Status Closed Closing date January 11, 2002 Closed 11 January 2002 Duration 4 minutes Designer Walt Disney Imagineering | Opening date February 8, 2001 Attraction type Dark ride Opened 8 February 2001 Theme Hollywood | |
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Area Hollywood Pictures Backlot Replaced by Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! Park Disney California Adventure Similar Maliboomer, Flik's Flyers, Monsters - Inc Mike & Sulley to t, Golden Zephyr, Heimlich's Chew Chew Train | ||
Superstar limo disney s california adventure dark ride
Superstar Limo was a dark ride in Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
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History
Superstar Limo was situated in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area and was one of the original attractions featured on the park's opening day on February 8, 2001.
The attraction closed in 2002, being the park's first attraction to permanently close. It has since been replaced by an attraction based on Disney·Pixar's Monsters, Inc. entitled Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!, which opened in January 2006.
Synopsis
The attraction's purple "stretch limo" ride vehicles took riders through a cartoony rendition of Hollywood. Riders were introduced to animated figures modeled in the likeness of celebrities (some of whom appeared at the time on shows from the ABC television network). The celebrities were Joan Rivers (appearing only in puppet-form on TV screens in the attraction's queue), Regis Philbin, Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Cindy Crawford, Tim Allen, Jackie Chan, Drew Carey, Cher, and Whoopi Goldberg. A stereotypical Hollywood talent agent named Swifty La Rue further appeared infrequently on small inseat video screens, reminding the riders not to be late.
The story of the attraction placed the guest (rider) as Hollywood's newest celebrity, taking them through a variety of recognizable and somewhat stereotypical locations and situations on the way to the premiere of their new movie. Locations included the greater Los Angeles and Hollywood areas including Rodeo Drive, the Sunset Strip, a nightclub, Bel Air, a pool party, Malibu, a tattoo parlor, the interior of a soundstage, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, a billboard that displayed an image captured of the guests, and Downtown Los Angeles.
Criticism
Superstar Limo was criticized amongst Internet writers as lacking, poor in concept, and limited in having a motivating story, spurred by rumors of the elimination during its development phase of a more exciting "paparazzi chase" storyline, which was deemed inappropriate after the death of Princess Diana.
The depiction of celebrities in the ride were stylized and caricatured. Though the celebrity figures had moving arms and heads, none of Disney's human-like Audio-Animatronics technologies were used in the attraction. Between the time the attraction was designed and it opened, many of the celebrities depicted had lost much of their celebrity status.