food IS a theme park
Disney World does a pretty good job when it comes to water and boat rides.
Splash Mountain
There’s Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Frozen Ever After, and MORE. These rides are SUPER popular and all involve some sort of speedy slide down a flume of some kind. Now, Disney might be working on a way to make the lines for attractions like this SHORTER than ever!
Disney might have a big thing with mice, but they’re big on the duck scene too.
Disney Ducks
Sure, you’ve got Donald Duck, but you’ve also got alllllll the ducks who reside in the Disney parks. We love those little guys! Now, Disney has invented some new tech that’s seriously amazing — but all we can focus on is the duck in the pictures. What does this waterfowl MEAN?
Disney is honestly weirdly into noses, but they’ve got a good reason.
Spaceship Earth at EPCOT
For many a Disney fan, a favorite part of the parks experience is the smells. Walking down Main Street, U.S.A. we love to get a whiff of that fresh-baked bread. Lots of folks REALLY miss the orange smell from Soarin’ Over California. Oh, and the burning smell from Spaceship Earth? COME ON. Now, Disney is working on tech that could make smell engineering a more common thing, both in and out of the theme parks.
Disney pretty consistently works to develop new and exciting ways for guests to experience attractions in the theme parks.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
This is especially apparent when you look at the planned Disney Metaverse that encourages internal work towards interactive and personalized attraction experiences. Today, we’ve found a sign that Disney is working towards a SURPRISING attraction concept — one that interacts with a personal toy YOU’RE holding.
We love a good Disney nighttime spectacular. Who doesn’t?
Fireworks
Every time we get to see a new nighttime show in the Disney parks, we tend to be wowed by the technological advancements they’ve implemented. Did you ever imagine you would see Cinderella Castle transform the way it does thanks to projection mapping on Happily Ever After? Now, Disney is working on a NEW way to light up the sky at the end of your park day.
Disney has some big innovators working behind the scenes!
Hall of fame baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. and Disney Sports Vice President Faron Kelley pose with Mickey Mouse at the Magic Kingdom Park as Ripken Baseball and Walt Disney World Resort jointly announced Tuesday the Ripken Experience is coming to ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in 2020. ©Disney
We love keeping an eye out for Disney patents to see what kind of tech those innovators are working on — and what the innovations mean for the company and the future! Today, we spotted a new Disney patent for yet ANOTHER round of virtual reality tech, and this one has got a focus on the world of sports!
Yes, hello, it’s us again, and we’re here to tell you about a very neat Disney patent!
Monorail
You know that we love to lurk in the Disney filings to see what new technology the Imagineers have in store for the theme parks and beyond. We’ve seen innovations with drones for nighttime shows and LOTS of virtual and augmented reality inventions. But wait ’til you see the latest Disney patent!
We’re big fans of Disney ride vehicles. We know, we know, that sounds a little weird. But, YES, the vehicles are a BIG part of what makes a ride great!
©Disney
Think about the trackless ride vehicles on Rise of the Resistance or Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, the iconic Doom Buggies on Haunted Mansion, and the VERY cool Omnicoaster vehicles coming to Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Well, Disney has come up with a NEW vehicle system and we’re pretty excited about it.
Walt Disney Imagineering is known for being on the front edge of technology.
©Disney
We focus a lot on the innovations that could be used in the theme parks or other entertainment destinations — like this crazy zombie-fighting virtual reality invention! But sometimes, Disney works hard to bring us brand new technology that we could use in our own homes!
Sports fans have had a serious eye on Disney in recent weeks.
ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
Between the NBA’s season restart and the MLS is Back tournament, Disney World is home to a big piece of the return of live sports. Of course, that’s not Disney’s ONLY collection to sports — the company also owns ESPN, and it looks like they might’ve invented something NEAT for sports fans.
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