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Small creatures get a big stage at A Bug's Land, a new area in Disney's California Adventure. Inspired by "A Bug's Life," the addition encompasses the 3-D attraction It's Tough to Be a Bug, the farming exhibit Bountiful Valley Farm, and the new Flik's Fun Fair, a playland geared to kids and scaled to make everyone seem knee-high to a grasshopper. "Everything in Flik's Fun Fair is oversized," says producer Kathy Mangum. "You enter through a giant cereal box and end up under a forest of clover."
In Flik's Flyers, the first of four rides in the one-and-a-half-acre Fun Fair, guests sit in gondolas that are lifted into the air by a zeppelin apparently stitched together from leaves. "The conceit is that it has been built by Flik," says Mangum of the spinning swing ride. "In the movie he was always making things out of scraps." The recycling theme carries over to the gondolas, which resemble animal-cracker boxes and Chinese food take-out cartons.
Up next is Francis's Ladybug Boogie, named for the film's understandably cranky male ladybug. Funky music thumps under a canopy of lanterns as Francis-shaped vehicles twist and spin like someone with happy feet. "It's a little bit like the Mad Tea Party," Mangum says, noting that all Fun Fair attractions are designed to appeal to children, but sized to let parents ride with their kids.
Next door to Francis, Tuck & Roll's Drive 'Em Buggies are under a big-top tent that looks like an old umbrella. Kids zip around in bumper cars modeled after the movie's pill bug acrobats Tuck and Roll.
Guests hungry for more can board Heimlich's Chew Chew Train. This caterpillar-shaped railroad ("A Bug's Life" fans will remember Heimlich as the voracious caterpillar) travels through a world of food, including a watermelon archway, before ending up in Candy Valley. Along the way, riders are tantalized with piped-in aromas of watermelon and vanilla cookies.
The four rides surround Princess Dot's Puddle Park, a play area dominated by a huge garden hose. While parents chill out in the shade of gargantuan clover, they might spot a four-leaf specimen: There's only one in Flik's Fun Fair, and Mangum isn't saying where.
I thought this was a great discription of this new land!
Are there more plans to update the DCA and DL?? What have you heard??Seen??Read?? Please tell me all the news!?
Small creatures get a big stage at A Bug's Land, a new area in Disney's California Adventure. Inspired by "A Bug's Life," the addition encompasses the 3-D attraction It's Tough to Be a Bug, the farming exhibit Bountiful Valley Farm, and the new Flik's Fun Fair, a playland geared to kids and scaled to make everyone seem knee-high to a grasshopper. "Everything in Flik's Fun Fair is oversized," says producer Kathy Mangum. "You enter through a giant cereal box and end up under a forest of clover."
In Flik's Flyers, the first of four rides in the one-and-a-half-acre Fun Fair, guests sit in gondolas that are lifted into the air by a zeppelin apparently stitched together from leaves. "The conceit is that it has been built by Flik," says Mangum of the spinning swing ride. "In the movie he was always making things out of scraps." The recycling theme carries over to the gondolas, which resemble animal-cracker boxes and Chinese food take-out cartons.
Up next is Francis's Ladybug Boogie, named for the film's understandably cranky male ladybug. Funky music thumps under a canopy of lanterns as Francis-shaped vehicles twist and spin like someone with happy feet. "It's a little bit like the Mad Tea Party," Mangum says, noting that all Fun Fair attractions are designed to appeal to children, but sized to let parents ride with their kids.
Next door to Francis, Tuck & Roll's Drive 'Em Buggies are under a big-top tent that looks like an old umbrella. Kids zip around in bumper cars modeled after the movie's pill bug acrobats Tuck and Roll.
Guests hungry for more can board Heimlich's Chew Chew Train. This caterpillar-shaped railroad ("A Bug's Life" fans will remember Heimlich as the voracious caterpillar) travels through a world of food, including a watermelon archway, before ending up in Candy Valley. Along the way, riders are tantalized with piped-in aromas of watermelon and vanilla cookies.
The four rides surround Princess Dot's Puddle Park, a play area dominated by a huge garden hose. While parents chill out in the shade of gargantuan clover, they might spot a four-leaf specimen: There's only one in Flik's Fun Fair, and Mangum isn't saying where.
I thought this was a great discription of this new land!
Are there more plans to update the DCA and DL?? What have you heard??Seen??Read?? Please tell me all the news!?
