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The Alton Towers Music, Video and Other Multimedia Thread
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Craig
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As a reminder, this is the music, video and multimedia thread, not the place to be discussing your issues with individual creators.
As we've said in other topics - if you want to share content that has been created by someone, then fantastic. If you want to air your grievances about individuals, then contact them on their own social channels, not here on TowersStreet.
I'll be removing any posts referring to the above, leaving on discussion about the content itself. Thanks.
As we've said in other topics - if you want to share content that has been created by someone, then fantastic. If you want to air your grievances about individuals, then contact them on their own social channels, not here on TowersStreet.
I'll be removing any posts referring to the above, leaving on discussion about the content itself. Thanks.
Matt N
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Mako (SeaWorld Orlando)
That is a very good documentary; thanks for sharing!
One thing I don't think you quite realised when you went round that ride as Duel is quite how impressive some of the sets in the Haunted House were. Looking at them in that video, many of the sets are (were?) really incredibly detailed!
Zeock
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Is Wastelands Penitentiary (Tulleys Shocktober Fest) a ride? If not, my favourite ride is Nemesis.
It's a brilliant documentary! The best video on the whole of YouTube in my opinion. I loved seeing the sets behind the scenes!
Trooper Looper
TS Member
It's a massive shame only now people are appreciating the effort put into this ride and most of whats in the video is history. Fantastic video nevertheless.
mo237
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Symbolica
Another Simon Allen soundtrack, this time Toxic Junkyard.
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOpqcKw1_nQ
More or less the same as the original but with some silly sounds added on top - think for general listening I'll stick with the original.
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOpqcKw1_nQ
More or less the same as the original but with some silly sounds added on top - think for general listening I'll stick with the original.
djtruefitt
TS Team
Adthoms
TS Member
blackholes crow
TS Member
Ive a question does anyone know what playlist thay use during halloween in splash hotel
mo237
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Symbolica
Insufferably nerdy post incoming...
I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with the old 80s/90s promos - 5-10mins of singing the parks praises with a nice chunk of humour, and a surprisingly good retrospective of that era of Towers. Generally speaking these use clips (sometimes demos) of park music, but there's a few anomalies that could be thrown as random tracks being chosen that just happen to fit the mood. Or...
This promo from 1994 (alongside several others) briefly feature two other Edvard Grieg pieces (the gentleman wrote Mountain King). The first of which is Anitra's Dance, which - funnily enough - is followed by Mountain King in Peer Gynt. The second (skip ahead to 39s) is from Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. Whilst these aren't the precise recordings, I'd assume someone in the marketing department either loved Grieg or used them as they were easy to license.
Another odd find - whilst watching a Japanese film a couple weeks back, I thought I heard a familiar tune - Claude Debussy's Arabesque, which can be heard in a promo from 1987. The synths used in this obviously weren't around when Debussy was, so on the train home the other night I decided to have a quick dig - which led me to Isao Tomita's version from 1974. An incredibly haunting rendition.
To those well versed in music, none of this will be particularly surprising - but for sods like me who know next to nothing, it's a fun bit of useless trivia.
I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with the old 80s/90s promos - 5-10mins of singing the parks praises with a nice chunk of humour, and a surprisingly good retrospective of that era of Towers. Generally speaking these use clips (sometimes demos) of park music, but there's a few anomalies that could be thrown as random tracks being chosen that just happen to fit the mood. Or...
This promo from 1994 (alongside several others) briefly feature two other Edvard Grieg pieces (the gentleman wrote Mountain King). The first of which is Anitra's Dance, which - funnily enough - is followed by Mountain King in Peer Gynt. The second (skip ahead to 39s) is from Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. Whilst these aren't the precise recordings, I'd assume someone in the marketing department either loved Grieg or used them as they were easy to license.
Another odd find - whilst watching a Japanese film a couple weeks back, I thought I heard a familiar tune - Claude Debussy's Arabesque, which can be heard in a promo from 1987. The synths used in this obviously weren't around when Debussy was, so on the train home the other night I decided to have a quick dig - which led me to Isao Tomita's version from 1974. An incredibly haunting rendition.
To those well versed in music, none of this will be particularly surprising - but for sods like me who know next to nothing, it's a fun bit of useless trivia.
Mykeprime
TS Member
Not sure how they got it, but Theme Park Music Looped has what seems to be the full exterior for Curse, with announcement voice;
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiS5xhKeo-A
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiS5xhKeo-A
Steve74
TS Member
Probably stood very close to a speaker on a quiet day!
cookiee_munster
TS Member
I'm not the most technically minded with this A.I. stuff, but has anyone had a go at upscaling any TV promos that were released in the 90's/early 2000's?
I tried to have a go at the Hex advert a few weeks ago, but couldn't really get it to work very well. But I probably wasn't doing it correctly.
I tried to have a go at the Hex advert a few weeks ago, but couldn't really get it to work very well. But I probably wasn't doing it correctly.
Mykeprime
TS Member
Not certain, but I may have found the basis for the eerie/ sinister ambience used in the Phalanx/ Nemesis retrack marketing;
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDWtH8eHeEU
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDWtH8eHeEU
Steve74
TS Member
Fair play finding that!! How on earth did you come across it?!
If it isn't the basis of the ambience or even the ambience itself, it's certainly very close!!
Mykeprime
TS Member
Total fluke, I was generally looking at sinister ambience stuff and realized it seemed very familiar
Skyscraper
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Nemesis
Apologies if this thread isn't the right place to post or discuss this, but I've just discovered that Towers are sponsoring Moneyball (game show) on ITV. Have they sponsored programmes in the past?
Steve74
TS Member
Probably part of the same contract where Chessington and Thorpe have sponsored other ITV programmes recently. But first time I've heard of Towers specifically sponsoring a programme.