Radiator Springs Racers
— — the desert the headlights pull through.
Not only on a wall.
“The ride at the back of Cars Land, under the painted red rock of Ornament Valley. Two six-passenger cars in a Route 66 dash through a slow tour of the town and then a sudden side-by-side race across the valley floor. The queue winds past Stanley's monument and the Cozy Cone. At dusk the neon on Flo's V8 Cafe comes on first and the rockwork goes the colour of a late western sky. It opened with the rest of Cars Land in 2012 and stayed the park's longest standby line for most of the decade after.
Radiator Springs Racers, on ceramic.
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Radiator Springs Racers is the headline attraction in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, the Disneyland Resort park in Anaheim, California. The ride opened on June 15, 2012 with the rest of the twelve-acre Cars Land expansion, themed to the Pixar film and built around a recreation of the fictional town of Radiator Springs at the foot of the Cadillac Range. The vehicles seat six and travel a six-minute course that ends in a side-by-side race. The Imagineering team adapted the ride system from Test Track at Epcot. It is consistently the park's most requested attraction.
The hand-sculpted rockwork above the ride was modelled on the real Cadillac Range outside Gallup, New Mexico, and rises about ninety feet over the valley. After sunset the neon comes on across the town facades — Flo's V8 Cafe, Ramone's body shop, the Cozy Cone Motel — in the staged sequence that closes the Pixar film. Riders on the last hour of the night get the race in the same warm cast the painters layered into the rock. The lighting design was led by Walt Disney Imagineering with show lighting by Lightswitch. The colour reads warmest from the queue switchback above the loading bay.
The ride uses a virtual queue or Lightning Lane reservation through the Disneyland app on most days, with limited standby. Riders must be at least 40 inches tall, and the vehicles seat six in two rows. The full experience is about six minutes, including the slow town tour and the closing race, which alternates winning sides at random. Single Rider is available on most operating days and significantly shortens the wait. Disney California Adventure is at 1313 Disneyland Drive in Anaheim. Park hours and reservation requirements vary by season; check the Disneyland Resort site before the day.