EPCOT Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot

Rich Brownn

Rich Brownn

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Bender123 said:
Epcot was the start of the indoor queue...Its sort of the only one that always did (save SE)...

Im trying to recall opening day/early days attractions that had an indoor queue for MK and can only think of Country Bears, If You Had Wings, Fantasyland Theater, Pirates and Space Mountain...

Epcot was all indoor except SE.

Studios had GMR and Muppets inside, but everything else outside.

For some reason I read through my list and realize that Epcot seems to be the one that generated the indoor queue fallacy for WDW...Unique again, but the pavilion designs were meant to be inclusive of all aspects of the theme, so an outdoor queue would not make sense for any of those.
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Pirates had an indoor queue, and was designed because of the issues they had with all the outdoor queues. That was way before EPCOT opened. (Also the queues for Energy was outside, the majority of the queue for WoM was outside but under cover. )
 
Bender123

Bender123

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Rich Brownn said:
Pirates had an indoor queue, and was designed because of the issues they had with all the outdoor queues. That was way before EPCOT opened. (Also the queues for Energy was outside, the majority of the queue for WoM was outside but under cover. )
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Im never really sure how to categorize the "queue" for shows like Bears, Muppets, Mission to Mars, etc...They were more holding pen than line.

Obviously, there was outdoor line portions for these, but they weren't really used except in extreme situations.

For 95% of WDW trips, the line was "inside" for this purpose.

The case Im making is that the vast majority of MK lines were outside...Indoor lines weren't really an extensive effort until Epcot.
 
mousetrap rick

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I would be excited about the idea of having "pretend" service doors and things to cover up secrets if they were well integrated and themed accordingly.
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Josh Hendy

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mousetrap rick said:
I would be excited about the idea of having "pretend" service doors and things to cover up secrets if they were well integrated and themed accordingly.
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What if it had "Fromagerie" painted on it? Lol.

I keep going back to this but in any of the Harry Potter lands it seems to be difficult to find any "bad show". Such as bad sightlines (with one or two exceptions), visible backstage infrastructure or broken effects. Disney treats bad show as "good enough" and there are examples of it posted here almost every day. And it's not like HP fans are more demanding than Disney fans ... it's 100% corporate culture.

I don't think this one is a huge deal. It's not as bad as leaving important ride effects broken and unfixed for 10 years plus. But Walt ... or Universal ... would have redesigned that facade to incorporate the door in an unobtrusive way instead of saying, meh, we'll plant a couple of trees in front.

If the ride building is going to be a huge, green, box from several viewpoints including within the park then that's a big deal.
 
disneyC97

disneyC97

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Tiki Room had/has the cover on the preshow, the Main Street Station has more cover than Disneyland, plus IASW and the FL dark ride queues were under cover from day 1.
 
Rich Brownn

Rich Brownn

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disneyC97 said:
Tiki Room had/has the cover on the preshow, the Main Street Station has more cover than Disneyland, plus IASW and the FL dark ride queues were under cover from day 1.
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My understand IASW wasn't inside/covered because of rain, but because of how the area is designed (it's ground level, versus rooftop). Also the design is different (flooded building vis trough in a warehouse). Remember these are the same people who didn't put a roof over the teacups.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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MikeTaylorSound said:
Rat building is on the new park map for F&G.
SSE is closing May 26.
I'm hoping for soft opening days the week before...
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I had a trip scheduled to start 3/30. With WDW closing 3/15-3/31, I rescheduled my trip to start 5/25. My first day is planned for Epcot. I'll be sure to get that FP for SSE before closure.
 
CastAStone

CastAStone

5th gate? Just build a new resort Bob.
JohnD said:
Anyone know when in the "summer", Rat is scheduled to open? I rescheduled my March trip due to the WDW March closure for May 25-29.
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It had seemed like the plan was late May. It is unclear at this point if the park closure will accelerate or delay the initial timeline.
 
JohnD

JohnD

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Castastone said:
It had seemed like the plan was late May. It is unclear at this point if the park closure will accelerate or delay the initial timeline.
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Probably delay. My first initial thought was the construction workers could go work unimpeded by guests. But then it occurred to me: the virus doesn't care if they're guests, CMs, or construction workers. They would still be around each other. So everything, including construction, may stop.
 
CraftyFox

CraftyFox

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I know I’m a little late to the party, but the yellow building is still extremely fake-looking. I’m shocked they still didn’t refurbish it further. It’s like the McMansion interpretation of “French architecture”. The disproportionally large arch on the side of the roof supported by those skinny little columns reads more 80’s postmodern than anything else. I really don’t understand why it wasn’t renovated further.
 
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Timothy_Q

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CraftyFox said:
I know I’m a little late to the party, but the yellow building is shockingly fake-looking. It’s like the 90’s McMansion interpretation of “French architecture”. The disproportionally large arch on the side of the roof supported by those skinny little columns looks more postmodern than anything else. I really don’t understand how this design was approved.
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Yes, it's really ugly.

But it's been there for decades, and was only meant to be seen from a distance and not from inside the pavilion.

They should've spent more money now to retheme it instead of just repaint it
 

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