Just one comment: It's kind of amazing how Morpheus had not much of an idea how to be a serious manufacturer, yet was the only viable competition for Vari*Lite for a number of years.Hi,
I am in the process of cleaning out my road box and ran across a number of old equipment manuals. This seemed like the perfect place to preserve them.
Regards,
Terry
On the audio side of the aisle, ShowCo was similarly protective of their Prism® loudspeaker array design. If one were a local hand and was needed to help service a unit, there was an NDA involved. What I can say... the primary secret to the Prism rig was not the stuff covered by the NDA, but the clever, "let's use physics" layout of the entire array, not just individual loudspeaker cabinets.Reminds me of the days when a certain early moving light manufacturer was very protective of anyone seeing the insides of their fixtures, so they would build a hidden workshop out of their dead long fuzzy boxes (and many boxes of spares) at each gig so they could service their fixtures in secret. It was like being invited to meet the Illuminati if you were allowed inside to peek at a fixture's insides. "Dont tell ANYONE or we can all get in trouble"
Of course, there was a time lot of electronic equipment had the labels ground off of IC's...
I loved those Morpheus PC Spots for Fantasmic. I know they had issues mostly with belt tention, but so do the current fixtures.Just one comment: It's kind of amazing how Morpheus had not much of an idea how to be a serious manufacturer, yet was the only viable competition for Vari*Lite for a number of years.
The "documentation" you showed us tells the story.
At Production Arts, I had two system installation experiences with Morpheus: "Fantasmic" for Disney, and the Lido de Paris.
Neither was particularly happy.
Proves one truth: building gear for a rental operation where you and your road staff stay in control of the gear (and its failures) is just not the same thing as manufacturing gear that you release into the wild to stand on its own reliability.
ST
This is gold.Here’s some other shots of the towers from Disney that I shot, and the original sales brochures I kept from back in the day.
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