This was originally supposed to be a much better, much faster ride with the paparazzi chasing you. Then the Princess Diana accident forced them to neuter the ride and this is what we ended up with.

I loved it when they introduced Whoopi Goldberg at 2:47 and the guy was like, "No! God no!" Like she somehow made the ride THAT much worse. XD

First time seeing this, and I'm sitting here stunned that this was an actual ride in a Disney park (however briefly). It's so ill-conceived on every level. From the unfunny jokes, to the lame celebrity references that were already dated when it premiered (a ride should NEVER contain the words "funnyman Tim Allen"), to the creepy puppets and generally unsettling feel of the whole ride. On a conceptual level, the tone is all wrong--it's a snarky and cynical take on the superficiality of Hollywood magic in the middle of a place (Disneyland) that was built on Hollywood magic.

The ride might have worked if it were set during the Golden Age of Hollywood and featured Clark Gable, Marylyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, etc etc. That way the stars never would have become dated. Disney was probably too cheap at the time to pay the royalties to the late stars estates and settled for C listers.

Holy crap. That was so bad.

Good Gawd...this actually makes Epcot's Journey Into Your Imagination With Figment look good.

This ride has a so-bad-it's-good quality to it, lol Glad they got rid of it, though.

This was back when Disney was pushing the "California experience" for California adventure. Turns out, people just wanted more Disney:) Thanks for this, never got to ride it.

why....? why not just have an actual person on the screen instead of....THAT?

0:24 What the fuck is that thing? 2:00 Do not remind me of a MUCH better Disney attraction.

Ahhh, that time period when WDI had no idea what to do with California Adventure...

No wonder Eisner stepped down...his last years were utter shit, and this is the symbol of his last few years.

More like a ride you would go on at a carnival, definitely had NO feel of a Disney ride at all. And that agent puppet guy was creepy.....ha

Magic kingdom fans: bring back mr toad Epcot fans: bring back horizons and imagination Hollywood studios fans: bring back the great movie ride Disneyland fans: bring back the people mover California adventure fans: No superstar limo stay in the corner

What... Did I just watch?

I almost wet myself when that guy on the screen popped up

I think the idea was cute, but definitely could have used a LOT fewer creepy animatronics

I loved this ride. It was so awful, that it was great. I only got to ride it twice. The third time I tried, it was broken. THANK YOU FOR PRESERVING THIS!!! It felt like I stepped into an episode of "The Simpsons" goofing on amusement park rides.

this is like the great movie ride on acid

The animatronic trashy agent...oh gawd...

Yikes! This is high octane nightmare fuel! No wonder this ride only lasted for like two months!

The Enchanted Tiki Room Under New Management is better than *this* was, at least.

To this day I am still forever baffled at the fact that this attraction seriously existed.

Oh dear. This is just a piece of crap. I'm glad they replaced this with Monsters Inc. Monsters Inc is a true superior ride when compared to this.

This ride was like an acid trip gone seriously wrong.

What were the imagineers responsible for this ride on? This looks like a bad sitcom which not even Adult Swim would pick up and touch with a 9 1/2 foot pole. Thank goodness this ride got the boot in favor of Mike and Sully to the Rescue.

In the words of Krusty the Clown: The hell was that?! At first impressions, that was just a weird ride. Not so horrible, just odd.

They got rid of the line as you enter Bel-Air "welcome to bel-air, where the streets are paved with royalties, and hype." The ride was clearly mocking hollywood, which conflicted with the hollywood backlot's attempt to capitalize on the golden age of hollywood and all of that which this ride mocked. I don't think this served the overarching story of the park, and rather undermined it, but it if one understands that its supposed to be a ride-thru parody/family guy-type story, it works. Eliminating that line as you enter Bel-Air is peculiar; maybe they thought people weren't getting the parody/comedy angle, but by just removing some of the jokes, you're making it a literal celebrified hollywood experience rather than a parody. At that point, all that is left is a really poor way of delivering on that expectation. It looks and feels nothing like the glamorous hollywood people might expect. The park map from 2002 says it all! I just checked to see how they were describing the attraction on it. "A glitzy ride through LA's star-studded streets." BIG Mistake. The failure of this attraction isn't only in its execution, it is in the way it was being mis-marketed. The set-up mentions "glitzy" and "star studded," and the attraction is certainly not glitzy. People can't tell by reading a park map that it is a sarcastic experience. They are expecting one experience to be delivered and that experience actually is failing miserably. Rather than letting park guests in on the joke, DCA was playing a practical joke ON ITS GUESTS. This could have survived if the park map indicated that it was supposed to be a comedy, parody, sarcastic, riddled ride through hollywood. Attractions like Roger Rabbit are similar in tone but don't carry the same level of confusion. This ride was so universally hated and misunderstood and I don't think anybody misses it. But I wonder if it would have succeeded in a toontown-type hollywoodland subland, paired with something like roger rabbit, in a land that spoke immediately and visually to the fact that this was to be playful and unrealistic. It also doesn't speak to the defining golden-age-of-hollywood and movie magic dramatic themes, aspirations, aesthetics, and emotions that people understand. A more elaborate, literal dark ride would be needed to anchor and define such a land. A ride that would render the cartoon limo attraction a lesser thesis, an offshoot, an alternative interpretation, an antithesis that compliments the overall show and acts as a device of acknowledging the non-existence of such a perfect vision of hollywood through the ways in which it mocks it and reveals opposing truths.

I only rode this once the year DCA opened and man I thought it sucked. As a 7-year-old I thought it was garbage and still today at 23-years-old it's garbage. The terrifying puppets, the awful "storyline", yep this was a product of the Eisner years....the Monsters Inc. ride that's there now is much better though I'm not sure how long it'll be there considering it looks like Marvel is taking over that side of the park. We'll see how long the Frozen stage show lasts there too since it's smack dab in the middle and if a Marvel "land" is made it won't fit the decor or theming.

"she looks like a dude" "Kill me, please kill me" best commentary I've heard on a poing of view of rides 😂

Thank god they changed to Monsters Inc, I love that ride.

I remember going to California adventures not too long after it opened and this ride was so bad it had already closed down before I could ride it. Even Disney can make a mistake with a ride.

Who's idea was this at Disney? fire that man, and fire the man that hired him

That was....frightening. Not even close to the caliber of Disney rides

Welcome to the World of The Has Beens!!

Reminds me of that one Roger Rabbit ride only a lot less interesting. I've never been to California Adventure but this ride seems too cheesy/ outdated to be associated with Disney. Universal maybe but not appropriate for Disney. I know it's Monster's Inc. now which is good but still.

Wow I must say the ride the replaced it with is much better. You might be able to enjoy The Supper Star Lamo If you are high but that's about it. Same thing for the Winnie the Pooh Ride. It looks like a bad acid trip.

Dear god. o_O What was Disney thinking when they made that ride? That was seriously the worst ride I've ever seen. I expected a ride like this from Knotts Berry Farm or something, but not Disney. Christ in a sidecar, man. o_O

NOT TO SAY I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE HATES THIS RIDE but I love the style of it! The weird puppetry and animatronics and set design are all up my alley, and had it released as it intended to before the princess di tragedy (and included a similar design aesthetic to this) i feel like it wouldve been a hit, more loved than hated for its weirdness

this ride looked so bad that it was good like i mean i would love to go on a terrible ride like this they should have kept it as a joke

Thank you Monsters Inc!!!

Since I live in New Jersey and some of my family lives in Florida, my family usually goes to Disney World, but if that ride WAS still around and if I were to go to California, for some reason I'd want to go on it. I mean, it looked shitty as hell but it would sure be an.. experience.

As a concept I can sort of see what they were going for, with this ride being located in California Adventure, which has a Hollywood theme throughout it. However, the execution is just plain lazy. The writing is dated (yes, even for when it was created), the backdrops look slapped together, and the "animatronics" are bizarre and sloppy. If they tried to do this ride in a style more similar to The Great Movie Ride, it would have been a success.

OK, I'm just gonna come right out and say it: that agent guy lives smack in the middle of the uncanny valley. I'm gonna have to sleep with the lights on.

Back in the days when Disney Tought that people came to the Disneyland only because it's in California

"Now there's a familiar face smiling down from that billboard!" *cuts to a photo of everybody looking either pained or utterly miserable*

I hope heads rolled at imaginearing for that gem!

This ride reminds me of Leisure Suit Larry... The narrator sounds the same, and the awkward music is similar

O_O WHAT DID I JUST WATCH...

this is so weird.... i dont know if theyre making fun of leota or paying homage lmao.

You're kidding, right? This is really a Disney ride? I thought this was some other amusement park's rip-off of a Disney ride...wow! When Disney starts to consider what rides to shut down in the future to make way for new ones, I'm hoping this is at the top of everyone's list. This is really Disney, huh?

Super star limo is now monsters inc

I like how monsters inc is suppose to be scary but the ride before it gives you nightmares

I am so glad Disney decided to use Monsters inc.

That was awful. Glad I missed it.

I had the honor and privilege to come to DCA during preview week, back in 2001. I missed out on this ride, but some of my other cousins told me that, they rode this ride. They loved it! I’m devastated that I will never get a chance to ride that ride, because it’s cute and fun. RIP to Regis Philbin 😪🙏 I almost forgot that Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith were married and one of Hollywood’s hottest married couples at that time. Awkward to see now.

I’m so glad this is Monsters Inc now instead of... this monstrosity.

The agent reminds of the mayor from LazyTown

In the words of Arin Hanson "This is what I imagine it would be like to take LSD and then fall asleep."

Fun fact: all of these animatronics were reused in the Monsters Inc ride to be disguised as the CDA agents from the Monsters Inc. movie

Love the commentary; spot on about "Cher" and "Whoopie".

This was uploaded on my birthday. I never even knew about this ride......fate is mysterious.

I’m mesmerized by that agent puppet. It’s so bad that it’s hard to look away. The whole thing is so bad that it’s hard to NOT watch. I’m obsessed with how terrible this is lol!

creepiness factor is off the scale,but i still miss it.

So glad they replaced this craptastic excuse of an attraction with Monsters Inc. I never went on the Superstar Limo attraction personally, but just watching the ride through of it is enough to make me ask what the hell was Eisner thinking?

Missed riding that ride while it was open, and I'm not sorry about it. I'm a huge disney geek, but that's pretty awful stuff.

James Bonding Podcast brought me here. What the fuck is this! Walt Disney must be spinning in his cryogenic chamber.

Good lawd... No one along the way said "Wait a minute...this is the worst idea ever." How? How to that not happen?

Eeeech yeah.. I wanted to see what all the negative hype was about..now I get it.

0:48 That laugh 😄

Thanks for posting!

I'm thankful it's now Monster Inc.

It was an opening day ride at California Adventure. It only lasted 11 months before it closed. I glad I did not go on it.

The theme was right. The execution was just so far off.

I’m so glad there’s video of what a douchechilly experience this must have been. Oh my gosh.

"Please be sure to keep your arms, legs, and egos in the limo please!"

That was weird. It doesn't feel like a Disney ride. Thank god for Monsters Inc..

I hope the celebs got to keep the terrifying animatronics of themselves when they emptied the ride out

Wow, that looks like it was a crazy ride! I've never been on it before, but I've been on the Monsters Inc. ride. I probably would like the Monsters Inc. ride more, it feels much more Disney.

I Dont Know Why Everyone Hates This I Mean Its Bad But Its Not That Bad!

Listening to the comments from everyone on board, you can get what it must have been like. Insane this ever existed.

God it looks like that sucked.

I guess the original concept for the ride was that it was going to be a fast thrill ride with you trying to outrun the paparazzi, but that was around the time when princess Diana died in a car crash trying to outrun the paparazzi so they decided that the original concept would be in bad taste so they decided to slow the ride down and removed almost all references to the paparazzi, and also threw in a bunch of celebs that had disney contracts.

Even though it was an obvious failure, I will say ONE positive thing about it.... Disney at least attempted an original story for the attraction. Now everything is just The Ride, which neglects the genius storytelling that Disney Imagineering is capable of.

The ride is now replaced by Mike And Sully To The Rescue

so bummed I missed out on this! monsters is still a great ride tho. but this just fit the whole theme of where the ride is located.

Embarassingly bad. I can't believe this made it out of the board room. I always wondered what the hoopla was about it. Thanks for sharing it.

This was the greatest dark ride in disney history. RIP.

I'm so glad I missed this ride.

2:34 = "Kill me. Please kill me." Yep, that's a pretty perfect description of this abomination of a ride right there.

The agent is one of the Garbage Pail Kids all grown up.

This ride is like a bad acid trip

This has gotta be one of the ONLY Disney rides where I just sit there and am speechless at how horrible it was. Glad Monsters Inc. is in there now, although to be honest, I could handle almost ANYTHING replacing this thing. *shudders*

That couple was most likely the only two riders who actually enjoyed that awful ride during it's brief existence.

Okay I can see why this ride’s retirement was for the best.

I liked this ride. Was trying to remember the name of it. When we went back in 2009 it was gone and it was Monsters Inc.

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Superstar Limo Park: Disney’s California Adventure Opened: 2001 Closed: 2002 Reopened: 2006 [As Monsters inc, Mike & Sulley To The Rescue]

@zenclaw13 Thanks for being so nice! The fresh bread and tortilla's are in the wharf area: the Mission Tortilla Factory and the Boudin Bread Factory. You have to sit through a little tour, but it's worth it. If you don't know where they are, they're at the enterance of the wharf from the Bug's Life side, not the entrance closest to the water, but you can get there by just walking through past the food court too. It's so nice to have a free snack in the middle of the day! Have a great day :D

I was originally going to ride this back in 2001, the opening year of DCA, but now after reading the horror stories and people saying it's the worst Disney ride ever, I'm glad I missed out on it! :)