Toronto CN Tower: Entry Pavilion, Plaza, Renos | ?m | ?s | CLC | Arcadis

[AndreaPalladio]

Yup, whenever someone disagrees with you, just insult their intelligence. Classy.

Do you have a better way to describe bumpkins who are excited by light bulbs blinking on and off?

 

[MajorComplainer]

Yup, whenever someone disagrees with you, just insult their intelligence. Classy.

Don't you know? Lots of drama old queens on this board. It's their only way to pass the time, lol

 

[AndreaPalladio]

I Am Not Old!!!

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

^ Ooh, did you just try all-caps, only to have VBulletin shut you down? I hate that.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Yes, quite.

 

[wyliepoon]

Photos from the illumination ceremony and afterwards...

Nature puts on its own light show before illumination

After the Argonauts' home opener, SkyDome performs an engineering marvel that rivals the lighting of the CN Tower, the closing of the roof...

Mayor David Miller makes a speech

After the sound and light show...

11:00pm ... the first of many hourly light shows at the CN Tower

*****

Video clips of the sound and light show...

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Hourly lighting effect (11pm from Spadina railway overpass)

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

I really did arrive all ready to hate it. I haven't foreclosed on the possibility, either. But I was sold on the light show. That flickery business they did before they lit, you know - building towards the climax - did the trick for me.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Excellent. Someone's a bigger geek than me. Or a Bumpkin or whatever I'm supposed to be for being there last night.

Just joking. Seriously wyliepoon - nice job

 

[Juma]

When the Leafs make tha playoffs this year, hopefully they'll light it up to blue and white!

 

[EnviroTO]

Hey... I was there too. I was thinking afterwards that what would have been cool is to re-enact the music and light of the spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the radome and observation deck and reply to it on playing notes and colours on the elevator shaft.

 

[urbanboyto]

very cool..I think this lighting is great!

 

[Mystery White Boy]

Is the tip still not lit?

They should light the tower underneath the observation deck (glass floor area) as well as the red ring around the observation deck.

So is the red and white the standard colours or is this just for the Canada Day weekend?

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Is the tip still not lit?

They should light the tower underneath the observation deck (glass floor area) as well as the red ring around the observation deck.

So is the red and white the standard colours or is this just for the Canada Day weekend?

The very top section of the spire is not lit. I presume red & white are for Canada Day weekend, don't know what the "standard" will be. I guess we'll see on Tuesday night.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Much less gaudy then the previews had indicated, though I still wish they had illuminated the tower's legs instead of the shaft, making it look like an 1,800-foot tall swizzle stick.

This video illustrates why the lighting is internal and/or out of sight. It's not strings of LED's as I had pictured in my mind, it's LED panels which are discretely installed up & down the building

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfgXT3hSjyY&mode=related&search=

 

[wyliepoon]

I caught a bit of the tail end of the Canada-Chile U-20 game on CBC and noticed that even though the sky was already dark (around 9:30pm) the tower was not yet lit up.