EPCOT Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot

[Purduevian]

So...
When this all started, I remember hearing that they wanted a large EPCOT expansion to pull people away from DHS in anticipation for the massive swarm of people that would descend on the smaller park for Star Wars. They had two major project ideas for the back of France.
1)Build a clone of the RAT ride from Paris
2)Build a BATB ride in connection with Tokyo

Rat was chosen to meet the window of opening around the same time as SWGE and BATB wouldn't make it in time.
May 31st 2019- SWGE opens without ROTR
December 5th 2019 - ROTR opens
March 4th 2020- M&MRR opens (the other ride meant to divert people way from SWGE)
September 28th 2020- BATB opens in Tokyo
October 1st 2021- RAT Plans to open in EPCOT

So BATB opened about a year after SWGE phase 1... Rat will open over 2 years after SWGE

 

[Surferboy567]

I wonder what this means for TRON and Guardians? Would they want to space them out?

EDIT: As a result of this?

 

[marni1971]

They can’t blame this long a delay on safety. What an absolutely ridiculous decision. This should have been open last year.

You ask them then.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

They can’t blame this long a delay on safety. What an absolutely ridiculous decision. This should have been open last year.

Did they bother to make an excuse?

Blue ocean tells you not to bother.

It sucks...but just to be clear (my wheelhouse):

They have a finished addition that they are choosing not to staff/open for the next 6 months of paying customers.

That’s the bottomline. There are no other things to consider.

I won’t change anyone’s mind on what “good” or “bad” management is...but I hope everyone considers this and at least remembers when you give your money to them. That’s fair.

 

[Brer Oswald]

But, but Jim Hill said it would open any day now!

Uh oh Zootopia Bros...

 

[TTA94]

So now what will all the vloggers do? They have to be in MK for the opening of the 50th and EPCOT for Rat!

Probably why MK availability opened up a bit for Oct 1 lol.

 

[SplashJacket]

Let's just be glad MMRR opened just before everything shut down or else it would probably not be open either.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Let's just be glad MMRR opened just before everything shut down or else it would probably not be open either.

It probably wouldn’t be. Disney is going to have quite a bit of new attractions for many people who haven’t visited since the summer where things were more normal.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Kind of sad that DLP could re-open (again) and you could potentially go to WDSP and see the original before this version opens.

 

[Markiewong]

Isn't this whole area/ride already finished?

 

[themarchhare]

LOL not October

 

[Giss Neric]

Guess this is to make up for the lack of 50th offerings?

How about Harmonious? Will it debut ahead of Ratatouille? October is still far away and they already have those gigantic barges sitting there for the next 7 months.

 

[CJR]

It probably started with safety and then they said, why not go just a bit longer and draw some major attention to what should be a big anniversary, in which nothing otherwise promised for it will be ready, except for cosmetics. Seems mostly a marketing decision to me.

Now eyes should be on California, because they have some Marvel stuff due. Who will open what first?

 

[djkidkaz]

It probably wouldn’t be. Disney is going to have quite a bit of new attractions for many people who haven’t visited since the summer where things were more normal.

This. I think Disney’s idea here is to push Rat out far enough and make the 50th a big enough deal that people feel comfortable to book. If you open Rat next month, people are still not ready to commit to a Disney vacation just yet. But if you advertise all of these things for October when I presume most of us feel pretty secure that covid will be more of a horrible memory than something we’re still living through, folks might take that Stimulus money and spend it on a vacation towards the end of the year.

don’t forget the Halloween / Xmas parties will most likely be back and as mentioned most people haven’t gotten to ride the new Mickey Mouse ride. Disney was luckily in the middle of their biggest growth period in a very long time so they have a bunch of dominos that fell and more that will keep falling to help them recover quickly.

 

[UNCgolf]

I had no idea the creperie had a table service component. Are they going to have it open in the morning for table service breakfast?

As for Rat, this seems like a crazy decision but I don't really care about the ride -- it doesn't look very good to me -- so meh.

 

[disneygeek90]

This. I think Disney’s idea here is to push Rat out far enough and make the 50th a big enough deal that people feel comfortable to book. If you open Rat next month, people are still not ready to commit to a Disney vacation just yet. But if you advertise all of these things for October when I presume most of us feel pretty secure that covid will be more of a horrible memory than something we’re still living through, folks might take that Stimulus money and spend it on a vacation towards the end of the year.

don’t forget the Halloween / Xmas parties will most likely be back and as mentioned most people haven’t gotten to ride the new Mickey Mouse ride. Disney was luckily in the middle of their biggest growth period in a very long time so they have a bunch of dominos that fell and more that will keep falling to help them recover quickly.

The people can still come in October, though. It would be new to them no matter if it opens tomorrow or October. That's already going to be an incredibly busy week and may not ease covid concerns.

 

[WDWYankee15]

There’s no question that it will open by 10-1-21. The question is, do they open in Spring because it can or do they pick a date in the summer. I gather they want to see a few more weeks of covid numbers. That bump a couple weeks back spooked them.

I agree, no question they won’t sit on an attraction for that long. The thing that makes me wonder is that it seems Universal is content with opening their mega E ticket soon. I don’t think they announced a date yet but judging by their constant teasing and testing it seems to be soon. Why aren’t Disney ok with opening an attraction as well?

Is it only optics? Is it crowding fears? Maybe a bit of both. I can understand them wanting to see more data but nothing stops them from announcing a timeframe or season.

Wow these posts didn't age well and this escalated quickly! Not criticizing either of you. It actually just points out the craziness of this thing. Two hours ago, 10/1/21 seemed so far off....

 

[Giss Neric]

Isn't is frustrating that Velocicoaster, Iron Gwazi and Ice Breaker opens ahead of time. I know these are rollercoasters but this ride I'm sure is practically done. They can't even do it for a summer opening.

What about Avengers Campus. They said opening 2021. Will the land and Spiderman ride open ahead of Oct or after Oct?

 

[Surferboy567]

Wow these posts didn't age well and this escalated quickly! Not criticizing either of you. It actually just points out the craziness of this thing. Two hours ago, 10/1/21 seemed so far off....

Was just thinking that. Crazy how things change so fast. I particularly like my comment...

I agree, no question they won’t sit on an attraction for that long.

That didn’t age well...

 

[mm52200]

The people can still come in October, though. It would be new to them no matter if it opens tomorrow or October. That's already going to be an incredibly busy week and may not ease covid concerns.

Disney obviously doesn’t see a reason to draw more people currently. With their restrictions and reduced capacity/operation currently they seem to have no problem meeting their targets just from pent up demand now through the summer probably. Once they fully reopen that’s when they’re going to need the extra push for people to want to come.