![]() Additionally, it serves as a test market that could ultimately be launched online, as other 3D printing companies have done. By picking applications for 3D printing that might prove popular among certain consumers - it’s hard to beat Star Wars and Disney’s Princess line - they enhance the potential for sales. That means those who have not heard about 3D printing will experience awe at seeing the technology for the first time, and that is after all a part of the Disney “magic”…and 3D printing has magic in spades. Additionally, professional low-cost 3D printers are starting to arrive on the market.īut the real innovation here is how Disney is using the technology, by bringing the process to the customers, which is wise considering that over 17 million visit Disney World every year. Advances in 3D scanning have come a long way, allowing users to digitize entire rooms with a handheld device or even stitch together a bunch of images taken with a smartphone to create a digital 3D model. The tech being used here isn’t anything groundbreaking. Here’s the promotional video for the service: The seven-inch high figurines are then shipped to them in 5 to 6 weeks (presumably after they are painted). The D-Tech Me Princess experience costs $100, and like Carbon-Freeze Me, is available for a limited time. ![]() By using a high resolution 3D facial scanner to create a digital model, girls can select which of three expressions they want to be printed onto one of the seven classic Disney princesses. Now thanks to Disney Research, the Walt Disney World Resort is offering a similar service: girls from ages 3-12 can have a princess figurine made with their face on it. That’s right - Disney is embracing 3D printing. But if you visited Disney’s Hollywood Studios this past spring as part of the Star Wars Weekends celebration, Disney’s Carbon-Freeze Me experience could create a figurine with your own face looking as if you were in carbon freeze. ![]() If you ever wanted to be frozen in carbonite like Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back, you’ll have to wait a few years before cryonics technology makes it possible. Walk-ins can be accommodated based on availability.This could have been you if Disney had its way. To make advance reservations for Carbon-Freeze Me, call 407-WDW-TECH (40). She had a wonderful time and was a really great sport to get frozen with me. If you head out to Star Wars Weekends before the 2012 event ends, be sure to ask Ashley to recreate the “Han Solo Face” she made during her own Carbon-Freeze Me experience. Star Wars Weekends ends this year on June 10, so you even have some additional days after the event to get frozen. This limited-time Carbon-Freeze Me Experience is currently open every day - not just on Star Wars Weekends event days - and will continue to operate through June 16, 2012. (Now I just have to decide where in my house it will go.) The level of detail in the figurine’s face is simply amazing. In fact, I think Brad is the only person I have ever thanked for helping me catch a little cold. So I was definitely in good company.Īshley and I met up with Disney Parks Merchandise Product Developer Brad Schoeneberg for a tour of the Carbon-Freezing Chamber. After all, Ashley’s character on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano, has a little experience around carbonite. Wanting to show the process to you, I asked special guest Ashley Eckstein to join me for some freezing fun before she began her day at Star Wars Weekends as the Celebrity Host of the “Behind the Force” presentation. Ever since the limited-time “Carbon-Freeze Me” Experience debuted on May 18, guests have been entering the freezing chamber at Disney’s Hollywood Studios to have their faces digitally captured from multiple angles and then magically transformed into carbonite figurines.įellow Disney Parks Blog author Steven Miller previewed this homage to Han Solo in this post and gave an idea of what you could expect when the eight inch, three-dimensional piece arrives at your home.
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