  The first new interactive queue came to the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at the Magic Kingdom.  The tree from Pooh's Playful Spot was moved over to the queue and new interactive games were created for littler ones to touch and play and bounce.

The newest and most surprising is the new interactive queue at the Haunted Mansion a new cemetery appeared with new crypts and some familiar tomb stones.  This is the most touch oriented queue to date and guest can play the organ and instruments playing the famous Grim Grin and Ghost theme.  Also there are places you can be sprayed by water. More details will emerge once the new queue is open to the public after testing.

Touch is a sense that are parents don't want us to use at a place like Disney World you always hear dont touch that and keep your hands in your pockets well now Disney want you to touch and feel and experience more and more in its theme parks.  For imagineers using your five senses is how the draw you into the experience and the story and is the defining element that separates it form other theme parks around the world.  Weather your seeing, hearing, tasting, touching or smelling your five senses will always be on overload when you are at a Disney theme park.