Disney Porting Toy Story Midway Mania! Theme Park Ride To Wii

such a fun ride but expecting failure in this game lol.

Cucco

This is an awesome ride, but as a game unless they add a whole bunch of stuff to it I don't see it being very deep.

OMG, now I have to get a Wii! This game RULES.

Stormy151

@SketchyIndividual: this ride was completely brand new for california adventure/disneyworld when it opened. it's also one of my favorite rides.

Michael Tirona

@bfwings55: Agreed.

Graham

That's awesome! Only because Schell Games, based out of Pittsburgh, made that game. I go to school in Pittsburgh and one of my teachers works at Schell. I'll have to ask him about it tomorrow.

Best. Ride. Ever.

Well, after Superman Ride of Steel (I mean Bizarro) at Six Flags New England >___________>

Whoo! Go Yankees!

HaukIshed

I'd asume that there would be more than the stages in the ride

Does the game include the part where you have to wait an hour each time you want to play it?

I'd rather see the Pirates of the Caribbean skeleton shooting game from Disney Quest.

To play the game you get on a life size model of the front of a pirate ship. It is surrounded 180* by projection screens. The Interface is 4 physical light gun cannons on the bow of the deck. You point the cannons at the screens and pull a rip-cord to fire them. The enemies are other pirate ships, skeletons and a sea monster, from what i remember.

It was easily one of the best interactive games I've played.

@SketchyIndividual: no not at all

Lincolnsbeard33

@Keebler_Elf_Making_Cookies: My sister bought it. I figure that if I think hard enough, those pompoms will turn into lightsabers and it will be called Wii Cheer4Lightsabers.

meow-mixer

@bfwings55: I agree. One of my favorite disney world rides.

meow-mixer

This is the ride that they put a new skin on every couple of years, isn't it?

I know one of them like that (rail-shooter-ish ride) has gone through 3 different themes, but all of them have still been fun as hell.

Why are the Dudley Boyz on a Toy Story ride in that picture? Is one of the prizes you can win a table or something?

dry-roasted-peanuts

@jjammerzs: MAN that brings back memories. I was in the hospital for three days to get an insulin pump when I was eleven, and they had that! Didn't play it very much, as the platforming was freaking impossible, but I do remember that crazy 3D level.

BTW, if you ever have a kid who gets diabetes (type 1, not the fat people kind) send him to Harbor Hospital in Baltimore. They had practically every single NES game, and a SNES, and an Asteroids cabinet. Best hospital stay ever :)

@Vextoz: Thank God for Fastpass. :)

@goldwings: I had some toy story game for the genesis. Its around here somewhere, i remember it being plenty hard though.

snakepliskin

Dear Disney,

Please do Captain Eo next.

Love,
Kobun

This should be intresting.
I came back from Disney about a month ago, and the wait to get on was a disaster, but it was so worth it.
I'm sure that the game won't disappoint

@undefined: i played both... both were challenging, but fun..

NOT TODAY, ZERG!

I would rather buy a Mickey Mouse hat and ride the teacups ride for a couple of hours instead.

jakendo

@Curse_Lily: Never play it or heard of it but i remember playing Toy Story 1 for the SNES like not crazy.

:D

@goldwings: Never play it or heard of it but i remember playing Toy Story 2 for the ps1 like crazy.

@Abel: I can't imagine it translating very well.

lolgreg

I can't wait, even as a disney annual passholder trying to get on this ride a lot is a burden. The stamped from the gate to the ride when they open is insane and it is a 2 hour standby wait from that point forward with fastpasses gone in the first 15-20 minutes.

Fantastic ride though. Will be interesting to see if the fun of it translates well to a non-moving living room.

Abel

@ヨシダさん 25: Same here. Plus, it'll cut down on the 2 to 3 hour lines!

SuperTongue

I wonder how far they're going to stretch it. I haven't ridden it, but I've seen videos. My classmate was one of the engineers on the ride and invited me to test drive it, but I was unfortunately out of town that weekend. D'oh!

I went on it when it first opened. The line was ridiculous. We stood and listened to that stupid mr potato head say the same damn jokes over and over. The game was rather fun though, not great. I dont see why anyone would want to play this on the wii. You just took out the whole ride part.

snakepliskin

Ahh now I get why they are pitching stinks their spring training was at Toy Story Midway Mania. At least now they can train more in the comfort of NY!

Kadugen

Does this really constitute making a Wii game? I thought Wii Cheer was a dumb idea.

This makes ME VERY HAPPY. The attraction is very addictive.

All joking aside, Toy Story Midway Mania is one of the best rides I've ridden in a while.

It's like one of the best arcade video games ever made. Definately some of the best 3D physics I've ever seen.

Speaking of Toy Story, anyone else remember that SNES Toy Story game? It pretty hard and had some weird game design choices - Doom+Toy Story level FTL

@snakepliskin:

Oh jeez, I had that same game. so friggin hard, I could never get past the part in Pizza Planet where you had to sneak around in plastic cups. It was wicked fun though, with good music and great graphics.

Come to think of it, a lot of the Disney games for SNES/Genesis (Aladdin, Mickey Mania, etc) were really solid platformers...I miss those days.

@danterandal19:

Holy crap, Mickey Mania!

@kingofrain: Stalker-ish curiosity nags me to ask: D'you go to AI by any chance?

@Vexorg: If you pay $45 more, you get the Fast-Track edition.

@lonecow12: Great point, thinking back to when we rode it, the pull string, the force-feedback feeling like you just shot the pop-gun, and seeing the resulting ammo go flying on the screen was really a major part of the experience.

I have to agree, this is one of the best rides I've ever been on. My kids and I must have ridden this 20 times on our trip last year. Would be a great purchase for the Wii, but there are two things that make the ride great that I don't see them being able to do here.

First is the 3D. Not sure if they can pull this off on the Wii and the various TV's out there that might not be able to support that tech? The second, and biggest challenge, is that the ride is actually "4D", in that when you pop a balloon on the dart throwing stage you get a blast of air in the face timed perfectly to the action. As a simple target shooting game on the Wii, it will be fun, but not really remarkable, I'm afraid.

I hope they have a Wii mote addon that lets you pull the pop string like in the ride. That is the part that is fullfilling. Pulling the string, hearing the pop sound and seeing your reward in virtual space is what makes it so so so awesome.

lonecow12

@bfwings55: Going back to Disney and Universal Studios as an adult was a really great experience, punctuated by how flat out awesome this ride is.

This is one mini-game collection that may actually be worth purchasing on the Wii, as long as they expand beyond the six or so featured in the ride.

I went back in October 2008 and the line was insane then. I shortest I saw the line was 45 minutes.

It's worth it, though. I wouldn't say it's worth waiting 45 minutes twice, though. Perhaps if the line was much shorter.

Spaceboy

What's that in the top right? Baa-loon pop?

I'd like to pop bo beep's balloon's if you know what I mean. Nudge nudge, wink wink.

...I regret nothing.