Showing posts with label Tomorrowland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tomorrowland. Show all posts

Adventure Thru Inner Space - Tomorrowland, Disneyland 1967-1985

Monday, February 4, 2013

Adventure Thru Inner Space - Tomorrowland, Disneyland

Adventure Thru Inner Space or simply ATIS was a former attraction at Disneyland. It was located in the site of the current Star Tours. In it, guests were pretended to be shrunk down to the size of a molecule then to an atom as you joruney into the world of the snowflake. The centerpiece of the attraction was Monsanto's Mighty Microscope, a giant microscope designed on a napkin by a Disney Imagineer. It was also one of the most advancing rides in technology: it was the first ride to utilize the Omnimover (known as Atommobiels).

Adventure Thru Inner Space - Tomorrowland, Disneyland
 Entrance of Adventure Thru inner Space

The Ride

Upon entering the queue, guests see the Mighty Microscope. Full size Omnimover vehicles can be seen entering the Microscope. On the opposite end of the Microscope miniaturized Omnimovers are seen moving toward the final miniaturization point, a chamber of falling snowflakes. Magnified displays along the queue preview the coming journey to guests.


Adventure Thru Inner Space - Tomorrowland, Disneyland
 After boarding the Atomobile vehicle, guests proceed into the large,
 dark end of the Mighty Microscope...

Adventure Thru Inner Space - Tomorrowland, Disneyland

Relive the Adventure Thru Inner Space in 1967
as if you were there or almost!


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- Plenty of rare photography
- Concept Art, Visual Development, and Illustrations


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Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland, 1987-2010

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
RX-24 Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
RX-24
Star Tours was a Disney simulator ride theme park attraction located at each of Disney's resorts except Hong Kong Disneyland. The ride was based on the successful Star Wars movie franchise created by George Lucas. This made it the park's first attraction that did not use Disney-designed imagery. 

Groups of visitors, or "passengers", was taken on by the fictional travel agency known as Star Tours, via a space tour bus called the StarSpeeder 3000 and set in the Star Wars universe. Thanks to an inexperienced and thoroughly incompetent robot pilot named RX-24, what was billed as a leisurely tour to the Endor moon became a wild ride as the tour got caught up in a battle between the Empire and the Rebels. 

The first incarnation of the ride appeared in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in 1987, replacing the previous attraction, Adventure Thru Inner Space. The original Star Tours closed in 2010 (July 27th in Disneyland, September 8th in Disney's Hollywood Studios) while Disney engineers built the updated and renovated ride, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, which opened on May 20th, 2011. 

Story

Advertised as "The Ultimate Star Wars Adventure!," Star Tours puts the guest in the role of a space tourist en route to the Forest Moon of Endor via the "Star Tours" travel agency. Much is made of this throughout the ride queue, and the design and theme of the inside holding area is convincingly modeled to look like a spaceship boarding terminal. This area is stocked with Audio-Animatronic characters that seem to interact with the ride patrons including Mon Calamari technicians and versions of C-3PO and R2-D2, as well as a life-size mock-up of the StarSpeeder 3000, the "starship" that guests embark on. The figures of C-3PO and R2-D2 in the Disneyland park are actual props from the original film, modified to operate via Audio-Animatronics.
Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
The great C3PO

Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
...and Admiral Ackbar

Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
...and the little robots located in the Droids room.

Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
Star Tours map


Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
Starspeeder 3000 plan

Once guests reach the head of the line, the ride operators escort them into one of several ride theaters. As the doors close, the ship's bumbling RX-24 pilot droid, aka "Rex" (voiced by Paul Reubens), chats up the guests about the trip as he sets up. All goes well until a slight mistake on Rex's part sends the ship down the wrong tunnel and plummeting into a maintenance yard, just managing to escape into open space before a giant mechanical appendage nearly crushes the ship...
Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland,
 Relive Star Tours in 1987 
as if you were there or almost!
With
"Star Tours 1987 Pack"
You will find:
- The full ride video (interior & exterior)
- Promotional & commercial videos and many more
- The original attraction poster and ads in PDF format
- Plenty of rare photography from the construction to the final flight
- Concept Art, Visual Development, and Illustrations
 

And How i get this Pack?
...Just make a donation for Virtual Disney Parks,
 As people all over the world contribute, 
the site will continue to evolve and grow!
Click on ticket


 
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