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Toy Story Mania!

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Toy Story Midway Mania! is an attraction located in the [[Disney Hollywood Studios]] .{{Infobox Disney ride| image=Toystorymania.jpg| caption='''The Mr. Potato Head Audio Anamatronic located inside Toy Story Midway Mania!'''| land=Pixar Place| opened=May 31, 2008| vehicle_names=XP-37 Space Cruiser| park= Disney's Hollywood Studios| guests_per_vehicle=2| fastpass=yes| duration=5:00| theme= Midway carnival games <br> Toy Story| type=Dark Ride/Shooting Gallery| based_on: Disney-Pixar's Toy Story }}
==Attraction History==
==Attraction Plot==
On Toy Story Midway! Mania, guests wear 4D glasses and board their ride vehicles, as they enter various Midway games which are hosted by Toy Story Characters. Each mini game lasts approximately 30 seconds.
 
===Backstory and Queue===
According the the backstory of the Toy Story Midway Mania!, when guests enter the queue for the attraction, they are shrunk down to the size of a toy. To renforce the feeling that they have been shrunk down to the size of a toy. Giant game pieces, crayons, and toys including a Barrel of Monkeys, Viewmaster reels and Little Golden Books can be found here. The music in the queue, was arranged and recorded by Jennifer Hammond. Hammond recorded over an hour of music based on the scores for the first two Toy Story films.
 
At the end of the queue for Toy Story Midway Mania! features a large Mr. Potato Head Audio Anamatronic who can sing and interact with guests. Mr. Potato Head can sing, dance, tell corny jokes, pick out individual guests to interact with and even reach up and remove his own ear! In the queue, guests also receive their 4D glasses which they will wear on the attraction.
 
On Toy Story Midway Mania! guests play five mini games which are based on various Midway games. The games feature Toy Story characters. After each round, guests receive points, which are cumulative.
'''Pie Throw Practice Booth'''- Guests practice throwing virtual pies at targets. This mini game is used to introduce guests to the technology used in the attraction, and awards no points. Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and Jesse from the Toy Story franchise appear in this mini game.
'''Hamm & Eggs'''- In this mini game, guests enter a barn room where they throw eggs at various targets. The character Hamm from Toy Story makes an appearance in this mini game. The game also features the character Buttercup from Toy Story 3.
In the games final scene, guests can hit the large target repeatedly. The point values of the target increase from 500 to 1000 to 2000 points.
 
==Former Mini Games==
'''Bo Peep's Baaa-loon Pop'''- In this mini game, guests through darts at baloons. Bo Peep from the Toy Story franchise was featured in the game. Bo Peep's Baaa-loon Pop was replaced by Rex and Trixie's Dino Darts on May 21, 2010.
 
==Fun Facts and Trivia==
* Toy Story Midway Mania! was the first attraction that Disney Imagineers created in two parks simultaneously.
 
* The group Riders in the Sky wrote the little songs that the Mr. Potato Head Audio Animatronic sings.
 
* Guests break over one million virtual plates on Toy Story Midway Mania! every day!
 
* The Mr. Potato Head Audio Animatronic can say more lines of dialogue then any other Animatronic Disney has ever created. He is also the only Audio Animatronic who can remove a piece of himself (his ear).
 
* If you want to see the patent for the technology used on Toy Story Midway Mania! click below <br>
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060072076%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060072076&RS=DN/20060072076
 
==References==
http://allears.net/tp/mgm/tsm.htm
 
http://www.studioscentral.com/toy-story-midway-mania-trivia
 
http://www.studioscentral.com/history-toy-story-midway-mania
 
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/hollywood-studios/attractions/toy-story-mania/