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Cars Land

First Look at Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters

A brand new attraction is racing into Cars Land at Disney California Adventure® Park!

Opening March 7th, 2016, Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters will dance away to upbeat Italian Music straight from Carsoli, Italy. Each car will have its own personality and signature dance moves, so every ride will be different than the ride before! Check out the details in the behind-the-scenes Walt Disney Imagineering video below:

The addition of Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters to Cars Land marks the first Disney attraction in the United States to operate off of a trackless ride system! We can’t wait to check it out!

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Holiday Cheer Hits Cars Land

Festive fun has hit the streets of Cars Land inside Disney California Adventure® Park. The residents of Radiator Springs have decorated for the holidays, and it something that you definitely do not want to miss!

Check out this video sampling some of the town’s decorations.

Ride Along on Radiator Springs Racers

Start your engines and prepare for the ride of your life! This thrilling auto racing competition will send you rocketing through the desert landscape of Ornament Valley. You’ll run into some of your favorite characters from the Disney·Pixar movie Cars in some very familiar locations!

Take a ride on Disney California Adventure® Park’s new attraction, Radiator Springs Racers, with our exclusive Off to Neverland Travel® video. Ka-chow!

Celebrities Starstruck by Cars Land

The Opening of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure® Park in Anaheim, CA was a star-studded affair to say the least. This VIP event brought many celebrities to the park to experience the new areas and walk the red carpet. As one would expect, no celebrity was bright enough to outshine the real star of the night, Cars Land! 

Many of the celebrities took time to share their thoughts on this new immersive area of Disney California Adventure® Park. Here are some of our favorites:


 

Radiator Springs Racers is unbelievable. Cars Land is everything you want it to be. – Country music artist Brad Paisley

 

 

 

 

 

The expansion makes Disneyland even better, if that’s possible. – Actress Ariel Winter, star of ABC’s “Modern Family”

 

Luigi’s Flying Tires is the most original ride I’ve ever ridden. Cars Land is just amazing. – Actor Nolan Gould, star of ABC’s “Modern Family”


 

 

Mater’s awesome – I loved him when I first saw the cartoon and read the script. – Comedian Larry the Cable Guy

  

 

 

 

Cars Land is the place to be this summer. – Actor Rico Rodriguez, from ABC’s “Modern Family”

  

 

 

Cars Land is fantastic – the setting is quite unique. – Actor Andy Garcia

 

 

I can’t wait to share this with my family. – Tom Staggs, Chairman of Disney Parks & Resorts

This is unbelievably exciting. Walt Disney was right – there’s always more we can do. – Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Co.

To have a whole land based on the characters we created at Pixar is a dream come true. – John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studio, and Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering

 

Get Your Kicks in Radiator Springs

Today, the “car-acters” of Disney●Pixar’s animated film Cars will welcome guests to Cars Land and its three new attractions: Radiator Springs Racers, Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree and Luigi’s Flying Tires.

Radiator Springs Racers

What you thought was a leisurely, scenic tour of Ornament Valley turns into an all-out race for the Piston Cup as guests race side-by-side through the mountain range, around Willy’s Butte and past the plunging waterfall, Radiator Falls – all familiar sights to fans of the movie.

Guests entering the six-passenger convertible will notice their car features a male or female face. The gender of the car is determined by the color of the car – eight in all. The scenic road trip begins through the countryside and town of Radiator Springs. After a stop at Luigi’s Casa Della Tires or Ramone’s House of Body Art, final racing tips will be given by Doc Hudson.

The race begins as the cars are separated onto parallel tracks. Racing nose-to-nose to the finish, the cars will encounter 45 degree turns as they zoom through the desert landscape.

Radiator Springs Racers is a FASTPASS® attraction. Guests must be 40″ high to ride. It is estimated that each vehicle of the attraction will travel approximately 36,000 miles per year – equivalent to more than 14 trips down the original Route 66!

Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree

It’s an old-fashioned “tow-si-do!” Everyone’s favorite tow truck, Mater, has corralled a herd of runaway baby tractors in his junkyard. Step into Mater’s salvage yard and ride trailers hitched to the baby tractors.

As you load into your tractor, you’ll notice that no two tractors are the same. All 22 have different markings, mouths, and eye colors. They also have license plates with letters that represent initials and birthdays of key contributors to the Cars Land project. However they do have one thing in common: They all LOVE to dance!

The minimum height requirement for Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree is 32 inches.

Luigi’s Flying Tires

“Uno for the money, due for the show, tre to get ready and quattro to go!” Cars characters Luigi and Guido play host to a “Festival of the Flying Tires” at Luigi’s Casa Della Tires.  When the music starts, tires float and dance in the grand tradition of a celebration that first started in Luigi’s hometown of Carsoli, Italy.

Guests board oversized Fettuccini-brand tires, accommodating up to two adults and one child, or one adult and two children. Guests steer by shifting their body weight , bumping into other tires as they float across Luigi’s 8,000-square-foot Italian garden and tire storage yard. For extra fun, try to catch one of the inflatable balls scattered throughout the attraction.
Nostalgic Disneyland® Park fans will recognize the attraction as a descendant of the Flying Saucers attraction, which operated in Tomorrowland from 1961 to 1966. 6,714 air vents keep the tires floating approximately two inches above the ground! The minimum height requirement for Luigi’s Flying Tires is 32 inches.

Cars Land Opening Night Photos

Here are some photos from our VIP preview of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure® Park on Wednesday, June 13th.

Cars Land will open to the public on Friday, June 15th. The only word to describe this new area is: AMAZING! We can’t wait for our guests to visit and enjoy!

“Fine Tuning” the Elements on Radiator Springs Racers

Even though Cars Land has not opened to the public at Disney California Adventure® Park, the anticipation of the Radiator Springs Racers attraction seems to be creating the most buzz.

In order to give the best guest experience, each ride vehicle has its own on board audio system. Joe Herrington, Principal Media Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering has been riding the attraction since March fine tuning the audio.

Watch this video for a behind the scenes look at the work Joe has been doing on the audio track for Radiator Springs Racers.

Enter to Win: Cars Land Checkered Flag Giveaway

cars giveawayFriday, June 15th, Disney California Adventure® Park will open Cars Land,  re-creating Radiator Springs with many of the familiar landmarks from the Disney●Pixar’s hit animated film Cars.

To celebrate, we have a special giveaway for you. Register to win one of eight (8) sets of Lightning McQueen and Tow Mater 9″ plush toys. These authentic Disney plush will definitely get the ‘motor running’ of your little Cars fan!

Registering to win is simple. Just follow the directions on the app below. The app will also give you an opportunity to receive extra entries into the contest. The contest ends Monday (June 18, 2012, at Midnight Central time), so don’t miss your change to register!

Tune into AFV for a Sneak Peek at Cars Land

Radiator Springs RacersIf you are just as excited for the Cars Land opening on June 15th as we are, be sure to tune into Part 2 of the season finale of America’s Funniest Home Videos tonight! The show was taped inside Cars Land at Disney California Adventure® Park and will give a glimpse of what guests will be able to experience when Cars Land opens in less than a month!

Check your local listings for air time of AFV on your ABC station.

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