Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Cars Land Imagineer heading to Animal Kingdom

San Diego U-T News published a recent interview with Jim Kearns, the Imagineering project manager for Cars Land.  Kearns talks about the project and how it was done.
“Think ‘Pirates’ and ‘Indiana Jones,’ ” Kearns said. “You’re engaging with almost 21 of the cars from the ‘Cars’ movie at full-scale animatronics. Imagine the challenge of taking what occurs on the screen and make it mechanized.”
 The third phase of the ride is the actual race between two cars (you don’t get to control the speed, but either of you can win).
At the end of the interview, Kearns reveals that his next big project is at Animal Kingdom, leading to speculation that this is related to the new Avatar attraction.

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