| Crush's Coaster | |
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 The Great Barrier Reef scene | |
| Walt Disney Studios Park | |
| Location | Walt Disney Studios Park |
| Park section | Worlds of Pixar |
| Coordinates | 48°52′06″N2°46′40″E / 48.8682°N 2.7777°E /48.8682; 2.7777 |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | June 9, 2007 (2007-06-09) |
| General statistics | |
| Type | Steel –Spinning –Enclosed |
| Manufacturer | Maurer AG |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Speed | 60.7 km/h (37.7 mph) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 1:55 |
| Height restriction | 107 cm (3 ft 6 in) |
| Trains | single car trains trains with a single car. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 4 riders per train. |
| Theme | Finding Nemo |
| Audio-animatronics | 1 |
| Restraints | Individual lap block |
 Disney Premier Access available | |
 Single rider line available | |
 Must transfer from wheelchair | |
| Crush's Coaster at RCDB | |
Crush's Coaster is aspinning roller coaster atWalt Disney Studios Park inDisneyland Paris. The attraction officially opened on June 9, 2007 as part of an expansion project inToon Studio, an area within Walt Disney Studios Park formerly known as Animation Courtyard. The ride is themed toDisney-Pixar'sFinding Nemo film, and named after Crush, agreen sea turtle voiced byAndrew Stanton from the movie. Most of the roller coaster isenclosed and featuresdark ride special effects.
On August 27, 2021, following Disneyland Paris' reopening, Walt Disney Studios Park announced that the attraction was set to become part of theWorlds of Pixar area.
Disneyland Paris – known as Disneyland Resort Paris at the time – began aplacemaking project as early as 2006 to improve and expand the Animation Courtyard area within Walt Disney Studios Park.[1] The project was completed in 2007, and the area was renamedToon Studio. No official press announcement was given until the launch of the resort's15th Anniversary Celebration on April 1, 2007.[2][3] The ride then debuted on June 9, 2007 and is the first and only ride at Disneyland Paris to be themed toFinding Nemo.[4]
OnHalloween night in 2010, Walt Disney Studios Park was rethemed for the holiday, with most of its popular attractions receiving a halloween re-theming. Crush's Coaster becameCrush's Coaster: Avis de Tempête as part of the festivities.
Guests enter the Toon Backlot ofToon Studio and stumble upon the beached sound stage andfilm set of Disney·Pixar'sFinding Nemo, themed asSydney Harbour, where Crush and his sea friends invite guests to climb aboard turtle shells for a ride through memorable scenes from the movie.[5]
The ride starts off with shells "diving" into the ocean. The first part of the attraction is a slowdark ride taking guests to theGreat Barrier Reef, where they meetNemo and Squirt, then to the darkness of the depths, where they encounter voracious glowfish, and finally to the Sunken Submarine surrounded by an army of jellyfish where they meet the sharks and their chief, Bruce.
The second part of the ride's track is a faster rollercoaster in the dark, representing the spiraling, churningEast Australian Current itself. The ride ends with the shells returning to Sydney Harbour, with cheers from Crush and his friends.
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The attraction employs several instances of new technology developed byWalt Disney Imagineering, the key being two largedigital videoprojection effects in the early dark ride scenes[6] of the ride, which placeNemo, theclownfish, and Squirt, Crush's son, seamlessly within the 'underwater' environment. The technology was developed for Crush's Coaster in conjunction withFinding Nemo Submarine Voyage andThe Seas with Nemo and Friends. Crush's Coaster marks the only secondDisney-themed spinning roller coaster (followingPrimeval Whirl atDisney's Animal Kingdom), and the first ever collaboration between German roller coaster engineersMaurer Söhne andWalt Disney Imagineering.
In a bid to decrease the long queues that frequently plague the ride, Disney conducted preliminary tests during July 2008 at the Crush's Coaster site to investigate the possibility of installing aFastpass system at the attraction.[7] Fastpass was ultimately not implemented at the ride, though a single riders line subsequently was.
Fastpass was again trialed in January 2018. Crush's Coaster is now part of Disney Premier Access, a paid Fastpass service.[8]
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