Tokyo Disneyland’s Sugar Rush Ride Opens April 15, 2027

The short answer: Guests will join Ralph and Vanellope to restore candy creatures in Sugar Rush: Sweet Rescue, opening April 15, 2027, at Tokyo Disneyland.

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1. From arcade outsiders to rescue partners
2. Sugar Rush beyond the ride

Ralph and Vanellope will need more than spectators to save Sugar Rush. When Sugar Rush: Sweet Rescue opens April 15, 2027, at Tokyo Disneyland, guests will join their team with vehicle-mounted scanners, restoring candy creatures and earning points along the way. It will be the world’s first attraction themed to Wreck-It Ralph.

The trouble starts with King Candy. Plotting to take over the video-game world, he has transformed Sugar Rush’s sweets—including gummies, lollipops, bubble gum and ice cream—into Sugar Bugs programmed to eat the kingdom. The rescue mission is to turn those creatures back into their original cute forms before they destroy it.

That makes restoration, rather than destruction, the object of the game. Riders will work together using scanners installed in their vehicles, with points awarded for factors including the types and number of Sugar Bugs they restore.

Results will appear on the vehicle’s screens when the adventure ends, and remain available for a limited time afterward in the Tokyo Disney Resort App. Ride photos will also be added automatically to the app’s My Photos section, where guests can purchase them.

From arcade outsiders to rescue partners

The setting carries a story of its own. In Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph leaves his assigned role as a video-game villain to prove he can be a hero. Sugar Rush is home to Vanellope, a racer whose programming glitch makes her an outsider among the other competitors. The attraction puts visitors alongside those characters, giving them a shared task inside her candy-colored game.

The film’s voice work helped shape that partnership. In a 2012 NPR interview, Ralph’s voice actor, John C. Reilly, said recording with Sarah Silverman, who voices Vanellope, helped build the characters’ bickering, big-brother–little-sister rapport.

I think you get a lot when you put people in the same room and they can actually look at each other when they're communicating. John C. Reilly, speaking to NPR’s Rachel Martin in 2012 about recording Wreck-It Ralph

Silverman also described finding a distinctive sound for Vanellope. In a 2012 interview with ShockYa, she recalled raising her voice’s pitch, then adding what she called a “permanent cold” to give the character a scrappier edge.

King Candy brings another connection to the film’s voice work. In a 2026 Disney interview, Alan Tudyk recalled that the monarch was his first voice role for Disney. His initial approach drew on Ed Wynn, before other influences helped shape the character’s voice.

Sugar Rush beyond the ride

Next door, Pixel Prism will open alongside the attraction on April 15. Designed around a digital-marketplace concept, the shop will extend the game-world theme through pixel-patterned flooring and an illuminated pixel structure at its entrance. Its merchandise will include toys inspired by the ride’s scanners.

Nearby, Popping Station is scheduled to open March 17 overlooking Tomorrowland Plaza. The new stand will serve Sugar-Lime Popcorn, a sweet-and-tart flavor inspired by the Sugar Bugs. The flavor will also be sold at popcorn wagons throughout Tokyo Disneyland.