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| name = Radiator Springs Racers<br />
| park = [[Disney California Adventure]]<br />
| land = Cars Land<br />
| type = Slot car dark ride<br />
| opened = June 15, 2012<br />
| designer = Walt Disney Imagineering<br />
| height = 40 in (102 cm)<br />
| status = Operating<br />
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'''Radiator Springs Racers''' is a slot car dark ride in [[Cars Land]] at [[Disney California Adventure]] in the [[Disneyland Resort]], California. Opened on June 15, 2012, as the centrepiece of Cars Land, it combines an indoor dark ride through the town of Radiator Springs from Pixar's ''Cars'' films with an outdoor side-by-side race, using a third generation of the ride system first developed for [[Test Track]] at [[Epcot]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
The attraction was announced as part of the park's multi-year expansion, in which Cars Land formed the largest single addition. Construction of the 12-acre land began in 2009, and Imagineers devoted extensive work to the rockwork of Ornament Valley, the mountain range that frames the ride and reproduces the desert landscape of the 2006 film. The ride building and outdoor track occupy nearly six acres, making the attraction the largest by area at the resort.<br />
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Radiator Springs Racers opened with Cars Land and the new Buena Vista Street on June 15, 2012, a date treated as the park's relaunch after its rebuilding programme. Demand on opening day produced waits reported at up to six hours, and the ride has remained one of the most sought-after attractions in the park since.<br />
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== Experience ==<br />
The queue passes through Radiator Springs and into the Comfy Cavern motor court, where the story is established: riders are in town for a race. Vehicles are convertibles seating six, in two rows of three, each with its own on-board audio.<br />
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The first part of the ride is a slow drive through Ornament Valley and into the town, where riders encounter a succession of characters from the films, including Mater, Lightning McQueen, Sally, Luigi and Guido. At Luigi's Casa Della Tires or Ramone's House of Body Art, each vehicle is prepared for the race in one of two different scenes.<br />
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The vehicles then line up in pairs on parallel outdoor tracks. The race crosses banked turns of up to 45 degrees, rises over camelback hills and passes Radiator Falls, reaching about 40 mph (64 km/h). The winner varies from race to race. The ride ends in the Taillight Caverns before returning to the station. A full circuit lasts roughly four and a half minutes, and each vehicle is estimated to travel some 36,000 miles in a year of operation.<br />
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== Design ==<br />
The ride system develops the slot-guided, electrically powered technology of Test Track and of [[Journey to the Center of the Earth]] at Tokyo DisneySea, adapted here so that two vehicles can race in parallel and so that speed can vary through the dark ride scenes. The manufacturer was Dynamic Attractions, working with Walt Disney Imagineering and, for the underlying transport technology, General Motors.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Cars Land]]<br />
* [[Mater's Junkyard Jamboree]]<br />
* [[Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters]]<br />
* [[Test Track]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Attractions]]<br />
[[Category:Disney California Adventure]]<br />
[[Category:Cars Land]]<br />
[[Category:2012 establishments in California]]</div>Admin