![]() ![]() In the grand Disney tradition, Imagineers pulled out all the stops to make fantasy reality, bringing the feeling of flight to life using a 180-degree, 80-foot IMAX projection dome and aerially captured footage that simulates the graceful motion of a hang glider. So get ready-and strap yourselves in for this epic re-imagining of a beloved Future World attraction! Whether you're soaring above man-made marvels like the majestic Great Wall of China, cruising over natural sights like Iguazu Falls in South America or swooping past sailboats on Australia's spectacular Sydney Harbour, this is your chance to experience the joy of hang gliding as you never have before. Passengers, prepare for liftoff-you're about to visit some of the planet's most awe-inspiring destinations! Through the bright lights and glowing halls of a newly designed concourse awaits a tour like no other. Tokyo DisneySea plans to add a Soarin’ attraction in 2019 with Renaissance-era flight simulators evocative of Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines.Take flight on a breezy, airborne adventure as you hang glide above some of the most breathtaking wonders the world has to offer.ĭepart on an all-new journey through the sky, flying high from one extraordinary landmark to the next. Soaring Over the Horizon officially opened Thursday at Shanghai Disneyland with a properly spelled name that translates more easily for the Chinese audience. Soarin’ opened at Epcot in 2005 with less emphasis on the film’s California locales. Soarin’ Over California debuted at Disney California Adventure when the park opened in 2001. My favorite transition morphed the dome of the Taj Mahal into a hot air balloon over Monument Valley. The film employs several clever transitions from scene to scene, including a scary seaplane barreling toward you, a playful kite that swoops across the screen and an eagle with wings spread that briefly frightened the little girl sitting next to me. The short film makes many subtle nods to Disney films and history, including “Cars” (Monument Valley), “Ratatouille” (Paris), “Finding Nemo” (Sydney Harbour), the upcoming “Moana” (set in the South Pacific), Disneyland’s castle (based on Neuschwanstein) and the park’s Matterhorn bobsled coaster (Switzerland). Several instantly recognizable landmarks didn’t make the cut, including Italy’s Colosseum and Leaning Tower of Pisa, England’s Stonehenge and Big Ben and Russia’s Red Square. “Making of” videos released by the Disney publicity department show a camera-equipped helicopter repeatedly buzzing over the Great Wall of China during filming. The camera flies through towering buttes in Monument Valley and within feet of the Eiffel Tower. The movie visits 13 places around the globe, flying so close you wonder how the filmmakers got permission to capture the footage. My favorite scene in the new film: The panoramic view of water surging over the majestic Iguazu waterfalls. What I love most about Soarin’ are the memories the ride conjures up of Disneyland’s old Circle-Vision attraction, a circular movie theater with nine screens that put viewers in the middle of the action. One of my favorite parts of Soarin’ is seeing the feet of the children in the row above kicking back and forth as riders fly above the clouds. The new international scent effects include grass over Africa, an ocean breeze over the South Pacific and roses over India. Gone are the artificial scents of lemon blossom, evergreen and sagebrush that used to simulate a hang-gliding flight over California. The Chinese version of the movie concludes with nighttime fireworks over Shanghai’s skyline, but the California version ends at Disneyland. The new scenes include a flight over Switzerland’s Matterhorn, the Arctic Ocean with a leaping whale, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, Germany’s Neuschwanstein castle, a herd of African elephants, the Great Wall of China, Egyptian pyramids, India’s Taj Mahal, hot air balloons in Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border, outrigger boats off Fiji, the Iguazu waterfalls on the Argentina-Brazil border and France’s Eiffel Tower. The Soarin’ rides in Florida and California debuted Friday, a day after the attraction officially opened in Shanghai Disneyland’s Adventure Isle, its version of Adventureland.
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