EPCOT Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot

[RSoxNo1]

NRJ is akin to pirates WDW if you unloaded just before the first drop.

Nah, you're way too critical of it. It needs another minute or two, but what's there is solid.

 

[Poseidon Quest]

Please don't joke about Disney adding an IHOP to World Showcase.

They already serve Chinese take-out over at the Lotus Blossom Café. I wouldn't put it past them.

 

[HauntedPirate]

I just couldn’t get past the obviously plastic props. If just that portion had been executed more successfully I would have a much better opinion of the attraction. But, at least for me, it was highly incongruous and immediately broke the illusion. Stainless steel should look like stainless steel, not like medium gloss gray-silver paint, irrespective of the scale differential between object and observer. A plastic sausage looks plastic even when you’re moving past it and it’s 10 feet above your head.

If they had to clone a DSP ride it should have been Crush’s Coaster.

Something I said a few years back - Imagine Rat and Crush’s Coaster anchoring an entire Pixar-themed area at, say, DHS. That would’ve been far better than what they did with TSL.

 

[marni1971]

Nah, you're way too critical of it.

Nah, I’m not. We went through all of this in the appropriate thread when it opened.

 

[marni1971]

You've probably said this at some point before, but I'm curious as to your thoughts on Frozen Ever After?

Ignoring that it replaced Maelstrom and doesn't belong in EPCOT, that is. Just thoughts on the ride itself.

It’s lacking in a coherent overall frame work. Some impressive Animatronics trying to pad out a loose plot to fit a pre determined environment and an amazing overall lack of visuals / fully fleshed show scenes. One of arguably the companies biggest franchises deserved something purpose built.

See. I didn’t mention the location.

 

[Giss Neric]

I just couldn’t get past the obviously plastic props. If just that portion had been executed more successfully I would have a much better opinion of the attraction. But, at least for me, it was highly incongruous and immediately broke the illusion. Stainless steel should look like stainless steel, not like medium gloss gray-silver paint, irrespective of the scale differential between object and observer. A plastic sausage looks plastic even when you’re moving past it and it’s 10 feet above your head.

If they had to clone a DSP ride it should have been Crush’s Coaster.

Even Captain America agrees with you!

 

[doctornick]

Even Captain America agrees with you!

Wouldn’t be terrible as part of a Australia expansion for DAK.

Edit: Capacity is horrible, though, right? Would it be possible to double track it to make it at least passable?

 

[James Alucobond]

It’s lacking in a coherent overall frame work. Some impressive Animatronics trying to pad out a loose plot to fit a pre determined environment and an amazing overall lack of visuals / fully fleshed show scenes. One of arguably the companies biggest franchises deserved something purpose built.

I tend to feel this is in large part because so much takes place in the ice palace, which is incredibly bereft of interesting visuals and props even in the film itself.

 

[Bocabear]

The top of the lift scenes are so anticlimactic... there is too much space with nothing...feels incomplete...like something else was planned and didn't work or budget stripped...There seems to be a part of the story missing ..Like the snow monster is supposed to chase you at the tail end of the "Let It Go " Moment and then as you pass through the mini cave, sound effects of him falling and then you come out at the top of the turn around and he is lying in the snow... Like that completes the story....which is otherwise unfinished....

 

[James Alucobond]

The top of the lift scenes are so anticlimactic... there is too much space with nothing...feels incomplete...like something else was planned and didn't work or budget stripped...There seems to be a part of the story missing ..Like the snow monster is supposed to chase you at the tail end of the "Let It Go " Moment and then as you pass through the mini cave, sound effects of him falling and then you come out at the top of the turn around and he is lying in the snow... Like that completes the story....which is otherwise unfinished....

Uh, he's supposed to be benign in this instance since it's a celebration with slightly modified versions of the songs to represent that. There's no reason for him to chase you, and instead of his signature "Get out," he echoes Elsa's "Let it go."

 

[Bocabear]

Uh, he's supposed to be benign in this instance since it's a celebration with slightly modified versions of the songs to represent that. There's no reason for him to chase you, and instead of his signature "Get out," he echoes Elsa's "Let it go."

except then that leaves a lot of the ride empty and unfinished... and no reason to see him fallen in the snow on the other side of the cave... and he could be chasing in a happy way, not menacing... lol

 

[James Alucobond]

except then that leaves a lot of the ride empty and unfinished... and no reason to see him fallen in the snow on the other side of the cave... and he could be chasing in a happy way, not menacing... lol

I always got the impression that he was just hanging out near a cliffside with snowman buddies he'd built, not that he'd fallen and gotten buried.

 

[HauntedPirate]

What thread is this?

 

[marni1971]

If they had to clone a DSP ride it should have been Crush’s Coaster.

It’s not that good. Seriously.

 

[Andrew C]

What thread is this?

A thread about a solid ride?

 

[HauntedPirate]

A thread about a solid ride?

So, Ratatouille and not FEA?

 

[Andrew C]

So, Ratatouille and not FEA?

That’s that the title says.

 

[UNCgolf]

It’s lacking in a coherent overall frame work. Some impressive Animatronics trying to pad out a loose plot to fit a pre determined environment and an amazing overall lack of visuals / fully fleshed show scenes. One of arguably the companies biggest franchises deserved something purpose built.

See. I didn’t mention the location.

Basically describes how I feel about it. Impressive animatronics and very little else.

The fact that they are cloning it for other parks instead of building something that doesn't have the restraints of being shoehorned into a small existing ride is asinine.

 

[jaxonp]

While I don't think Ratatouille will move the needle for me, I can't argue this point haha.

In a way, it's actually nice to have well-liked attractions that you don't care for; one example that immediately comes to mind is TSMM. I'm still shocked the ride was so popular it warranted a capacity expansion, but at least that means fewer guests in line for the other attractions I like.


For sure, Na'vi River Journey belongs in this same group, although at least it was clearly a C-ticket from the start. I find it similarly enjoyable to these others (and would also choose it over Rat) but would skip all of them if the wait is longer than 15 minutes. Maybe 20 for Ratatouille because it's new, and maybe 25 for Frozen because the AAs are good.

The Japanese can't get enough of TSMM... it may still be the most popular attraction to this day.

 

[jaxonp]

That sums up my Tron experience. Wow, great start! Wow, neat screen effects! Whooo, let's see what will happen next, I'm now so ready for a great ride and...wait, wut, unload!?

Tron should be at least twice as long. Hagrid's blows Tron out of the water. Shame Disney didn't decide to add to Tron.