Since
bringing it up in the bunny-themed post of a couple weeks ago, I've
been thinking I should devote a post to Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin.
This is one of the most overlooked rides in Disneyland—not just by
the general public, who tend to miss it due to its back corner
location and lack of timelessly beloved central characters,* but by
Disney theme park bloggers, who ought to know better. This is
surprising, because it's one of the best dark rides in the park,
weaving together flexible source material, an innovative ride
concept, nifty effects, and an absolute commitment on the part of
Imagineering to make the experience as seamless as possible within
the limitations of the format and the mid-Nineties technology they
had to work with.
But
wait! There's more! And this is something that only occurred to me
fairly recently—Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin is the first narrative
Disney attraction I can think of that deliberately takes place in
the themed land where it is physically located.
I'll come back to this later.
