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UPDATE: Hop Aboard the Christmas Carol Train!

May 8, 2009

UPDATE: The official website for the train tour has launched!

USA Today has published an extensive report on a train tour that will go cross country for Disney's A Christmas Carol, starting on May 22nd in Los Angeles and ending in New York on November 1st. The film, directed and written by Robert Zemeckis, hits conventional and IMAX theaters on November 6th. It features captured performances by Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes and Fionnula Flanagan.

Here's what you can expect in the train's four cars:

•A digital gallery of the film's characters and their design evolution; each portrait will digitally change and show how they were created.

•Artifacts from the Charles Dickens Museum in London, including a first edition of the original novel and some of the author's personal writing paraphernalia.

•A display of performance-capture technology, in which the real actors' movements and expressions are recorded and digitized, then used for animated renderings.

•Interactive games, including a face-morphing photo booth that will blend the visitor's visage with Scrooge's.

The fantasy will extend beyond the train cars, with the holiday spirit re-created with decorations, local carolers and even artificial snow. And in the parking lot: a portable theater to show early footage.

Click the photo of the train below for more info!

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COMMENTS (11)

Posted by:

Mee

May 8, 2009

You know...sometimes you wish you were a kid again (just so it wouldn't look weird for you to check something as cool as that, out) :) Still might...weird how something christmas-y is starting in May and doesn't go to til december..

Posted by:

Mandarino

May 8, 2009

its cool. i love the polar express and thats what this reminds me of.

Posted by:

BEN HUR

May 8, 2009

This is going to be really cool..Zemeckis has carved a niche all his own with what he's doing with performance capture.

Posted by:

Anna

May 8, 2009

Cool!!! xD

Posted by:

Scotty

May 8, 2009

Who says you still have to be a kid to go and enjoy something like this! If it comes my way, I'm going - kids or no kids. Way cool!

Posted by:

Eric

May 8, 2009

I m wondering if anyone knows where it will be in LA. I have been searching for this train on the web, but no info.

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Harry K

May 8, 2009

Wow, what a cool idea! It is weird they are starting so early. I am psyched for this movie but not really in the Christmas mood quite yet.
Zemeckis is a genius

Posted by:

Johnny Rico

May 8, 2009

I hope Casper Van Dien is in this movie!

Posted by:

Dmh

June 14, 2009

Looking for the list of cities. I hope they are coming to Detroit or Pontiac.