Lifted from Today daily, 05-Jun-2008 edition
Walt Disney parts on both coasts – Anaheim’s Disneyland and Orlando’s Disney World – are beefing up their Pixar presence with a new 3D video shooting gallery themed after the Toy Story movies.
Guests enter the world of Andy, the cartoon boy whose come-to-life toys have created their own carnival while he’s away. Visitors are made to feel “shrunk” down to toy size by giant dice, checkers and other oversized toys linking the ride queue.
At the front is a interactive Mr Potato Head carnival barker that Disney calls one of its most ambitious audio animatronics ever. He sings, dances and tells jokes. And he’s not even the main attraction.
Down the stairs, guests step right onto a platform in the middle of the ride track. Each car seats four people, and each rider gets a spring-action shooter and an on-board computer to ring up scores.
The track whizzes from booth to booth, where players aim the cannon at animated targets. Because it’s in 3-D, you can actually see where the bullets are going.
Disney touts the attraction as “4-D,” because puffs of air and small mists make objects seem to fly past the rider. The cannons shoot darts, rings and pies, corresponding to the booth the ride car has stopped by. Hidden “Easter eggs” will jack up a rider’s points.
High scores of the day are kept on monitors at the end of the ride, so you can tell just how good (or bad) you were. — AP
Guests enter the world of Andy, the cartoon boy whose come-to-life toys have created their own carnival while he’s away. Visitors are made to feel “shrunk” down to toy size by giant dice, checkers and other oversized toys linking the ride queue.
At the front is a interactive Mr Potato Head carnival barker that Disney calls one of its most ambitious audio animatronics ever. He sings, dances and tells jokes. And he’s not even the main attraction.
Down the stairs, guests step right onto a platform in the middle of the ride track. Each car seats four people, and each rider gets a spring-action shooter and an on-board computer to ring up scores.
The track whizzes from booth to booth, where players aim the cannon at animated targets. Because it’s in 3-D, you can actually see where the bullets are going.
Disney touts the attraction as “4-D,” because puffs of air and small mists make objects seem to fly past the rider. The cannons shoot darts, rings and pies, corresponding to the booth the ride car has stopped by. Hidden “Easter eggs” will jack up a rider’s points.
High scores of the day are kept on monitors at the end of the ride, so you can tell just how good (or bad) you were. — AP
