londonbound Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Milenium dome is for an experience much like the sydney harbor bridge climb. People will be able to pay to climb the dome. PS if anyone has watched teh leaked dress rehearsal on the NBC website it is clear where the cauldron is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nu4m Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Here is something I posted on sky scraper city: Been playing detective,- and i have a new random theory: here are a couple of photos we have all seen, one is inside the Heatherwick StUdios taken very recently, and the other is of some early testing in the Olympic stadium. They are obviously testing the 'clouds' Boyle has indicated will hang above the rural segment you can see these at the bottom of the image. But, if you look at the peculiar ramp they have built at the centre of the stadium, there is a single spherical device that is waiting on the track at the end of the ramp. Now, in the photograph of the Heatherwick studio, on the shelves at the far right are 3 scale models of a very similar spherical device. Could this be the cauldron? Or part of the cauldron? One of the spheres that appears on the very right of the shelf looks as though it has a complex structure and a hole at the top with a vortex-style tunnel curving into it. My guess is that the sphere could be lit. - with the flame contained within the sphere coming out through the top of this sphere. It also looks as though the sphere could be lifted up into the air, be the cauldron or form part of the lighting process. Also sitting above the shelf on the top is what could be a 1:1 scale model of a complex copper piping detail used in the sphere with the ends capped red. Just a theory, but has certainly got me thinking. http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q530/gpsat12/b84882ce.jpg http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q530/gpsat12/25e79503.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractarian Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 PS if anyone has watched teh leaked dress rehearsal on the NBC website it is clear where the cauldron is. Can you name a particular time in the video where it is clear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonbound Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 at about 3:20 they announce that the Olympic flame is arriving. "John Smith passes to James Doe..." et cetera. There is a guy on a segway who is the torch as they are clearly practicing following him with the camera angles. He goes to an area covered by a tarp-like thing, there are some sound and visual effects, and then the fireworks start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul92 Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 nu4m - its been posted already and I think it was agreed that it's nothing. In other news: Redgrave is back on the BBC panel - still time for him to light the couldron at the end but he's still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonbound Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 I should add, it is clear what the climactic moment is in the music...but they don't show the actual lighting. But given the camera angles it is clear where it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul92 Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 If you're watching the preshow - take note of the hill and the path leading up it. Maybe the torch barer/barers will climb the hill before lighting the cauldron? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonbound Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 And some people on this thread were right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filipe_Golias Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 In other news: Redgrave is back on the BBC panel - still time for him to light the couldron at the end but he's still there. IIRC, Dawn Fraser (?) was sitted next to the Governor-General of Australia in the VIP box... and then she did a part of the torch relay inside the stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul92 Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 IIRC, Dawn Fraser (?) was sitted next to the Governor-General of Australia in the VIP box... and then she did a part of the torch relay inside the stadium. Haha, well I was 8 when that happened but if you're right then that gives hope that it is Redgrave - A choice I think most people would be happy with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJoe Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 #never been prouder to be British! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templeryan Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 TOWER BRIDGE TO OPEN SHORTLY TO ALLOW A BOAT CALLED 'MAX POWER' THROUGH. That's how it's getting to the stadium, by boat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul92 Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Haha MAX POWER???? And that rules out the little square cloud having any part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templeryan Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Yeah, should have seen the boat, it was a lit up speedboat with the flame at the front, headed towards east London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJoe Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Are we about to find out? It's the torch section! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templeryan Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 The genius thing is that they knew every single person would be watching the opening ceremony... nobody would even realise the torch had gone through Tower Bridge. David Beckham was 'driving' the boat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJoe Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Well, who knew Becks was driving that boat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul92 Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 So is the water wheel the cauldron? Like maybe it could turn or something and raise? Was it right there the whole time?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJoe Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Copper petals! Bet they are for the cauldron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templeryan Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 The rings at Tower Bridge have been raised... could this be anything? The boats already passed through, so could this mean something else is happening there? As for the water wheel, not sure... it was lit up earlier (electric lighting) but I think it has since gone off stage. The disc that people were talking about, was just on stage involved in a dance, so I don't think that's the cauldron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonbound Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 These copper "petals" that each team is carrying look a lot like the tickets...they have to make up the cauldron. Everything's coming together. The cauldron will be assembled with 204 parts from each of the 204 nations in the center of the stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenadian Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Yep...I have to agree! I bet THAT'S why we have had no idea what it will look like or where it will go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templeryan Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 The tickets! Every country is bringing out what looks like the cone of a trumpet or a copper petal... the things seen on the opening ceremony tickets! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonbound Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Does anyone know where the kids with the petals are going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJoe Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 I think the bit with Beckham was pre filmed not live, my bet is on the copper petals being assembled to form part of the cauldron. He said a 'significant role' and lighting the cauldron is the only significant role left other than the speeches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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