Rocket Rods - Queue

Queue

Guests entered the former CircleVision 360 building. In the first room, huge blueprints of old and current Tomorrowland attractions hung on the walls, along with actual former Tomorrowland attraction vehicles, which were repainted blue with an orange grid to make them appear like blueprints. The ride vehicles included were four PeopleMover cars, two Rocket Jets, a Space Mountain rocket, and the front of a Mark III Disneyland Monorail. Near the end of the room was video screen that displayed old Walt Disney animated segments from the distant past (1950s to early 1970s) that featured what transportation may one day look like in the future. All of the segments featured radical and far-fetched concepts of future transportation systems like fully automated and auto guided mobile homes and cars using a form of anti-gravity or magnetic devices to scale walls and objects. Each segment concluded with a short narrated segment of how these technologies evolved into forms of technology we use today (in 1998) or will use in a few years to come. The short narrations brought insight to the (somewhat outdated) animated segments and explained to guests that "in the world of creativity there's no end to the possibilities" (the theme of Rocket Rods). The next room of the queue was the nine-screen Circle-Vision 360° theater, where guests watched old transportation videos, excerpts from the Circle-Vision 360° films "America the Beautiful" and "The Timekeeper" put between a Walt Disney narrated video, and a video depicting the evolution of General Motors cars. Guests then continued down the "transit tunnel" (formerly a backstage area) where guests passed "proposals" for extending the Rocket Rods system all the way to the John Wayne Airport and other nearby destinations. The Transit Tunnel led to a series of stairs that circled around the inside of the tower that held up the Rocket Rods platform and the Observatron (the former Rocket Jets attraction). At the top of the stairs, guests found themselves on the elevated Rocket Rods station in the center of Tomorrowland.

In the queue area, near the stairway to the boarding area was a fictional map reading titled Rocket Rods Proposed System Expansion, showing guests where Rocket Rods was to expand to in the future. The map was just for fun, but had real life locations on it (as well as ambiguous ones), including Tomorrowland attractions already bypassed by the Rocket Rods' route, such as:

• Star Tours
• Space Mountain
• Innoventions
• Disney California Adventure Park
• Disneyland Resort Hotels
• Edison International Field
• Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim
• The Walt Disney Studios
• Hollywood
• Airport
• The beach
• The mountains