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7 May 2008: Toy Story Mania Fun Facts
- Each ride vehicle weighs as much as 8,580
Woody dolls.
- It would take 5,026 toy soldiers lined up
end-to-end to make up the total track length.
- Toy Story Mania! is the first time that Walt
Disney Imagineering is creating an attraction for two Disney Parks
simultaneously.
- It has been estimated that, each day, guests
may break over one million virtual plates using the spring-action
shooters.
- Riders in the Sky, the award winning group
that wrote the songs that Mr. Potato Head performs as part of the
attraction, is the same group that wrote "Woody's Roundup" for the
"Toy Story" feature films.
- This is the first attraction that Walt Disney
Imagineering designed where the Imagineers had to wear 3-D glasses
to art direct all the black-light paint elements.
- The murals located in the load area at
Disney's Hollywood Studios are the biggest murals painted since
Epcot was built.
- In order to create a show that responds not
only to every pull of a guest's spring-action shooter, but also
every move their midway tram makes, there are over 150 computers
communicating over multiple networks throughout the attraction.
- At Toy Story Mania! every guest gets to
experience life at the size of a toy. So in Andy's room, a 5 foot 6
inch person will feel about 14" tall.
- More time was spent programming Mr. Potato
Head than for any other Audio-Animatronics figure ever created by
Walt Disney Imagineering.
- Mr. Potato Head will be able to say more
lines of dialogue than any Audio-Animatronics figure ever created by
Walt Disney Imagineering.
- The Mr. Potato Head Audio-Animatronics figure
is the first time that an Audio-Animatronics figure can remove a
body part and re-attach it (in the case of his ear).
- The Mr. Potato Head Audio-Animatronics figure
has new, highly expressive and animated eyes that can look directly
at a particular guest in the queue when speaking to him/her.
- Mr. Potato Head marks the first
Audio-Animatronics figure whose mouth appears to form words and
vowel sounds.
- In each of the Toy Story Mania! games, there
is at least one "easter egg" -- targets that can trigger the
appearance of bonus high-value targets and other changes in the
scene.
- Toy Story Mania! is the first time that Woody
and Buzz Lightyear (along with some of their friends) from the
Disney-Pixar "Toy Story" films appear together in a ride-through
attraction.
- Watch for loose change in the prize scene --
Hamm is carrying more than $6 in coins when his cork pops.
- Because of the indoor nature of the
attraction and to keep the guest experience fun for all, flash
photography or video is not allowed on Toy Story Mania!
- Everyone can play! There is no height or age
restriction for guests to experience Toy Story Mania!
- Actual ride time aboard Toy Story Mania! is a
full five minutes.
- Ready, aim, fire! Players have 30 seconds in
each game play area to score points.
- A beeline to fun! Toy Story Mania! utilizes
Disney's FASTPASS, a return voucher offering little or no waiting
time at select attractions. Single riders also have their own
queuing option for Toy Story Mania!
25 March 2008: New Toy Story Mania press
release
TOY STORY’ CHARACTERS CHALLENGE GUESTS TO RIDE AND
PLAY TOY STORY MANIA!
Disney Parks guests will don 3-D glasses and enter a wild and wooly 4-D
world of Woody the Cowboy and Buzz Lightyear when Toy Story Mania!
premieres this summer. The attraction will debut on both coasts: at
Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, and
along the Paradise Pier midway in Disney’s California Adventure at
Disneyland Resort in California.
Celebrating the Disney•Pixar classics “Toy Story” and “Toy Story II,”
Toy Story Mania! raises the bar for interactive ride-game attractions.
It’s a high energy, immersive adventure that makes guests a key part of
the action as their game play triggers special effects that provide a
fourth dimension of fun. “Toy Story Mania!” engages guests in a whole
new way with the delightful characters of the films.
Upon entering the attraction, guests will be welcomed by Mr. Potato
Head, more than five feet tall and looking like he stepped right down
from the movie screen. The state-of-the-art Audio-Animatronics Mr.
Potato Head makes a perfect carnival barker for the immersive Toy Story
Mania! experience, since he is the first attraction-based
Audio-Animatronics figure who can engage guests in a two-way
conversation.
Everyone gets a front row seat when guests put on their 3-D glasses,
“shrink” to the size of a toy, and board the Toy Story Mania! carnival
tram ride vehicles, whose fast travel and spinning add a huge amount of
fun to the interactive experience. The exciting and colorful route takes
guests through “Andy’s Bedroom” filled with oversized murals and toys.
The vehicles spin to face Toy Story Mania! game booths – high-tech yet
rooted in classic midway games of skill – and guests aim for 3-D
animated targets using their own on-board “spring-action shooters.”
Players pair up and sit side-by-side for a friendly competition that
delivers an ever-changing variety of targets and surprises.
As they play, guests can actually see the “virtual” objects they’ve
launched leave their “spring-action shooters” and hit the targets (or
not). And thanks to 4-D special effects technology, they may sense
objects whirring past them as they pop out of the 3-D scenes.
The Toy Story Mania! games – five of them, plus an introductory practice
round – are designed to be enjoyed by audiences of all ages and skills,
from beginners to serious gamers. Play is energized by the spirit of the
“Toy Story” characters cast in games that best suit their very animated
personalities.
First comes the “Pie Throw Practice” round in which guests can try
splattering targets with “virtual” pies.
Next Hamm the pig hosts a “Hamm & Eggs” booth in which players launch
“plastic virtual eggs” at various barnyard targets.
“Bo Peep’s Baaa-loon Pop” presents a landscape full of balloon sheep,
trees and other objects at which guests can launch virtual darts. But
players had better be careful! A popped virtual water balloon might add
an additional 4-D wet dimension to the game.
From there it’s on to “Green Army Men Shoot Camp” where the challenge is
to break plates with baseballs.
Next up is “Buzz Lightyear’s Flying Tossers,” a ring-toss game hosted by
everyone’s favorite space ranger, with Little Green Aliens as the
targets.
For the grand finale game, Toy Story Mania! players will ride through
Wild West scenes launching virtual suction-cup darts at targets in
“Woody’s Rootin’ Tootin’ Shootin’ Gallery.” A final “Woody’s Bonus
Roundup” encourages guests to fire their “spring-action shooters” as
rapidly as possible at one last super-target for extra points. When
scores are tallied, players’ skill levels are identified with the reward
of an onscreen “virtual plush.”
The game play of Toy Story Mania! is accompanied by ingenious musical
variations of Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got A Friend in Me,” arranged by
veteran music editor Bruno Coon, a frequent Newman collaborator, to
compliment the games – for example, a military brass band version for
“Green Army Man Shoot Camp.” No matter how many times guests return to
ride and play, they can be sure every ride-through will be different.
26 January 2007: Toy Story Mania announcement
press release
It's the wondrous world of Woody the Cowboy, Buzz
Lightyear and Green Army Men. And coming in 2008, guests of Walt Disney
World and Disneyland resorts get to ride and play inside an
energy-filled toybox of fun with the debut on both coasts of "Toy Story
Mania."
Celebrating the Disney-Pixar classics "Toy Story" and "Toy Story II,"
"Toy Story Mania" will take the interactive ride-game experience to
exciting new heights. High-tech yet rooted in classic midway games of
skill, "Toy Story Mania" will match the delightful characters of the
films with games that best suit their very animated personalities.
Fun for the whole family, "Toy Story Mania" will immerse guests of
Disney-MGM Studios and Disney's California Adventure into the "Toy
Story" world as never before. Donning 3-D glasses, guests shrink to the
size of a toy, and hop into fanciful ride vehicles that travel and twist
along a colorful midway-themed route. Upon arriving at each game booth,
they will aim for animated targets using their own special on-board "toy
cannon."
As guests score points, they will be cheered on by favorite "Toy Story"
friends like Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Hamm, Bo Peep and the Little Green
Men. Hidden targets garner players extra points and lead to different
levels of play. The energy of the characters, the competition with other
riders and the hilarious, unpredictable game action make this a unique
experience that families will want to try again and again.
The attraction features games that audiences of all ages and skills --
from beginner to serious gamer -- can enjoy. No matter how many times
guests return to ride and play, they can be sure every ride-through will
be different. Players pair up and sit side-by-side for a friendly
competition that delivers an ever-changing variety of targets and
surprises.
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