WALL-E: AXIOM ADVENTURE queue/pre-show and ride treatment by Emily Harley
based on characters and stories by Pixar Animation Studios
WALL-E characters, names, and related indicia are trademarks of Pixar Animation Studios
QUEUE SCENE 1 - INT. AXIOM OVERLOOK The AXIOM Overlook window showing the ramp and below the belts and overhead
is a downward ramp facing a large slanted passenger super-highway. Alongside the window, robots sweep past on conveyor pathways.
QUEUE SCENE 2: INT. AXIOM ULTILIDOR (Includes BnL announcements/robot profiles/and Captain’s directive for us to locate the plant) QUEUE LINE SCENE 3 - INT. TYP-E ROOM (Includes Robot Profiles and ’Captain’s Directive’ Continued) On four large screens above us, we see different angles of active security footage of the repair wards. As we load in, the monitors above us show WALL-E and EVE enter the repair ward and EVE be taken into the back. MONITORS - (INT. ROBOT REPAIR WARD) One of the monitors shows EVE in the repair room. Another shows WALL-E in the holding pen. WALL-E breaks out of the holding pen and rushes to EVE’s aid. WALL-E accidentally blasts open the repair ward, shutting off the laser barriers.... The barriers fall and the damaged robots make a mad dash for the exit, sweeping WALL-E and EVE in the chaotic stampede. (NOTE: THIS ANIMATED SEQUENCE REPEATS IN A CONTINUOUS LOOP) LOAD - TRANSPORTER LOADING BAY From the repair ward, we enter the loading dock, the transporter vehicles are equipped to assist us in our directive to locate the plant. (NOTE: THE TRANSPORT POD IS COMPRISED OF FOUR TRACKLESS RIDE VEHICLES PARKED TOGETHER AT LOAD. EACH RIDE VEHICLE HOLDS SIX PASSENGERS IN TWO ROWS OF THREE.) (CONTINUED)
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The loading dock has two large bay doors, ’ENTRANCE TO GRID’. We climb aboard the transporters to begin our directive to find the plant. INT. ROBOT GRID As we progress along the GREEN PATHWAY NODES of the robot grid, we are joined by the ROGUE ROBOTS who are causing havoc around the grid. WALL-E and EVE (drone vehicles and AA figures) lead us forward and we follow behind them. (NOTE: THE FOUR VEHICLES BREAK FORMATION AND SEPARATE, THE DRONE VEHICLES MOVE BETWEEN US.) We are stopped by a wall of SECUR-T bots. WALL-E, holding the PLANT, cowers behind EVE. The sensors on our Transporters activate and hone in on the plant. A plant icon appears on the on-board screen. The SECUR-T’s droids display changes, ’CAUTION: ROGUE ROBOTS’ and an image of our transporters and WALL-E and EVE appears on their displays and our on-board screens. SECUR-T BOTS HALT. EVE switches to weapons mode and WALL-E waves us down the hallway. WALL-E Go, go, go. As we speed away, EVE’S PLASMA CANNON, fires behind us and the hallway erupts into chaos. INT. AIRLOCK A BAY DOOR opens before us into an AIRLOCK. Our on-board monitors beep, ’SECURITY FORCEFIELDS RAISED’. As the airlock doors open in front of us with a RUSH OF AIRour transporters become WEIGHTLESS and float out of the airlock.
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EXT. OUTSIDE THE AXIOM (NOTE: WALL-E AND EVE APPEAR AS PROJECTIONS IN THIS SPACE) Floating free of the hull of the AXIOM, the expanse of space opens up around us. Drifting further from the hull, the four transporters twirl around each other, floating in space. Overhead, WALL-E suddenly careens past with the force of his fire extinguisher. EVE appears and zooms around us and WALL-E. WALL-E spins with his fire extinguisher and shoots past EVE. Green light fills the transporters, ’DIRECTIVE REACHED. SPECIMEN RECOVERED’. WALL-E AND EVE dance and spiral all around us as the cosmos glitter around us. Our on-board monitors suddenly flash, ’SIGNAL RECEIVED: RETURNING TO AXIOM’. Our transporters are pulled back towards the hull and through an airlock door reading, ’SECURITY PATHWAY’. INT. SECURITY ELEVATOR The airlock doors slam closed behind us and we are enveloped in darkness. Blue emergency lights illuminate overhead in a slow, ominous glow. The transporters jolt and come to a sudden halt. The platform rumbles below, shaking the transporters as the elevator activates. Lights flash past as we quickly rise through the levels of the AXIOM. The elevator stops abruptly and bay doors open to -darkness. A single red optic flicks to life. AUTO appears from the darkness. He rotates slowly, wheel spinning, as he looms over us. His optic switches between passengers, focusing and refocusing. The overhead lights turn green. AUTO The Captain will see you now.
4. AUTO moves aside. A green pathway node appears on the floor below us and our transporters lurch into line and crawl past AUTO as the lights in the AXIOM BRIDGE illuminate. INT. AXIOM BRIDGE The Buy ’n’ Large Jingle crackles to life on-board and the logo pops on our monitors. The Directive A113 clips cuts over the logo. The transporters crawl through the bridge while video plays. ON-BOARD MONITOR: A113 DIRECTIVE SHELBY FORTHRIGHT (CEO OF BUY N LARGE) Got some bad news, um, operation cleanup has, well uh, failed. Would you know it, rising toxicity levels have made life unsustainable on earth. I’m giving override directive A113, go to full auto-pilot, take control of everything and do not return to Earth. I repeat do not return to Earth. INT. AXIOM BRIDGE (NOTE: the vehicles are seperated into indivudal screen chambers. The following scene is entirely digital on this screen.) WALL-E clutches the plant while EVE stands at attention beside the Captain. AUTO lowers and fixes his optic on WALL-E holding the plant. AUTO Now, the plant. CAPTAIN But AUTO, they did it, look at this! Life IS livable on Earth. We can go home! AUTO Not possible. AUTO extends a claw and lunges at WALL-E. The transporters jerk backwards and AUTO whirls to face us.
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AUTO You will be disposed of. His optic extends and sirens blare. Our vehicles lurch forward, backwards, and spin. AUTO New directive. CAPTAIN No! WALL-E rushes forward and grabs a hold of our vehicles The vehicles shoot backwards into darkness and a bay door slams shut. (NOTE: the vehicles remains in front of the media) Overhead sirens blare. SECUR-T BOTS (V.O.) Trash chute engaged. The floor lurches. Once. Twice. And we fall... INT. TRASH CHUTE (NOTE: WIND AND MEDIA SURROUND THE BACKWARDS-TILTED VEHICLES TO SIMULATE FALLING) WALL-E Whoa! Darkness envelops the transporters as we descend. WALL-E falls with us, banging into walls on his way down. ON-BOARD AUDIO (V.O.) Crash imminent. Emergency landingengaged. In a gust of wind, our transporter lands with an abrupt halt. The on-board monitor flicks to life. The plant icon is still illuminated. ON-BOARD AUDIO (V.O.) Directive? The transporter audjusts, leveling itself out and headlights illuminate the other three transporters.
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6. EVE (O.S.) WALL-E!
EVE calls out in the darkness. The trash compactor is suddenly illuminated as giant WALL-E units surround our vehicles. EVE is overhead, clutching a broken WALL-E. She looks at us and lights up. EVE The plant! The giant WALL-E units part. Our transporters engines rev. EVE swoops down beside us. WALL-E waves feebly. She blasts a hole in the trash compactor with her plasma cannon and in a burst of air, we escape the trash compactor. INT. AXIOM ULTILIDORS Our transporters follow green pathways nodes through the ultilidor hallway- monitors at every station show ’CAUTION: ROGUE ROBOTS’ with WALL-E and EVE. INT. LIDO DECK As the transporters enter the lido deck, they immediately tilt and begin to fall to the side where humans are piled together from the severe tilt of the AXIOM. Above on the sky dome monitor, Captain wrestles AUTO for control of the ship, his movements jerking the ship and causing our transporters to spin and fall. We fall to the edge where EVE is holding up two monorails from crushing the humans who have slid to the window of the ship and are trapped. CAPTAIN AUTO, you have been relived of duty! Captain is victorious and spins the wheel, righting the ship and we level out. EVE Plant! Plant! The transporters’ monitors beep and glow green. Our transporters glide from the lido deck and out of LARGE BAY DOORS...
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EXT. EARTH ...And are greeted by sunlight. Our transporters shift to tread, just like WALL-E, and rumble across the rough terrain, past the mountains of trash formed by WALL-E. We roll around one large tower and face WALL-E’s house, all of his trinkets twinkling and ’Hello Dolly’ playing in the background. WALL-E and EVE hold hands in front of WALL-E’s home, waving us goodbye. UNLOAD - AXIOM DOCK Our transporters tread back to the AXIOM dock while ’Put On Your Sunday Clothes’ plays over the on-board audio. We unload as Captain remarks over the AXIOM com-CAPTAIN Think of all the things we can grow! Like pizza!