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| rdfs:comment | - Rocket Rods was a three-minute futuristic transportation ride formerly located at Tomorrowland in Disneyland Resort. The ride was part of the park's 1998 New Tomorrowland phase, and was located on the former PeopleMover track.
- Rocket Rods opened on May 22, 1998 as part of the New Tomorrowland. The new high-speed attraction ran on the former PeopleMover track. Riders entered the attraction at the former Circle-Vision 360° building at the front of Tomorrowland. In the first room, huge blueprints of old and current Tomorrowland attractions were hung on the walls; along with actual former Tomorrowland attraction vehicles, which were repainted like blueprints. The next room of the queue was the nine-screen CircleVision theater, where guests viewed films of the history of motor vehicles, including excerpts from the CircleVision film America the Beautiful, and a video featuring the evolution of General Motors cars to a electronic version of the Steppenwolf hit, "Born to be Wild", arranged by composer Steve Bartek, who
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| Theme | - Futuristic transportation
- Prototype rapid transit system
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| Type | - "Prototype" Rapid Transportation System
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| Music | - Steve Bartek
- World of Creativity - by the Sherman Brothers
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| Propulsion | - Electric bus bar/Electric motors
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| abstract | - Rocket Rods was a three-minute futuristic transportation ride formerly located at Tomorrowland in Disneyland Resort. The ride was part of the park's 1998 New Tomorrowland phase, and was located on the former PeopleMover track.
- Rocket Rods opened on May 22, 1998 as part of the New Tomorrowland. The new high-speed attraction ran on the former PeopleMover track. Riders entered the attraction at the former Circle-Vision 360° building at the front of Tomorrowland. In the first room, huge blueprints of old and current Tomorrowland attractions were hung on the walls; along with actual former Tomorrowland attraction vehicles, which were repainted like blueprints. The next room of the queue was the nine-screen CircleVision theater, where guests viewed films of the history of motor vehicles, including excerpts from the CircleVision film America the Beautiful, and a video featuring the evolution of General Motors cars to a electronic version of the Steppenwolf hit, "Born to be Wild", arranged by composer Steve Bartek, who also arranged the attraction's main theme song, "World of Creativity", itself a major rearrangement of "Detroit", a song composed by the Sherman Brothers for the 1967 Disney film, The Happiest Millionaire. Guests then continued down a tunnel that leads to the elevated Rocket Rods station in the middle of Tomorrowland. Guests would then board a 5-seat Rocket Rod before moving forward to a staging area similar to that of drag racing. Anticipation is built as the lights change from red, to yellow, to green, and the vehicle zooms down a straightaway toward the entrance of Tomorrowland while performing a small wheelie. The Rocket Rod took guests through the Star Tours building, then into a tunnel. In this tunnel, riders experience the effect of nearly colliding with an oncoming Rocket Rod, but in reality, it is only the vehicle's reflection in a mirror. The Rocket Rod takes guests through Space Mountain, offering a very brief view of that attraction. Then, the vehicle takes riders back outside again, but then enters the Carousel Theater, home of the Innoventions attraction. After going through a semicircular trip through Innoventions, the Rocket Rod takes riders through a series of turns and dips above Autopia and the former Submarine Voyage. Then, the Rod passes right next to the Disneyland Monorail station before entering the Rocket Rods queue building. The vehicle then travels back up the straightaway to the station.
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