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How Route 66 inspired Disney's 'Cars' and Cars Land — and the ride that never came to be
Former Imagineers talk about the roadside attractions in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas and California that sparked ideas for Disney's famous fictional town of Radiator Springs.
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Former Imagineers talk about the roadside attractions in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas and California that sparked ideas for Disney's famous fictional town of Radiator Springs.
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According to Los Angeles Times’s linked item, How Route 66 inspired Disney’s ‘Cars’ and Cars Land — and the ride that never came to be, Former Imagineers talk about the roadside attractions in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas and California that sparked ideas for Disney’s famous fictional town of Radiator Springs.
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