StormRider

StormRider was a simulator ride at Tokyo DisneySea. It simulated going into a weather storm in a futuristic airplane (a "StormRider") to dissipate the storm.[2] The attraction opened on September 4, 2001, in the Port Discovery land of Tokyo DisneySea.[3] The attraction closed on May 17, 2016 and replaced by a new Finding Nemo/Finding Dory simulator ride called Nemo & Friends SeaRider.[4]

StormRider
StormRider's attraction building
Tokyo DisneySea
Area	Port Discovery
Coordinates	35°37′30″N 139°52′57″E
Status	<Closed!-- "Closed" is the proper infobox setting here -->
Opening date	September 4, 2001
Closing date	May 16, 2016
Replaced by	Nemo & Friends SeaRider
General statistics
Attraction type	Simulator ride
Designer	Walt Disney Imagineering
Theme	Futuristic storm-diffusing aircraft
Riders per vehicle	122[1]
Duration	14 minutes[1]
Height restriction	90 cm (2 ft 11 in)
Sponsored by	JCB
Disney's Fastpass available

Ride

With its copper roofs and mechanical devices, the attraction building—the "Center for Weather Control"—was themed to a futuristic, almost Victorian era, laboratory. Guests entered a motion simulator (a "StormRider") and were dispatched into a storm to deliver a storm-dissipating device called a "Fuse". The ride was explained in Japanese, with English subtitles on an LCD screen. During the ride, problems were encountered while trying to transport the Fuse.

See also

• Star Tours: The Adventures Continue – an attraction using a similar ride style in Disneyland, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Park (Paris).
• List of Tokyo DisneySea attractions

References

1. "StormRider". Tokyo DisneySea. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
2. Geryak, Cole (July 12, 2018). "Disney Extinct Attractions: StormRider". The Laughing Place. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
3. "StormRider (Tokyo DisneySea)". Parkz. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
4. "New "Finding Nemo" attraction coming to Tokyo DisneySea Park in Spring 2017, StormRider to close". Inside the Magic. Retrieved 20 May 2015.