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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox attraction<br />
| name = Goofy's Sky School<br />
| park = [[Disney California Adventure]]<br />
| land = [[Paradise Gardens Park]]<br />
| type = Steel wild mouse roller coaster<br />
| opened = July 1, 2011<br />
| manufacturer = Mack Rides<br />
| height = 55 ft (17 m)<br />
| status = Operating<br />
}}<br />
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'''Goofy's Sky School''' is a steel wild mouse roller coaster in [[Paradise Gardens Park]] at [[Disney California Adventure]] at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Themed as a flight school run by Goofy, the coaster sends four-person cars through a tight series of hairpin turns, short drops and bunny hills. The ride is based on the 1940 Disney cartoon short ''Goofy's Glider'', in which Goofy attempts, with characteristic lack of success, to demonstrate how to fly.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofy%27s_Sky_School</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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The coaster first opened with the park on February 8, 2001, as Mulholland Madness. That version was themed to a frantic drive along Mulholland Drive, the winding road through the Los Angeles hills. A giant folded road map stood at the entrance, and the track passed traffic signs and roadside gags. The ride hardware came from Mack Rides, the German manufacturer associated with the wild mouse format, and the layout was unchanged by everything that followed.<ref>https://www.yesterland.com/mulholland.html</ref><br />
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Mulholland Madness belonged to the park's original, contemporary-California approach, in which Disney characters played little part in the Paradise Pier area. When Disney undertook its major reworking of [[Disney California Adventure]] in the late 2000s, adding characters to that side of the park became a stated goal. Mulholland Madness closed in October 2010 so the coaster could be rethemed, one of a sequence of Paradise Pier projects that also produced new versions of neighbouring attractions in what is now [[Paradise Gardens Park]].<ref>https://disneyparks.fandom.com/wiki/Goofy%27s_Sky_School</ref><br />
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The rethemed attraction opened on July 1, 2011, as Goofy's Sky School. The track, cars and ride system were retained; what changed was everything guests saw around them. Road signs gave way to a ramshackle flying academy, complete with a control tower, instructional signs and a chicken coop that the flight path appears to threaten. When Paradise Pier was divided in 2018, the coaster stayed on the [[Paradise Gardens Park]] side of the split, while the waterfront rides opposite became [[Pixar Pier]].<br />
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== Experience ==<br />
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The queue and loading area present the school itself: a barn-like structure decorated with Goofy's hand-painted lessons on the principles of flight. Billboards walk novice pilots through the stages of a lesson, from take-off to a supposedly graceful landing, with the jokes making clear that the instructor's own record is mixed.<br />
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After boarding a four-person car, riders climb a lift hill to about 55 feet (17 m). From there the roughly 1,200-foot (370 m) course is classic wild mouse: flat, unbanked hairpin turns that feel as though the car will run straight off the edge, taken in quick succession at the top of the structure, followed by a series of short drops and small hills in the lower half. Top speed is about 27 mph (43 km/h) and the circuit takes roughly a minute and three-quarters. The sensation depends less on speed than on the abruptness of the turns, which throw riders sideways against the lap bar.<br />
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Riders must be at least 42 inches (107 cm) tall. As Goofy's cartoon lessons promise, no actual flying skill is required, and the school's chaotic presentation makes the coaster a comic counterpart to the larger thrill rides elsewhere in the park, such as those in [[Cars Land]].<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Paradise Gardens Park]]<br />
* [[Pixar Pier]]<br />
* [[Disney California Adventure]]<br />
* [[Cars Land]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Attractions]]<br />
[[Category:Disney California Adventure]]<br />
[[Category:Roller coasters]]<br />
[[Category:2011 establishments]]</div>Admin