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Introduction
Inspired by the Mylo Xyloto cartoon based on the British rock band Coldplay's 5th LP album, Car Kids will be an interactive and immersive dark ride experience for all in the family. Travel along with Mylo and his fellow Car Kids as you roam the desolate and decaying streets of Silencia, a dark dystopian society where imagination and light are bared from existence. With your help, you can rally against the imfamous leader, Major Minus, and bring creativity and color back to the world.
Backstory Synopsis
The album tells the story of a war against sound and color by a supremacist government, set in the world of Silencia, an Orwellian society. Silencia has been overtaken by a government led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. His aim is to take sound and color off the streets in hope to draw away "feeders", creatures that use such energy to hunt its prey. The album follows Mylo, a "silencer", a soldier in an army tasked to hunt and track down "sparkers", people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks, comparable to graffiti in real life. He encounters Xyloto, the sparker most wanted by Major Minus. Through Xyloto, Mylo discovers his sparker abilities and his affiliation with the Car Kids, a major sparker faction founded by Mylo's parents, Aiko and Lela.
Inspiration:
Two protagonists living in an oppressive, dystopian, urban environment, meet one another through a gang and fall in love. Lyrically, the album is inspired by "old school American graffiti" and "the White Rose Movement." Martin also said that the album was influenced by HBO TV series The Wire.
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Facade and Queue
The facade will be themed and located in the dark corner of Toontown Heights, thematically representing the underbelly of the city. The grim and gloomy facade will be lined up with propaganda posters of silencers and other elements of Major Minus' rule. Once guests step inside the entrance to the attraction, they are in a secret alley and meeting area for the Car Kids. You wind in and out and begin to hear some cheerful music, giving you hope for what is around the corner. Mylo, the new leader of the Car Kids resistance group, introduces you to the group, and says that tonight they need to help break one of their own out of Major Minus' rule, and need your help to do it. The Car Kids lead you on to the pre-show, where your ride vehicle is explained.
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Ride Vehicle Blueprint
Each sparker pod will seat a maximum of 4 guests (seated back to back) In the front of each seat will be a 12x16 touchscreen installed into the surface of the vehicle. On the touchscreen will be a variety of options to create and "spark" the imagination. As you meander through the pre-show, and during the first segment of the ride, instructions will be given on how to use the tools in front of you.
The tools will allow the guests to paint and spark their environment as they follow along with the Car Kids story-line. The ride systen is named AniLPS (short for animation LPS) which is a trackless ride system installed with the touchscreens and synced to the projection screens in front of the guests.
Guests will also wear specialized 3D glasses that allow them to see their projections in a virtual realm on the screens in front of the spark pods. As you draw your designs, they will pop up in 3D on the project screens, giving an amazing visceral experience throughout the entire attraction.
Attraction Statistics:
Ride Design - AniLPS
Ride Type - D-Ticket
Top Speed - 5 mph
Number of Vehicles - 24
Vehicle Capacity - 4
Ride Time - 3:30
Hourly Capacity - 1,600 guests
Height-Restriction - No
Wheelchair Accessible - Yes
Load and Ride-Through
As you board into your vehicles, you can hear bells and cheering in the background. Throughout the ride, you will ride along with the music from the album, as this concept album narrates the ride through that you're experiencing.
Scene 1 - Hurts Like Heaven
Exiting the Car Kids alleyway, you're immediately met by silencers, and you spark the walls as you make your escape through the streets. Coloring the brick walls, and covering up the media posters as you ride through the attraction, you're immersed in their quest for Mylo to find Xyloto and break her out of prison. The song "Hurts Like Heaven" soars and echos throughout the scene, and in the corner, you catch a glimpse of the evil Major Minus lurking and watching the events unfolding, sending more silencers in to stop you in your tracks. The weight of the silencers is not to be overmatched, and at the end of the scene, the Car Kids are captured.
Scene 2 - Paradise
After being captured, you fall into a dream state and experience Mylo's dream of Paradise with Xyloto. A technicolored and whimsical scene, you see Mylo and Xyloto flying off into the sunset, filled in a world of wonder and awe. Butterflies and birds soar in the sky, and the couple soars up to a mountain side where they paint the night sky with ink.
Scene 3 - Charlie Brown
As a transition into the next scene, where Mylo continues on the run from the Silencers, and runs into Xyloto, who escaped to go looking for Mylo. In this scene, the song Charlie Brown is played, as the two run away and you help them escape. Eventually they are both captured and thrown into Major Minus' prison together, where the song "Us Against the World" is played.
Scene 4 - Us Against the World
In this scene, the nighttime sky is illuminated through the window of the jail cell, and you paint the night sky like Mylo and Xyloto did in their paradise dream sequence. This is an allusion to whenever Mylo and Xyloto are together, they are in paradise, regardless of the location. The ambient guitar and piano music in the background swells as your vehicles drift into the night and darkness. Only to be awakened by a boisterous beat.
Scene 5 - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
The finale of the attraction is the escape from prison and coloring the walls of the cells as you escape with the fellow Car Kids. The music swells to a joyous finale, as the main characters and you soar out of the prison and into the streets, pressed for another adventure someday together. You proceed to the unload area where you walk into a small gift shop selling Mylo Xyloto and Coldplay merchandise before heading back out to the street.
Glowin' in the Dark
Named after the famous line from the song, Charlie Brown, at night along the streets of Silencia, there will be glow in the dark spray cans that allow guests to paint the walls of the exit building to the attraction. Layer upon layer of paint will be sprayed and sparked throughout the area, which illuminate the pathways in the cold, dark area.
