[Disney California Adventure] Cars Land (15 juin 2012)

Ah ca fait plaisir de voir que l'arrière de la montagne va bel et bien être recouvert...!

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/09/behind-the-wall-cars-land-at-disney-california-adventure-park/

Et également un nouvel article d'Al Lutz sur http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al092711a.htm

Test drives...

Ironically, the Cars Land construction is going along much smoother even though it is a much more massive project. Since they’ve had free reign behind those construction walls since July of 2009, the project managers for Cars Land haven’t had to worry about working their construction around an operating theme park.

They’ve recently begun preliminary ride testing at all three Cars Land attractions, and it’s been going well. A test car is now cycling slowly around the thousands of feet of track, testing for the correct distance between the vehicle and the sets and rockwork along its path.

Only Disney would build a mountain range to hide power lines,
only to put them up again in the new land

Inside the big show building behind and under the Cadillac Range, nearly half of the sets and dark ride show scenes are completed and look exactly like a real life Radiator Springs. Tow Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree has its underground turntables and cable system installed, and they’re cycling the first vehicle chassis’ through the roundabouts daily now. And at Luigi’s Flying Tires the first-of-its-kind levitating bumper car system is proving to have very powerful lift capabilities, which will be needed as these vehicles are much larger than the small Flying Saucers from 1960’s Tomorrowland.

There are of course the usual trials and tribulations with all these new toys, particularly the Radiator Springs Racers attraction which requires some very sophisticated track switches that aren’t used in the Epcot or DisneySea versions of the ride system. Working out those bugs is why Disney likes to start testing and cycling the new rides up to a year before they open to the public. But no major crisis has popped up at Cars Land, and WDI seems to be getting their money’s worth from the lands budget that has now topped the 600 Million dollar mark. But if Buena Vista Street isn’t ready by June, TDA may have to come up with a plan to let folks get a sneak peek at the completed area before a formal grand opening can be staged later in the summer.

Work continues on the backside of the Cars Land rock work.






http://micechat.com/blogs/dateline-disneyland/3164-buena-vista-wigwag-emporium-reopens-hundred-acre-upgrades-cars-land-work-more.html

C'est juste immense !! Quand on voit la grandeur des projets en Amerique ouah

Test des véhicules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8g4KYt2A4

L'éclair a écrit:

Test des véhicules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8g4KYt2A4

Cette vidéo date de juin 2010 et a déjà été posté en page 2 de ce Sujet!

J. Thaddeus TOAD a écrit:

L'éclair a écrit:

Test des véhicules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8g4KYt2A4

Cette vidéo date de juin 2010 et a déjà été posté en page 2 de ce Sujet!

ça pourrait être une version pour paris avec un petit parcours et une théma au rabais pour raison de coupe budgétaire. On la tien notre nouveauté pour 2012.

Oupps, j'avais pas vu la date

J'étais tombé dessus par hasard, et j'ai parcouru le topic à partir de la page 10...normal que je n'ai rien trouvé

A l'origine de Cars Land, Carland: http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/themeparks/la-trb-carland-cars-land-disney-10201121,1,7035100,full.story

Et des photos du chantier sur http://micechat.com/blogs/dateline-disneyland/3186-getting-ready-holidays-main-street-menus-building-buena-vista-more.html

New facade details can be seen at the Radiator Springs Courthouse. It reads "Town of Radiator Springs" above the courthouse entrance.


Also new this week, the steel framework for Sarge's Surplus Hut has sprung up.


Flo's V8 Cafe


The side of Mater's Junkyard Jamboree


Mater's shack


The old Bountiful Valley Farm building is now getting the same tin roof treatment that Mater's shack recently got


All of the street lights are in place now




The Cozy Cone Motel




The new Paradise sea bluffs on the backside of the Cars Land rock work are taking shape nicely.






This should look pretty good when completed

Et d'autres photos sur http://micechat.com/blogs/dateline-disneyland/3196-happy-halloween-seasonal-snow-cars-land-courthouse-hotel-progress-train-art-more.html

Wow, je suis toujours en extase' devant les travaux !

En tout cas merci J. Thaddeus TOAD pour toutes ces photos, et merci pour la réponse à propos du Motel Cosy's Cones

Moi aussi..!

Vivement que l'on voit sa fini ...meme si il y a encore du chemin a faire

Très intéressante photo de Mintcrocodile sur l'arrière de Cadillac Range, qui commence a être "habillé":



http://mintcrocodile.blogspot.com/2011/11/out-with-something-old-in-with.html

cette attraction va-t-elle arriver dans le notre ???

llybellulefantasy a écrit:

cette attraction va-t-elle arriver dans le notre ???

llybellulefantasy a écrit:

cette attraction va-t-elle arriver dans le notre ???

Euh... je ne pense pas. Vu l'empleur de l'attraction (rien que cette attaction, chez nous peut recouvrir Walt Disney Studio...). A moins que Disney fasse une méga extension d'ici quelques années, cela m'étonnerai beaucoup.

Oui que meme ^^

quoi que il y as pas mal de terrain au alentour du parc

On dirait que c'est à taille réelle ! Impressionnant

Ca donne vraiment envie d'être aux Etats-Unis tout ca...

La boutique Radiator Springs Curios "habillée"








Note the "RS" symbol taking shape...


You can now spot new ride vehicles on the tracks at Mater's Junkyard Jamboree




Sarge's Surplus Hut is coming together...


Et d'autres photos à voir sur http://micechat.com/blogs/dateline-disneyland/3251-carthay-uncovered-junkyard-friends-mary-moves-water-slide-woes-crowds-more.html

Tow Mater's Junkyard Jamboree en test!

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/12/maters-junkyard-jamboree-begins-ride-testing-at-disney-california-adventure-park/

Asphalt is now going down along the main drag of Radiator Springs.

Et d'autres photos sur http://micechat.com/blogs/dateline-disneyland/3260-paving-road-radiator-springs-jolly-holiday-bakery-elias-co-progress-more.html

Enfin, un nouvel article d'Al Lutz:

Getting into Gear…

Meanwhile, in topics that relate to the 99% (rest of us), the work to get DCA ready for its grand reopening and re-launch continues at a fever pitch. The work inside Cars Land continues right on schedule, with testing of the three new attractions happening daily for up to 16 hours at a time with multiple crews.

Over a dozen of the 36 cars in two different body styles and eight color combinations that will be used at Radiator Springs Racers have now arrived on property. The growing fleet is being driven in slow motion around the entire attraction daily, although that testing is happening mainly at night due to the painting and set finishing that is still wrapping up near the track areas. Cycling of the first batch of tractors is ongoing at Tow Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree, and can even be seen over the wall from the patio of the Golden Vine Winery.

The crew of Imagineers at Luigi’s Flying Tires has been having the most fun with their testing during the recent rains; it turns out that when the massive air compressors turn the ride surface into the world’s largest air hockey table, the rain is sprayed back up in a fine mist around the vehicles. The result is nothing dangerous and doesn’t appear to get riders any wetter than they already would be out in the rain, but it created a wild looking water effect and proved that the custom-designed ride control system could handle the rare rainy day in Anaheim.

While the testing and construction is all on schedule in Cars Land, it’s the land’s grand opening that looms this summer that now has DCA management worried. You’ll remember we told you that DCA’s executive team paid an undercover visit out to Universal’s Harry Potter set-up this past summer, to see how the competition handles a runaway hit. The DCA team is worried that the crush of humanity that may descend on DCA this summer will overwhelm the new land. Although the scale of Cars Land is dramatically larger at 12 acres than the far smaller scale of Potterland at Universal with an onstage area just less than 1 acre, the overall ride capacity of the three attractions may still not be able to handle the demand.


Radiator Springs Racers has a modestly respectable hourly capacity of 1750 riders per hour, which would be considered a monster people-eater at a regular amusement park, but pales in comparison to other Disney E Tickets like Pirates of the Caribbean gobbling up 2,900 riders per hour or It’s A Small World carrying 2,500 riders per hour in that fleet of more buoyant 21st century boats. The 1750 figure for Radiator Springs Racers puts it ahead of Splash Mountain or Star Tours at around 1450 per hour, and compares most closely with the 1800 per hour that Indiana Jones can pull in.

Still, the demand from 75,000+ daily Anaheim visitors will far outstrip the 23,000 riders per day that Radiator Springs Racers could theoretically handle once DCA expands its hours of operation to an 8AM to 11PM daily park schedule next summer. Fastpass will be offered for Radiator Springs Racers, the first new Fastpass attraction at DCA since Tower of Terror opened in 2004, and TDA planners are already thinking of ways to ensure that DVC owners and guests staying in the nearly 3,000 Disney hotel rooms in Anaheim get first crack at those Fastpasses each morning.

The news gets a bit worse for Tow Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree and the very novel Luigi’s Flying Tires. The initial testing by WDI is proving that Mater’s musical spinner ride has an hourly capacity of about 750 riders per hour, while Luigi’s unique ride system is even less at just 550 riders per hour under the best of circumstances. The queues for those two non-Fastpass rides will be long, and while extra space has been dedicated into the pre-show areas for eventual NextGen additions years from now, it will be a classic Disneyland experience of waiting two hours for a two minute ride that first summer.

In addition to people actually on the rides, there will be 900,000 Annual Passholders who will at least want to wander through this new area they’ve seen under construction for the past three years. The DCA team is contemplating how to handle all those looky-loos, in order to avoid having to set up barriers at the three separate entrances to Cars Land and control access to the town of Radiator Springs as if it were a Vegas nightclub full of Kardashians.

You can bet that the Niche Revenue Marketing strategy will come into play here, and the concept of simple walking tours of the land may be offered late in the spring for Annual Passholders just to satisfy the demand of the people who want to see it all for themselves. The vistas and eye candy of Cars Land really is impressive from all reports from experienced Imagineers, and even those working on the project are itching to bring their friends and family into the land to show off their handiwork. That’s a story we’ll follow closely through the spring, as the exact way TDA comes up with to debut Cars Land to the curious public will be important for them, especially the AP angle.

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al122011a.htm