Disney World's Magic Kingdom near Orlando, Florida, will add a Pixar "Cars" area from the 2006 animated movie inspired by Route 66. According to a recent report by CNET: The Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island at the Magic Kingdom are being repurposed to insert a new area themed around Pixar's Cars movies. This expansion … Continue reading Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Florida will add a Pixar “Cars” area
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Cars Land at Disney California Adventure plans to reopen on April 30
Disney California Adventure, which includes the Route 66-inspired Cars Land attraction, will reopen April 30 after being closed for more than a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The news is another sign the U.S. is flattening the number of cases of the potentially fatal virus due to mass-vaccination efforts. Disney Parks made the announcement … Continue reading Cars Land at Disney California Adventure plans to reopen on April 30
A journey on how Disney’s Cars Land was developed
Disney Parks a few days ago uploaded a video where two people from Disney and Pixar were interviewed on how they came up with the inspirations for Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park. Pixar’s Roger Gould and former Disney Imagineer Kathy Mangum provide an under-the-hood look of what went into the development and creation … Continue reading A journey on how Disney’s Cars Land was developed
Where Cars Land got its inspiration
This video shows how Disney engineers (they're called Imagineers) traveled Route 66 to research and figure out the right look for a life-size fictional town of Radiator Springs for Cars Land at Disneyland California Adventure. https://youtu.be/dKYi8gbbIn0 Route 66 author and "Cars" actor Michael Wallis led the trip about five years ago. My story about that … Continue reading Where Cars Land got its inspiration