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00:24Debuting in 1995, Indiana Jones Adventure was the first major new attraction in Adventureland since 1963.
00:31Indiana Jones Adventure was the result of a fruitful pairing of Disney and George Lucas.
00:41The group had previously worked on star tours, simulators were big then.
00:47We wanted to take kind of the next step.
00:49What if a simulator was on a truck and you could combine those two and drive around and have the
00:55simulation thing happen as you're driving?
00:57Decisions that you probably wouldn't make in the middle of a project, but they're the kinds of decisions that you
01:02can stop.
01:03Build something, try things, build some more stuff, try things, and keep iterating until you get a combination that's right.
01:09And then launch a project around that.
01:17Michael had been given a million reasons why we shouldn't do it.
01:21It was too expensive.
01:22The park didn't need something in Adventureland.
01:24They had no room in Adventureland.
01:26And there was a whole document that came out.
01:28And as quick as Michael got that, he fired a document back saying, here's why we can't afford not to
01:34do it.
01:34It's emotionally relevant.
01:36It's a state-of-the-art technology that we have to jump on.
01:40We can't allow Disneyland to not be regarded as the supreme repository of new thinking.
01:48All of that was tremendously indicative of the way they thought.
01:54To make room in Adventureland, 500 trees were tagged and relocated.
01:59The monorail even got rerouted.
02:01The Imagineers used the cramped location to their advantage.
02:05They hid the show building beyond the boundaries of the park by manipulating one's sense of space.
02:10Tightly wound Labyrinth descended into an ancient temple.
02:15For instance, the queue, we try to set up the feeling that you're in an archaeological site.
02:19You get completely engrossed in the theme of the whole thing.
02:23We wanted to take and build that kind of a world that the Pirate Ride had and add an excitement
02:28that the Star Tours has
02:30and put it into one package and make it happen to you.
02:35For the first time, guests were encouraged to participate in the make-believe
02:40by deciphering a fictional ancient language.
02:43While you wait in line, you'll be seeing booby traps and hidden rooms and chambers that you'll uncover
02:48and archaeology work going on.
02:50And this all builds up the story and really increases what will actually happen on the ride.
02:55When it's done, you'll be through about an hour-long experience.
03:00We knew from the get-go that that was going to be a breakthrough attraction using that ride system
03:06that has a motion base and makes you feel like you're hopping over stones or going down a set of
03:12stairs
03:12and being able to tell that dynamic story in that way.
03:17Once the engineers finished building the vehicle, the artist had to choreograph its movement.
03:22They recorded the programming on board and in real time.
03:27Okay, this is a hand-driven first scene.
03:32The bridge breaks. We fall into it.
03:35The vehicle lurches out of the suspension bridge and down the jungle road.
03:42This is the fast jungle.
03:48We're heading down towards the river's edge and into the skid.
03:58We still use motion picture techniques in how we look at storytelling for attractions.
04:04How we set something up, you know, how it gets paid off in the end.
04:08I mean, we're working usually in four minutes.
04:10We have to distill things down.
04:13Generally, what we do is look at a film and say,
04:15are there aspirational moments, physical moments in there
04:19that are things that you would love to step into?
04:22It's not about replicating the story from the movie as you saw it.
04:26We try and do the part that fits best for our medium.
04:30We look for that nugget in the story that you say, I wish I could.
04:43The one thing that came up again and again was the rolling ball.
04:46And I thought, well, how are we going to do that?
04:48Ride vehicles have to proceed in a forward motion.
04:51They can't back up.
04:52They can't escape from something that's coming at you.
04:54They have to move constantly towards the end of the ride.
05:02One day I was sitting in a car wash and I noticed as this room is moving around my car,
05:09it made me feel that my car was moving forward rather than the room was moving backward.
05:14And I said, there's the answer.
05:16If I told you you were moving backwards in your car and the rolling ball is coming forwards,
05:22you're going to believe it because your brain is already wired by that experience.
05:27Next time, you're on your own.
05:31Frank Wells' gut feeling paid off.
05:33The R&D workflow on the Indiana Jones adventure proved a viable concept.
05:39Long-term innovation could drive business for what now seemed to be a limitless future.
05:45Plans for the attraction actually began in the mid-1980s,
05:49back when the second Lucas produced Indiana Jones movie,
05:52Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, was busy establishing itself as a huge hit in theaters.
05:57Various Disney designers took a crack at incorporating elements of the Indiana Jones films
06:02into some kind of Disneyland adventure.
06:05Some of the early concept drawings showed battered vehicles greening along a cliff above a lava field ravine.
06:12Others included the roller coaster-style mine car chase.
06:15Nearly all the early plans incorporated the rolling boulder sequence from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
06:24Now dare to cross forbidden boundaries to the ultimate adventure.
06:37It's more than a ride, it's real.
06:47Now your fears have a name.
06:49The Indiana Jones adventure, new at Disneyland.
06:53When Indiana Jones adventure did finally open, it had accumulated the highest price tag for any Disneyland attraction ever.
07:01Most estimates are over $100 million, about six times the total cost to build the entire park in the mid
07:07-1950s.
07:08Before construction began in 1993, designers first reshaped the adjacent Jungle Cruise River to make room for the three-story
07:16temple structure,
07:18some of it underground, and its elaborate queue area stretching a half a mile.
07:22This is the longest line in Disneyland history.
07:25The real achievement, however, wasn't the construction of the building as much as the engineering of the cars,
07:30which were the park's most complex.
07:32Vehicles created to look like well-used jungle Jeeps from 1935.
07:37The 16 vehicles dipped, swerve, shake, tilt, accelerate, and brake all along the 2,500-foot track,
07:43making for a crazy, unpredictable ride and somewhat dangerous.
07:47In its first year, the vehicles generated so many minor injuries, the designers quickly added several safety modifications.
07:54What's more, each vehicle carries its own computer that instigates random bumps, fire flashes, and other effects
08:01to create 160,000 possible variations of the indie experience.
08:06The temple is 2.2 million cubic feet.
08:09The temple chambers, Chamber of Destiny, Hall of Promise, Tunnel of Torment, Gates of Doom, Cavern of Bubbling Death,
08:16Mummy Chamber, Bug Room, Snake Temple, Rat Cave, Dark Corridor, Rolling Boulder Finale.
08:22Ride technology utilizes a state-of-the-art enhanced motion system developed and patented by Walt Disney Imagineering.
08:30The vehicles were under testing for at least three years on sample tracks before being moved to the ride building.
08:36Voices, Salah John Rhys-Davies, Male Newsreel announcer, Corey Burton, Female Newsreel announcer, Tress McNeil.
08:46Hello? Hello? Hello? Oh, my friends, the brakes may be needing a little adjustment, but easy on the curve.
08:53...
09:04...
09:06...
09:18Now we can read that strange message.
09:20Look at this.
09:22This is where the lines can go.
09:45You know!
09:47That's live show.
12:53Tourist, you had to look, didn't you?
12:56Oh, we've got a problem here.
13:00I'll do the left.
13:02And watch, there's many steps up here.
13:20Oh, we've got a problem here.
13:31Oh, my God!
14:01I don't think it's worse.
14:48Uh oh, we're broke.
14:58There's some light down here.
15:01Let me in, let me in.
15:03Uh oh, get me out, get me out.
15:07Oh, for the rock.
15:09Yeah, right on.
15:20Whoa, let me in there.
15:23That wasn't so bad.
15:24He's your vision.
15:30The device occasionally will be speaking,
15:33but you'll not be concerned about breaks out.
15:35Very good.
15:37You will seek your future.
15:39I will lift the curtain of time.
15:42It is your destiny.
15:51No!
15:52Look into my eyes.
15:55Your destiny now lies beyond the gates of the night.
16:02Yeah, I got it.
16:05Great, I asked for help if he sent me tourists.
16:08Oh!
16:10Squirt left!
16:11Up to the left!
16:13Oh!
16:15You had no more, didn't you?
16:17Ah ha ha ha ha!
16:19Ah ha ha ha!
16:21Woo!
16:24You're all driving better.
16:27Oh!
16:43Oh!
16:50Oh!
16:51Oh!
17:07Whoa!
17:09Oh, yeah!
17:12Whoa!
17:21Ha, ha, ha!
17:25Whoa!
17:28Whoa!
17:37Whoa!
17:41Whoa!
17:44Whoa!
17:44Whoa!
17:53Oh
18:21Get out of here!
18:37Next time, you're on your call.
18:51Ready? I said to make your rival!
18:54If you've got too much to vote in the door, we will be happy to assist you with struggles.
18:58But please, stay seated.
19:00Wow, that was great!
19:44Rare video showing lava rock fall.
19:46The effect was created using ice, it only lasted one year.
20:03Specs. Capacity 2400 per hour. Capacity per vehicle 12. Trip time 3 minutes.
20:07Dispatch interval 18 seconds. Distance travel 2500 feet. Speed 13.6 miles per hour.
20:14Jeep body backstage. Mara with the lights out. Mara with the lights on, without the lasers coming out of her
20:21eyes.
20:22Some paintings on the walls.
20:28The next few shots are of the track with all the work lights turned on.
20:49Shot of the original snake and the original snake backstage after it had been removed.
20:55And the new snake.
21:01And the rest of the snake, right there.
21:07One of the Jeeps stuck on the bridge.
21:10Inside the elevator.
21:13Rock wall detail with exit sign with lights on.
21:17Now a video of the engineers programming and testing the vehicles.
21:23Tommy Explorer 12.
21:50Do not refer to us!
21:50The original snake.
21:59A video of being evacuated from the ride after a breakdown.
22:20Ride through with the lights on.
22:46Leave it, I got it.
22:56Oh my god, did you see the hydro?
22:57Oh my god.
23:22We cross a rickety bridge with flaming eyeballs and snapping snakes.
23:29We walk the Indiana Jones track and find intrigue around every corner.
23:36Doors open and close, and with each step, another surprise.
23:41This is kind of a neat effect here.
23:43Yeah.
23:44Stand right there, we'll get the choice removed.
23:45Okay.
23:46The look on my face tells you I'm nervous because I never know what's coming next.
23:55Whoa.
23:56So as the cars leave the station, you know, you're getting a choice of whether it's future, riches, or youth.
24:03And that's how it went, one heart pumping panic attack after the next.
24:08As the vehicle comes through here, this comes down.
24:12Skeletons, skulls, bugs, don't even get me started on the tunnel of torment where we first met Indiana Jones,
24:19who in darkness and smoke looks like a real person.
24:23That looks so realistic to me.
24:26Looks like Harrison Ford.
24:28He's supposed to.
24:29I mean, this is the movie.
24:30That means you're doing your job.
24:32Michael Sanders is the ride's animation expert.
24:35I mean, that's amazing to me.
24:37It's all the magic.
24:39It's, you know, it's simple items that are all put together to make some sort of an illusion.
24:43It's a blistering pace from midnight to eight in the morning when the Indy crew keeps one of Disneyland's most
24:50popular rides running.
24:52From vacuuming to mopping to removing trash on the track, they focus on safety and special effects.
24:59Like all of those noises that sound so real.
25:06How fast this thing go?
25:08The answer, 14 miles an hour.
25:11In fact, the staff answered it all.
25:13From the hydraulics you feel while on top of the ride.
25:16You think you could buck me off?
25:18Oh yeah.
25:19Yeah.
25:19To what happens below the tracks.
25:22This is 480 volts.
25:23I'm surprised how huge this place is.
25:26It's like a cave.
25:27We call it the big room.
25:28For Disneyland, the bigger the better.
25:30Which led us straight to the ride's grand finale.
25:33See how Indy's hips are moving, his legs are moving, he's looking around.
25:36This is where the riders think they're rolling backwards, but stay still.
25:41Now watch the ball.
25:43The ball's rolling at you.
25:44See that?
25:45This is so cool.
25:47And in the vehicle, it feels like you're actually backing up.
25:49And the ball's moving towards you.
25:51The special effects are so realistic, even the crew, after thousands of viewings, still gets faked out.
25:57What's it feel like for you?
25:59I have to look at the floor to make sure I'm not...
26:01I'm always looking at it in a backwards way.
26:04And I think Indy has a great example of that, because our big finale came from a humble drive-through
26:10car wash.
26:11Now you've probably all been in those things where you drive in and then you put it into neutral.
26:16And the first thing you do is look down, because it gives your brain the effect that the car is
26:21drifting through the machine.
26:23And I wrote that down.
26:25I said, we've got to use this.
26:26Well, at the end of the ride, we knew we couldn't have people go rushing towards a raging boulder.
26:31So we let the brain do the trick.
26:34And we move the entire room, just like the car wash, while Indy's yelling,
26:38Back up! Back up!
26:40If you didn't have it in your brain automatically, Indy has planted it in there with that word.
26:45And everybody believes fully that we're engaged in backing up at that point.
26:49And what we're doing is we're just kind of creeping you forward.
26:52And at the last minute, we just drop you down.
26:55And that's the end of the ride.
27:05Let's get started.