Crush's Coaster

Crush's Coaster
Crush's Coaster
Crushscoaster.jpg
The Great Barrier Reef scene
Location Walt Disney Studios Park
Park section Toon Studio
Status Operating
Opened 9 June 2007 (2007-06-09)
Type Steel - Spinning - Enclosed
Manufacturer Maurer Söhne
Designer Walt Disney Imagineering
Inversions 0
Duration 1:55
Audio-animatronics 1
Handicapped/disabled access Wheelchair accessible
Attraction transfer icon.svg Must transfer from wheelchair
Crush's Coaster at RCDB
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Crush's Coaster is a spinning roller coaster attraction at Walt Disney Studios Park, in Disneyland Paris.

The attraction officially opened on 9 June 2007[1] as part of the park's Toon Studio placemaking and expansion project, improving and expanding the area formerly known as Animation Courtyard.

Contents

History

The Toon Studio project itself was officially announced on 11 January 2005.[2] The expansion of Animation Courtyard was envisioned, without any confirmation of the new attractions to be included. No true official press announcement was given until the launch of the resort's 15th Anniversary Celebration on 1 April 2007.[3] The ride Crush's Coaster is the first Finding Nemo-based ride in Disneyland Paris, while other Disney Resorts already featured some.

Synopsis

Sydney Harbor
Shells diving into the sea

Guests enter the Toon Backlot of Toon Studio and stumble upon the beached sound stage and film set of Disney·Pixar's Finding Nemo, themed as Sydney Harbor, where Crush and his sea friends invite guests to climb aboard turtle shells for a ride through memorable scenes from the movie.[4]

The ride starts off with shells "diving" into the ocean. The first part of the attraction is a dark ride taking guests to the Great Barrier Reef, where they meet Nemo and Squirt, then to the darkness of the depths, which the sunlight cannot reach and where they encounter the voracious glowfish, and finally to the Sunken Submarine surrounded by an army of jellyfish where they meet the sharks and their chief, Bruce.

The second part of the ride is a coaster in the dark, representing the spiraling, churning East Australian Current itself. The ride ends up with shells returning to Sydney Harbor, with cheers from Crush and his friends.

Technology

Turtle-shaped wagon

The attraction employs several instances of new technology developed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the key being two large digital video projection effects in the early dark ride scenes[5] of the ride, which place Nemo, the clownfish, and Squirt, Crush's son, seamlessly within the 'underwater' environment. The technology was developed for Crush's Coaster in conjunction with Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage and The Seas with Nemo and Friends. Crush's Coaster marks the only second Disney-themed spinning roller coaster (following Primeval Whirl), and the first ever collaboration between German roller coaster engineers Maurer Söhne and Walt Disney Imagineering.

Fastpass

In a bid to decrease the long queues that frequently plague the ride, Disney conducted preliminary tests during July 2008 at the Crush's Coaster site to investigate the possibility of installing a Fastpass system at the attraction.[6] Fastpass was ultimately not implemented at the ride.

Trivia

  • On November 29, 2008, a young man got injured, since he left his shell, as it was entering the coaster part of the ride, because he felt his security harness had broke down.
  • On Halloween Night in 2010, the whole park was turned into a horror-based park, meaning most popular attractions were horror-rethemed. As such, the same happened to Crush's Coaster, which became Crush's Coaster : Avis de Tempête for this night.

References

Facade of Crush's Coaster

External links

Plaque at the entrance

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