Theme park rides are crazy expensive, but do you know which ones are the most expensive at Disneyland? We have the details on them and are ready to share!
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
Star Wars: Rise Of The Resistance is a long and very detailed ride in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland. This ride cost an estimated $500 million. Some of the pars that stand out on this ride are the room of Storm Troopers and the room with massive At-Ats
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Radiator Springs Racers
Radiator Springs Racers is a very popular ride in Cars Land in California Adventure. This ride was estimated to cost about $200 million. It’s so fun with its high speed, characters from the Cars movie, and more.
Want to know more about this attraction? Check out these 8 fun facts about Radiator Springs Racers, including hidden Mickeys, the ride queue, and what determines which car wins the race.
Indiana Jones Adventure
Indiana Jones Adventure is located in Adventureland in Disneyland. It’s a wild and fun thrill ride that cost Disney $100 million to build.
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage used to be a ride called Submarine Voyage. It was reimagined to a Finding Nemo theme, which brought the cost of the ride to about $100 million.
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is also one of the Disneyland attractions that you won’t find at the other Disney parks. See the full list of Disneyland rides that aren’t at other Disney parks.
Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!
This is the most popular ride in Avengers Campus in California Adventure park. It cost $100 million to build. It used to be a different ride, Tower of Tower, then was reimagined to fit the Avengers theme.
Toy Story Midway Mania!
This Toy Story themed ride is found along Pixar Pier in California Adventure. It cost about $80 million to build. It’s a 4D game where you take shots at moving targets.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is a very new ride to Disneyland. It used to be Splash Mountain. This ride cost about $142 million to build.
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
This is another ride in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland. It’s an interactive ride aboard the Millennium Falcon. It cost $55 million to build.
Incredicoaster
Incredicoaster is a big roller coaster in California Adventure park. Its theming is from the Incredibles movie. It used to be a ride called California Screamin’. Building Incredicoaster cost $50 million.
Space Mountain
Space Mountain is such an iconic Disneyland ride! It cost $20 million for Disney to build this Tomorrowland attraction.
If you’re looking for ways to spend less time waiting for Disneyland rides, Space Mountain also has a single rider line.
Disneyland Resort Ride Cost FAQs
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is widely reported to be one of the most expensive Disney attractions ever built, with estimates putting its cost at roughly $450 million to $500 million. Disney has not publicly confirmed an official construction budget for the attraction.
Radiator Springs Racers was reported to have cost about $200 million to build. The attraction opened in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure in 2012.
Indiana Jones Adventure was reported to have cost approximately $100 million to build when it opened at Disneyland in 1995.
Disney has not publicly released an official cost for the Disneyland version of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. A commonly reported estimate puts the combined cost of the Disneyland and Walt Disney World versions at about $142 million, or roughly $71 million per attraction.
Disney generally does not publicly release the final construction budgets for individual attractions. Many ride costs found online are therefore based on newspaper reports, building permits, industry estimates, or other publicly available information.
There isn’t an official Disney ranking of attraction construction costs because Disney does not generally disclose those budgets. Rise of the Resistance is widely estimated to be among the most expensive, with reported estimates around $450 million to $500 million.
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