Disney reveals both Piston Peak rides for Magic Kingdom’s Cars land
Disney announced the second attraction for Piston Peak National Park at D23: Miss Fritter’s Daredevil Spin-Along, featuring a school-bus-sized animatronic. Cars Ridge Run Rally also got details, including a ride vehicle Imagineers say genuinely drives off-road.
At the Horizons: A Carousel of Progress showcase at D23 on August 15, Walt Disney World creative VP Michael Hundgen and Imagineer Jason Grandt revealed the second attraction coming to Piston Peak National Park in Frontierland, plus new details on the first.
Miss Fritter’s Daredevil Spin-Along is the new one
The second ride is Miss Fritter’s Daredevil Spin-Along, making its public debut at the showcase.
It’s built around Miss Fritter, the “Diva of Demolition” from Cars 3, and Hundgen described her as a “huge school-bus-sized animatronic” hosting what he called a stampeding bash at her wildest demolition derby yet.
Cars Ridge Run Rally got a name and a route
The land’s headliner, previously announced without a title, is officially Cars Ridge Run Rally.
Grandt framed it as a hunt for “the wildest racer in the wheelderness,” competing for the “fastest lap in the west.” The course runs through national park terrain and climbs Piston Peak itself, topping out at an icy, snow-covered summit that Grandt said he’s most looking forward to seeing at night.
From there, riders drop into a camelback descent, cross a geyser field, and circle a geyser named Old Tankfull before the sprint to the finish. Lightning McQueen and Mater call the race live on Racing Sports Network at the end.
Fans at D23 got a look at the whole thing through a 225-square-foot scale model at the Imagineering pavilion.
The ride vehicle actually drives off-road
Cars Ridge Run Rally debuts a completely new ride vehicle, and Hundgen said it’s designed not to simulate an off-road car but to be one.
“You’ll feel every bump, drop, and rock because this vehicle’s tires and suspension are truly driving over and reacting to them,” he said.
If it works as described, that’s a genuinely new ride system rather than a reskin of an existing one.
Trees will screen the rally from the rest of Frontierland and Liberty Square. Mountains rise along a waterway across from Grizzly Hall, and geysers spread from Big Thunder Mountain into the rally trails.
Disney calls the whole project part of the largest expansion in Magic Kingdom history, with Villains Land going in beyond Big Thunder.
No opening date was announced for either ride. Construction is described as fully underway, which anyone who’s walked past the drained riverbed already knew.
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Hat Tips:
Disney Parks Blog (August 15, 2026), the Miss Fritter’s Daredevil Spin-Along reveal, the Cars Ridge Run Rally name and route, the Hundgen quote on the ride vehicle, the Parkitecture detail, and the scale model
WDW News Today and Attractions Magazine (June and July 2025), the July 7, 2025 closures of Rivers of America, Tom Sawyer Island, and the Liberty Belle Riverboat, and the railroad shuttle service change
Disney Tourist Blog (November 2025), the full demolition of Tom Sawyer Island
MickeyVisit (April 2026), the Liberty Belle’s preservation backstage and the surviving load station in concept art