RIDEMAKERZ at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney

RIDEMAKERZ—FINALLY A SHOP FOR MEN AND BOYS
by Guest Blogger Alpha Gollihugh

As we were visiting in Downtown Disney, California last week, we discovered something new, a shop for men and boys. How many times have you dragged your boys and men through the “cutsie” shops in DTD, and they are just waiting to get to dinner or wanting to visit the next park? Here is a shop that they may actually LIKE to visit while you are shopping.

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This is the shop that used to have all the villages and cute figurines and decorative items. Well, they are gone and “souped up cars” are now the line of merchandise.

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The doors are wide open, and a cute salesman is there to help you fulfill your dreams of miniature hot rods. Step in and choose a car body, and then go wild choosing all the different chassis parts, wheels, decorations and decals. When you have chosen your main parts, you come to the assembly line to power screw them into place. Some pieces are quite tiny and smaller children may require an older helper to attach them.

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More body parts, finishes, models, and posters.

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Buckets of tires of varying sizes and prices.

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Here is one of the finished cars with spoiler, special engine, top rack and the special adaption to make it a remote controlled car. For the younger ones, this last step can be left off and it will be a push, or display car. They have cars that you can try, and the boys we saw were having a great time.

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So here you go guys, something to do while the women discover all the other joys in Downtown Disney.



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Laura Gilbreath is a native of San Diego, CA. She has been making the trek up Interstate 5 to Disneyland since she was a small child and terrified of talking tikis and hitchhiking ghosts. She and her husband Lee enjoy trips to Disneyland and Walt Disney World, as well as sailings on the Disney Cruise Line.

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10 Replies to “RIDEMAKERZ at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney”

  1. The first and last comments here are completely inaccurate. This place IS designed for kids, have you NOT noticed this? I have 4 boys and we have visited every shop and have a total of 17 cars now. The parts are plastic yes, if they were metal it would add to the weight of the car slowing performance, doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out. We have a total of 2 parts break, but it was because they were being abused. I would say the average price per car we have built is right around the $80 range, but you can go higher if your not paying attention.

  2. I visited the ridemakerz store that is in branson at the landing. I have to agree with the first commentor, i was letdown by the material they use for the cars and more importantly the high prices they wanted for the parts.

    Bottom line you can either have a nonRC or RC, then you chose car or truck, then wheels, etc. If you want a base RC its around $50. Honestly you can find better, cooler rc cars through amazon or toysrus.

  3. We have visited one of these before and for a car with remote control and a couple of extras we paid a little over $120 for the car. The remote control ads a lot to the cost but so do little things like different sz tires or rims and such.

  4. I live in Indianapolis and a couple of the malls here have Ridemakerz shops in them. They seem to be getting popular.

  5. Too bad they only have this at DTD in California so far. We are visiting WDW in May, and I know that my son would LOVE to build his own tricked out auto! I’ll have to keep my ears open for a store at WDW in the coming months.

  6. Saw this in Myrtyle Beach 2 years ago in August and told my husband, Disney will have something like this next year. Well I was over a year wrong–but GREAT idea!!! Finally, something for the “boys” my son is 16 so a little too old, but still a great idea!

  7. I was there in September for the 1/2 marathon, and decided to stop by the location to take a look. I was actually disappointed. I was expecting a wide range of “performance,” not just styles. What I mean is, you can get all kind of remote control cars. You can get basic ones, like at a local big box store that go pretty good, or you can get ones from hobby stores that can go as fast as real cars! While I didn’t expect to find the really fast cars, I did expect to find a nice range. But I was really disappointed because they were all about the same performance wise, but the most disappointing part was that the accessories were a very cheap plastic, and they looked it. The wife and I walked in, and walked out, within about 2 minutes. I was surprised that a store in that location had some pretty cheap products. In that sense, I think it’s great for kids, but definitely not adults.