Puppet Pals 4-D

Puppet Pals 4-D (also known as Puppet Pals 3-D for the DVD release and The Revenge of Rosie Storm for home media and streaming releases) is a computer-animated 4D film, based on the Puppet Pals franchise created by 20th Century Fox Animation. It also is a 4D simulator ride attraction with motion-based effects and water sprayers located at several Disney theme parks around the world. It is currently shown at Walt Disney Studios Park and Tokyo DisneySea, and previously in Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World and Disney California Adventure at Disneyland Resort, where it closed on September 3, 2018 in Anaheim, California to make way for the Fox Animation Theatre attraction while the one in Orlando closed on January 31, 2020 to make way for Twentieth Toons: Funhouse Factory, scheduled to open in fall 2022.

Main film

 * Jesse McCartney as Nathan Ritter, a pampered man.
 * Anne Hathaway as Princess Joanna, a beautiful young princess.
 * Josh Peck as Toby, a geeky lizard.
 * Sandra Bullock as Rosie Storm
 * Chris Wedge as Slippy the Dog
 * Cedric the Entertainer as John, one of Rosie Storm's henchmen.

Pre-show

 * Seth Rogen as Jeremy Johnson, an lazy guy from Tinywood.
 * Sarah Vowell as Natalia Miller, a cheerful and kind teenage girl who is the youngest member of the Puppet Pals.
 * John Goodman as Mayor Adam, the mayor of Tinywood.
 * Matthew Broderick as Captain Matt, the leader of the Puppet Pals.
 * Tom Kenny as The Magic Ball
 * Jason Lee as Rob Storm, Rosie Storm's son.
 * Patton Oswalt as Steve Smiley, a magical talking yellow round creature.

History
On January 19, 2007, Disney entered into an exclusive, long-term licensing agreement with 20th Century Fox for the worldwide theme park rights to the Puppet Pals film. Disney agreed to pay Fox a licensing fee and a percentage of merchandise sales. On November 9, 2007, Tom Fitzgerald of Walt Disney Imagineering, stated that the new screen-based attraction would be Disney Parks' first all-digital 3D experience, where unlike other 3D experiences at the parks at the time (such as Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, Mickey's PhilharMagic, Muppet*Vision 3D, Dusk and Dawn: The 3-D Darkness Adventure, and It's Tough to Be a Bug!) which all used 3D 70mm film projection, the attraction would empoly the use of 3D high-definition digital projection. The newly constructed building for the California Adventure installation is inspired by Mission revival architecture and harkens back to the Golden Age of Hollywood’s Art Deco period of the 1920s, including a box office ticket seller booth.

Disney Parks have implemented the movie into four of their theme parks. The first park to show the film was in Disney California Adventure at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, on April 18, 2008. This was followed by Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World on May 23, 2008. Following the instant success of the attraction in California and Florida, two additional venues were later announced for Tokyo DisneySea at Tokyo Disney Resort and Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris.

On November 20, 2009, Puppet Pals 4-D opened at Walt Disney Studios Park in the Production Courtyard area of the park. The attraction opened in the American Waterfront area of Tokyo DisneySea on June 12, 2010. The Tokyo location also replaced Dusk and Dawn 3-D which closed on October 10, 2008.

The Florida location hosted a 10th anniversary party on May 25, 2018 with a giant birthday cake, along with appearances from Nathan Ritter, Princess Joanna, and Toby the Lizard.

Closures
Disney California Adventure announced that their version would close on Labor Day, September 3, 2018. It was later announced that the Fox Animation Theatre (later titled 20th Century Animation Theatre) would replace the attraction. On September 16, 2019, Walt Disney World announced their version would close at Disney's Hollywood Studios on January 31, 2020 to make way for "Twentieth Toons: Funhouse Factory".

Other releases
On November 17, 2009, the attraction was released on DVD with the original Puppet Pals film as Puppet Pals 3-D with both 3-D and 2-D versions included. The release included four pairs of green/magenta 3-D glasses. The DVD included an anaglyph 3-D version along with a conventional version without 3-D effects. The DVD release also included a preview of Puppet Pals 2. It was later included in the Fox Animation Short Films Collection on Blu-ray/DVD on October 16, 2012, being titled "The Revenge of Rosie Storm". In November 2019, the short film was released on Disney+.

A comic adaptation of the film was featured as issue #1 of the Puppet Pals comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics.

Ride overview
The attraction incorporates a 70-foot tall sliver screen, two polarized Sony SXRD digital projectors, and physical 4D effects that includes articulating motion seats which tilt forward, backward, vibrate, and pivot up and drop down during the show. Water sprayers are attached to the back of each seat, to spray the face of the rider sitting behind it. More water sprayers on the ceiling, spray riders seated in the front row. Multiple LED lighting effects are used, such as projected images of a moving waterfall on the walls, or an flickering strobe light. Air blasters on the front of every seat blow air against riders neck and head. Leg ticklers are also used to simulate spiders crawling across the theater. Scents were also used during the show. The main show's sound system features a 40,000-watt Dolby 6.1 surround sound system driven by 156 speakers and four custom engineered JBL subwoofers that shook the auditorium.

Stationary seats, which do not move during the film, are marked and available for those who want to watch the film without the motion or vibration. Every other effect is available for the stationary seats.

Queue
Guests wait outside the attraction (housed in a 1920s Golden Age art deco movie theater in California, Rosie's palace in Tokyo, and in an soundstage in Florida and Paris). The queue features dozens of television monitors that show various clips from the first Puppet Pals film running on a loop. A variety of posters are on display in the queue are fake advertisements for attractions in Rosie Storm's palace. Guests will then enter a prison in Rosie's palace where the storyline for the attraction will be revealed.

Pre-show
Participants are given their "Torture Goggles" (3D glasses) as they enter a prison-like room with two giant television screens on either side. While loading the pre-show area, cast members commonly make jokes to encourage people to move closer to each other in order to fit the capacity audience in the room as the television screens display facts about the city of Tinywood. The pre-show area also included a scrolling LED monitor which displayed various messages and jokes that interacted with guests while counting down to showtime.

The pre-show begins with Mayor Adam welcoming the guests to the amazing city of Tinywood and showing the history of the city and the wonderful and peaceful lives of the citizens, before the video feed is hijacked by Rob Storm. More coming soon!

Spin-off attraction
In Walt Disney World, Tinywood Emporium is a meet and greet attraction and gift shop that opened in May 2008 alongside the film. The attraction consists of guests walking up to meet Nathan Ritter, Princess Joanna, and Toby the Lizard. The guests have their picture taken with Nathan, Joanna, and Toby. These photos can then be purchased in the gift shop.

Trivia

 * The attraction is set between Puppet Pals and Puppet Pals 2.
 * The U.S. and Paris attractions were originally sponsored by Kodak, from 2008 to 2013.
 * The attraction opened a month before The Simpsons Ride, an another 20th Century Fox franchise-themed ride, opened to the public at Universal theme parks.
 * The Tokyo DisneySea location's facade is a replica of Rosie's palace, seen in the original Puppet Pals film.

Tropes
Main article: Puppet Pals 4-D/Tropes