Slinky Dog Spin
| Slinky Dog Spin | |
|---|---|
| Park | Shanghai Disneyland |
| Land / area | Disney·Pixar Toy Story Land |
| Type | Caterpillar ride |
| Opened | April 26, 2018 |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Height req. | None |
| Status | Operating |
Slinky Dog Spin is a caterpillar-style family ride in Disney·Pixar Toy Story Land at Shanghai Disneyland. Guests sit inside the coiled spring body of Slinky Dog, the dachshund toy from Pixar's Toy Story films, and circle a giant dog dish as the character chases his own tail. It opened on April 26, 2018, with the rest of Toy Story Land, the park's first post-opening expansion, and it remains the gentlest of the land's three rides, with no minimum height requirement.[1][2]
History
The ride type came to Shanghai by way of two earlier Toy Story lands. The original version, called Slinky Dog Zigzag Spin, opened on August 17, 2010, in Toy Story Playland at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris — the park now known as Disney Adventure World — and a second version, renamed Slinky Dog Spin, followed on November 17, 2011, in Toy Story Land at Hong Kong Disneyland. Both were built by Intamin to a Walt Disney Imagineering design, and the Shanghai ride uses the same caterpillar format: a powered train running a continuous, undulating loop rather than a free coaster circuit.[1]
Shanghai's own Toy Story Land was announced on November 9, 2016, when Disney and Shanghai Shendi Group executives broke ground on the expansion less than five months after the park itself had opened. The land was built between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland and scaled to Andy's backyard, so that guests feel toy-sized among oversized playthings. Detailed plans released on November 30, 2017, confirmed three rides and a character greeting area, and described Slinky Dog amusing the other toys by chasing his tail around a giant dog dish filled with toy bones.[3][4]
Toy Story Land opened on April 26, 2018, as Shanghai Disneyland's seventh themed land. Alongside Slinky Dog Spin it brought Rex's Racer and Woody's Roundup; of the three, Slinky Dog Spin and Rex's Racer were versions of rides already running in Paris and Hong Kong, while Woody's Roundup was new to Shanghai. The Slinky Dog ride should not be confused with Slinky Dog Dash, the larger launched family coaster that opened two months later in the Florida version of Toy Story Land — the two share a character but no ride system.[1][5]
Experience
The queue is themed as the packaging of an authentic "Collector's Edition" Slinky Dog, complete with a reproduction of the toy's original 1950s cardboard box. Guests queue through structures built from Lincoln Logs-style blocks and pass inside the giant box itself, the interior of which is printed as a retro-styled board game — a scale gag that reinforces the land's premise that its visitors have shrunk to toy size.[1]
Riders board a train formed by Slinky Dog's head, body and tail, linked end to end by his spring. The train circles a large dog bowl filled with rubber bones, with one of Andy's baseballs set into the circuit, gathering modest speed as it rises and falls over a gentle, wavy incline. The circuit is laid into the land's sloping ground, so that from the foot of the ride the giant box and the oversized grass around the track tower over guests — one of the land's simplest versions of its central joke, that everyone in Andy's backyard has been shrunk to the size of the toys who live there. Shanghai Disney Resort's own description invites guests to take a seat inside Slinky Dog's springy spirals and race around the wavy roundabout, and the circuit runs continuously for the length of the ride rather than stopping at a station between laps.[1][6]
Because the motion is mild and there is no height restriction, Slinky Dog Spin is the Toy Story Land ride most accessible to the land's youngest visitors, and it is commonly described in park guides as the tamest attraction in the land. It was operating as of November 2026.[1][7]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Slinky Dog Zigzag Spin. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Toy Story Land at Shanghai Disneyland: Rides & Guide. Shanghai Park Guide. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Toy Story Land. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Concept Art & Details Released for Shanghai Disneyland's Toy Story Land, Opening Summer 2018. WDW News Today. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Toy Story Land. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Concept Art & Details Released for Shanghai Disneyland's Toy Story Land, Opening Summer 2018. WDW News Today. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Shanghai Disneyland Rides 2026: List, Rankings & Tips. China Xian Tour. Retrieved 2026-11-15.