EPCOT Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot

[castlecake2.0]

I feel like this area could be used. Issues would be the stairs down to the landing, getting people across the promenade, and having to move the food&wine kiosk. Also having to get across the line to get to the stroller parking area as you exit, unless you make stroller parking corral part of the queue and have people leave their strollers closer to that canopy area by the entrance so you drop on one side and pick up on the other.

edit: this was just to get an idea of where the line could go, not an exact layout. One of my previous roles before being laid off was to deal with queue management and location flow, so was just putting out an idea.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I feel like this area could be used. Issues would be the stairs down to the landing, getting people across the promenade, and having to move the food&wine kiosk. Also having to get across the line to get to the stroller parking area as you exit, unless you make stroller parking corral part of the queue and have people leave their strollers closer to that canopy area by the entrance so you drop on one side and pick up on the other.
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They have the line mapped out already...

 

[dreday3]

They have the line mapped out already...

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Totally reasonable.

 

[J4546]

I imagine this ride and most future big rides will use virtual que tech, as it allows people to spend more time walking around and potentialy buying stuff instead of standing in a line. This will cut down drastically on line length if they do it correctly.

 

[UNCgolf]

I imagine this ride and most future big rides will use virtual que tech, as it allows people to spend more time walking around and potentialy buying stuff instead of standing in a line. This will cut down drastically on line length if they do it correctly.

This has been discussed many times, but that's simply not feasible.

Just think about how busy the parks get already in summer and how the walkways are jammed full of people. Now imagine adding several thousand more people to those walkways. That's what you'd get if every major ride was a virtual queue. The parks don't have enough space to do that.

Plus, if Disney was planning for this to use a virtual queue, there would have been no reason to bother building a traditional queue. That space could have been used for something else.

 

[J4546]

yeah thats true, but maybe they will keep capicity limits down for a while (couple of years) and implement it during those times while the ride is new and super in demand (not that it wont ever be not in demand but ya know what i mean) im all for the virtual que and ride reservation style system for major e ticket rides if done in a way thats.....good lol. Perhaps they do like RotR with a reservation/virtual que setup, but leave an actual que line for people to use that didnt get a reservation in time. Then alternate reserve and in line customers onto the ride? That way you can still get a chance to ride the ride even if you dont reserve a spot, it just means standing in line for a couple hours instead of 30 mins

 

[castlecake2.0]

They have the line mapped out already...

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Does this include the spots where guests will have to tread water when the line crosses into the world showcase lagoon?

 

[Nunu]

They have the line mapped out already...

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I wouldn't be surprised if that were to be true! The is because that'd be my first reaction after looking at that (very long) line, specially if the ride itself is short, and the line isn't moving at a reasonable pace.

 

[UNCgolf]

yeah thats true, but maybe they will keep capicity limits down for a while (couple of years) and implement it during those times while the ride is new and super in demand (not that it wont ever be not in demand but ya know what i mean) im all for the virtual que and ride reservation style system for major e ticket rides if done in a way thats.....good lol. Perhaps they do like RotR with a reservation/virtual que setup, but leave an actual que line for people to use that didnt get a reservation in time. Then alternate reserve and in line customers onto the ride? That way you can still get a chance to ride the ride even if you dont reserve a spot, it just means standing in line for a couple hours instead of 30 mins

I'm pretty sure they would love to get rid of the virtual queue for Rise, and will eventually.

But it probably has to operate at closer to full capacity without regular breakdowns for that to happen.

 

[doctornick]

I'm pretty sure they would love to get rid of the virtual queue for Rise, and will eventually.

But it probably has to operate at closer to full capacity without regular breakdowns for that to happen.

Off topic but is ROTR anywhere near running well without breaking down regularly? It’s been open over a year now so that’s certainly time to work out kinks. I’m wondering how much of it is that demand far exceeds supply even if capacity was running as much as possible

anyway on that note, Rat has pretty high capacity and is a clone so I’d hope it should be running pretty well soon after launch and may not need that kind of regulation with boarding passes

 

[lazyboy97o]

Rise of the Resistance is probably a very good reason not to use a virtual queue. It’s the only attraction using the system and having another do so at this time would likely create a perceived equivalency. Ratatouille doesn’t need that sort of comparison.

 

[gerarar]

Disney updated the MDE app a while ago to function and list multiple virtual queues (the API now lists ROTR VQ as queue #0). So maybe the original plan was to always utilize the Virtual Queue system for Rat. Of course plans have and will probably change as we get closer to the inevitable opening.

 

[marni1971]

Disney updated the MDE app a while ago to function and list multiple virtual queues (the API now lists ROTR VQ as queue #0). So maybe the original plan was to always utilize the Virtual Queue system for Rat. Of course plans have and will probably change as we get closer to the inevitable opening.

I know it was looked at for Rat, and discounted. But that was last summer. Things may have changed.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Disney updated the MDE app a while ago to function and list multiple virtual queues (the API now lists ROTR VQ as queue #0). So maybe the original plan was to always utilize the Virtual Queue system for Rat. Of course plans have and will probably change as we get closer to the inevitable opening.

The original plan was to use VQ on MANY rides as the parks reopened last summer. It was deemed unnecessary.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Does this include the spots where guests will have to tread water when the line crosses into the world showcase lagoon?

Any drawn-in line in the water is just lazy tracing on my part. There's a walkway along the lagoon at a lower level than the promenade.

 

[castlecake2.0]

Any drawn-in line in the water is just lazy tracing on my part. There's a walkway along the lagoon at a lower level than the promenade.

I wasn’t criticizing lol, I didn’t even notice that, I was just joking

 

[FeelsSoGoodToBeBad]

Any drawn-in line in the water is just lazy tracing on my part. There's a walkway along the lagoon at a lower level than the promenade.

Dangit! And here I was hoping WDW would hand out complimentary floaties for those affected!

 

[flutas]

Disney updated the MDE app a while ago to function and list multiple virtual queues (the API now lists ROTR VQ as queue #0). So maybe the original plan was to always utilize the Virtual Queue system for Rat. Of course plans have and will probably change as we get closer to the inevitable opening.

There have been more updates to that as well.

They can change out pretty much everything with a VQ from icons showing for it to theming for it to restrictions for joining it.

Doesn't necessarily mean it's coming to Rat though. Most likely them just building it out for potential future uses.

 

[buckeyegator]

Dangit! And here I was hoping WDW would hand out complimentary floaties for those affected!

complimentary, at disney, are you insane.

 

[dmw]

Yeah that's not good. Switchbacks aren't so efficient these days as they lose half the switchbacks to maintain distancing.

Maybe Disney is counting on unsocial distancing being a thing of the past by the time Rat opens? Or delaying the opening until such time that the extra measures are no longer required?