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Lights, Motors, Action!: Extreme Stunt Show

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car, and heads behind one of the buildings. A few seconds later, the hero car reenters from the second story of the building, down the bed of a truck parked in front of the building, and jumps a ramp across the canal directly towards the audience. Fireworks and explosions are set off as the car exits through a tunnel under the grandstands.
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The final scene begins with footage being shown on the large video screen of the previous stunt sequences edited into a finished film. As the film on the screen reaches its climax, fire erupts in the canal area at the front of the stage. The hero car appears on stage, being chased by a black pursuit
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The show included multiple red "hero" cars. One had the bodyshell oriented backwards to allow the driver to appear to be driving in reverse; the other had a seat and steering wheel bolted onto the side of the car away from the audience, so that the car appeared to be driving without anyone inside.
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The fourth sequence, the "Motorcycle Chase," begins with the hero running across the stage while being shot at by teo villains on black bikes. He runs into a motorcycle shop and commandeers a blue bike, then is chased by the two pursuit motorcycles and three cars. The hero later switches to a jet
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The cars had a bump shift for easier gear shifting: the driver bumped the shifter forward to go up a gear, and back to go back a gear. In order to reverse, the driver twisted the top of the shifter and bumped it forwards or backwards. The handbrake automatically released when the driver let go.
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As the third scene is being set up, a driverless hero car is shown, and an audience volunteer is brought down to drive it via remote control. After the volunteer appears to lose control of the vehicle, it is revealed that the car actually does have a driver, who is hidden on the far side of the
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for driver safety and were powered by Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 cc 175 horsepower (130 kW) motorcycle engines mounted directly behind the driver's seat. The cars' transmissions had four sequential forward and reverse gears, allowing them to be driven backwards at high speed.
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The next scene, the "Blockade Chase," is set in a marketplace, with the car chase taking place around obstacles such as trucks and market stalls. The scene ends with the hero car driving up the back of a truck bed, over a second truck, and landing on an airbag.
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While the next scene is being set up, it is explained how they film the action. They also introduce the hero car driver, and explain how a second hero car, designed so that the driver faces out the back, was used for the backwards jump.
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When the show is not running and when the audience is exiting or entering the stadium, queue music is played, while the billboard television screen shows trivia questions about films and movies with car chases and destruction in them.
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The main show starts off with the "Ballet Chase," featuring a red "hero car" being chased by five black pursuit cars. This scene ends with the hero car jumping backwards off of a ramp, and the fifth pursuit car being blown in half.
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ski, and eventually faces his pursuers on foot. This scene features a stuntman falling thirty feet from a building into an airbag, as well as the rider of one of the pursuit motorcycles catching on fire.
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The show maintained a fleet of more than 40 vehicles. The primary "hero" car, which the action revolves around, was custom-built for the show, while the pursuit cars were designed to resemble
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Afterward, a curtain call of all of the vehicles used in the movie shoot is shown, with the black pursuit cars and motorcycles, and the three red hero cars and the blue motorcycle.
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One of the black "pursuit" cars was cut in half behind the front doors, so that it appeared to explode during a scene in the show.
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division. On January 15, 2016, Disney announced that the Hollywood Studios location would close on April 3 for the construction of
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As the final scene is set up, they explain the specially treated clothing that allowed the final rider to be safely set on fire.
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theme parks opened a new attraction that have been copied from another Disney resort. The entire show has now been demolished.
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at the theme park to be almost halved in length, as the arena was built inside locations used by the backlot tour.
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version of the show originally opened on time with the premiere of Walt Disney Studios Park on March 16, 2002. The
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The pre-show features clips of action scenes involving car chases from various action thriller films including
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version of the show debuted three years later at Disney's Hollywood Studios during the
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Walt Disney World Resort - Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show
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Lights, Motors, Action! (Full Show) Disney World's Hollywood Studios
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The show was previously sponsored at Walt Disney Studios Park by
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on the small canal at the front of the theater, and Yamaha
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The show cars weighed 1,322 pounds (600 kg), and were
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Revolving around a series of energetic stunts featuring
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Walt Disney Studios Park
Coordinates
48°51′54″N 2°46′41″E / 48.865°N 2.778°E / 48.865; 2.778
Production Courtyard
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Streets of America
Coordinates
28°21′14″N 81°33′41″W / 28.3538°N 81.5615°W / 28.3538; -81.5615
Studio Backlot Tour
Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney Creative Entertainment
Disabled access

stunt show
Walt Disney Studios Park
Disneyland Paris
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
automobiles
Happiest Celebration on Earth
Walt Disney World
Herbie
Volkswagen
The Love Bug
Lightning McQueen
Cars

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