About a month ago my wife and I attended the Annual Pass Preview of the new Toy Story Midway Mania (Toy Story Mania for short) attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
On this ride the guests don 3D glasses and are taken through a carnival midway, stopping at a number of shooting arcades along the way. The arcades are really 3D videogame screens, and the guests use their vehicle-mounted cannons to shoot at the animated targets. You actually see the ammunition, which ranges from darts to pies and everything in-between, flying out of your cannon, and the targets react appropriately when you hit them. It’s an absolute blast (pun intended).
This attraction has a great queue as well. You are in a playroom surrounded by giant toys, as if you are shrunk down to toy-size. Near the end of the queue is a Mr. Potato Head animatronic, but this one is like nothing you’ve ever seen. He does a Don Rickles-like stand-up routine, and the rumor is that in the future he will actually interact with the guests.
I shot a very short video which I edited and posted that same afternoon from the Orlando Airport. It’s impossible to appreciate the experience of the shooting galleries from this video, since you are seeing the screen without the benefit of the 3D glasses.
Ironically, this is undoubtedly the lousiest video I’ve ever posted, and yet by far the most popular – over 7000 views in one month!
The attraction is now open to the public. Here’s the video:
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