Astro Orbiter | 4K HD Full Ride Attraction | Tomorrowland Magic Kingdom | Walt Disney World
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Published: 2021-09-20T14:00:32Z
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Astro Orbiter | 4K HD Full Ride Attraction | Tomorrowland Magic Kingdom | Walt Disney World
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The Astro Orbiter is a rocket-spinner attraction featured at five Disneyland-style parks at Walt Disney Resorts around the world (all except for Tokyo Disneyland). Although each ride may have a different name, all share the same premise of vehicles traveling through space by spinning around a central monument. As each form of the attraction appeared, new designs and locations have been implemented to fit with changing schemes of several Tomorrowlands.
No form of the attraction existed in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World until 1974, three years after the park’s opening, when Tomorrowland underwent a massive expansion including the creation of Space Mountain, a new location for the Disneyland-attraction, Carousel of Progress, and the WEDWay PeopleMover. The Star Jets were considered the focal point of Tomorrowland due to its soaring, spinning rockets and central location.
This version of the attraction was based on the Disneyland version, in both location (on top of the PeopleMover platform) and in style (both feature a large Saturn V rocket as the centerpiece). However the attraction vehicles were different from any other previous form as they were much larger and featured a flatter back-end and larger tail fins. While Disneyland’s Rocket Jets resembled actual rockets, the Magic Kingdom’s Star Jets appeared more like space shuttles. Each of the 12 open-air vehicles was attached to the central axis by a 20-foot arm. The vehicles held up to two passengers who circled round and round, 60 feet above the ground, while controlling their ascent and descent with a metal control stick. On January 10, 1994, the original Star Jets closed in order to undergo a complete makeover as part of the New Tomorrowland.
The attraction was re-designed and re-opened on April 30, 1994, as the Astro Orbiter, part of the complete renovation of the park’s Tomorrowland section. The attraction featured a highly stylized iron-work tower in lieu of the center rocket along with various planets on the outside of the attraction as to appear as if the rockets were weaving between the planets. The ride at the Magic Kingdom does 11 rotations per minute and averages 1.2 million miles a year.[3] In the 1994-2009 narration for the Tomorrowland Transit Authority, the ride was referenced as the “League of Planets Astro Orbiter.”
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