This was originally supposed to be a much better, much faster ride with the paparazzi chasing you. Then the Princess Diana accident forced them to neuter the ride and this is what we ended up with.
Actually, It is in fact why. The park was in development during the time of Princess Di's Death, and the original ride concept of a Paparazzi chase did in fact have to be overhauled due to this event. Theme Parks and other similar projects do tend to be in development for several years before their final construction and opening, during which many world events can occur that may have an impact on concepts such as this. They don't just spit these ideas out over night.
@Autistic Linguistix they could have made some other story with it and replace the papparazi bit with something else. It's Disney so they probably could have pulled it off
First time seeing this, and I'm sitting here stunned that this was an actual ride in a Disney park (however briefly). It's so ill-conceived on every level. From the unfunny jokes, to the lame celebrity references that were already dated when it premiered (a ride should NEVER contain the words "funnyman Tim Allen"), to the creepy puppets and generally unsettling feel of the whole ride. On a conceptual level, the tone is all wrong--it's a snarky and cynical take on the superficiality of Hollywood magic in the middle of a place (Disneyland) that was built on Hollywood magic.
What happened is is that the ride was originally supposed to be you are speeding to go away from pAperazzi but after princess Diana died doing just that they slowed it down
You would think Tim Allen would have gotten more respect.....He only voices one of the most popular modern disney/pixar characters. Even at the time of this ride Toy story was a thing!
Bob Buchko They're not referring to Journey into Imagination, they're referring to Journey into YOUR Imagination. As in, the really terrible ride that initially replaced it.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Where as Journey Into Imagination (the current version at least) was just annoying, Superstar limo looks Annoying, Creepy, un-imaginative (no pun intended), and just lazy.
This was back when Disney was pushing the "California experience" for California adventure. Turns out, people just wanted more Disney:) Thanks for this, never got to ride it.
It's 2017 and they still don't know exactly what to do with California Adventure. So they've decided to turn it into Marvelland instead, since superhero movies are popular right now. They dont care about creative originality anymore, they only care about what's gonna boost their overall income in the end.
Plans for DCA Fuck up a classic (Tower of Terror)-Succeeded Destroy beautiful Buena Vista street (Pending) Scrap Red Car Trolley (Also pending) Use Marvel franchise as a cash grab (In the works) Destroy the whole place (Work in progress)
Stuart Alvarez Plans for our therapy session: Get you to realize that (A) a ride that opened in 2004 is not a classic, and (B) that Guardians of the Galaxy is a better ride than tower of terror. We will also be discussing about improving your understanding about the difference between fantasy and reality, and that what you think is going to happen doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen.
The ride might have worked if it were set during the Golden Age of Hollywood and featured Clark Gable, Marylyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, etc etc. That way the stars never would have become dated. Disney was probably too cheap at the time to pay the royalties to the late stars estates and settled for C listers.
I loved this ride. It was so awful, that it was great. I only got to ride it twice. The third time I tried, it was broken. THANK YOU FOR PRESERVING THIS!!! It felt like I stepped into an episode of "The Simpsons" goofing on amusement park rides.
What were the imagineers responsible for this ride on? This looks like a bad sitcom which not even Adult Swim would pick up and touch with a 9 1/2 foot pole. Thank goodness this ride got the boot in favor of Mike and Sully to the Rescue.
figment1988 Well the original plans made the ride sound kind of cool, however, much like most of DCA 1.0 budgets were slashed, good ride concepts got the boot, and thats how we got most of DCA 1.0
it was originally going to be like rock 'n' rollercoaster you would be a movie star boarding a limo to escape paparazzi but after Princess Diana died in a limo driving away from paparazzi they decided to change the attraction
apparently they had a much better idea where you're racing through the streets being chased by paparazzi and then............. diana died, so they had to throw this together really quickly
They got rid of the line as you enter Bel-Air "welcome to bel-air, where the streets are paved with royalties, and hype." The ride was clearly mocking hollywood, which conflicted with the hollywood backlot's attempt to capitalize on the golden age of hollywood and all of that which this ride mocked. I don't think this served the overarching story of the park, and rather undermined it, but it if one understands that its supposed to be a ride-thru parody/family guy-type story, it works. Eliminating that line as you enter Bel-Air is peculiar; maybe they thought people weren't getting the parody/comedy angle, but by just removing some of the jokes, you're making it a literal celebrified hollywood experience rather than a parody. At that point, all that is left is a really poor way of delivering on that expectation. It looks and feels nothing like the glamorous hollywood people might expect. The park map from 2002 says it all! I just checked to see how they were describing the attraction on it. "A glitzy ride through LA's star-studded streets." BIG Mistake. The failure of this attraction isn't only in its execution, it is in the way it was being mis-marketed. The set-up mentions "glitzy" and "star studded," and the attraction is certainly not glitzy. People can't tell by reading a park map that it is a sarcastic experience. They are expecting one experience to be delivered and that experience actually is failing miserably. Rather than letting park guests in on the joke, DCA was playing a practical joke ON ITS GUESTS. This could have survived if the park map indicated that it was supposed to be a comedy, parody, sarcastic, riddled ride through hollywood. Attractions like Roger Rabbit are similar in tone but don't carry the same level of confusion. This ride was so universally hated and misunderstood and I don't think anybody misses it. But I wonder if it would have succeeded in a toontown-type hollywoodland subland, paired with something like roger rabbit, in a land that spoke immediately and visually to the fact that this was to be playful and unrealistic. It also doesn't speak to the defining golden-age-of-hollywood and movie magic dramatic themes, aspirations, aesthetics, and emotions that people understand. A more elaborate, literal dark ride would be needed to anchor and define such a land. A ride that would render the cartoon limo attraction a lesser thesis, an offshoot, an alternative interpretation, an antithesis that compliments the overall show and acts as a device of acknowledging the non-existence of such a perfect vision of hollywood through the ways in which it mocks it and reveals opposing truths.
Interesting theory, but I just can't see how it could possibly have been a success. It's just a terrible ride on every level and no normal person would have found it funny, even if they had tried a bit harder or marketed it as satire. I just don't get what they were going for, even originally. I cannot fathom how it got the green light, even if I was an imagineer who worked on it I'd be ashamed and have begged them to let me start from scratch with a completely new idea.
I remember going to California adventures not too long after it opened and this ride was so bad it had already closed down before I could ride it. Even Disney can make a mistake with a ride.
Reminds me of that one Roger Rabbit ride only a lot less interesting. I've never been to California Adventure but this ride seems too cheesy/ outdated to be associated with Disney. Universal maybe but not appropriate for Disney. I know it's Monster's Inc. now which is good but still.
Magic kingdom fans: bring back mr toad Epcot fans: bring back horizons and imagination Hollywood studios fans: bring back the great movie ride Disneyland fans: bring back the people mover California adventure fans: No superstar limo stay in the corner
I only rode this once the year DCA opened and man I thought it sucked. As a 7-year-old I thought it was garbage and still today at 23-years-old it's garbage. The terrifying puppets, the awful "storyline", yep this was a product of the Eisner years....the Monsters Inc. ride that's there now is much better though I'm not sure how long it'll be there considering it looks like Marvel is taking over that side of the park. We'll see how long the Frozen stage show lasts there too since it's smack dab in the middle and if a Marvel "land" is made it won't fit the decor or theming.
Wow I must say the ride the replaced it with is much better. You might be able to enjoy The Supper Star Lamo If you are high but that's about it. Same thing for the Winnie the Pooh Ride. It looks like a bad acid trip.
Since I live in New Jersey and some of my family lives in Florida, my family usually goes to Disney World, but if that ride WAS still around and if I were to go to California, for some reason I'd want to go on it. I mean, it looked shitty as hell but it would sure be an.. experience.
OK, I'm just gonna come right out and say it: that agent guy lives smack in the middle of the uncanny valley. I'm gonna have to sleep with the lights on.
As a concept I can sort of see what they were going for, with this ride being located in California Adventure, which has a Hollywood theme throughout it. However, the execution is just plain lazy. The writing is dated (yes, even for when it was created), the backdrops look slapped together, and the "animatronics" are bizarre and sloppy. If they tried to do this ride in a style more similar to The Great Movie Ride, it would have been a success.
I’m mesmerized by that agent puppet. It’s so bad that it’s hard to look away. The whole thing is so bad that it’s hard to NOT watch. I’m obsessed with how terrible this is lol!
Dear god. o_O What was Disney thinking when they made that ride? That was seriously the worst ride I've ever seen. I expected a ride like this from Knotts Berry Farm or something, but not Disney. Christ in a sidecar, man. o_O
NOT TO SAY I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE HATES THIS RIDE but I love the style of it! The weird puppetry and animatronics and set design are all up my alley, and had it released as it intended to before the princess di tragedy (and included a similar design aesthetic to this) i feel like it wouldve been a hit, more loved than hated for its weirdness
@zenclaw13 Thanks for being so nice! The fresh bread and tortilla's are in the wharf area: the Mission Tortilla Factory and the Boudin Bread Factory. You have to sit through a little tour, but it's worth it. If you don't know where they are, they're at the enterance of the wharf from the Bug's Life side, not the entrance closest to the water, but you can get there by just walking through past the food court too. It's so nice to have a free snack in the middle of the day! Have a great day :D
You're kidding, right? This is really a Disney ride? I thought this was some other amusement park's rip-off of a Disney ride...wow! When Disney starts to consider what rides to shut down in the future to make way for new ones, I'm hoping this is at the top of everyone's list. This is really Disney, huh?
Oh, I see that it has been replaced. How did this ever pass the board of directors?! Anyway, good thing it's gone now. Still in shock they ever came up with this. There isn't even anything clever about it. It's just room after room of cheap effects and lousy caricatures of celebrities. Good riddance!
So glad they replaced this craptastic excuse of an attraction with Monsters Inc. I never went on the Superstar Limo attraction personally, but just watching the ride through of it is enough to make me ask what the hell was Eisner thinking?
I realize that they changed it from a fast paced ride being chased by paparazzi because of Princess Diana's death, but they could have changed it to something better than this. Could have had a fast paced car ride on the way to an audition. Would've worked and been fun.
I guess the original concept for the ride was that it was going to be a fast thrill ride with you trying to outrun the paparazzi, but that was around the time when princess Diana died in a car crash trying to outrun the paparazzi so they decided that the original concept would be in bad taste so they decided to slow the ride down and removed almost all references to the paparazzi, and also threw in a bunch of celebs that had disney contracts.
This has gotta be one of the ONLY Disney rides where I just sit there and am speechless at how horrible it was. Glad Monsters Inc. is in there now, although to be honest, I could handle almost ANYTHING replacing this thing. *shudders*
In all honesty, they hardly even tried when they turned this thing into Monster's Inc. They switched out a few cardboard cutouts, did a different voice-over and called it good.
Even though it was an obvious failure, I will say ONE positive thing about it.... Disney at least attempted an original story for the attraction. Now everything is just The Ride, which neglects the genius storytelling that Disney Imagineering is capable of.
Wow, that looks like it was a crazy ride! I've never been on it before, but I've been on the Monsters Inc. ride. I probably would like the Monsters Inc. ride more, it feels much more Disney.
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This was originally supposed to be a much better, much faster ride with the paparazzi chasing you. Then the Princess Diana accident forced them to neuter the ride and this is what we ended up with.
Actually, It is in fact why. The park was in development during the time of Princess Di's Death, and the original ride concept of a Paparazzi chase did in fact have to be overhauled due to this event. Theme Parks and other similar projects do tend to be in development for several years before their final construction and opening, during which many world events can occur that may have an impact on concepts such as this. They don't just spit these ideas out over night.
Still would have been shit. The concept is horrendous.
And it turn out to be Monsters Inc ride that felt more Pixar than the piece of crap Hollywood cringe.
@Autistic Linguistix they could have made some other story with it and replace the papparazi bit with something else. It's Disney so they probably could have pulled it off
@@keithwellerlounge74 No it's actually a great concept. However, I respect your da opinion.
First time seeing this, and I'm sitting here stunned that this was an actual ride in a Disney park (however briefly). It's so ill-conceived on every level. From the unfunny jokes, to the lame celebrity references that were already dated when it premiered (a ride should NEVER contain the words "funnyman Tim Allen"), to the creepy puppets and generally unsettling feel of the whole ride. On a conceptual level, the tone is all wrong--it's a snarky and cynical take on the superficiality of Hollywood magic in the middle of a place (Disneyland) that was built on Hollywood magic.
You're spot on
First time seeing this ride also, it is cringingly bad.
What happened is is that the ride was originally supposed to be you are speeding to go away from pAperazzi but after princess Diana died doing just that they slowed it down
You would think Tim Allen would have gotten more respect.....He only voices one of the most popular modern disney/pixar characters. Even at the time of this ride Toy story was a thing!
why....? why not just have an actual person on the screen instead of....THAT?
I was wondering the same thing. "He" looks like he belongs in Grand Theft Auto.
+TyrusnNao Plot twist, that WAS an actual person
Looks like something out of the garbage pail kids movie
Does anyone remember DC Follies tv show? That is what he looks like. So weird!
nick santa ana SPOT ON!!!
I loved it when they introduced Whoopi Goldberg at 2:47 and the guy was like, "No! God no!"
Like she somehow made the ride THAT much worse. XD
And they put her in that awful PC Golden Dreams show at DCA also. Wow that blew.
Only racists call things "pc"
Raexeth she does make everything worse
Nick Backerman Not true don't insult people.
Alfie Uke Burger Jones so this ride had nothing to do about Disney right
Good Gawd...this actually makes Epcot's Journey Into Your Imagination With Figment look good.
Honestly, you're right. That has stuff in it that could actually be entertaining.
Boo. I loved that ride. I was crazy for Figment after my grandparents took me to Disney World back in 1983.
Bob Buchko They're not referring to Journey into Imagination, they're referring to Journey into YOUR Imagination. As in, the really terrible ride that initially replaced it.
jetraydude Thanks for pointing that out...amazingly,some get the two rides confused,despite the multitude of differences between them.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Where as Journey Into Imagination (the current version at least) was just annoying, Superstar limo looks Annoying, Creepy, un-imaginative (no pun intended), and just lazy.
Holy crap. That was so bad.
blagoyavich rod agreed
This ride has a so-bad-it's-good quality to it, lol
Glad they got rid of it, though.
+GreenGretel I agree... it was too odd and it didn't fit Disney to me. To me, it was like one of those fun house types. xD
This was back when Disney was pushing the "California experience" for California adventure. Turns out, people just wanted more Disney:) Thanks for this, never got to ride it.
Me neither and I’m glad about it.
The "California experience" when it is in California lol.
Ahhh, that time period when WDI had no idea what to do with California Adventure...
It's 2017 and they still don't know exactly what to do with California Adventure. So they've decided to turn it into Marvelland instead, since superhero movies are popular right now. They dont care about creative originality anymore, they only care about what's gonna boost their overall income in the end.
Plans for DCA
Fuck up a classic (Tower of Terror)-Succeeded
Destroy beautiful Buena Vista street (Pending)
Scrap Red Car Trolley (Also pending)
Use Marvel franchise as a cash grab (In the works)
Destroy the whole place (Work in progress)
Nothing is happening with Buena Vista or the Red Car Trolley.
Stuart Alvarez
Plans for our therapy session: Get you to realize that (A) a ride that opened in 2004 is not a classic, and (B) that Guardians of the Galaxy is a better ride than tower of terror. We will also be discussing about improving your understanding about the difference between fantasy and reality, and that what you think is going to happen doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen.
@@TrashBulldogProductions True and accurate.
The ride might have worked if it were set during the Golden Age of Hollywood and featured Clark Gable, Marylyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, etc etc. That way the stars never would have become dated. Disney was probably too cheap at the time to pay the royalties to the late stars estates and settled for C listers.
Kind of like The Great Movie Ride. To be fair, Whoopi had an Oscar then.
I think the idea was cute, but definitely could have used a LOT fewer creepy animatronics
No wonder Eisner stepped down...his last years were utter shit, and this is the symbol of his last few years.
Petman1325 He went way over his head after the death of Frank Wells and the resulting fight with (and departure of) Jeffery Katzenberg.
More like a ride you would go on at a carnival, definitely had NO feel of a Disney ride at all. And that agent puppet guy was creepy.....ha
0:24 What the fuck is that thing?
2:00 Do not remind me of a MUCH better Disney attraction.
***** Yeah, my first thought on seeing that agent was that Disney managed to get a hold of a puppet that was rejected for use on "Spitting Image."
+tscream80 Spitting Image was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that... thing... :-)
That is NO WAY to talk about the Mayor of LazyTown!
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I almost wet myself when that guy on the screen popped up
I loved this ride. It was so awful, that it was great. I only got to ride it twice. The third time I tried, it was broken. THANK YOU FOR PRESERVING THIS!!! It felt like I stepped into an episode of "The Simpsons" goofing on amusement park rides.
+James Olguin I agree, it definitely feels like I stepped in something too xD.
James Olguin Lisa: It's still better than Disney's California Adventure.
I agree with you all the way. The ride wasn't all that bad. Could have been worse.
What were the imagineers responsible for this ride on? This looks like a bad sitcom which not even Adult Swim would pick up and touch with a 9 1/2 foot pole. Thank goodness this ride got the boot in favor of Mike and Sully to the Rescue.
figment1988 Is that a Grinch reference I smell?
Evan Massey yes. it was severely needed
figment1988 Well the original plans made the ride sound kind of cool, however, much like most of DCA 1.0 budgets were slashed, good ride concepts got the boot, and thats how we got most of DCA 1.0
it was originally going to be like rock 'n' rollercoaster you would be a movie star boarding a limo to escape paparazzi but after Princess Diana died in a limo driving away from paparazzi they decided to change the attraction
Although most of the Animatronics are recycled from Superstar Limo and even the Taxi Cabs are actually just repainted limos.
To this day I am still forever baffled at the fact that this attraction seriously existed.
What... Did I just watch?
A ride that opened before the monsters inc ride At DCA
+aportraitofinsanity something that not even Tim and Eric would touch
The animatronic trashy agent...oh gawd...
The Enchanted Tiki Room Under New Management is better than *this* was, at least.
Oh dear. This is just a piece of crap. I'm glad they replaced this with Monsters Inc. Monsters Inc is a true superior ride when compared to this.
I gotta get on Monsters Inc. sometime
Thank god they changed to Monsters Inc, I love that ride.
this is like the great movie ride on acid
XDDDD
Who's idea was this at Disney? fire that man, and fire the man that hired him
ORS MAN the president of Disney at the time, Michael Eisner. He'd have to fire himself then lol
apparently they had a much better idea where you're racing through the streets being chased by paparazzi and then............. diana died, so they had to throw this together really quickly
In the words of Krusty the Clown: The hell was that?!
At first impressions, that was just a weird ride. Not so horrible, just odd.
This ride was like an acid trip gone seriously wrong.
Ashmole Productions
Hahahahaha. Shit! Like for real!
They got rid of the line as you enter Bel-Air "welcome to bel-air, where the streets are paved with royalties, and hype." The ride was clearly mocking hollywood, which conflicted with the hollywood backlot's attempt to capitalize on the golden age of hollywood and all of that which this ride mocked. I don't think this served the overarching story of the park, and rather undermined it, but it if one understands that its supposed to be a ride-thru parody/family guy-type story, it works. Eliminating that line as you enter Bel-Air is peculiar; maybe they thought people weren't getting the parody/comedy angle, but by just removing some of the jokes, you're making it a literal celebrified hollywood experience rather than a parody. At that point, all that is left is a really poor way of delivering on that expectation. It looks and feels nothing like the glamorous hollywood people might expect.
The park map from 2002 says it all! I just checked to see how they were describing the attraction on it. "A glitzy ride through LA's star-studded streets." BIG Mistake. The failure of this attraction isn't only in its execution, it is in the way it was being mis-marketed. The set-up mentions "glitzy" and "star studded," and the attraction is certainly not glitzy. People can't tell by reading a park map that it is a sarcastic experience. They are expecting one experience to be delivered and that experience actually is failing miserably. Rather than letting park guests in on the joke, DCA was playing a practical joke ON ITS GUESTS. This could have survived if the park map indicated that it was supposed to be a comedy, parody, sarcastic, riddled ride through hollywood. Attractions like Roger Rabbit are similar in tone but don't carry the same level of confusion.
This ride was so universally hated and misunderstood and I don't think anybody misses it. But I wonder if it would have succeeded in a toontown-type hollywoodland subland, paired with something like roger rabbit, in a land that spoke immediately and visually to the fact that this was to be playful and unrealistic. It also doesn't speak to the defining golden-age-of-hollywood and movie magic dramatic themes, aspirations, aesthetics, and emotions that people understand. A more elaborate, literal dark ride would be needed to anchor and define such a land. A ride that would render the cartoon limo attraction a lesser thesis, an offshoot, an alternative interpretation, an antithesis that compliments the overall show and acts as a device of acknowledging the non-existence of such a perfect vision of hollywood through the ways in which it mocks it and reveals opposing truths.
Forgot about MAD! Thanks.
Interesting theory, but I just can't see how it could possibly have been a success. It's just a terrible ride on every level and no normal person would have found it funny, even if they had tried a bit harder or marketed it as satire. I just don't get what they were going for, even originally.
I cannot fathom how it got the green light, even if I was an imagineer who worked on it I'd be ashamed and have begged them to let me start from scratch with a completely new idea.
I remember going to California adventures not too long after it opened and this ride was so bad it had already closed down before I could ride it. Even Disney can make a mistake with a ride.
Yikes! This is high octane nightmare fuel! No wonder this ride only lasted for like two months!
Wow- I was way off on that! Haha but still that's less than a year.
TheBazinga314 I agree. Rob Zombie could do better artwork, even though Disney would reject it because it could scare children.
Reminds me of that one Roger Rabbit ride only a lot less interesting. I've never been to California Adventure but this ride seems too cheesy/ outdated to be associated with Disney. Universal maybe but not appropriate for Disney. I know it's Monster's Inc. now which is good but still.
Oh, you mean Roger Rabbit's Car-toon Spin?
Magic kingdom fans: bring back mr toad
Epcot fans: bring back horizons and imagination
Hollywood studios fans: bring back the great movie ride
Disneyland fans: bring back the people mover
California adventure fans: No superstar limo stay in the corner
I only rode this once the year DCA opened and man I thought it sucked. As a 7-year-old I thought it was garbage and still today at 23-years-old it's garbage. The terrifying puppets, the awful "storyline", yep this was a product of the Eisner years....the Monsters Inc. ride that's there now is much better though I'm not sure how long it'll be there considering it looks like Marvel is taking over that side of the park. We'll see how long the Frozen stage show lasts there too since it's smack dab in the middle and if a Marvel "land" is made it won't fit the decor or theming.
That was....frightening. Not even close to the caliber of Disney rides
I like how monsters inc is suppose to be scary but the ride before it gives you nightmares
Welcome to the World of The Has Beens!!
Wow I must say the ride the replaced it with is much better. You might be able to enjoy The Supper Star Lamo If you are high but that's about it. Same thing for the Winnie the Pooh Ride. It looks like a bad acid trip.
Since I live in New Jersey and some of my family lives in Florida, my family usually goes to Disney World, but if that ride WAS still around and if I were to go to California, for some reason I'd want to go on it. I mean, it looked shitty as hell but it would sure be an.. experience.
"Now there's a familiar face smiling down from that billboard!"
*cuts to a photo of everybody looking either pained or utterly miserable*
It was an opening day ride at California Adventure. It only lasted 11 months before it closed. I glad I did not go on it.
OK, I'm just gonna come right out and say it: that agent guy lives smack in the middle of the uncanny valley. I'm gonna have to sleep with the lights on.
Back in the days when Disney Tought that people came to the Disneyland only because it's in California
this ride looked so bad that it was good like i mean i would love to go on a terrible ride like this they should have kept it as a joke
As a concept I can sort of see what they were going for, with this ride being located in California Adventure, which has a Hollywood theme throughout it. However, the execution is just plain lazy. The writing is dated (yes, even for when it was created), the backdrops look slapped together, and the "animatronics" are bizarre and sloppy. If they tried to do this ride in a style more similar to The Great Movie Ride, it would have been a success.
Super star limo is now monsters inc
I’m mesmerized by that agent puppet. It’s so bad that it’s hard to look away. The whole thing is so bad that it’s hard to NOT watch. I’m obsessed with how terrible this is lol!
Fun fact: all of these animatronics were reused in the Monsters Inc ride to be disguised as the CDA agents from the Monsters Inc. movie
Dear god. o_O What was Disney thinking when they made that ride? That was seriously the worst ride I've ever seen. I expected a ride like this from Knotts Berry Farm or something, but not Disney. Christ in a sidecar, man. o_O
"she looks like a dude"
"Kill me, please kill me" best commentary I've heard on a poing of view of rides 😂
Just realized I put "poing". Should have said "point"
This ride reminds me of Leisure Suit Larry... The narrator sounds the same, and the awkward music is similar
The agent is one of the Garbage Pail Kids all grown up.
creepiness factor is off the scale,but i still miss it.
That was weird. It doesn't feel like a Disney ride. Thank god for Monsters Inc..
I am so glad Disney decided to use Monsters inc.
this is so weird.... i dont know if theyre making fun of leota or paying homage lmao.
I hope the celebs got to keep the terrifying animatronics of themselves when they emptied the ride out
O_O WHAT DID I JUST WATCH...
NOT TO SAY I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE HATES THIS RIDE but I love the style of it! The weird puppetry and animatronics and set design are all up my alley, and had it released as it intended to before the princess di tragedy (and included a similar design aesthetic to this) i feel like it wouldve been a hit, more loved than hated for its weirdness
they took out this super star limo because lot of rider fell asleep on that ride.
@zenclaw13 Thanks for being so nice! The fresh bread and tortilla's are in the wharf area: the Mission Tortilla Factory and the Boudin Bread Factory. You have to sit through a little tour, but it's worth it. If you don't know where they are, they're at the enterance of the wharf from the Bug's Life side, not the entrance closest to the water, but you can get there by just walking through past the food court too. It's so nice to have a free snack in the middle of the day! Have a great day :D
Thank you Monsters Inc!!!
Good lawd... No one along the way said "Wait a minute...this is the worst idea ever."
How? How to that not happen?
I’m so glad this is Monsters Inc now instead of... this monstrosity.
If only the building was bigger. They could install something similar to the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster.
That was awful. Glad I missed it.
This was uploaded on my birthday. I never even knew about this ride......fate is mysterious.
You're kidding, right? This is really a Disney ride? I thought this was some other amusement park's rip-off of a Disney ride...wow! When Disney starts to consider what rides to shut down in the future to make way for new ones, I'm hoping this is at the top of everyone's list. This is really Disney, huh?
Oh, I see that it has been replaced. How did this ever pass the board of directors?! Anyway, good thing it's gone now. Still in shock they ever came up with this. There isn't even anything clever about it. It's just room after room of cheap effects and lousy caricatures of celebrities. Good riddance!
it was probably from when they had that really bad CEO. Bob Iger (current CEO) is definitely headed down that path right now...
This was Eisner's pet project which he took a very personal interest in. In fact the video was originally going to feature Eisner himself.
So glad they replaced this craptastic excuse of an attraction with Monsters Inc. I never went on the Superstar Limo attraction personally, but just watching the ride through of it is enough to make me ask what the hell was Eisner thinking?
I'm thankful it's now Monster Inc.
Missed riding that ride while it was open, and I'm not sorry about it. I'm a huge disney geek, but that's pretty awful stuff.
I realize that they changed it from a fast paced ride being chased by paparazzi because of Princess Diana's death, but they could have changed it to something better than this. Could have had a fast paced car ride on the way to an audition. Would've worked and been fun.
I guess the original concept for the ride was that it was going to be a fast thrill ride with you trying to outrun the paparazzi, but that was around the time when princess Diana died in a car crash trying to outrun the paparazzi so they decided that the original concept would be in bad taste so they decided to slow the ride down and removed almost all references to the paparazzi, and also threw in a bunch of celebs that had disney contracts.
Embarassingly bad. I can't believe this made it out of the board room. I always wondered what the hoopla was about it. Thanks for sharing it.
This has gotta be one of the ONLY Disney rides where I just sit there and am speechless at how horrible it was. Glad Monsters Inc. is in there now, although to be honest, I could handle almost ANYTHING replacing this thing. *shudders*
Eeeech yeah.. I wanted to see what all the negative hype was about..now I get it.
The agent reminds of the mayor from LazyTown
Love the commentary; spot on about "Cher" and "Whoopie".
This was the greatest dark ride in disney history. RIP.
In the words of Arin Hanson
"This is what I imagine it would be like to take LSD and then fall asleep."
@Ryan4321 Super Star Limo was replaced with Monsters inc.. Which is located in Disneys California Adventure.
I'm so glad I missed this ride.
"Please be sure to keep your arms, legs, and egos in the limo please!"
I’m so glad there’s video of what a douchechilly experience this must have been. Oh my gosh.
Okay I can see why this ride’s retirement was for the best.
In all honesty, they hardly even tried when they turned this thing into Monster's Inc. They switched out a few cardboard cutouts, did a different voice-over and called it good.
I liked this ride. Was trying to remember the name of it. When we went back in 2009 it was gone and it was Monsters Inc.
This ride is like a bad acid trip
matt luttrell and this is why Winning Imagineers Don't Use Drugs
Thank god they never brought this to Disney World.
The ride is now replaced by Mike And Sully To The Rescue
so bummed I missed out on this! monsters is still a great ride tho. but this just fit the whole theme of where the ride is located.
I understand why this was removed.
The ride closed down for a while and was later replaced with the Monster's Inc. ride.
James Bonding Podcast brought me here. What the fuck is this! Walt Disney must be spinning in his cryogenic chamber.
The theme was right. The execution was just so far off.
My dad was the person holding the boom mic with the dancing pigs and chickens XD He helped design that ride
I think what’s sad is that I actually wanted to see the attraction if I wasn’t 4 years old at the time it closed :/
God it looks like that sucked.
Even though it was an obvious failure, I will say ONE positive thing about it.... Disney at least attempted an original story for the attraction. Now everything is just The Ride, which neglects the genius storytelling that Disney Imagineering is capable of.
Wow, that looks like it was a crazy ride! I've never been on it before, but I've been on the Monsters Inc. ride. I probably would like the Monsters Inc. ride more, it feels much more Disney.
im glad they re did this ride and make it Mike And Sulley To The Rescue