[Publisher’s Note: Because this story is being published on April 1 and we’re still getting hate mail over fooling people with last year’s April Fool story, we’d like to definitively state up front that this story is NOT, repeat NOT, an April Fool story, but an actual look at some new technology ideas coming to the Disney parks and resorts in the next couple of years.]
There has been a lot of discussion recently among Disney park fans around interactive queues and “Next Gen” technology. People are excited about the latest developments and about what’s coming next. Of course, high tech/interactive gadgetry has been in attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World for some time. Originally the shooting galleries involved clay and paper targets that were repainted each night. In the 1980s, that changed when shooting galleries started to use infrared technology.