Frozen Ever After opening day

[rhino4evr]

So thoughts..
This really should have been a Fantasyland ride.
This is a huge improvement over the previous ride.
The AAs look great and animated.
No actual Story, but lots of music, which is what most people will want.
Decent ride length - 5 mins.
The kids will love it.
I think the use of screens after the Elsa scene was a little lazy.
Betting this will have super low capacity and lines for miles.

Overall though, I'm quite pleased with the attraction. Way more impressive than VOTLM

 

[wdwfan22]

Hopefully these 5 hour wait times will just be for opening day and not a daily occurrence.

 

[HarrisburgMouse]

We just got off. My daughter smiled from ear to ear. Setting aside location issues, WDI did a wonderful job overall.

Only issue is staff was being challenged with keeping the loading / unloading moving. Probably could've used a soft opening.

 

[ABQ]

Does anyone know which AA it was that had apparently damaged itself last week?

 

[erider]

If I remember right after reading one of his interviews, the lead on this ride worked, trained under Tony Baxter before he left.

That's imagineer Michel den Dulk, he's originally from Holland.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

First look inside queue
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Remember when the old queue was green walls and little flags? This is probably the biggest improvement considering how much it changed.

 

[Cletus]

OK....so that's done. I guess we wait for the Blue People now?

 

[BrianLo]

1. I can't see the youtube videos from China. Can someone share more stills if they come about?

2. Are people having a positive reaction to a new ride... in WDW... in EPCOT... Frozen...?

3. Is this the Twilight Zone?

 

[GhostHost1000]

Everything can't go in fantasyland...just wish they wouldn't rip and replace existing rides. With what they had to work with not bad

 

[aaronml]

Does anyone know which AA it was that had apparently damaged itself last week?

It was one of the Olaf AAs I believe, but they (of course) repaired it.

 

[JenniferS]

We just got off. My daughter smiled from ear to ear. Setting aside location issues, WDI did a wonderful job overall.

Only issue is staff was being challenged with keeping the loading / unloading moving. Probably could've used a soft opening.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Congrats on being one of the first to ride it.

 

[tribbleorlfl]

I'll get right on that professor.


Are you trying to tell me that you didn't see Frozen everywhere?? Of course it over-saturated the market. If you cannot understand that then I have a little song for you to sing. It starts with... "The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen..."

I'm not denying there was over-saturation of the IP following its surprise popularity. I have a 3 year old daughter, trust me I know.

I'm calling out your contention that this over-saturation has lead to the current state of the IP, and thereby the response to the new ride. It's just as likely, if not more likely, that it's the fact the movie is almost 3 years old.

 

[Mouse Trap]

Wow! There is no way I would wait on a 5 hour ride line. That's crazy.

Lol hilarious to look at the beginning of this thread to see people discussing "Disney overestimated the appeal" "people have no clue this is opening." "The hype train is over for Disney"

Didn't even give it a chance.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Mexico's never been so busy! They must seriously be shifting a lot margaritas today!

Seems putting a sign for how long the wait time is directly next to a sign for margaritas would be a great way to sell a WHOLE lot of margaritas...

 

[BrerJon]

They clearly could have done with soft opening, this feels like a hard, hard opening.

One other striking thing... the ride looks just like the concept art. When has a WDI attraction *ever* lived up to the concept art before?

 

[friedriches]

The best of a bad situation, I guess. A track not designed around a real narrative now supports a ride that has something of a narrative (based on queue photos, we're invited to visit Elsa's ice palace for the first time?), with top notch production values.

I am sad for EPCOT but at least relieved it's not Little Mermaid part 2... production-wise. A technical showcase.

Let the capacity metrics begin! That's going to be reeeeeally interesting.

 

[ABQ]

It was one of the Olaf AAs I believe, but they (of course) repaired it.

Thanks, just hedging my bets on which will be the first to break. Similar to Dopey on the mine train.

 

[Horizons1]

Just turned on the news. I oddly didn't see any reports about how traffic going toward Disney is backed up on I4. I guess someone at the news doesn't like Frozen.

 

[Thanks phoenicians]

The real question is...how's the wait for three caballeros?

 

[peter11435]

Just watched the whole video.

EPCOT Center really is dead and buried, isn't it?

That's probabaly why they renamed it Epcot 22 years ago..