A new ride is coming to Tokyo Disney Sea for the park's 10th anniversary! Oriental Land Co announced that a new attraction, Jasmine’s Flying Carpets, will open at TDS in summer 2011.
With a total of 16 vehicles and a cost of 2 billion Yen ($22 million) Jasmine’s Flying Carpets is "a ride attraction where guests can soar over Jasmine’s garden on a flying carpet. Guests will be able to maneuver their vehicle up and down to a height of 5 meters, and tilt the vehicle forward and backward, as if flying their own magical carpet. This uplifting ride can be enjoyed by all, from young children to adults. Guests can also watch their friends and family on their flying carpet from an elevated viewing deck".
After the Aladdin Magic Carpets ride at WDW Magic Kingdom and at the WDS Toon Studio this is the third version of this ride but Jasmine’s Flying Carpets might be the one with the best decor. With the addition of this new attraction in summer 2011, there will be a total of 27 attractions at Tokyo DisneySea. I remind you that Mickey’s PhilharMagic and Cinderella’s Fairy Tale Hall (rendering below) will also open at Tokyo Disneyland in 2011 as well as a new Nighttime Spectacular “Fantasmic!”.
And a Toy Story Mania ride will also come at TDS New York area of American Waterfront in 2012. The cost of this new version of TSM is estimated by Oriental Land at 11.5 billion Yen ($127 Million).
The Jasmine’s Flying Carpets rendering at the top of this article is coming from the new The Art of Telling Tales blog where you can find it in high-res. The site which opened last September is linked to the excellent Tales from a Laughing Place Magazine and this gives me the opportunity to tell you again how great this magazine is.
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The only thing I could complain about the Jasmie's ride is its location : the ride looks very pretty and clean, but the fortress of the Sindbad's ride is more dirty and broken... It could be better to place it in the Magic Lamp theater location i guess, which is much more appropriate to the look of this new ride...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, its so good to see how these japanese parks are always improving and growing !
All the Dumbo clones are basically off the shelf rides with added decor - how do they manage to spend 22 million USD on sth like this? Don´t get me wrong, I think it will look nice at TDS - but 22 million?
ReplyDeleteJones... I was thinking the exact same thing. How the heck is that ride $22 million??? I guess someone is getting serious kick backs on that ride, whether it is off the shelf or not.
ReplyDeleteTokyo Disney Resort has huge earthquake safety standards so everything is re-engineered and over designed. Because of this the cost is at least 10 percent more than in the USA. But even with this i must say it's hard to understand why it cost 22 Million $... To give you an idea, the TDL Winnie the Pooh Ride - the best version of the ride with LPS controlled vehicle - was less than $100M. But it was ten years ago...
ReplyDeleteDisney sea would be a great addition in Paris as the third park, instead of the cheap ones (dreaming too much).
ReplyDeleteRegarding this "new" ride, I think that they should develop new concepts instead of re-decorating 1955 ones. This ride is not going to add anything to TDS, is just a waist of money and space.
Alain, after reading your comment I was wondering- doesn't Disneyland in California have the same earthquake safety standards as the Tokyo Resort? Scary!
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand I never heard about people that died or got hurt in a Disneyland ride during an earthquake...
By the way, congratulations for the great articles and I would never give up going to Disneyland (the best theme park ever) because of that- I may even realize my dream of becoming ghost 1,000.
@ Marco Antonio: I agree with you, DisneySea Park would probably be the best option for a third park! Although it would be very very exprensive, it would make DLP's reputation much better!
ReplyDeleteAlani, have you got an idea what the plans are for the third park?
Meme reaction que celles des autres, 22 Millions de dollars pour un manège de foire relooké ! Ca fait cher le clou ! Et puis, la vache, pour le 10e anniversaire de TDS, un carrousel de m**** ? Pfff, c vraiment déprimant, meme si la thematisation est plutot jolie.
ReplyDeleteEn ce qui concerne le prix, ca vient de Imagineering a L.A qui est une société privée malgré tout et qui sur-facture les parcs. A l'epoque, DLP avait meme été jusqu'a demander a une autre société (hollandaise pour le coup) de faire le ride Indiana Jones. Imagineering ct juste occupé de la thematisation (et encore pour une somme elle meme delirante) !.
I agree with you anonymous, the price tag for this new ride is enormous. On the other hand, it is imagineering that makes a Disney park special. The exemple that you gave from Indaina Jones at DLP, if you take away the "thematisation" from it, it is just another ordinary roller coster that you may find in any small park arround the world, what makes it unique is the imagineers touch.
ReplyDeleteThey may be very expensive, but they are worth every penny!
Brian, sorry for my late answer to your question, but no, i have no idea what the theme of a 3rd theme park at DLP will be and i'm not even sure that DLP execs have already took a decision about it.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing i'm sure about is that you better don't expect a 3rd theme park at DLP before 2018 or 2020 as DLP execs are indeed planning a 3rd theme park, but not before these dates.