Cars land to open at Disney\'s california adventure

Pixar\'s animated movie Cars will come to life on June 15 when Disney\'s California Adventure opens a real-life version of the Western desert road town of Radiator Springs. The 12-acre attraction will feature everything from a Flo\'s Drive-In and a Cozy Cone to a high-speed \"Radiator Springs Racers\" ride with six-seat, open-topped race cars fashioned after your favorite Cars characters. The race cars operate on a track similar to the one used for the General Motors proving-ground attraction at Disney\'s Epcot Center in Florida. There will be other fun things, too. Most innovative might be the Luigi\'s Flying Tires ride, which features bumper-type cars in the shape of tires you sit in that float over a giant air-hockey field, suspended on a cushion of jet-blasted air. Mater\'s Junkyard Jamboree will offer low-speed thrills as park guests ride in two- or three-seat trailers towed behind small tractors of the kind tipped over by Mater and McQueen in the original movie. Mater calls out a square-dance routine, and the tractors swing their trailers \'round and \'round in a series of textbook oversteers. We have seen the Ornament Valley mountains of Cars Land and can attest that they do look like the real thing, down to the nose-buried 1949 to 1963 Cadillac tail fins of Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo.