Explore Zone

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold
• Virtual Jungle Cruise Expedition
• Treasures of the Incas
• Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride
• Hercules in the Underworld.
• Turbostars

The Explore Zone is located on the first floor of Disney Quest. These adventures will take to to mythical and faraway lands, such as the new Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold. The entire family can participate in this adventure as well as The Virtual Jungle Cruise Expedition. Most of the rides/adventures in this zone are relatively tame and can be enjoyed by all family members.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold is an interactive theme park ride based on the classic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.

With themes and inspiration taken from the ride, this virtual interactive experience treats four guests to an overwhelming immersive adventure on the high seas.

With one guest steering at a real helm, the other three guests man six real cannons to defeat virtual enemy pirate ships, forts, sea monsters and ghostly skeletons to collect and defend as much gold as possible in the five minute experience.

Pirates uses wrap-around 3D screens, 3D surround sound, and a motion platform boat to fully engage the guest as a pirate.

In the Virtual Jungle Cruise, guests get into rafts that are positioned in front of large projection screens.

The raft actually sits on an air mattress that moves to the motion of waves, to give you the real feeling of being on a rafting expedition.

Each guest is also handed a paddle. As the ride begins, the air mattress under your raft inflates, which does a good job of simulating water motion. Guests must use their paddles to control the raft.

For example, if the guests on the right side of the boat paddle, your view on the screen will go to the left, and vice versa. You're mission is to see how far down the river you can get before the end.

Your mission begins in a virtual DisneyLand (complete with castle in the background). As you proceed, you go back in time to the land of the dinosaurs. You experience some pretty heavy rapids, going over some waterfalls, through caves, and much more. The raft will respond to everything you see on the screen (including spurts of water where appropriate). All in all...it's great fun.

Here again, Disney proves that they can do ANYTHING. To the right of the Virtual Jungle Cruise, you will notice a bank of monitors with steering wheels.

If you look down as you walk over to them, you will see the floor is glass enclosed, and covers a maze with small, remote controlled vehicles moving about. There are small cameras positioned inside those trucks, and the monitors and steering wheels against the wall control them.

You maneuver your truck around the maze in an effort to find Inca treasure. When you find treasure, you simply pull up to it to collect it. This attraction also issues tickets which can be redeemed for prizes.

A range of adventure awaits in the Explore Zone, a portal to experience where time is no barrier. Navigate a primeval world in "Virtual Jungle Cruise," where dangers include hungry dinosaurs and a cataclysmic comet. Drive a camera-equipped, radio-controlled car on a "Treasures of the Incas" hunt beneath the glass floor of Explore itself. Fly through the streets of Agrabah on a hunt to release the Genie in "Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride." Join Hercules and his friends and battle Hades in "Hercules in the Underworld." and aboard the "Turbostars," up to 24 guests at a time are transported into the Comic Book World to fight supervillains.

The Explore Zone contains games that are goal-oriented and require guests to cooperate with one another. In the Virtual Jungle Cruise, four guests at a time climb aboard a real rubber raft that floats on a motion base made up of giant inflatable pillows. They paddle past dinosaurs and over waterfalls, going wherever they want in a Cretaceous Era water park.

Also in this zone are: Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride, where guests wearing HMDs fly magic carpets through Agrabah; Hercules in the Underworld where guests, as Hercules and friends, battle Hades for Olympus; and Treasure of the Incas, where guests drive remote, tele-present cars through an Inca-themed maze in search of treasures.

Jump into a virtual adventureland where you're immersed in exotic and ancient locales. Become a plundering pirate on a quest for gold on Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold. Grab a paddle and shoot the rapids on a Virtual Jungle Cruise, then fly through the streets of Agrabah on Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride.