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{{Short description|Attraction at Tokyo DisneySea}}
{{distinguish|Journey to the Center of the Earth 4-D Adventure}}
{{additional citations|date=October 2018}}
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| name = Journey to the Center of the Earth
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| location = Tokyo DisneySea
| section = [[Mysterious Island (Disney)|Mysterious Island]]
| status = Closed for refurbishmentOpen
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| manufacturer = Dynamic StructuresAttractions
| designer = [[Walt Disney Imagineering]]<br>[[General Motors Corporation]] (Test Track technology)
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'''Journey to the Center of the Earth'''(センター・オブ・ジ・アース) is a [[slot car ride|slot car]] attraction[[dark ride]] at the [[Tokyo DisneySea]] theme park in [[Urayasu]], based[[Chiba onprefecture|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 usesride similarsystem technologyis tobased on the high speed slot car system originally created for the [[Test Track]] attraction opened in 1999 at [[Epcot]]'s in [[TestWalt TrackDisney 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|accessdateaccess-date=23 June 2013}}</ref>
 
==Story==
The volcano of Mysterious Island, Mount Prometheus, has become [[Captain Nemo]]'s base. After traveling through its caverns and past several of Nemo's labs (which includes a diary entry of the discovery of the fossilized egg of a monstrous, unknown arthropod), guests board "Terravators" (elevators) to the facility's base station one -half mile below. In this base station is a huge steam-powered bellows that pumps fresh air down from the surface, massive spring-pillars that hold the ceiling up to prevent cave-ins in case of earthquakes, and communication center which is currently giving warnings of increased seismic activity, but the scientist who mans it is currently away on a tea break.
 
Riders then board steam-powered mine vehicles that travel through pre-drilled tunnels into the heart of the Earth. The ride begins through a cavern of colorful glowing crystals, before entering a giant Mushroom Forest, which is inhabited by strange insect and amphibian-like life forms. Before the car can proceed further, an earthquake causes a cave-in of the tunnel ahead, forcing the car off its planned route and down a side branch filled with giant egg-like sacks that appears to have been dug by a gigantic creature. The car emerges on the shore of the Subterranean Sea, and is nearly struck by a lightning from the electrified gas clouds. The finale comes when riders are forced into the fiery heart of an active volcano, where the riders come face-to-face with the giant, tyrannical centipede-like lava monster that has built a nest there, before escaping back to the surface on the wave of an eruption.
 
==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 typeride system located in [[Epcot]] at [[Walt Disney World]].
*[[Radiator Springs Racers]], the third generation of this attraction's ride system located in [[CarsDisney California LandAdventure]] at the [[Disneyland Resort]].
 
==References==
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* Journey into the Giant Selenite Crystal Caves of Mexico by Leela Hutchison, G.G.
 
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[[Category:Amusement rides based on works by Jules Verne]]