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I saw How To Train Your Dragon LIVE, and I Love it!
13 years ago
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(A week late posting. My fault!)
I was conversing with
about the experience, so I thought I'd share it here since it will probably be better than the same journal walls of nonsense that I'm sure everyone here is constantly Nuking.
This was my second World-Wide event of this year (Videogames Live being the first) I've gotten to go to and it was really wicked cool, also being my first trip to the Verizon Center despite living in Metro range. My only misfortune of the event is being in the nosebleed section with a seat-kicking jovial behind me (Why do kids do that? Seriously, I never did stupid stuff like that in public when I was a youth).
At first I was given a reason to feel a bit reluctant about the show when I heard from the person in front of me at the Ticket Booth that previous shows (Including the one that was going on currently) had technical difficulties that actually caused the show to stop. Not something you want to hear when you spent $60 on a ticket and some on Public transportation.
I really enjoyed that they took advantage of their entire arena space. There were 2 visual usage that was used for the show: The Cast and the Stage.
Naturally the characters by themselves is the focus of the performance, but they also use video projections specifically designed to work with the entire stage area. To be more specific, the protection videos they used for the show was designed to work as a form of 3D objects for the characters to interact with as if they were physically there.
[Possible Show Spoiler. So if you plan to see the show and know when it's coming to your area, you might want to skip the following paragraph to the next]
A perfect example of this visual feat was when Hiccup was on his way through the forest to find where the Night Fury fell. The wall had the projection of the side-scrolling trail he took and the Actor was rigged with suspension cables that aided in the visual aspect of him interacting with the background looking as if he was climbing, hanging off a cliff, springing off trees, jumping gaps, and even falling.
POSSIBLE SHOW SPOILER CONCLUDED
The Dragons (Which of course was the main reason why I'm sure everyone was there) were really something. They ranged from Egg puppets to the massively large animatronic Dragon Queen Head. All of the mobile Dragons were really good. The movements were very well handled and did give them a more life-like feel to them. Some lucky people that were closest to the stage had a pretty close encounter with 2 of the Beasties.
My advice if you want to see this event when/if it comes to your area: Try to get a center-middle row seat (even VIP & Player's Club seatings if you REALLY want to spend that much for a perfect view) .
As a momento of the event, I got myself a Toothless Light-up Medallion at one of the vendor spots. There was a table with big and very well crafted plushes of the Dragons near a camera crew setup that was apparently interviewing at random. If you plan to buy paraphernalia at the event, the lowest item is $5 and I have no clue what the most expensive item cost.
I was conversing with
about the experience, so I thought I'd share it here since it will probably be better than the same journal walls of nonsense that I'm sure everyone here is constantly Nuking.This was my second World-Wide event of this year (Videogames Live being the first) I've gotten to go to and it was really wicked cool, also being my first trip to the Verizon Center despite living in Metro range. My only misfortune of the event is being in the nosebleed section with a seat-kicking jovial behind me (Why do kids do that? Seriously, I never did stupid stuff like that in public when I was a youth).
At first I was given a reason to feel a bit reluctant about the show when I heard from the person in front of me at the Ticket Booth that previous shows (Including the one that was going on currently) had technical difficulties that actually caused the show to stop. Not something you want to hear when you spent $60 on a ticket and some on Public transportation.
I really enjoyed that they took advantage of their entire arena space. There were 2 visual usage that was used for the show: The Cast and the Stage.
Naturally the characters by themselves is the focus of the performance, but they also use video projections specifically designed to work with the entire stage area. To be more specific, the protection videos they used for the show was designed to work as a form of 3D objects for the characters to interact with as if they were physically there.
[Possible Show Spoiler. So if you plan to see the show and know when it's coming to your area, you might want to skip the following paragraph to the next]
A perfect example of this visual feat was when Hiccup was on his way through the forest to find where the Night Fury fell. The wall had the projection of the side-scrolling trail he took and the Actor was rigged with suspension cables that aided in the visual aspect of him interacting with the background looking as if he was climbing, hanging off a cliff, springing off trees, jumping gaps, and even falling.
POSSIBLE SHOW SPOILER CONCLUDED
The Dragons (Which of course was the main reason why I'm sure everyone was there) were really something. They ranged from Egg puppets to the massively large animatronic Dragon Queen Head. All of the mobile Dragons were really good. The movements were very well handled and did give them a more life-like feel to them. Some lucky people that were closest to the stage had a pretty close encounter with 2 of the Beasties.
My advice if you want to see this event when/if it comes to your area: Try to get a center-middle row seat (even VIP & Player's Club seatings if you REALLY want to spend that much for a perfect view) .
As a momento of the event, I got myself a Toothless Light-up Medallion at one of the vendor spots. There was a table with big and very well crafted plushes of the Dragons near a camera crew setup that was apparently interviewing at random. If you plan to buy paraphernalia at the event, the lowest item is $5 and I have no clue what the most expensive item cost.
http://dreamworksdragonslive.com/tickets.php