Carsland Thread

nemofinder22

nemofinder22

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More track in place, you can also see the Drawfs mine float from DEP(bottom near the parade warehouse door)

Also if you look at the larger version of the photo, it looks like some small foundations(between the green tarp fence and the track)

Photo by Mintcrocodile
http://mintcrocodile.blogspot.com/2010/02/warm-day-equals-busy-time.html

http://mintcrocodile.smugmug.com/photos/791570554_zyFPh-X3.jpg
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sponono88

sponono88

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An update from Al Lutz. Apparently the parade route was initially planed to cut through Cars Land, until Lasseter was made aware of those plans!

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The route through a part of Cars Land was the plan kicking around for some time, until John Lasseter saw the proposals to add curbside streetlights to the town of Radiator Springs with the hanging light racks and speakers that modern Disney parades require. The dusty desert town of Radiator Springs in the Pixar film Cars didn't have streetlights, and John Lasseter wants the big budget Cars Land expansion to be a very literal recreation of Radiator Springs, so that people feel they are literally stepping into the world of the movie. With Cars Land and its signature Mega-E Ticket attraction Radiator Springs Racers taking up half of the Billion dollar DCA makeover budget, John Lasseter's insistence that the environment remain pure to the look of the film outweighed any operational need to run a parade route through that part of the park.
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http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al022310a.htm
 
nemofinder22

nemofinder22

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sponono88 said:
An update from Al Lutz. Apparently the parade route was initially planed to cut through Cars Land, until Lasseter was made aware of those plans!



http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al022310a.htm
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Interesting, I guess the rumors of the parade route going down Hollywood BLVD are going to come true. I wonder what will happen if the parade floats will have to be kept shorter than the Red Car wires or if the wires can move:shrug:

I think we need a thread for the parade route.
 
nemofinder22

nemofinder22

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Some more track. Interesting there is no foundation for the white section of track perhaps the rumor is true of this being the "test" track.
Also looking at the top of the photo you can see a bunch of construction walls stacked up, I cant tell where they belong but they look like there beige in color.

Photos by Darkbeer
http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/Theme-Parks/Disneyland-Resort-3410/11419336_r7Nqh#802686567_bwkzr
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http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/Theme-Parks/Disneyland-Resort-3410/11419336_r7Nqh#802685680_tmjFj
More track waiting to be installed.
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TP2000

TP2000

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The OC Register has a new video up that offers a preview of Cars Land. Bob Weis and Kathy Mangum from WDI talk about the land, and the three new attractions. The video has some new info about the Radiator Springs Racers plotline, and a few new images, that I haven't seen before.

Cars Land fans should watch the two minute video on the OC Register website. http://www.ocregister.com/video/?videoId=70406711001&play=now
 
sponono88

sponono88

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TP2000 said:
The OC Register has a new video up that offers a preview of Cars Land. Bob Weis and Kathy Mangum from WDI talk about the land, and the three new attractions. The video has some new info about the Radiator Springs Racers plotline, and a few new images, that I haven't seen before.

Cars Land fans should watch the two minute video on the OC Register website. http://www.ocregister.com/video/?videoId=70406711001&play=now
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Yep, that's a good video, covers everything pretty well :) it includes clips from the Blue Sky Cellar presentation and D23 Press Conference.

One minor thing about the article - they're reporting Cars Land will be $200 million, but that is actually the cost of RSR alone. The entire land will cost over $400 million dollars.
 
nemofinder22

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Word has it that steal for the rock work has started to go up just behind the parade building and currently towers just a bit taller than the parade building, no photos yet, but below is a look at the parade building and its proximity to Carsland-
nemofinder22 said:
Photos by Darkbeer
http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/Theme-Parks/Disneyland-Resort-22510/11350054_F3TYG#797175998_vkwsW
797175998_vkwsW-S.jpg
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A small trailer has popped up next to the track-
Photo by Darkbeer/
http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/Theme-Parks/Disneyland-Resort-31110/11487201_EZ6GH#808303350_eUD6q
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sponono88

sponono88

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A huge crane in the Cars Land construction area, moving steel.. it's also rumored they will start building some of the rockwork (next to the parade building.)

CraneforCarsLand.jpg

photo by MainStreetJake
 
nemofinder22

nemofinder22

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Photos by Mintcrocodile-
http://mintcrocodile.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-day-spring-break-crowds.html

A shot of the steel for the rock work next to the parade building-
http://mintcrocodile.smugmug.com/photos/814237880_mumK8-X3.jpg
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Walls now surround the track-
http://mintcrocodile.smugmug.com/photos/814235494_Zvunm-X3.jpg
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I guess well be seeing some testing on the "test track" soon.
Word on the street— or should I say track— is that it’s almost finished. The track for the new Radiator Springs Racers ride at DCA’s Carsland, that is. Construction crews are currently laying the final components of the track, so that the course reportedly will be ready to accommodate its first test vehicle in less than two weeks.

Heavy machinery is already in place to begin forming the elaborate rockwork and show buildings that envelop the course, but—especially considering the problems with the twists, turns, high tech, and high speeds of its predecessor, Epcot’s Test Track, and its convoluted cousin, Disneyland’s Rocket Rods—you can’t blame the Imagineers for wanting to run tests as early in the process as possible.
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ScorpionX

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Quote by nemofinder22:

"Word on the street— or should I say track— is that it’s almost finished. The track for the new Radiator Springs Racers ride at DCA’s Carsland, that is. Construction crews are currently laying the final components of the track, so that the course reportedly will be ready to accommodate its first test vehicle in less than two weeks.

Heavy machinery is already in place to begin forming the elaborate rockwork and show buildings that envelop the course, but—especially considering the problems with the twists, turns, high tech, and high speeds of its predecessor, Epcot’s Test Track, and its convoluted cousin, Disneyland’s Rocket Rods—you can’t blame the Imagineers for wanting to run tests as early in the process as possible."

There is absoloutely no way Radiator Springs Racers is related to the Rocket Rods. You should have said that Journey to the Center of the Earth was its cousin, not Rocket Rods.
 

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