When it comes to Cars, the Pixar franchise is the most successful of all the Disney film properties in the merchandising category. Now Disneyland is banking on the popularity of this film franchise with Cars Land, a new $1.1 billion theme park in Disney's California Adventure that features a trio of new rides that immerse players in the computer-generated film world. Larry the Cable Guy, who is featured in two of the new rides, talks about bringing Larry to life in the video games, movies and theme park attractions from the grand opening of Cars Land in this exclusive video interview.
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John Gaudiosi
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John Gaudiosi has been covering videogames for the past 20 years for outlets like The Washington Post, CNET, Wired Magazine and CBS.com. He has focused on the convergence of entertainment and videogames for outlets like Video Business, Home Media Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Gamerlive.TV and is also a freelance game columnist for Reuters and writes for outlets like Forbes.com, NVISION, Official PlayStation Magazine, EGM Now, Geek Monthly, PrimaGames.com, and Yahoo! Games. John also serves as the video game expert for NBC in Washington D.C. and has produced videogame documentaries for The History Channel and Starz Entertainment. John was named one of the Top 50 Game Journalists in the world by Next-Gen.biz in 2007. He is the co-author of Scholastic Books' How to Get into Videogames, Prima Publishing's Madden: Twenty Years of Videogame Football and Electronic Arts: The Official History.