| Superstar Limo | |
| Disney California Adventure Park | |
| Land | Hollywood Backlot |
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| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Attraction type | Dark Ride |
| Theme | Hollywood |
| Opening date | February 8, 2001 |
| Closing date | January 11, 2002 |
| Music | George Wilkins |
| Ride duration | 3.5 minutes |
| Replaced by | Monsters, Inc.: Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! |
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Superstar Limo was a dark ride in Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
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Superstar Limo was situated in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of the park and was one of the original attractions featured on opening day.
The attraction closed in 2002, earning the dubious distinction of being the park's first attraction to permanently close. It has since been replaced by Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! in 2006.
The attraction's purple "stretch limo" ride vehicles took riders through a cartoony rendition of Hollywood. Riders were introduced to animated figures modeled in the likeness of celebrities from hit ABC shows (ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Company). Celebrities included but were not limited to Joan Rivers, Regis Philbin, Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Cindy Crawford, Tim Allen, Jackie Chan, Drew Carey, Cher, and Whoopi Goldberg. A Hollywood talent agent character further appeared infrequently on small inseat video screens.
The story of the attraction placed the guest (rider) as Hollywood's newest celebrity, taking them through a variety of recognizable and somewhat stereotypical locations and situations throughout the greater Los Angeles and Hollywood areas including Rodeo Drive, the Sunset Strip, a nightclub, Bel Air, a pool party, Malibu, a tattoo parlor, a fictitious street in Hollywood lined with studios, the interior of a soundstage, Grauman's Chinese Theater, a billboard, and Downtown Los Angeles.
Superstar Limo was criticized amongst internet writers as lacking or poor in concept and limited in motivating story, spurred by rumors of the elimination during its development of a more exciting but potentially offensive 'paparazzi chase' storyline.
The renditions of popular celebrities were funhouse-style, oversized and stylized almost to the point of the grotesque, scaring small children and rendering it non-"family friendly". Between the time the attraction was designed and it opened, many of the celebrities depicted had lost much of their celebrity status.
Though figures were animated (moving arms or heads), none of Disney's famed human-like Audio-Animatronics technologies were used in the attraction.
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