Tron Lightcycle Power Run
— — the corner you take leaning into the light.
Not only on a wall.
“A launched roller coaster inside a translucent canopy on the eastern edge of Shanghai Disneyland. Riders straddle lightcycles instead of sitting in a train, and the launch fires them under that glowing shell at speeds approaching a hundred kilometres an hour. The original opened with the park in 2016. A near-twin opened in Florida in 2023, but Shanghai still keeps the canopy that started the design.
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Tron Lightcycle Power Run sits in Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland Park, on the eastern edge of Shanghai's Pudong New Area. It opened with the park on June 16, 2016, the day Walt Disney Imagineering's first mainland-China resort welcomed its first guests. The attraction was the headline coaster of opening day and remains the signature Tomorrowland anchor. A near-identical version, also designed by Imagineering with Vekoma's launch system, opened at Magic Kingdom in Florida in April 2023, but the Shanghai installation came first and set the design.
The defining image of the ride is the canopy. A long translucent shell arches over the outdoor portion of the track, lit from within by sequenced neon lines that pulse in the show's signature cyan-and-orange palette. From outside the park, after dark, the canopy reads as a slow blue heartbeat above the skyline of Pudong. From the cycles themselves, riders enter the canopy at full launch speed, the light passing overhead in a single bright streak before the track turns hard into the show building.
The ride uses a single-train launch and accelerates to roughly 95 kilometres per hour in about three seconds. Riders mount the lightcycles in a forward-leaning posture, which is part of why the minimum-height requirement is 122 centimetres. Standby queues during peak season often run past two hours, so most guests use the resort's Premier Access paid line-skip or the standard digital reservation system. The Shanghai park publishes daily operating hours on its official site; the ride generally opens with the park and closes earlier than the gates.