The stage

[popavapeur]

Little tubes… you betta light up è_é

More flash, more strobe effects, more leprochaun riding sharks jumping into fire holes with fireworks.

 

[Edwin]

More pictures from Twitter: https://twitter.com/ESC2015ORF/status/587924263010754560

 

[Pawhlen]

Little tubes… you betta light up è_é

More flash, more strobe effects, more leprochaun riding sharks jumping into fire holes with fireworks.

Don´t forget interactive projection

 

[some1]

Those tubes look odd and make the stage look even smaller than it already is.

 

[Leydan]

I'm not sure how I feel about how the stage will look? It doesn't look very promising so far, This could well be a close contender for my worst stage award, which 2010 currently have.

 

[GermanBango]

The stage looks really small on those pics

 

[QwaarJet]

The stage looks fucking appalling. They're doing a Malmo number this year.

 

[marty]

the stage is far away from beeing fixed... so no reason to complain about it.

 

[Brandt]

I really disliked the stage so far. I am not sure if it will be worse than Oslo 2010, which has the worst one of recent years. Hopefully, I am wrong and every act will be spectacular.

 

[EscGeek]

the stage is too small....but as long as they use modern technology,it will not be worse than Oslo 2010...shame on you norway! One of the richest countries in the world and they were so cheap at the time

 

[kamc]

We have this every year with the initial panic that the stage will be awful....the only year the panic was justified was with the truly tiny Malmo one.
I have faith the Vienna stage will look amazing.

 

[Leydan]

We have this every year with the initial panic that the stage will be awful....the only year the panic was justified was with the truly tiny Malmo one.
I have faith the Vienna stage will look amazing.

I liked the 2014 stage from the start, with the design and all that. This one I don't, I've been unsure about since we saw the design of it.

 

[QwaarJet]

the stage is far away from beeing fixed... so no reason to complain about it.

There are plenty of reasons to complain.

 

[GRE]

Smaller stages can help ballads.

 

[GWTW1939]

I wonder what it will look like finished. These pictures make it look rather small and the first one makes it look even claustrophobic

 

[sigi]

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[sigi]

[MENTION=12168]GWTW1939[/MENTION] lach....same time

 

[GWTW1939]

[MENTION=12168]GWTW1939[/MENTION] lach....same time

 

[anto475]

Ugh and it looks like they've just stuck a fat man onto part of the stage for no reason!!!! Surely this will be in breach of the 6-people-on-stage rule!!!!!! SOOCSOOCSOOC #worst #stage #ever #ugh #angst #eurovision? #morelike #terriblestageovision

 

[anto475]

the stage is too small....but as long as they use modern technology,it will not be worse than Oslo 2010...shame on you norway! One of the richest countries in the world and they were so cheap at the time

On a serious note, excuse you?! The Oslo stage was amazing!! Very different! It would have been terrible if they just copied Moscow and went all LED-crazy, as they did in Dusseldorf. It brought the focus to the song, rather than whatever was going on in the background, that's why so many genuine songs placed higher rather than countries that sent a mediocre song that had an amazing backdrop (case in point, Ukraine 2011) Plus it dragged down the participation costs which was very important given the economic crisis was threatening so many country's participations that year. Let's not forget that NRK was on a tight budget that year, having had to sell broadcasting rights to the World Cup to a competitor in order to even host the contest.