Rocket Rods, Amusement ride in Tomorrowland, Disneyland, Anaheim, United States

Rocket Rods was a high-speed attraction in Tomorrowland that carried passengers on an elevated track system through the entire area, completing the circuit in three minutes. Each vehicle held five people seated in a single row one behind another.

Rocket Rods opened on May 22, 1998, as the centerpiece of the New Tomorrowland and took over the PeopleMover track, which had closed on August 21, 1995. It shut down indefinitely on September 25, 2000, for a refurbishment that was never carried out, and in April 2001 the Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register reported it would not reopen.

The queue showed films about transportation development that Walt Disney had originally introduced, and presented technical drawings of older park attractions. Visitors saw how the vision of future mobility changed over the decades.

Riders boarded five-seat vehicles at an elevated station in the centre of Tomorrowland, reached by stairs circling the tower that held the platform and the Observatron. A start light ran red to yellow to green before the launch. The circuit reused the PeopleMover track, whose flat, unbanked turns forced hard braking before each corner; the 16-minute PeopleMover route was covered in three minutes.

The ride was accompanied by electronic music arrangements by Steve Bartek, including a version of Born to Be Wild and a specially composed title song. This music emphasized the speed rush of the attraction.