Paultons Park: General Discussion

[Bowser]

I can see the roof quite clearly in the first photo.

Tbf I was responding to the existence of themed roofs, not whether there was any ceiling visibility.

More importantly that photo is presumably promotional and very bright, in person it’s much darker and personally I found it both immersive and impressive. Here’s a video which is more representative:


From: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPeM1Hyb54


I think these areas can be well done and certainly in Tokyo offered a very welcome relief from the climate! An equivalent of this at any UK park would surely be well received.

 

[flyingguitar]

This is inside the Mexico pavilion at epcot, it is quite a bit darker than in the video (so you can't see the celling), the ceilling isn't "themed" interms of adding a structure but how it works with everything else is really nice essentialy making a night time village scene and I found it worked really well, especially how they blended that back wall with the volcano, temple and cloudy sky.


From: https://youtu.be/jeaWuQgM0oc?t=28


similarly this is DLP pirates (with the resturant) it uses a similar tequnique although slightly differnt lighting (to make it seem like moon lit) they then added trees and other things to the scene and made it really effective.


From: https://youtu.be/px_TmewqJOU?t=70


I think in both of these senarios it was less the effort put into the celling (which is essentially black tiles) but more the effort put arround the area with fake buildings, trees and quite importantly the lighting which is primarily from lamps or buildings not the sky.

 

[rob666]

In truth, I think only thoosies tend to look up on dark rides.
That's why they don't bother often.

 

[Hid]

I think some rides it works not to have roof like Bubbleworks or Toyland Tours a factory ride others it doesn't