cars land opened in california adventure on december 6, 2012.
cars land opened in california adventure on december 6, 2012.
when did cars land open in california adventure?
december 6, 2012
cars land is a 12-acre land located at disney california adventure which contains an entire full-sized recreation of the town of radiator springs from the "cars" franchise. the land includes restaurants, shops, and three rides: mater's junkyard jamboree, luigi's rollickin' roadsters, and radiator springs racers, the main "e-ticket" attraction which is one of the most expensive rides disney has ever built at a cost of over $200 million. radiator springs racers lets guests race against each other around ornament valley while encountering several "cars" characters. cars land opened on june 15, 2012 with the completion of disney california adventure's expansion along with buena vista street.
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aside from disney's california adventure park, construction on the former parking lot included disney's grand californian hotel and downtown disney. a section of the southeast corner of the original parking lot initially remained in use as a parking area, earmarked as future growth space for california adventure. a bug's land, backstage facilities, "the twilight zone" tower of terror, and 12-acre cars land were incrementally built into this space. seven acres remain in the southeast corner for future growth. across west street from disneyland park and the construction site of disney's california adventure park, the six-story mickey & friends parking structure was built on newly acquired land north of the disneyland hotel as the replacement main parking area. the levels in the mickey and friends parking structure have different characters from the franchise, including chip n' dale in level 1, daisy duck in level 2, mickey mouse in level 3, goofy in level 4, donald duck in level 5, and minnie mouse in level 6. the disneyland hotel was downsized to accommodate downtown disney and surface parking lots. the disneyland pacific hotel was renovated, re-themed, and renamed to match the portion of disney's california adventure the hotel overlooks, becoming disney's paradise pier hotel. streets were regraded, renamed, re-routed, or eliminated, and the traffic pattern to access disneyland and the disneyland hotel by vehicle was altered. most notably, west street was regraded, re-routed near its intersection with ball road, and renamed disneyland drive between katella avenue and interstate 5. southern california edison rerouted the transmission power lines that went through the original disneyland parking lot to around the new disney california adventure park with new poles.
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