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1. MGM_040124_039.JPG: Reign of Fire - 2002 - Dragon Maquettes Modeling is the process of constructing three-dimensional looking objects in a computer. Every computer-generated dragon in Reign of Fire required a model before it could be made to crawl, fly, or breathe fire. In all, hundreds of different computer models were required. However, for models with a skin texture, actual clay reference sculptures, called maquettes, were created. These maquettes of the dragons were sculpted to help the animators create their computer models.
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3. MGM_040124_068.JPG: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas - 1993 - Oogie Boogie Puppet & Oogie Boogie "Bug" Puppet In producer Tim Burton's imagination, the vile and villainous Oogie Boogie is an enormous burlap sack filled with snakes and bugs. In reality, however, this puppet contains more than 175 fitted parts that form a six-pound metal armature strong enough to tow a truck, yet flexible enough to allow Oogie to slink, dance and balance on one foot as called for in the script.
4. MGM_040124_260.JPG: These were from the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular
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Wikipedia Description: Disney-MGM Studios
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Disney-MGM Studios is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. The third park to open at the resort, it debuted on May 1, 1989. Spanning 135 acres (546,000 m�) in size, the park's theme is show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood in the 1930s and '40s.

The only affiliation Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has to the park is via contracts that allow Disney to use the MGM name and lion logo in marketing, and separate contracts that allow for specific MGM content to be used in The Great Movie Ride.

On August 9, 2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that the park's name will be changed to Disney's Hollywood Studios effective January 7, 2008. In announcing the name change, Crofton said, "the new name reflects how the park has grown from representing the golden age of movies to a celebration of the new entertainment that today's Hollywood has to offer—in music, television, movies and theater."

Dedication:

The World you have entered was created by The Walt Disney Company and is dedicated to Hollywood—not a place on a map, but a state of mind that exists wherever people dream and wonder and imagine, a place where illusion and reality are fused by technological magic. We welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be.
—Michael Eisner, May 1, 1989

Park development:

The idea which led to the Disney-MGM Studios began at its sister park, Epcot. A team of Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to create two new pavilions for the park's Future World section. The fruits of the brainstorming sessions were the Wonders of Life pavilion and the Great Movie Ride pavilion. The second of the two was to have sat between the Land pavilion and the Journey Into Imagination pavilion, and was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle. The actual attractio ...More...
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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