A video is currently being made for how it is actually done this video was a theory and there will be a video on the actual rigging system.

These are wires that spin around really fast. Think of a helicopter. When the blades spin really fast, it is almost impossible to see them from a certain angle. With wires, there are a few mounted to each corner and it spins at a high speeds in which human vision can no longer see the suspension. Also, if you look at the video, the carpet only flys in the middle area of the stage. By spinning it around through a crane-like hoist, it gives off the illusion that the carpet is moving forward and backwards. Another layer of evidence is that there is a patent online for this kind of technology. I’ve seen this show three times on broadway, and I am absolutely 1000% sure that this is how they make it fly.

20 years before this, Brad Kane & Lea Salonga "Aladdin" 1993 Oscar they had already performed this with a floating carpet flying across whole stage.

Lol! It's not drones! They're fiber optic cables that spin really fast! I sat in the front row and saw and heard them! Plus a cast member told us!!

But how would they combat the sound of the turbines in 5:43.

It can’t be drones, as they would produce a significant downward thrust that would immediately disperse all the smoke.

"I can show you a whole new world if ya know what I mean" whips out a laptop, starts playing a whole new world on youtube

It uses 9 wires per corner spinning at high speed. US Patent 2014/022.4951 A1

This is not done by drones... Ever heard of David Copperfield? Technology that assisted David Copperfield to fly was used for this. Using drones would be highly unsafe and unreliable. You can't see it in the video but when watching this live, if you watch closely you can sometimes see the wires. The wires are very fine and string that spin rapidly which is why you don't see them.

5:37 is that supposed to be her bedroom window & its supposed to look like he was going to fall from a high place?

I just saw broadway across canadas making of it and i was so confused!

First of all it isn’t drones... there are no drones unless they are the size of a helicopter that is able to lift a human. Broadcast drones which are the size of a small round table barely have enough lift to lift the camera along with the wireless transmitters and batteries. John Gaughan was the person who invented this technique for David Copperfield which Jim Steinmeyer consulted with (who is illusionist designer fro Disney Theatricals). They are very thin steel cables that are essentially a loop which is then spun at high speeds to reflect as much light to give the appearance of them almost being invisible. With David Copperfield there is only one loop, for the magic carpet it is two loops. If you make contact with them, you’ll get a very nasty friction burn and cut. The circles in the four corners of the carpet have nothing to do with the flying. They are covers to hide the lights which up light the actors during A Whole New World so followspots don’t have to be used which then cast shadows on the star cloth behind.

Whats D23? was Aladdin out when Disney was 23?

Just for myself 2:48 4:20

I actually thought it was drones but I actually thought that I was wrong

There's no way it's drones. Any drone powerful enough to life 2 grown adults, who combined weigh at least 250 lbs, would be very big and extremely loud.

Wow. You spelt ladies and gentlemen wrong. Have low hopes for the rest of the video

Fog machine and a fan and a rope and a carpet

Bruh. Ever heard of something called physics...🤣

I believe it. I read that it was remote controlled

4 little fans like that cant lift 2 people of the ground

not drones...there is no air flow. There is only two other ways; cabling and/or magnets/magnetic levitation

If you look at the finale in real life you can normally see the wires.

Shut up everyone it’s simply Disney magic stop trying to ruin it. Next you’ll be saying Santa isn’t real 🤔

It’s done by wires here in this clip you can see it swinging. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odyPp7Vq3Jywfas.html

Aladdin sounds like he's on helium

That’s not right... 🙄

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Drones? Really? You really think drones can do that. I know exactly how it’s done and you are so far off the mark it’s scary.

Is this Broadway? The singing is terrible.

If you look at the test footage in this video you can see a very large shadow to the left of the carpet being cast from above that moves when the carpet travels forward It’s the shadow of the overhead that is suspending the carpet on wires

The "fans" are spinning cables. I sat at a weird angle last time I saw it and we could see the tops of the cables glistening

i think that it has wires but the propellers on the ends are to help ti move faster so then its harder to spot the wires. so the propellers keep it constantly shaking at a fast rate so then the wires dissapear in an illusional way.

Where did you get that footage from the musical?

Where did you get the instrumental of whole new world from broadway? (The track playing in the background)

It’s defiantly not done by drones I was say in the 2nd row last night and there are some sort of strings attached with a big mechanism up top that spins but can’t figure out how they strong is almost unnoticeable

Thank you so much for this. A great enough explanation for myself and 6 year olds. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

Thats still not how it works. The carpet flies with three wires on each corner that spin in a circle at a speed that allows the eye not to see it. It really is just wires. Drones would cause far too much wind and noise to be used in a production like this, especially with the actors microphones being so close to where the "drones" would be mounted.

it defiantly has some sort of fans on it you can clearly see this at 4:17 min looks like 1 in each corner, but i feel it as something to do with it flying

when the background music came on i started singing on my own from les miserables it just went so well😂

If it was drones, it would have to be constantly spinning to be stored. I have been on the stage and looked up into the fly deck to see the carpet right there above the stage. It would also be too loud with drones, just saying . . .

HA my class got the tickets for free and we went to meet some of the actors and actresses and we got to ask questions. And they said the magic carpet was flying because of Disney magic.

the flying carpet scene they had in disney california adventure was the best

Wieviel Helium haben die intus?

It cannot be drones. Any drone strong enough to lift two full grown people would make one HELL of a noise. The simplest solution is usually correct; it's done with 4 thin wires in the corners of the carpet.

Those 4 tiny spinning props would only be able to lift the weight of a small camera so its clearly not powered by that entirely

Actually, if you still want to know how the magic works, I recommend that you get how dose the show go on. Altomatic Wenches and thin wires, I did not say how the magic was done.

The drones would need to be so powerful that the rest of the cast on the stage and the first five rows of the stalls would be blown away and the whole auditorium would be deafened by the motors. So it has to magic!

That can be very true too because you could see one or two wires.

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I can't believe this is still a debate... the idea that it's a drone is laughably ridiculous. I literally can't roll my eyes hard enough and the guy that made this video is well... misinformed under his/her own biased research.

Done with wires: www.theatrecrafts.com/pages/home/shows/aladdin/ Also go to the patent for it: patents.google.com/patent/US20140224951

All these whacked out spinning cables and flying drones theories are beyond absurd... have none of you ever thought about the reality of that idea? The noise would be so obvious and loud, the rolling fog on the floor would be blown all off the stage, and the actors would be dangerously close to the machinery. I cannot handle the level of stubborn naivety in some of these comments. People literally insulting others for stating they are incorrect when it’s so obvious that this proposal is beyond poorly conceived and completely impossible.

Howcome the confetis on the floor were not blown away? :(

Why is the watermark so big tho?

There is a public patent on this, its fast moving cables.. do patent search.. Old magic trick.

People are saying wires which might be the case but if it was drones they do not take up a whole lot of air because they mostly depend on their power source to make them spin enough and they are specially designed not to take up that much air due to the fact that there is 1 in each corner. Plus this just a hypothesis.

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Maybe the wires are just on the actors for in case they fall?

Those must be some extremely powerful drones!!

Here is the patent for the technology filed by the company that did it, Tait. patents.google.com/patent/US20140224951

if the carpet was operated by drones...why oh why is there a need for the black background? I convinced the secret are the twirling wires.

Yep! It must be drones, drones that make no noise and or air turbulence, as in, blowing crap all over the stage and that are powerful enough to lift two humans!! Dude! If you believe this is drones because you cant figure it out then you probably believe the earth is flat cause it looks flat from your point of view! Hello!

There is no way it’s drones 😂😂 it’s wires I saw them at the end of the show

definitiv keine dronen! keine chance damit! zwei personen mit vier dronen - unmöglich!

There is no such thing as a silent drone. SMH. Wires spin fast so they can't be seen. Here is a copy of the patent www.google.com/patents/US20140224951

Here's the patent: patents.google.com/patent/US20140224951

Apologies in advance for any offense but if you think it's drones you're a complete idiot...

my friends uncle made it so i know the real explanation