PHOTO - Animatronic Wheezy to feature in Slinky Dog Dash

May 02, 2018 in "Slinky Dog Dash"

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Slinky Dog Dash overview

Posted: Wednesday May 2, 2018 9:08am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

A Wheezy Audio-Animatronics figure will be part of Slinky Dog Dash in the upcoming Toy Story Land.

Slinky Dog Dash overview

At the end of the attraction, Wheezy sings “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” assisted by Mike (the tape recorder), who’s provided him with a microphone, and Mr. Spell, who “texts” funny commentary. The friends are surrounded by a collection of toys, including a Rubik’s cube, a canister for a game called Pick-Up Snakes, toy wooden blocks spelling out F-U-N, and toy packages for an RC Car and a triangle puzzle game, all framed by a towering book, Mr. Pricklepants Songs for Singing.

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FigmentsFangirl5 hours ago

And just to get the free shipping costs per pound for stuff that size doesnt it ? ;)

FigmentsFangirl6 hours ago

For me, just seeing K'Nex pieces in DHS makes me happy, my brother grtew up with k'nex from 1994 to 2005 and introduced me to K'Nex in 1995 and I was hooked. Just seeing K'Nex again makes me smile, does not matter the size either just seeing that Andy plays with K'nex is awesome

GoofGoof6 hours ago

I think this is more a symptom of the current shortage of workers combined with these large corporations looking to spread capital spend over multiple years. AK was the last full park Disney built in FL, announced in 1995 and opened in 1998. There is zero chance a 5th gate would take just 3 years to build today. All that being said, it’s not relevant to this discussion about taking years to add some shade. Better late than never I guess.

Disone11 hours ago

Wow! I honestly had not realized it had been under construction for over 6 years and that excludes an 8 month stoppage! Color me slightly surprised.

Agent H11 hours ago

That would be a cool idea for a ride.

MrPromey11 hours ago

For starters, not make the best attraction by a country mile for the new land be one that had existed in that spot for a decade prior and everything else being amusement park style filler? What they did was a little like making a "new" Haunted Mansion land at MK by taking the original attraction, adding a Grim Grinning Ghosts Glider ride based on the Dumbo attraction, and then adding some other carnival-like experiene along with a food kiosk... Like instead of (or in addition to) cloning Remy's Ratatouille Adventure in Epcot, the same concept and ride system could have been used for a Toy Story adventure rather than having the whole land being set up as something that's a little at odds with the pre-existing attraction that anchors it in style and quality.* *And Midway Mania is screen-based in possibly the most extreme way possible so that's a bit of a low bar to begin with.

J454611 hours ago

style wise its cool just not nearly big enough imo. You could have soo many toy themed rides and experiences. I guess im just looking at Isle of berg and thinking what could have been with TSL

Agent H11 hours ago

What would be a well developed use of the ip? I agree the land is under built but I don’t know what they could really do better style wise.

MisterPenguin11 hours ago

No. From groundbreaking to opening, it will be 6 years and 4 months. That is excluding the 8 month stoppage due to the pandemic.

MrPromey12 hours ago

Plus, from what I understand, Amazon excludes it from Prime shipping, too.

MrPromey12 hours ago

Out of all the parks with a TSL, we allegedly have the best version. Despite how disappointed most of us were/are with it, this was apparently considered an improvement over what they'd done previously with said IP. ... To be clear, the overall concept of this, in any Disney park anywhere in the world that has it appears to be as a budget filler land rather than a well developed use of the IP. I mean, they knew what they'd done overseas so the bar seems to have already been set low for what they wanted to accomplish here in topping those while still doing it Disney-cheap and apparently they they were successful(?). 🤷‍♂️

communicorn9613 hours ago

Finding K'Nex in that size is very time consuming.

yensid196713 hours ago

And Universal built an ENTIRE NEW PARK in less than 5 years! If I was Disney, I would be embarrassed as THE theme park leader...Universal is stepping up and MAY take the number 1 position away from Disney...and sad to say, Disney deserves whatever they get!