Toontown Transit

Toontown Transit was an ambitious concept for a simulator with a full wraparound screen to present animation on the sides of the vehicle in addition to a main screen. As told in a 1991 story treatment[1], the story of the attraction would focus around Gus the Bus, a Toontown city bus that aspired to be an actor. Driving us through the Toontown Tunnel on his usual route, he quickly runs into Benny the Cab, who tells them that the studio is holding auditions for new talent and offers to show him a shortcut. Eager to catch his big break, Gus follows Benny along the steep and curving mountain road across the toon countryside. Gus ends up falling into the Toon River, sliding across river rapids before diving underwater and being briefly swallowed by Monstro. Monstro sneezes us out and sends us back onto the road back behind Benny as if nothing happened. Entering Toontown and going the wrong way on a one-way street, we meet Roger, who is dangling upon a firetruck ladder on its way to help Jessica out of a burning fireworks factory. After crashing on the windshield, Roger asks for our help to save the day. Climbing the ladder with Roger still aboard the front of the bus, we reach out to get Jessica, but Jessica and Roger end up being pushed out the window down to the ground, being caught by the fire fighters. However, a wayward firework ends up bursting through the bus, sending us into space. After making a crash landing back in Toontown, Gus happens to find himself at the audition, where the director offers him a movie contract on the spot, making his dream come true. Though Toontown Transit was never built, the concept of a wraparound screen simulator would later evolve into Tokyo DisneySea's StormRider, with the fireworks gag being turned into the Fuse device crashing through the ceiling.