StormRider

This article is about the Tokyo DisneySea attraction. For the fantasy novel by David Gemmell, see Stormrider.
StormRider

StormRider's attraction building
Tokyo DisneySea
Area Port Discovery
Status Closed
Opening date September 4, 2001[1]
Closing date May 16, 2016
General statistics
Attraction type Simulator ride
Designer Walt Disney Imagineering
Theme Futuristic storm-diffusing aircraft
Riders per vehicle 122[2]
Duration 14 minutes[2]
Height restriction 90 cm (2 ft 11 in)
Sponsored by JCB

StormRider was a simulator ride at Tokyo DisneySea. It simulated going into a weather storm in a futuristic airplane (a "StormRider") to dissipate the storm. The attraction opened on September 4, 2001, in the Port Discovery land of Tokyo DisneySea. The attraction closed on May 17, 2016 and will be replaced by a new Finding Nemo/Finding Dory simulator ride, which will open in spring 2017.[3]

Ride

A pole with a poster for StormRider
Note JCB's sponsorship—its logo is on the pole.

With its copper roofs and mechanical devices, the attraction building—the "Center for Weather Control"—is themed to a futuristic, almost Victorian era, laboratory. Guests enter a motion simulator (a "StormRider") and are dispatched into a storm to deliver a storm-dissipating device called a "Fuse". The ride is explained in Japanese, with English subtitles on an LCD screen. During the ride, problems are encountered while trying to transport the Fuse.

See also

References

  1. "StormRider (Tokyo DisneySea)". Parkz. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  2. 1 2 "StormRider". Tokyo DisneySea. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
  3. "New "Finding Nemo" attraction coming to Tokyo DisneySea Park in Spring 2017, StormRider to close". Inside the Magic. Retrieved 20 May 2015.

Coordinates: 35°37′30″N 139°52′57″E / 35.62500°N 139.88250°E / 35.62500; 139.88250


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