Toon Studio placemaking

[Anthony]

The Nemo ride really does sound amazing! And I love the name as well - Crush's Sea Turtle Spin.

Even the Cars ride has got me a bit excited now too - the old abandoned petrol station could be a really interesting and spectacular area of Toon Studios, and is very different to Nemo and the Carpets. I think the beauty of Toon Studios (and perhaps a Studio park in general) is that they can have all these wildly different themes right next door to each other... and it works!

[Kristof]

The name for the Finding Nemo ride will be Crush's Turtle Twister, at least according to the same Soundtracker on Micechat.

What do you think of that name?

[Kinou]

page 4, already revealed the name back in June, remmeber?

[Kristof]

Oh yeah, that's why it sounded so familiar.

[Kristof]

FINALLY some real concept art! Pictures are from the DLRP fan event on september 10.





Source M!ke on DLRPmagazine board

[Kristof]

M!ke has posted more concept art of Cars and Nemo:







It looks like the last one is the building with vehicles coming out!!

[Anthony]

Whoooaaaaaa!!! Whooaaaa!!!! Seriously, Toon Studios is going to be .. SO ... AMAZING!!!!!!

I can't believe all that stuff about the Crush-shaped vehicles is true! And the part where they come out of the building - wow! And the submarine part - wow! And I never thought I'd say this, but Cars looks pretty WOW too!

*Baloo takes a few seconds to breathe and calm down from the excitement*

I can absolutely see WDS becoming a better park than MGM if they continue this way. These concept arts really show that DLRP most definately are very interested in brand new, totally unique rides. Well done to all the Imagineers working on this - DLRP's first chance for a cool new ride in years and years, and they've done us proud - like, totally dude! (yes, be prepared for a lot of that Crush talk in this topic...)

I wonder who's making the ride though? It's obviously an actual spinning coaster with dark ride sections rather than the other way round... The way the cars are designed with two people each side facing away from each other makes it look like a Maurer Sohne spinner, but then again it could be a new design from Reverchon or even a custom designed spinner by Vekoma, Disney's long-term coaster buddy.

I read over on MiceAge that they might actually postpone the Cars ride until the future. At first this seems quite sad, but when you think about it, this unbelieveably amazing-looking Nemo ride would actually do better being advertised just on its own than as part of a wider "Toon Studios" new attraction, don't you think? If they advertise the land as a whole then people might not get how much of a mini-E-Ticket this seems to be...

[Kristof]

I agree Baloo! I'm soooooooooooo excited. I knew this ride was going to be awesome. Doesn't matter if it will be a wild mouse or not.

But I keep on wondering if we'll get an animatronic in Toon Studios...

[Anthony]

But I keep on wondering if we'll get an animatronic in Toon Studios...

Me too! It does always feel really odd that there's no AA's in the studios, and I guess if they were going to add any then Toon Studios would be the best place for it. Unfortunately Turtle Twisters will have projected characters, won't it? I'm not sure if they could really fit an AA into the Cars ride, so let's keep on hoping they get one into Crush's ride! It doesn't have to even be a big, complex one - just a small one in the queue line or something would instantly give the park (even more of) a Disney feeling.

Does anyone have any ideas what films they could base future Toon Studios rides on? They definately want to keep expanding it, and they can put any theme imaginable in there and it'll work...

The Incredibles is kinda inevitable, that Omnidroid-themed spinning ride sounds like it has already been designed even... What actual Disney films could they put in there?

I'd like to see Mickey's Philharmagic added in a new building, and then the Animagique theatre can be themed into the land and used for big shows like LOTLK...

[Anthony]

Videos from the "Disney Celebration" event last weekend where the extensive concept art above was released during the "Toon Studios" presentation are now available:

Video 1 [50Mb]

Video 2 [25Mb]

Many many thanks to Kyoto!

The videos include all the concept art above plus some unseen things such as plans of how the rides will fit into the studios and an overview plan of Crush's Turtle Twister!! It looks like there'll be a small dark ride section at the front before it goes into the spinning coaster "East Australian Current" current section.

I think it's safe to say that the next 3 years will probably be some of, if not *the* best in DLRP's history.

[Anthony]

Just a very small update (and not as exciting as yesterday's) - they've now got construction walls up around the ImagiNations Building car park, so I guess construction will indeed be starting later this month...



(source: Joel)

[Anthony]

Here are practically all of the sketches featured in the video...

WDS overview with Toon Studios:



Crush's Turtle Twister

Early attraction poster:


Ride layout plan:


Entrance:


Loading:


On-Ride:

[Anthony]

On-Ride (continued):





Unload:


Exit:



Cars

Layout plan:


Queue area:


On-Ride:


(source: caps from Zarniwoop on Dlp.info, taken from the videos by Kyoto)


Phew! There you go! I wonder if we'll ever see this much concept art released at the same time again?

Take a look up at the Turtle Twister concepts, and you can see the one of the submarine with Bruce, Chum and Anchor - could they be... Animatronics??!

[Jorien]

Wow this attraction looks really good!!!
And indeed you might be right Baloo, they could be Animatronics. Would be nice if they were......

The only thing that really worries me is that i keep hearing the word "rollercoaster". Later on i hear it's a "dark ride", but then again that word "rollercoaster". I really hope it's not something like Space Mountain, but more like POTC. I'll never go in it if it's like SM:M2.
If there are a few drops or so, that i don't mind, like in POTC. I also think that if this attraction would go that fast as a rollercoaster would, you might miss a lot of detail of the attraction.

This attraction could be a real success!!

[Anthony]

The only thing that really worries me is that i keep hearing the word "rollercoaster". Later on i hear it's a "dark ride", but then again that word "rollercoaster". I really hope it's not something like Space Mountain, but more like POTC. I'll never go in it if it's like SM:M2.
If there are a few drops or so, that i don't mind, like in POTC. I also think that if this attraction would go that fast as a rollercoaster would, you might miss a lot of detail of the attraction.

Don't worry - the ride will have a clear dark ride section and a fast and fun (but nowhere near as intense as SM) rollercoaster section.

It's looking increasingly likely that the ride will be a highly customised version of Maurer Sohne's SC3000 Extended Spinning Coaster. If you want to have a look at what the rollercoaster part will therefore probably have in store, search Google for some of the existing examples of the coaster: "Dragon's Fury, Chessington", "Spinball Whizzer, Alton Towers", "Winja's Fear & Winja's Force, Phantasialand".

I've been on Spinball Whizzer at Alton myself, and found it far from intense (the number of small kids you see riding them is proof of this). It was actually probably one of the most enjoyable and unique coaster rides I've ever had, and with our ride being placed inside a building and having all the special effects you can expect from Disney, it's safe to say that this ride will be something for our resort to be VERY proud of.

[Anthony]

Try to contain your excitement... there are now piles of rubble on the construction site!!!

But seriously, it's good to see that it's *finally* starting to look less like a car park...



(source: http://www.dlrp.fr/news/show_news.php?id_news=84)

I wonder if this project is on schedule? And don't the Disney Cinema Parade floats look *tiny* there?

[Patrick]

Well don't know about everyone else here, but me likes rubble always a good sign in a park especially a Disney Park, yay so more rubbel wow I can hardly contain my excitment, ToT, Toon Studios, walkway into Discoveryland, Buzz and walkway between parks, this has to be the most rubbel DLRP has had in over a decade , yes me can't wait it will be great I can always believe that, since the studios is growing outwards . Although yes the floats do look small back there, was that hint for as the park grows a newer better parade will come rumour master . I mean we can all dream can't we .

[Kristof]

More exciting information:

[...]

On the other side of the Esplanade things are shaping up nicely as well, though at strange, cartoony angles. Toon Studios, which will extend out from the Animation Courtyard in Walt Disney Studios Park, incorporates a lot of the wacky props and crazy architecture that come with a gaggle of cartoon characters, but interprets this theme in ways that are sure to set it apart from the neighborhood of Toon Towns.

"It's not quite like a Toon Town," says Cory. "With this endeavor, we're trying to bring about the world of Toons, but interpreting how that world would play out on our studios—on a real-world, working backlot."

"Toon Town is where the Toons live; it's the place they call home," says WDI senior concept designer Jim Shull. "But Toon Studios is where they go to work. This is a place where people and Toons come together to make animated cartoons. So that leads to a very strange mix of architecture and some unusual, fun props."

It also leads to some unusual and fun attractions. When Toon Studios opens in April 2007, it will include ample areas for interaction with characters; enhanced placemaking surrounding Les Tapis Volants: Flying Carpets Over Agrabah; an area themed as Radiator Springs, the town from the yet-to-be-released Disney-Pixar film Cars, and two new rides.

Cars: Radiator Springs Spin Out will put some good Disney spin on a classic theme park attraction—literally. Guests will board one of three types of cars—Lightning McQueen (the film's hero), Sally (Lightning's girlfriend), or Doc Hudson (the old-timer)—and find themselves spinning out of control on a rotating turntable.

"We're going to recreate a moment from the movie in which Doc Hudson, the old champion racecar, teaches Lightning McQueen how to drive in the desert," says Jim.

Once the dust (and stomachs) have settled, guests can move on to Crush's Coaster, which combines classic dark ride elements like black light and intimate show scenes with a spinning, twisting roller coaster. Guests will board onto the backs of the tubular turtle himself and then be transported into the undersea world of Finding Nemo. Everything is slow and easy at first, but once the vehicle reaches the East Australian Current (EAC), things turn gnarly.

"It'll be like Space Mountain underwater—bubbles, ripples, underwater effects everywhere," says Cory. "We're basically filling the room with our underwater equivalent of stars. We'll come up close to kelp and rockwork and undersea characters—and of course we'll be spinning the whole time. And then we burst through this wall of bubbles at the end."

"This ride is all about surprises," says Jim. "It's things you don't expect to see. You don't expect Nemo and Squirt to come up and talk to you and you don't expect to follow them into their world. And you don't expect a ride vehicle that looks like Crush and starts off slow and mellow to all of a sudden go fast and spin and do these roller coaster maneuvers. And we'll never tell you that you're going to spin until you are actually on the ride."

[...]

http://forum.mousekingdom.com/dcboard.p ... full&page=

[Jorien]

More exciting information:
"It'll be like Space Mountain underwater—bubbles, ripples, underwater effects everywhere," says Cory. "We're basically filling the room with our underwater equivalent of stars. We'll come up close to kelp and rockwork and undersea characters—and of course we'll be spinning the whole time. And then we burst through this wall of bubbles at the end."

"This ride is all about surprises," says Jim. "It's things you don't expect to see. You don't expect Nemo and Squirt to come up and talk to you and you don't expect to follow them into their world. And you don't expect a ride vehicle that looks like Crush and starts off slow and mellow to all of a sudden go fast and spin and do these roller coaster maneuvers. And we'll never tell you that you're going to spin until you are actually on the ride."

You find this exiting news????
I was so looking forward to this attraction, but i guess i'll never experience it myself then..
I hated Space Mountain, and if this attraction is being compared with that....

[Kristof]

Oh yes, I'm very excited. Besides, I don't ride the teacups either, but you don't hear me complaining?