Quest For the Diamond Ears
A Ride Fit For A King (Or A Kong)
Dimensions
外形尺寸
Introduction
After the opening of Shanghai Disneyland in 2016, there was a robust call for more "E-ticket" level attractions. While thematically, the park was impeccable, aside from a few showcasing attractions, the park lacked in depth among its attraction list. With this said, Disney embarked on a new Imagineering feat, to connect Tomorrowland and Fantasyland together, by taking a page out of Disneyland's book and adding a sort of transition between the two lands. This time, however, the new E-ticket caliber attraction, Dimensions, will be placed as an expansion of Tomorrowland, and act as the barrier between and transition from Tomorrowland and Fantasyland. With Pirates of the Caribbean on the right side of the park, another E-ticket attraction placed on the opposite side will not only be a good placement to disperse the crowds but will be the E-ticket caliber attraction that Shanghai Disneyland needs.
Park Location
A zoomed in map of Shanghai Disneyland Tomorrowland is shown above, and the attraction, Dimensions, will be in the open space in-between the Tron attraction and the Frozen Sing a Long show.
Backstory
Like any Disney attraction, the attraction begins with a story. And the story of this adventure revolves around an Association of Reconnaissance and Communication (ARC) which is an inter-dimensional research facility located in Tomorrowland. Run by China's top scientists, this facility houses vehicles that are capable of taking guests through various dimensions of the universe to study the newfound creatures, atmospheres, and habitats that we have found over the years. These could provide valuable resources for our future as a human race, and possibly a new home for us if anything happened on earth. That is why it is imperative that we test out new dimensions and bring participating explorers along with us. This time - you are the explorers as you walk up to the research facility.
Exterior Facade
The exterior facade is chrome plated and very futuristic in its design, to blend in with the neon, Tron style surrounding it. However, there is a hint of magenta and pink, signaling a transition into Fantasyland from Tomorrowland.
Queue
You walk into the research facility and see designs, paintings, and structures scattered throughout the main atrium of the visitors center of the facility. You see the first man and woman to enter into the future dimension, crossing the time barrier and going to the year 2679. You also see brave explorers who dared to conquer the Fantasy Dimension, a dimension of magnificent sights and sounds, but with some unknown creatures living in it. As you continue to wind around the switchbacks of the queue, you finally end up at the pre-show for the attraction.
Preshow
A door encloses around you as you are standing up in rows comparable to the room in Stitch's Great Escape. You are greeted by a sophisticated robot and get a pep talk about how there is an uprising in the future dimension. Stitch/Tron robot. Instead of going on an observatory mission to the future dimension, instead, we are doing a highly classified mission to Fayzuno. Fayzuno is an extremely advanced planet inhabited by advanced organisms called Cugroms. Cugroms are extremely weak and fragile and cannot survive in our environment, but manipulate time. They have become fascinated by humanity for their drive for greatness. Though with one breakthrough they will revolutionize. This is where they come in and try to play god with us. The biggest issue is the Cugroms cannot come to us even with their teleportation shenanigans. The original encounter was a suicide. One of them did their teleportation thing and suffocated instantly, though left behind a note with the prototype, and where to meet for the next encounter. The Cugroms are far from extinct yet their planet lays extinct. With the manipulation of time comes teleportation. We fear that the enemy has intercepted our documents and will soon compromise the entire rebellion. Due to the secretive aspect and the capacity we had to mount this prototype on a truck. We must work fast because time is running out, and the prototype is not reliable so we need some wiggle room in case of a malfunction. Quick recap before y’all go. Go to Fayzuno at all costs.
In addition, the sophisticated robot also describes to us that a rogue group of ARC scientists is trapped in the fantasy dimension after encountering a large winged creature. They are requesting an additional troupe go and rescue them from the fantasy dimension. The robot then proceeds to describe your vehicles, which are the ones used in Universal's Kong attraction. The vehicle itself though has a retheme to look like a truck that came out of Tron with a golden glowing aura bouncing off it.
You will be guided and driven by two explorers on your missions - one for the Future Dimension (Dr. Samuel Wong) and the Fantasy Dimension (Dr. Rachel Yee)
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The safety protocol goes over what you will experience on the attraction - some turbulence, and if you are prone to motion sickness, you may want to wait for your party at the arrival gate. Other than that you are to proceed to your stations, and you get to choose which mission you want to go on - the future dimension or the fantasy dimension mission.
Attraction Map
The map above describes the route that the vehicles take on the mission. Your vehicles go through 6 scenes and in scenes 4 and 6 you ride parallel with the other dimension in a scene that will be described later on. The attraction will approx last 3 minutes 45 seconds.
Attraction Ride-Through Descriptions
Future Dimension Side
Doors open and you are in the boarding room similar to the laboratory setting when you enter the Time Rover in Dinosaur. Once the vehicle starts moving and leaves the hangar (big gate opens) and you enter a wormhole to travel to the future dimension.
Weird and bright colors surround you as you finally end up on an earth like planet and you are stampeded by an army of rebellion soldiers. They look like peacekeepers from The Hunger Games but with a blue and orange color scheme. They start shooting and a blue swirling thing comes out. The trucks "pilot" quickly activates the prototype and the golden aura strengthens. Your truck speeds up and goes into the next scene.
The next scene is a planet that is a beach and sinkholes are constant and sand geysers are everywhere. They start to sink down into one when they teleport through to the next (they go down a 10 ft drop like the Dinosaur ride but not as steep).
The following scene is a cloud planet, you can see 6 other planets nearby, you see two collide and then you go to the following.
The third they finally get to the ocean planet (Fayzuno) and giant 1000 ft waves come colliding at you via a projection screen as you quickly make your escape back through the wormhole, just trying to save yourselves.
In the wormhole, you see a reflection of the fantasy dimension through crystals and the other traveling truck trying to escape from the creature in the fantasy dimension. You break away and see a bunch of trippy imagery around you as you reconnect with the fantasy dimension truck and escape the wormhole in just the nick of time.
Fantasy Dimension Side
You exit the load area through a wormhole of bright blue and purple colors traveling faster than the speed of light and wind up in a fantastical land of enhancement.
Upon first arrival, you see towering waterfalls and mountains surrounding you and a beautiful sunrise on the horizon. You begin to wonder what possibly could lie in such a beautiful place, then you begin to go deeper.
You see an almost abandoned futuristic society in this dimension, driven out by the creature that everyone fears, and why you are there to rescue the other expedition. You see the other vehicle, but by that time, it's too late.
The powerful creature roars as a large animatronic and your driver turns you away from the creature and with the other vehicle, following makes a break for the wormhole.
After swirling in and out of color, you see the future dimension truck crossing paths with you in the wormhole, as you all jolt back to the research facility and end your mission safety. However the creature's growl and be heard behind you, and like in Dinosaur, you dive underneath the creature's bite as you soar through another dimension and out of the wormhole, back to safety.
You unload at the dock and proceed to the photo area and gift shop where you can purchase collectible items unique to the attraction, Dimensions.
