This article comes to us from Kristin Ford over at The Daily Disney:
After much anticipation — and a lot of overnight work so the attraction wouldn’t have to close — two-year-old Toy Story Mania! at Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been updated. At the end of last month, one of the five carnival-style games was changed to coincide with the upcoming release of Toy Story 3.
“Bo Peep’s Baaa-loon Pop” was replaced with “Rex & Trixie’s Dino Darts.” The new game is set against the backdrop of an active volcano with roaming dinosaurs, but the object still is to pop various balloons. Guests feel a slight spray and gust of wind as they shoot the balloons. If a player pops all four narrow lava balloons (worth 500 points) at the top of the screen, round balloons pour out of the volcano as a bonus.
Players are cheered on by Rex, the nervous Tyrannosaurus rex, and his new friend Trixie, a blue Triceratops from Toy Story 3.
Disney Imagineer Sue Bryan has said, “We really like using darts to pop balloons. It’s very much a classic carnival game, so we wanted to keep that paradigm.”
When we rode Toy Story Mania! recently, we found that “Rex & Trixie’s Dino Darts” blended seamlessly with the other games, but that doesn’t mean the changes weren’t noticed by repeat riders. I overheard guests in line discussing the balloon-drop bonus in the game. Kids, of course, picked up on the new Toy Story 3 character and more prominent Rex.
Because of its popularity, the wait for Toy Story Mania! regularly reaches 60 to 90 minutes. Your best bet is to head to the attraction first thing in the morning when wait times are closer to 30 minutes. While you’re there, grab a FastPass for later in the day because the tickets usually are snapped up before noon.
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