Alien Swirling Saucers is getting a brand-new soundtrack on Friday, September 25, and the DJ is a frog. Lilypad, the smart tablet character from Toy Story 5, is taking over the music in Toy Story Land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Imagineers are calling the new version Alien Swirling Saucers: Lilypad’s Jams.
Lilypad is a spirited, frog-shaped smart tablet on a mission to connect friends, and she’s using her tech to pull the toys together around one playlist. She connects to the internet to remix and mashup tunes across styles and genres. She’s joining Woody, Jessie, and Buzz Lightyear in the backyard.
What songs are in Lilypad’s Jams?
The lineup mixes reimagined Toy Story classics with original songs written just for Alien Swirling Saucers. “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” “We Belong Together,” and “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” all get new swirling energy.
The new songs are where it gets fun. One is “Pizza Planet Promo,” the in-story theme song of the pizza arcade. Another is “Spin It Back, Lilypad,” a tribute to the newest toy in the backyard.
To record it, Imagineers went to Nashville and worked with world-class musicians across pop, country, EDM, and alt-rock.
“We wanted to think about the music in a completely new way, taking beloved songs from the Toy Story films, and create catchy new original songs, that are singable, sincere and a little cheesy, as one is about Pizza Planet,” said Thomas Niederhiser, Senior Creative Producer at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Do you have to ride to hear it?
No. Lilypad is DJing for all honorary toys in the Toy Story Land backyard, whether or not you’re riding. Offboard, she hypes and introduces tracks from her playlist and fills the space between songs.
That includes guessing which toy she’s doodling on her drawing app, helping her unscramble puzzles, and watching “home videos” she’s recorded of Toy Story pals. Toys like Partysaurus Rex get more playtime once Lilypad is on the 1s and 2s.
“Collaborating with our partners at Pixar Animation Studios to write for these characters and expand their stories is just pure joy,” said Geoff Line, Senior Story Lead at Walt Disney Imagineering. “We played with these toys as kids. Now we get to play with them as Imagineers. It doesn’t get better than that.”
Toy Story 5 starts streaming on Disney+ September 23, two days before Lilypad starts her set in the backyard.
Source: Disney Parks Blog
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