Project Snowflake
Travel & ExplorationFrom 1967 until 1985, guests at Disneyland had the opportunity to ”travel into the incredible universe found within a tiny fragment of a snowflake." The attraction, Adventure Thru Inner Space, sought to use the tools of cinematic set design to explore the lessons of science, with massive structures representing water molecules and elaborate projection revealing the microscopic world of the atom. The ride was developed during Walt Disney's final years, when he repeatedly explored how the tools of filmmaking might be repurposed to explore worlds beyond cinema in his theme park. Adventure Thru Inner Space was groundbreaking not only in introducing the Omnimover and by creating an attraction almost wholly focused on backgrounds (with no characters except for the onboard narration) but in the way it arranged dramatic, themed space toward educational goals.
| comfort | ⦾ Not rated |
| age rating | 0+ Everyone |
| website | disneyhistoryinstitute.com |
| developer | Cranky Something Studios |
| publisher | Disney History Institute |
| connection | Internet not required |
| app version | 1 |
| languages | English |
Reviews 13
Trouble with the app
Hi. I gave it five stars because I know how great the app had been up until recently. As per some other reviews, sometime in the last several months all of the textures went wonky and most of the color disappeared. I checked and I am on the most current version of the Quest 2 OS.
Please let me know if you find a fix. I wanted to share it with a friend.
Fixed!
It looks great on my Quest 2 now - the latest OS update did the trick. Thanks for letting me know, delighted to finally experience this.
Library of Realities.com review:
Project Snowflake turns the clock back to 1967 for a virtual ride of the now defunct Disneyland ride Adventures Thru Inner Space. Climb aboard an Atommobile and head into the darkness where the Mighty Microscope shrinks you down to the size of a molecule and flings you into a snowflake where you can marvel at visual spectacles on a subatomic scale. Accompanied by the narration and soundtrack from the original ride, Project Snowflake recreates every scene from the ride; jogging the memories of former riders and teaching others about this landmark theme park ride.
Though the experience lacks polish - there's no menu system for example, as the app jumps straight into the ride - we're very grateful for its existence and hope experiences like these can illustrate the importance of preserving the memory of old rides and theme parks. It appears that some scenes are recreated more faithfully than others, and particularly on Quest the experience appears to be lacking in color when compared to video captures of the real thing. However, we're no experts and are happy to enjoy this five minute ride for what it is.
This labor of love was developed by Disney fans Jeremy Marx and Kurt Pfeifer and is available through the Disney History Institute website as a PC download or as a free Meta Quest app. The experience on the two platforms is much the same, though there are some improved lighting effects on the PC version.
✅ Impressive recreation with original narration and soundtrack.
✅ Experienced from the perspective of a rider.
✅ Free download.
❌ Excludes pre- and post-ride visuals and audio.
❌ Some scene recreations are approximate rather than faithful.
Black and white??
I was so looking forward to seeing this. This version, that I downloaded on 3.October.2022, is now a very simplified schematic of little color, black and white contrasty shapes and NO realistic experience of what I remember this attraction being. I recall there being a MUCH better version that was still in development. What happened to that one??
Beyond Stupid
I can only think those positive reviews are fake? This is all flat black and white, boring, purposeless.
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