EPCOT Anna, Elsa and Kristoff Audio-Animatronics refresh coming to Frozen Ever After in EPCOT

[Pizza Moon]

I’m guessing I just missed them but have the AA puffins always been there at the end of the ride?

Yea! Maelstrom Easter egg

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

They really don’t when actually on the ride.

I thought they stuck out and looked weird personally.

Yea! Maelstrom Easter egg

How fun… I didn’t have anyone next to me in my row and I was in the front row so I guess that’s why I noticed them - so adorable. Still miss maelstrom to be honest! Haha

 

[Bocabear]

Frozen has almost nothing to do with the Hans Christian Anderson Snow Queen story.... the only thing it has in common is there is snow and ice and it is cold.... that is about it.... I wish it really had been based on the HCA story with a real villain, and a better storyline... Elsa would have been a great villain...

 

[Touchdown]

Frozen has almost nothing to do with the Hans Christian Anderson Snow Queen story.... the only thing it has in common is there is snow and ice and it is cold.... that is about it.... I wish it really had been based on the HCA story with a real villain, and a better storyline... Elsa would have been a great villain...

Blame the Lopez duo for that. When Let it Go hit so hard that everyone started rooting for the villain the creative team had to rework the story to make her the hero.

 

[easyrowrdw]

Ugh this is so smug for the barest of bare minimums I hate it so much

Congratulating themselves for fixing something they screwed up really is something else.

 

[Bocabear]

It's like the origin story...before she became a monster... Before she became bitter and angry that her sister had love, but she was destined to remain cold and alone and had to steal the children of Arendelle and put slivers of ice in their heart to make them forget their lives outside of her ice palace.....

 

[Pizza Moon]

It looks like they updated the app!

What a great change!

 

[eddie104]

Isn’t it crazy that every Disney park around the world has a Frozen ride except DL and Shanghai?

I wonder will they ever get them.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

Congratulating themselves for fixing something they screwed up really is something else.

To be fair, I wouldn't call it a screw up, I'd call it an experiment that just didn't work out. There's a very clear difference to me between a pure screw up that was the result of carelessness and an attempt to try something new that just didn't work as intended. The projection faced AAs was an attempt at something new, and it didn't work out, so they pivoted.

People ask Disney to cop to their failures all the time, and this is one of the few times that they've very publicly done so.

 

[ToTBellHop]

To be fair, I wouldn't call it a screw up, I'd call it an experiment that just didn't work out. There's a very clear difference to me between a pure screw up that was the result of carelessness and an attempt to try something new that just didn't work as intended. The projection faced AAs was an attempt at something new, and it didn't work out, so they pivoted.

People ask Disney to cop to their failures all the time, and this is one of the few times that they've very publicly done so.

Also, this AA technique didn’t really fail. They simply learned it doesn’t work well for animated humans. But, it’s fine for other characters and also creates emotive eyes pretty well.

They’re still using projected faces for the trolls, for example, because they work there.