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'''Journey to the Center of the Earth'''(センター・オブ・ジ・アース) is a high-speed [[slot car ride|slot car]] [[dark ride]] at the [[Tokyo DisneySea]] theme park in [[Urayasu]], [[Chiba prefecture|Chiba]], [[Japan]]. One of the park's opening day attractions, it is located in the [[Jules Verne]]-themed [[Mysterious Island (Tokyo DisneySea)|Mysterious Island]] area of the park, and is loosely themed after Verne's 1864 [[Journey to the Center of the Earth|novel of the same name]]. The attraction's ride system is based on the high speed slot car system originally created for the [[Test Track]] attraction opened in 19981999 at [[Epcot]] in [[Walt Disney World]]. Original music for the ride was created by longtime Disney composer [[Buddy Baker (composer)|Buddy Baker]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A Buddy Baker Tribute|url=http://www.soundofmagic.com/composers/buddy%20baker/|work=The Sound of Magic|access-date=23 June 2013}}</ref>
 
==Story==
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==History==
Journey to the Center of the Earth was originally planned as a free-fall[[freefall type(ride)|freefall ride]] as part of Discovery Mountain, a former [[Disneyland Park (Paris)|Disneyland Paris]] concept in place of [[Space Mountain: Mission 2|Space Mountain]]. Since it was never built, this project reemerged in [[Tokyo DisneySea]] with new technology from Test Track, a thrill ride through a [[General Motors|GM]] testing facility at that time.
 
The score of the ride was composed by [[Buddy Baker (composer)|Buddy Baker]], who was also responsible for the scores of rides such as [[Pirates of the Caribbean (ride)|Pirates of The Caribbean]] and the [[The Haunted Mansion|Haunted Mansion]].
Journey to the Center of the Earth was originally planned as a free-fall type ride as part of Discovery Mountain, a former [[Disneyland Park (Paris)|Disneyland Paris]] concept in place of [[Space Mountain: Mission 2|Space Mountain]]. Since it was never built, this project reemerged in [[Tokyo DisneySea]] with new technology from Test Track, a thrill ride through a [[General Motors|GM]] testing facility at that time.
 
The score of the ride was composed by [[Buddy Baker (composer)|Buddy Baker]], who was also responsible for the scores of rides such as [[Pirates of the Caribbean (ride)|Pirates of The Caribbean]] and the [[Haunted Mansion]].
 
==See also==
*[[Test Track]], the first generation of this attraction's ride system located in [[Epcot]] at [[Walt Disney World]].
*[[Radiator Springs Racers]], the third generation of this attraction's ride system located in [[Disney California Adventure]] at the [[Disneyland Resort]].
 
==References==