Disney revealed caller details astir 2 rides coming soon to Walt Disney World connected Saturday, drafting inspiration from 2 of their astir beloved 21st period movie franchises.
A caller Cars attraction astatine Magic Kingdom volition diagnostic off-road vehicles to simulate the feeling of "racing implicit rocky terrain, ascending to upland peaks, and dodging astir geysers," according to the Disney Parks Blog. To bash this, Disney Imagineers traveled to the Arizona godforsaken to contention astir connected a ungraded track.
"We’re utilizing a customized accumulation vehicle," Imagineer Michael Hundgen said during The Future of World-Building astatine a Disney sheet astatine the South by Southwest festival successful Austin, Texas. "It has sensors each implicit it, and we’re taking it for trial drives connected our ungraded way to stitchery information connected however the conveyance responds to antithetic terrain. This is wherever we crook that feeling we privation into real-world engineering."
Along with video of the racetrack testing, Disney Parks Blog besides shared an illustration of what the thrust vehicles volition look like, implicit with faces of well-known characters, larger wheels and ample headlights.
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A Monsters, Inc. coaster is going to beryllium the featured thrust successful a caller onshore inspired by the movies astatine Hollywood Studios. On Saturday, Disney shared a video of the "first-ever vertical lift" in 1 of its parks that volition instrumentality riders up to the company's "first-ever suspended coaster" arsenic they "zoom into the doorway vault."
"I tin archer you that everyone astatine Pixar is excited astir however this is coming together," Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter said. "It truly is similar a imagination travel existent for us."
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"We’re truthful excited astir the boundless aboriginal successful beforehand of america arsenic we usage caller exertion to archer the adjacent procreation of Disney stories," Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D’Amaro said connected Saturday.
Disney has not announced erstwhile either thrust volition open, but erstwhile they were announced backmost successful August 2024, D’Amaro said that "dirt is moving."
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