Honey, I Shrunk the Audience

	MicroAdventure!
	Tokyo Disneyland
Land	Tomorrowland
Opening date	April 15, 1997
Closing date	May 10, 2010
Replaced	Captain EO
Replaced by	Captain EO Tribute
Sponsored by	Japan Credit Bureau

	Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
	Disneyland
Land	Tomorrowland
Opening date	May 22, 1998
Closing date	January 4, 2010
Replaced	Captain EO
Replaced by	Captain EO Tribute
Sponsored by	Kodak

	Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
	Epcot
Land	Future World
Opening date	November 21, 1994
Closing date	May 9, 2010
Replaced	Captain EO
Replaced by	Captain EO Tribute
Sponsored by	Kodak

Honey, I Shrunk the Audience

Disneyland Park (Paris)
Land	Discoveryland
Opening date	March 28, 1999
Closing date	May 3, 2010
Replaced	Captain EO
Replaced by	Captain EO Tribute
Sponsored by	Kodak

Honey, I Shrunk The Audience! was a 3D film at several Disney theme parks themed to the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids film series. It first opened at Epcot's Imagination Pavilion in 1994, Disneyland in 1998, and Disneyland Paris in 1999. It also opened at Tokyo Disneyland in 1997 under the name MicroAdventure!

This attraction closed in 2010 where it was replaced by Captain EO, the attraction it had replaced in the first place.

Story[]

Viewers enter the Imagination Institute's theater for the Inventor of the Year Award Ceremony, in which Professor Wayne Szalinski is receiving the award. Attendees are asked to put on their "safety goggles" in preparation for the scientific demonstrations. The show opens with the crew of the show searching for Wayne when he suddenly flies on stage miniaturized and in a transportation device called a Hoverpod.

He accidentally drops the control box and sends the machine flying off behind the stage out of control. It comes back and destroys the neon Imagination Institute "Inventor of the Year" sign over the audience (at first only some letters are knocked out, leaving "NERD" spelled diagonally).

Wayne's son, Nick, demonstrates some of his father's other inventions to kill time while the crew searches for Wayne. This does not go smoothly, and the audience ends up screaming with loose mice running under their seats and a holographic "Holo-Pet" lion in their faces. While the demonstrations go awry, Wayne manages to use his shrinking machine to return himself back to normal size. He brings it out to demonstrate its uses by shrinking a family's luggage, saving space and money when traveling.

Unfortunately, the machine went out of control and shrunk the audience (plus Nick, who pushes Dr. Channing out of the way of the machine's electrobeam). Wayne inspected Nick and the audience and, after making sure they're okay, says he's got some spare parts to fix the machine (or so he hopes). The viewers are then intimidated by Wayne's worried and clumsy wife, which tricked Nick and the audience into believing being in comfort and care with the gentle blonde haired mother. Which changed soon after, as the ground starts booming under her each footstep and become louder as she walks too close to take a better look desperately at her tiny son. She bends over, proceeds to motionlessly stare and releases her heavy breath down at her tiny son to analyse him, who is asking for help in finding his pet snake. Nick who is like a tiny walking toy figure asks for help. But his request is disregarded by the towering mother and she appears in shock at the sight of her mere inches tall son which made her woozy upon the thought of her fragile son's safety.

As to her shrunken son's point of view, Giant Diane Szalinski's height is now over 50 feet tall and her body gigantically weighs a very hefty 44 tons, or 88,000 pounds! Which transformed the caring mom's body into a giant crushing hazard of dense meat than the body being a place of love and embrace of a mother. Diane knew that if she even wanted to hug her tiny son then he will be squeezed to death brutally against her breast and would be sticking off her body like a bug as she would be too big and overwhelmingly heavy to be touching a shrunken Nick. When she regains her focus and arrives back to reality, her legs start shaking then suddenly the mother begins to lose her balance and moans to the beginning of her fainting state in front of Nick.

Unfortunately, Diane's terrifying fainting giant body begins falling towards Nick who luckily dodged into being nearly crushed to a pulp and becoming a stain under the Diane's expensive beige suit as her heavy body collapsed just beside him. The impact of her sudden fall on the floor caused the ground to shake violently due to Diane's enormous size and mass from the point of view of the shrunken Nick and the audience (This triggered the seats to jerk as well which really simulates being small and how heavy Diane really is compared to the audience. Diane's finger began poking out of the screen as she laid unconscious on the floor and her giant finger was barely away from squashing the audience's faces). Soon after, Dr. Channing appears to make sure that no one from the audience members is stuck or crushed under the heaviness of Diane's giant body and after finding out that thankfully she hasn't landed on anybody, proceeds to order Wayne's team to quickly carry her away from the stage to her safety. Nick scared for his life from Diane falling onto him again and flattening him as they carry her over him, begs them please not to drop her again.

Adam begins taking a picture of them (audience) with a blinding flash and picking up the theater to "show the little people to Mommy." The whole room was lifted right off its construction for a minute or two as Adam walks around showing the other regular size people a better view of the tiny Nick and the audiences. After showing it around, the shrunken audience's view then pans around towards a curious female intern (who also looks like a giant from their perspective) with a binocular who bends down towards the tiny shrunken Nick and the tiny shrunken audiences while giving an exclamation of amazement towards the tiny Nick and the audiences, interested and surprised at just how tiny Nick along with the audiences are, before Diane (who regained consciousness) and Channing persuade Adam to put the theater back where he found it.

Then Nick's pet snake, Gigabyte, much larger than the miniature audience, nearly eats them, as he was not fed yet that day. Quark, the Szalinskis' dog, then chases him away with a few barks. Luckily, Wayne fixes the machine and returns the audience back to normal size, but Quark is momentarily affected by the enlarging ray and then runs backstage out of sight.

Near the end, the floor begins shaking as Diane appears yet again with her final appearance as she crawls on her knees towards her son without hurting him and jokingly says if he keeps shrinking then no one is going to invite a Giant mother and a shrunken son anywhere to lighten his mood. Nick, who is getting more anxious due to his Giant clumsy mother being way too close to him again proceeds to yell that Dad needs to hurry up before he is swept away by the Disney people or (Getting crushed for real under his clumsy mother). Diane says "Okay.." with a assured tone. Wayne announces the machine is ready which made Diane to walk far away from Nick to avoid anymore mistakes on her behalf of accidentally crushing her shrunken son under her heaviness again due to her own clumsiness.

Wayne accepts his award and begins his speech, but he is interrupted by Nick warning of a "big, humongous problem." The now giant Quark walks out onto the stage and the curtain closes while viewers hear the Imagination Institute's crew trying to stop him from crushing the place. He then finds his way through the curtain and sneezes on the audience for the finale. As they leave, they can hear the commotion from backstage continue.

Facts[]

It was sponsored by Kodak.
The movie is presented in 3D by using polarized glasses and projectors.
The entire audience is on a platform that moves up to four inches high during the presentation to simulate the theater moving and the floor shaking.
This attraction is often abbreviated by its Cast Members as HISTA. At Disneyland in Anaheim, California, they refer to each other as Histaceans.
Eric Idle's character, Dr. Nigel Channing, reacts with fear and disgust when Nick announces his pet python, Gigabyte. Idle, of course, became famous as a different sort of Python.
Despite Adam claiming Photon is his mouse, it and all its duplicates are white rats, used due to their greater size and visibility.
The sound effect used for the shrinking machine when used to enlarge Wayne (the first time it is used in the show) was the same sound effect that is used in Captain EO as the noise his spaceship makes when he leaves the planet with his crew at the end of the show.
Kristie Smithers asks, "Shouldn't we wait for Professor Szalinski?" This is a direct reference to the film Honey, I Blew Up the Kid in which a scientist asks "Shouldn't we wait for Szalinski?"
Hugh Allison who founded The Yellowchair Performance Experience, worked on this attraction in Paris for six months.
One of the actors on the balcony along the top of the screen accidentally hit his leg during the last two minutes of the film. Once you are back to normal size, anyone who focuses on the two of them will notice this, and the way that he limps off.
The equipment on the head of some of the extras was supposed to be filming the show for the World News Network, hence whatever is on the smaller (non 3D) screen to the side of the main one is supposed to have been filmed from one of these head cams. On occasion, they do differ in details, however, such as towards the end, when Adam is wearing the full safety glasses in the main one, but just the frames in the sub-one.
The popular song True Colors was played as part of the preshow film as an advertisement for Kodak. At Epcot, It was sung by two unknown artists. At the Disneyland Resort Paris version, it was sung by Cyndi Lauper. Template:Fact
- A running gag throughout the films was that Diane would faint upon realizing the current situation.
  - It was the only time Diane's faint was used as a dangerous obstacle against a shrunken person and not used as a running gag due to her being Giant sized and the risk of crushing someone under her was high if she faints as a Giant.
  - The point of view from a shrunken Nick and the audience of his mother Diane Szalinski's height to be at least 50 feet tall and her body gigantically weighs a very hefty 44 tons, or 88,000 pounds! In Honey, I Blew Up the Kid when Diane became a Giant, she grew up to 250 feet tall and weighed a whooping 5600 tons or over 11 million Pounds!

Credits and cast[]

Cast[]

Eric Idle as Dr. Nigel Channing
Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski
Robert Oliveri as Nick Szalinski
Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski
Daniel and Joshua Shalikar as Adam Szalinski
Katherine Lanasa as Kristie Smithers

Production credits[]

Directed by Randal Kleiser
Written by Bill Prady and Steve Spiegel
Produced by Edward S. Feldman and Dawn Steel
Production Executive - Steven Keller
Production Designer - Leslie Dilley
Director Of Photography - John Hora
Visual Effects - Eric Brevig
Original score - Bruce Broughton

External links[]

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