Autopia, Race track attraction at Disneyland Park, Hong Kong
Autopia was a ride at Hong Kong Disneyland where visitors steered small cars along a fixed track. The route passed through artificial landscapes with alien scenery and jungle elements.
The ride opened in summer 2006 as part of the original park and closed on June 11, 2016. It was later replaced by a Marvel-themed attraction.
The name is a portmanteau of "automobile utopia", coined in the 1920s and later used by critic Reyner Banham in his 1971 book on Los Angeles. At Hong Kong Disneyland the cars ran on electricity rather than petrol, and the layout differed from one lane to the next.
A center rail guides the cars along the track regardless of steering input, and brakes apply automatically when the driver releases the gas pedal. Drivers too short to reach the pedal ride with a taller companion. The Disneyland version closed from September 1999 to June 2000 to absorb the neighbouring Fantasyland Autopia and lengthen its course.
Hong Kong's Autopia was the only version whose cars ran on electricity rather than petrol; the others used gasoline engines. It closed on 11 June 2016 to make way for a Marvel-themed attraction.
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