News Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot

DonaldDoleWhip

DonaldDoleWhip

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I know I’ve been one of the more vocally negative members regarding Ratatouille, but I’m glad so many are enjoying it. Here are some of my less-mentioned gripes:

1) It basically eliminates a new pavilion expansion pad. Sure, the odds of eventually getting said pavilion were minimal, but between the Frozen meet-and-greet and now this, the trajectory is even more depressing.

At the same time, we have more IP than ever that could make for an interesting pavilion. Give us Colombia with Encanto or a Southeast Asian nation with Raya, anything!

2) The big green box. Ratatouille’s not the only recent addition with an ugly, oversized show building visible from too many places, but those other additions are at least E-caliber and doing something with that height. With Ratatouille, that height is used to hang a giant fish and ham that still look like plastic and to show video clips that blend with neither the floor nor the ceiling.

3) Even as a family-friendly ride, it could have been so much better. My disappointment will always reflect the hype from when it was an unknown and could have been the signature WDS-saver (à la Mystic Manor and RSR from the same era), but it’s like they didn’t even try.

Translating it to Epcot, following years of more impressive trackless additions, there was no effort at all to make it better.
 
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DonaldDoleWhip

DonaldDoleWhip

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What Disney should really do with the French is provide a full list of phrases used and what they mean, so those with no background whose curiosity is piqued have somewhere to turn.

It's not always the easiest language to spell when going by sound (e.g. dépêchez-vous).

On the flipside, Disney should be teaching the Ratatouille CMs at least a handful of French greetings, as well as how to actually say them. Heard a friendly "bonjour" in the video I watched, but the poor CM couldn't even pronounce it correctly.

If those asks are too much, we'll know the real driving factor here was laziness/cost.
 
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doctornick

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DonaldDoleWhip said:
What Disney should really do with the French is provide a full list of phrases used and what they mean, so those with no background whose curiosity is piqued have somewhere to turn.

It's not always the easiest language to spell when going by sound (e.g. dépêchez-vous).

On the flipside, Disney should be teaching the Ratatouille CMs at least a handful of French greetings, as well as how to actually say them. Heard a friendly "bonjour" in the video I watched, but the poor CM couldn't even pronounce it correctly.

If those asks are too much, we'll know the real driving factor here was laziness/cost.
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Well, sooner or later they’ll have mostly people from France running the ride, no? They just need to get the international program back up
 
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doctornick

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DonaldDoleWhip said:
1) It basically eliminates a new pavilion expansion pad. Sure, the odds of eventually getting said pavilion were minimal, but between the Frozen meet-and-greet and now this, the trajectory is even more depressing.
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At the least they did it in the back of the pad. That leaves the front for something for Morocco or even a smaller half pavilion. Seems better than the Frozen M&G that just wiped out the usability of that whole pad
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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doctornick said:
At the least they did it in the back of the pad. That leaves the front for something for Morocco or even a smaller half pavilion. Seems better than the Frozen M&G that just wiped out the usability of that whole pad
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It'd be a lot easier to demolish a meet and greet, though.

Not that they're going to.
 

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