Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
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Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! is a dark ride attraction at Disney's California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
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| Entrance to the ride | |||||||||
| Disney's California Adventure | |||||||||
| Land | Hollywood Pictures Backlot | ||||||||
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering & Ride & Show Engineering, Inc. | ||||||||
| Attraction type | Dark Ride | ||||||||
| Theme | Monsters, Inc. | ||||||||
| Soft opening date | December 20, 2005 | ||||||||
| Opening date | January 23, 2006 | ||||||||
| Guests per car | 6 | ||||||||
| Ride duration | 4:05 minutes | ||||||||
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It is based on the 2001 Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios film Monsters, Inc. The attraction replaced the park's only other dark ride, Superstar Limo, which ran from the park's opening until 2002.
[edit] Synopsis
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The ride follows, very closely, the story of the film.
The queue area is themed to a bus station with commercials of tourist spots within in the city of Monstropolis. Posters of Harryhausen's, a restaurant from the film, are placed in queue, hinting to a scene within the attraction.
Guests board taxis on a journey through the streets of Monstropolis. A small television monitor in each of the three rows of the ride vehicle plays a clip of a tourism video that is interrupted with urgent news that a human has entered Monstropolis (humans are considered deadly).
The taxis exit a tunnel and go down the dark streets of the city, passing Mike and Celia in Mike's new car as Mike wishes her a happy birthday. They then see Randall, who looks around angrily. Following that are news reporters interviewing frightened monsters about what they saw that night. Sulley pops up from an alley holding Boo, looking to see if the coast is clear.
The taxis drive into Harryhausen's sushi joint, where frantic monsters run around as Celia screams angrily at Mike and Sulley who are running across the way. The taxis enter the Monsters, Inc. factory and are nearly cleansed by the CDA that fall from nowhere and take pictures. A few workers walk by and the taxis enter the boys' locker room where Mike seems scared and worried again while Sulley waits for Boo to use the restroom. Randall appears then disappears in a nearby corner.
In the giant room with all the hanging doors hanging, the guests see Randall again; he threatens to destroy Boo's door, but Mike and Sulley find it again. Boo beats up Randall with a bat, changing his colors as the taxis are passed by hundreds of flying doors. Various doors open showing various monsters like the Abominable Snowman or George.
Mike and Sulley say goodbye to Boo as the taxis exit into the factory main lobby. CDA members cleanse the guests as a cameraman films them. A giant audio animatronic of Roz remarks on the appearance of the guests; for example, if a guest is wearing Mickey Mouse ears, she tells them they have nice ears.
[edit] Related attractions
In January 2005, Disney announced that a similar attraction will replace the Meet the World show at Tokyo Disneyland. With a working title of "Monsters, Inc.: Ride n' Go Seek!", the $88 million attraction is scheduled to debut in 2009, in the park's Tomorrowland section. Although precise details have not been released, the ride has been confirmed to be an "interactive dark ride" with fully built interior sets, Audio-Animatronics, as well as screen technology similar to the Toy Story Midway Mania! attractions at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's California Adventure.[citation needed]
