New Toy Story Mania preview video hits the internet
Our friend Tom over at the always readable WDW News Today has found a terrific video from MSNBC that offers us the best preview yet of the Toy Story Mania attraction coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Click here for Tom’s posting.
While the video is the typical kind of cagey pre-release video Imagineering produces when it wants to promote a new attraction without really showing it, it does give us a look at some concrete details. For one thing, we get to see the ride vehicle in its entirety and in action and it look pretty good to me. It has a classic dark-ride vehicle feel and seems to blend the concepts of the new attraction well.
We also get a look at the shooting mechanism, and that is a slightly less exciting. Just from this quick view, it seems a bit cumbersome and very prone to breaking. But I will admit this is the type of thing that really needs to be experience within the context of the games to know for certain if it does or does not work. Perhaps it is just silly enough to fit right in.
It does seem that we are inching closer and closer to the opening of this ride. While it certainly won’t create the type of explosive hype the surrounded Expedition Everest, it should be very exciting to see Toy Story Mania in action. My next trip to Walt Disney World is coming in the first week of May, and I must admit that I am rooting hard for previews to be happening by then so I can see this.
Oleg said,
March 14, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
well, i guess from the video you can expect the rider to be down many times - or at least many vehicles to be off line. Those pull ropes will get torn off in no time….