A Demolition Derby Queen Rolls Into Frontierland: Miss Fritter Ride Revealed for Magic Kingdom's Piston Peak
A model unveiled in the Walt Disney Imagineering pavilion at D23 has revealed the second attraction for Piston Peak National Park at Magic Kingdom: a family spinner themed to Miss Fritter, the demolition derby school bus from Cars 3. The ride appears similar to Cars Race Rally at Disneyland Paris and joins the previously announced off-road rally race ride in the Frontierland land.
The second attraction coming to Piston Peak National Park at Magic Kingdom has been revealed, and it belongs to Miss Fritter, the mud-caked demolition derby champion from Cars 3. A detailed model on display in the Walt Disney Imagineering pavilion at D23 showed the ride for the first time, and it points to a family spinner in the style of Cars Race Rally at Disneyland Paris.
Key Details
- What: A second attraction for Piston Peak National Park, themed to Miss Fritter of Cars 3
- Where: The Frontierland expansion area at Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World
- Ride type: A family-friendly spinning flat ride, similar to Cars Race Rally at Disneyland Paris
- How it was revealed: A scale model of Piston Peak shown at D23 in the Walt Disney Imagineering pavilion
- Also in the land: An off-road rally race ride with a new single-rail ride vehicle
The Buzz
- Disney had only said the second Piston Peak ride would be aimed at younger children, so the model turning up at D23 answered a question fans have been asking since the land was announced.
- Miss Fritter is a cult favorite. A school bus with a saw blade and a stop-sign tail is not the character most guests expected to anchor a kiddie ride, and that contrast has fans talking.
- Piston Peak is part of the most consequential change Frontierland has ever seen, so every new detail about the land gets picked apart immediately.
Who Miss Fritter is
Miss Fritter is the undefeated queen of the Thunder Hollow demolition derby in Cars 3, a repurposed school bus covered in mud who hunts down opponents with a spinning saw blade and a razor-sharp stop sign for a tail. Voiced by Lea DeLaria in the 2017 film, she started as a mid-movie obstacle for Lightning McQueen and Cruz Ramirez and ended up one of the most quoted characters in the trilogy. She even headlined her own short, Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool.
Until now, Disney had shared only that the second Piston Peak attraction would be geared toward younger children and built for the whole family. The model shown at D23 settles it: the ride is hers.
What the model shows
Based on the layout visible in the Imagineering pavilion, the attraction looks like a close cousin of Cars Race Rally, the flat ride that opened at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris in 2021. On that ride, car-shaped vehicles spin in circles while sliding between rotating turntables, a whirling pattern somewhere between a teacup ride and a figure-eight race. A demolition derby is a natural fit for that ride system, since the vehicles constantly look like they are about to collide without ever touching.
Guests shared video tours of the Imagineering pavilion on social media within hours of the doors opening, and the Miss Fritter figure on the model is unmistakable, saw blade and all.
The rest of Piston Peak National Park
Piston Peak National Park is the Cars-themed land under construction in the Frontierland area of Magic Kingdom, inspired by the Pixar films and by real national parks, particularly the Rocky Mountains, Yosemite, and Yellowstone. The land will include a visitor lodge, a Ranger HQ, and walking trails, all set inside the Disney and Pixar Cars universe.
The headline attraction, announced earlier, is an off-road rally race through the park's wilderness. It uses a new type of ride vehicle that travels along a single-rail track and rolls over raised obstacles, with a range of motion Imagineers have compared to DINOSAUR at Disney's Animal Kingdom and Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland. That ride is the thrill anchor; the Miss Fritter spinner gives the land something for guests too small for it.
The land also introduces an original character, Ranger J. Autobahn Woodlore, a car who pays homage to classic Disney cartoons. The name nods to J. Audubon Woodlore, the put-upon park ranger who sparred with Humphrey the Bear in Disney shorts of the 1950s.
Why fans are buzzing
Two-attraction lands live or die on whether the second ride feels like an afterthought, and picking Miss Fritter suggests this one will not. She is a character with genuine personality rather than a generic race car, and pairing her demolition derby with a spinner gives families with small children a reason to spend real time in Piston Peak while older kids ride the rally racer. Construction walls are already up in Frontierland, and with the ride system apparently borrowed from a proven Paris attraction, this is one project where fans can picture the finished product before Disney confirms an opening date.