Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park opens today. If you're headed there, this video from the Disney Parks Blog tells you what to expect: https://youtu.be/XhKR2g222-I The clip also provides a good overview of of Buena Vista Street. Its retro look probably will draw interest from roadies as well.
Category: Attractions
Pontiac now gives tours with mobile devices
The tourism department of Pontiac, Ill., has always seemed forward-thinking. Continuing that trend, it has created a Mobile Device Tour for smartphones and tablet computers. From the news release: The mobile device tour provides additional information on many of Pontiac’s most popular tourist attractions and can be accessed by visitors through the use of a … Continue reading Pontiac now gives tours with mobile devices
Cars Land lifts the curtain
Although Cars Land at Disney California Adventure won't open to the public until Friday, the theme park threw an invitation-only gala on Wednesday evening. The clip above from CBS Los Angeles gets you started. Also, the Los Angeles Times reported in its review: Like opening the door to Oz, walking into Cars Land at DisneyCalifornia Adventure is like … Continue reading Cars Land lifts the curtain
Life could be a dream
Kudos to the folks at Mouse Planet for this enjoyable recent video of the neon signs at Cars Land being turned on as night begins to fall. https://youtu.be/J1UqXI43zWs Music is "Sh-Boom" by The Chords -- the same used in the neon-lighting scene in the 2006 Disney-Pixar film "Cars." You can compare: https://youtu.be/gNb2lJSMrWw Cars Land opens … Continue reading Life could be a dream
A play-by-play of Cars Land
John Lasseter, director of the Disney-Pixar film "Cars," gives sportscaster Brent Musburger a quick tour of Cars Land, which opens Friday. https://youtu.be/qC9aOGjC8UI And a few hours later, this overview of Cars Land showed up on YouTube. It's the most detailed look I've seen by far. Essential viewing: https://youtu.be/e-4lxg01nAo And here's a point-of-view video of the … Continue reading A play-by-play of Cars Land
A preview of Cars Land
Cars Land at Disney California Adventure won't open to the public until Friday. But this cobbled-together video of still photos and sound clips from Cars Land will do nicely until then: https://youtu.be/gfN4pCA3tmI Cars Land is inspired by the fictional Route 66 town of Radiator Springs as depicted in the Disney-Pixar films "Cars" and "Cars 2."
Henry’s Rabbit Ranch among Illinois Hall of Fame inductees
https://youtu.be/lh_uI2hDmZA Henry's Rabbit Ranch in Staunton, Ill., is among the inductees into the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame for 2012, according to a story today in the Bloomington Pantagraph. The other honorees are Elmo and Eula Quinn of Quinn's Shell station in Bloomington, gas station owner Samuel Reichert Sr. of Plainfield, and Roger Gray of Gray’s … Continue reading Henry’s Rabbit Ranch among Illinois Hall of Fame inductees
Where Cars Land got its inspiration
Lest you still think the soon-to-open Cars Land at Disney California Adventure is a pale imitation of Radiator Springs from the movie "Cars," this video will dispel that notion: https://youtu.be/5j4Cgv13VfU Disney Imagineers' tour of Route 66 from Erick, Okla., to Needles, Calif., took place in 2008. According to the Disney Parks Blog: We followed in … Continue reading Where Cars Land got its inspiration
Route 66 News, catch-up edition
I've been out of town for about 10 days traveling Route 66 and more. Here are the stories from the Mother Road that broke while I was away ... --- The biggest news was the announcement that the historic Aztec Hotel in Monrovia, Calif., would undergo extensive renovations with its new owners, reported the Monrovia … Continue reading Route 66 News, catch-up edition
Land of the Havasupai
This gorgeous video by Dan Carter shows the Havasupai reservation in the bottom of Arizona's Grand Canyon. https://vimeo.com/42061125 More about the Havasupai: Havasupai means "people of the blue green water". Havasupais have dwelt in the Grand Canyon and the rest of north-central Arizona for over 1,000 years, practicing summertime irrigated farming in the canyons and … Continue reading Land of the Havasupai