At Disney, vid games are along for the ride

June 13, 2007 Fitzgerald, who spoke Monday during a news conference in Anaheim, said Toy Story Mania will feature a variety of video game challenges accompanied by characters from the "Toy Story" films, including Mr. Potato Head, who plays a carnival barker that shrinks a vehicle down to the size of a toy. [...] there's a generation of park visitors now who have grown up playing video games, so we're taking things beyond the scope of Buzz Lightyear's Space Rangers Spin and Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters. We've raised the bar, and we're using digital media to create these challenges, just like you'd see in a video game.

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