News Toy Story Midway Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

[Ride Warrior]

Disney ride wins top international award - Around Disney : The Orange County Register

What an honor for Toy Story Midway Mania! Good news in the OC Register concerning the international Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) having awarded a 2009 top new ride recognition award to Disney's Toy Story Midway Mania (for both the California and Florida versions). A few other attractions in other parks received the same honor, most noticeably USF's "Disaster".

Over time, Disney has received nine (9) attraction awards from TEA, and
twenty-five (25) for non-attraction categories. Jesse Shell of Shell Games is credited as the primary designer of Toy Story Midway Mania that was created in collaboration with WDI. Disney's Cyberspace Mountain is another Collaborative project designed by Jesse Shell and Company and WDI.

[dland_lover]

Re: Toy Story Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

What is this "Toy Story Mania!", of which you speak? Oh, wait... OH! You mean "Toy Story Midway Mania!". Well, why didn't you say so in the first place? :razz:


Congrats to one of my favorite rides! :clap:

[Ride Warrior]

Re: Toy Story Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

What is this "Toy Story Mania!", of which you speak? Oh, wait... OH! You mean "Toy Story Midway Mania!". Well, why didn't you say so in the first place? :razz:


Congrats to one of my favorite rides! :clap:

I'm compelled to join you in applause, dland_lover! :clap:

[BCC]

Re: Toy Story Midway Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

Good going to TSMM!

[JerrodDRagon]

Re: Toy Story Midway Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

Finally DCA wins an Awards. Hopefully Little Mermaid, Wonderful World, and Cars Land will help win DCA some more.

[disneyfann121]

Re: Toy Story Midway Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

This doesn't surprise me at all. In addition to being a fun attraction, TSMM is an innovation that will open up new technological breakthroughs. To my knowledge, it is the world's first interactive 3D ride.

The selection of Disaster at USF is a bit surprising, though. It's a pretty good attraction, but how different is it from the old Earthquake: The Big One? They added a new pre-show, refurbished the ride, and that's about it. I would have given the nod to The Simpsons ride instead. It's an exciting, funny, thrilling state of the art motion simulator.

[Ride Warrior]

Re: Toy Story Midway Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

Finally DCA wins an Awards. Hopefully Little Mermaid, Wonderful World, and Cars Land will help win DCA some more.

Add the Carthay Circle Theater to the list and...
What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful world it would be.

[Ride Warrior]

Re: Toy Story Midway Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

This doesn't surprise me at all. In addition to being a fun attraction, TSMM is an innovation that will open up new technological breakthroughs. To my knowledge, it is the world's first interactive 3D ride.

The selection of Disaster at USF is a bit surprising, though. It's a pretty good attraction, but how different is it from the old Earthquake: The Big One? They added a new pre-show, refurbished the ride, and that's about it. I would have given the nod to The Simpsons ride instead. It's an exciting, funny, thrilling state of the art motion simulator.

Well stated, disneyfan. TSMM is a merger of entertainment genra and technology that hasn't been combined before.

Other that being a top notch fun and exciting new attraction, there doesn't seem tbe any criteria for being selected for theseawards. Nevertheless, Universal's Disaster isn't in te sa league as TSMM. The other rides on te list don't even compare with Disaster.

[Gino USMC]

Re: Toy Story Midway Mania Wins Top 2009 International TEA Award

I think Tim Babb already posted this a few days ago.