What's New 1999

1999-10-30

• After a long time here is another major update
• www.spacemountain.de This new address for this site was realized by Stefan Gref . Again THANK-YOU!!!
• Loading: New picture from Alan's last trip added
• Building: 2 New pictures from Alan's last trip added
• Fonts: Mibbi found the real font used at Space Mountain!
• Promotion: Picture of the 1995 window display of the Disney Store in Paris donated by Nicolas
• Improvements: New page about possible improvements of Space Mountain added (encouraged by Alan)
• Queuing: excerpt from the Krull-soundtrack added, which can be heard in the queuing area
• Letters: Nicolas found two new tags on the ceiling of the green room
• Ride: New recording of the announcements by Nicolas
• Promotion: 2 new MPEGs of Dutch SM provided by Mark Jochems
• Building: 2 selfmade videos of SM by Mark Jochems
• Cannon: 3 selfmade videos of SM by Mark Jochems
• Quotations: 2 new statements
• Translations of the Latin words at the end of queuing: Green room, Loading Area

9/25/1999

• Ride:: Complete text of the "Diplome de Passager du Futur" added (thanx to Nicolas)
• Promotion: Broken link fixed

9/21/1999

• Construction:: Some info added
• Letters: New page about the mysterious letters and numbers in the green room
• Promotion: TV-MPEGs added: SM's opening, advertising spot
• Miscellaneous: Animated SM-slideshow to the ride soundtrack made by Jason Schultz
• Queuing: new page structure, more thumbnails,
• Ride: some obsolte soundtrack recordings removed
• Building: New pictures by Filip, Mathias and Kevin added
• Queuing: New pictures by Filip and Kevin added
• Ride: New pictures by Mathias and Kevin added
• Cannon: New pictures by Filip added
• Trains: New pictures by Mathias added
• Promotion: New picture by Filip Mathias
• Loading: New pictures by Kevin added
• Rumours: several German rumours translated to English
• several pages: broken links (among others to Stefan Diel site) fixed

8/22/1999

• Construction: RealVideo-clips added (many thanks to Alan!)
• Construction: many thumbnails added
• Status: Update
• Construction: new section and extra page for the BBC documentary added
• Documentary: English version of transcript now available (translated by Altavista ...:-)
• Building: New photographs shot by Alan added
• Cannon: New photograph shot by Alan added
• Ride: some minor changes/updated infos

8/11/1999

• Lots of new pictures have been added on nearly every page. Many detail shots provided by Francesco Fabris.
• Construction: Interesting new info about the owner of Space Mountain!
• Safety Video: Some information added
• Ride: Some technical information added
• Merchandise: Picture of Space Mountain name tag added (donated by Cindy)
• Status: Update + enhancements
• Loading Area: MP3 of the Space Mountain track on the new CD ("Une Journée ...") added
• Ride: excellent MP3 of the complete SM Ride Soundtrack added

7/28/1999

• Fonts: Downloadable selfmade version of the Space Mountain font added
• Construction: Extract from DLP wall map added with a very early concept
• Construction: Some passages translated into English, online version of Jules Verne's story
• Merchandise: new item added, more thumbnails
• Quotations: new statements added
• Reports: Trip report and ride review added
• Queuing: new pictures of different signs made during my last trip added
• Loading: new pictures of different signs made during my last trip added
• Models: improved version of the trashcan model
• Trains: Updated info about the speaker configuration (thanx to Steve Frearson!)
• Status: Updates Space Mountain Status (thanx to Torsten Schneider!)
• Ride: new MP3: ending of soundtrack

7/14/1999

• Queue: Moiree-effect at Electro de Velocitor has been removed
• Rumours: Interesting news about ride music!
• Status: New page added about the current Space Mountain status

7/2/1999

• Queue: New sounds (authentic atmosphere) added
• Rumours: Interesting news about ride music!
• Quotations: Some new passages
• Construction: New insider information by Miro Gronau
• Construction: new pictures and thumbnails added
• Ride: New facts added

6/16/1999

• Quotations: Some new passages
• Hall of Fame: New page with TOP 100
• Fonts: New page about fonts at Space Mountain
• New pictures (from www.disneyland.de) added at the following pages: Loading Area, Cannon, Trains
• Rumours, Quotations: Some new comments
• Ride, Queue, Trains: new comments

5/28/1999

• Quotations: Some new passages
• Construction: few additions
• Promotion: more TV transcripts added
• Reports: link to Dutch Space Mountain description added

5/24/1999

• Quotations: New page with quotations of more or less famous people about Space Mountain
• Cannon: New picture added

5/14/1999

• Trains: New picture of train, donated by Michael Balgavy
• Trains: Thumbnails of all links now available!
• Loading: 2 New pictures at www.disneylandparis.de added
• Loading: Thumbnails of all links now available!
• Cannon: New picture at www.disneylandparis.de
• Cannon: Thumbnails of all links now available!
• Ride: local versions of screams (since Boz Adams pages have gone)

5/13/1999

• Building: Page enhanced with thumbnails. Tell me what you think about it!
• Details: added etra-link to Safety-Video-page, since the existing link on the Queuing-page was quite hidden
• Slightly changed pagelayout
• all links to www.hoerstudio.com/Disneyland changed to www.disneylandparis.de - The Internet Guide Book

5/1/1999

• Reports: New Space Mountain Break Down Report by Til Minet (in German)
  
• FeLIX' Space Mountain Fan Pages now also available at sm.dlpfan.org and spacemountain.dlpfan.org. No pop up windows!

4/28/1999

• Promotion: nearly completely decoded Cast Member Invitation (thanks to Marco)
  
• Hall of Fame: Marc Toussaints record has been beaten!!!
  

4/22/1999

• Ride: Pictures of Space Mountain with LIGHTS ON, donated by Raysurx
  
• 3D Models: Model of trashcan (from the queue) added / Queue-Renderings updated (now BLUE!)
  
• Queuing: New tricks and picture from added
  

4/11/1999

• Links pointing to Reinhard Schaffner's pages updated
  
• Queuing and Promotion: New MP3s by Michael Balgavy
  

4/5/1999

• Promotion: Picture of Mc Donald's Kids Meal added
  

3/28/1999

• New Rumours-Page
  
• many text-excerpts added on different pages
  
• many links to New pictures at www.disneylandparis.de added, all taken by Stefan Tiesing. See Ride, Building, Queue and Loading
  
• many links to new pictures at Stefan's Disneyland Paris Webseite added. See Ride, Building, Queue and Construction
  

3/26/1999

• Update of Francesco's 3D track model
  

3/23/1999

• on nearly every page there is something new
  

3/20/1999

• drawing of trains added
  
• New evening picture of SM
  
• New picture of a train
  (All new pictures were contributed by David Ravenswood)

3/16/1999

• pictures of tracks (model) added
  
• foggy pictures of SM added (donated by David Ravenswood)
  
• minor changes / corrections
  

3/15/1999

• some merchandise items added
  
• who rode Space Mountain most frequently?
  

3/8/1999

• New pictures added
  
• picture added (SM and Nautilus)
  
• local copy of MPEG-Movie added
  
• Another soundtrack-version added
  

3/1/1999

• Finally: PAGES NOW ONLINE!
  

2/26/1999

• links to new pictures at the "Space Mountain Homepage" added
  

2/24/1999

• new details, map of SM
  

2/10/1999

• minor changes
  

2/6/1999

• Details: new structure
  

2/3/1999

• Details: more picture added
  
• Reports: German TV report transcript added
  
• Guestbook installed
  

1/30/1999

• everything is new ;-)