This ride will always be a favorite of mine but the upgrade this year took away a few things that are missed. I know it needed an overhaul to include newer movies, and that is great. My biggest disappointment was the grand finale. First, the cars stop closer to the big screen and (no matter where you are sitting) that takes away from your ability to see everything. The music and movie clips including actors delivering their most famous lines isn't nearly as good or entertaining. And I don't know why the final scene of "flying over hollywood" when the cars are exiting was done away with. Now the ride ends with a plug to watch TMC. Love the ride, love Disney, but in my opinion this change was a mistake.
This is without a doubt (at least for me) the best ride at Disney! I ride orange and would do it over and over if I could! Kudos to Disney. This ride is one of the reasons that there is absolutely no place on earth like Disney!
Came in mid October hoping to miss the big crowds. Didn't happen . Wall to wall crush with double strollers, wait times at 75 minutes. Fast pass reservations all gone until late in the day. Streets were not well lit at night. People tripping over each other. Fireworks partially blocked by trees. Mickey has gotten very greedy.
The Osborne light show has been a tradition in my family for years. I am sad to hear Disney is going to be discontinuing it after this year. I know everything changes and progress and imagineers must continue to dream more ideas to excite disney fans, but to remove so much of the Christmas vibe in order to put in more toy story or star wars is just not what this disney fan desires. I wish they could imagine a way to keep the Osborne light show and expand the rides they desire to expand. Change is good but so is tradition....I don't want to lose the "Christmas celebration feeling" that Disney has done so well for so many years.
If you are scared for the drop, it goes by in two seconds. If you are really scared, just close your eyes and breathe out slow, you won't even feel it. Second of all, it is a great thrill, great theming, a great queue and a great story all in one attraction! A MUST DO EVERY TIME! :)
This ride is truly breathtaking, and is by far my favorite attraction in Epcot. It's so realistic and is probably the closest thing to hang gliding I'll ever do. However, I highly recommend getting a fastpass unless that is you want to wait in a 100 minute ride. This is a must do attraction that you are not going to want to miss. I'm so excited to take my son on it this fall as he now meets the night requirement of 40 inches :)))
Well worth the wait. Lines dont move fast but still worth it.
I did orange team as I rarely get motion sickness, so I thought I'd be fine. I am in good health but I do have anxiety. This ride was cool at first but I quickly felt sick and I felt sick for the rest of the day. I could barely walk without being overwhelmed with nausea. One time on this was enough for me.
I make a point of seeing this nearly every time I'm at EPCOT. The storyline and claymation are not amazing, but Michael's performance is outstanding. It's easy to forget the less exciting aspects of the show when watching a legend of dance at work. My advice to viewers is to be more open to appreciating that sort of thing. As a side note, I really prefer seeing performance/innovation-centric attractions to the careless meet and greets Disney keeps putting up.
I know I did a review of the great movie ride before. That was before the updates they had this year. And I have to say, what a great improvement! I'm glad that the Tour Guide still gets to say something instead of having him or her mute. I was on a mini trip couple weeks ago and the tour guide I had was funny. And the acting between the tour guide in the gangster was excellent. So like I said, great improvements for a great ride!
This ride was amazing!! It wasn't all that scary.. More unexpected!! It was a thrill and there were PLENTY of signs warning parents how "scary" it would be. Not Disney's fault people don't listen!! Hopefully they will bring it back..HOPE! HOPE! HOPE!!!
Im 14, and this is my favorite ride in Disney. kind of surprising isn't it? This ride makes me emotional and I love figment with channing. There are never any waits and its just good to sit back and enjoy it
This was our 3rd visit to the park over the years, and somehow it starts out good but turns bitter during the day. The park closed at 5 pm, we managed to enter just before 10 am and it was jammed packed. The carnival rides in Dinoland are terrible. My back is still sore from riding the time machine roller coaster, it had very hard stops and sharp turns. At dinosaur, the sign said 45 minute wait but took us longer than 1:15 to ride it. There were tons of people with fastpasses and personal guide tours that were allowed in before us in the stand by line. The only positive was the safari, which had a short wait. We did not get to ride anything else because of the long wait times, even though we were there until closing.
I would never ride Orange, but people should definitely ride the Green team side. It's really not bad. For a comparison, it's just like Star Tours for its movement. Very well themed throughout.
Kali is old. That is the long and short of it. Having gone to Disney 35 plus times over the years the ride was great in its day but its time for a change. Is it worth a 2 hour wait? No. Is it something one should do? Yes especially if its your first time to a Disney park. Get a fast pass for it. The queue line is wonderful though as a lot of thought was put into that part. Fact of the matter is it needs upgrading and made longer with a few more drops and thrills. Not an easy thing to do for sure but if it can be done Disney can do it. Again in its time is was the ride to be on of this type. Now is has at the bottom of the heap of this type of ride simply due to age. I have heard or read nothing however that any kind of upgrade is in the plans for this ride. One thing is for sure though. You will not make it through this ride without getting wet!
Disney has the money, space, and imagination to do much better than this. When they start putting rides like this, Stitch's Great Escape and that awful Jack Sparrow "ride"into the patks, I wonder who is running the show and why they have not had their head examined.
Dinosaur combines lots of elements to make it what it is: a truly fun ride. It has a plot, great theming, fantastic animatronics, a great, forboding preshow, thrill, humor, etc. For those concerned, it really is not that scary, even when you scream they soon turn to laughs. Be warned, it is fairly jarring, but for the scare factor, people make it up to be scarier than it is. Enjoy!
This waterpark is the best by far, a fabulous day out with the kids, very enjoyable! One of my fave parks at WDW would recommend this one out of the 2 waterparks!
Missing the HAT. Its an icon ever associated with this park. The replacement stage is awful and blocks what would be a great view of the Great Movie Ride Theater. This park still has the best coaster (Rock n Rollercoaster) and great thrill ride in Tower of Terror. Fantasmic show is wonderful as well. Toy Story still as popular as ever and with a third track being added the lines should get shorter. New Starbucks on main corner in square with a nice selection is welcome addition. Star Wars seem to be taking up more and more space and it is very popular and a major thrill ride would be great for that area in a Star Wars theme. However there is a lot of closed and empty space now in the park with no signs of activity at all. Lots or rumored attractions coming on but none that any cast member would confirm. Hollywood needs a major update and some type of new thrill ride. This park can easily come back to the top with some major improvements. Some sort of ride or tour to explain "the movie making process" needs to take the place of the back stage tour. So we will wait and see what happens with this park that has huge potential.
Was there no room at the Seas With Nemo and Friends pavilion over at EPCOT for this show? Anyway, the one problem this show has is a very rushed script. It could benefit from a lot more original jokes, like the Aladdin musical at Disneyland. I counted ONE. A funny one, but ONE. And most of the characters tend to have extremely annoying voices (especially Dory, ugh). At least two of the songs (the sharks' song and the Tank Gang's song) were pretty catchy, at least.
Oh wow. Wow, wow wow. I was wary of the threat this ride posed prior to going to Epcot, having read all the negative press 2.0's been getting, but I did not see it being this bad in real life. How on Earth was a project like this green-lighted? Okay, let's look at a few 'criteria' this refurbishment needed to pass: 1 - Educational. After all, Epcot's primary function is to serve as an informative park, with attractions that provide you with information on concepts of society today. 2.0 feels like it's TRYING to convey some kind of technological advancement, but it's hardly explained and most guests are just left wondering what the hell they just endured. Maybe if they flash their fancy Tron lights at you some more you'll learn something. VERDICT: 3/10, Fail 2 - Engaging. Part of what made the old version so brilliant was its relatable story that never got boring. I mean, who doesn't want to be in the heart of a car-testing facility and effectively put in the position of a crash dummy?! Every section felt like it really was part of what cars are put through. 2.0's storyline sees a car's test being 'simulated' in some kind of digital facility called 'On-Star', with our role as riders unclear: are we Sims in a SimCar? Older audiences can't possibly relate to the high-tech over-the-top digital referencing that consequently loses most of the audience. Maybe Disney wanted to keep little ones happy on this thrill ride...The less said about the completely uninspired showroom queue (almost like the queue area was put in what used to be the back section you walked out through) the better. VERDICT: 4/10, Fail 3 - Timeless. This one's a bit dubious, but surely any 'update' on a ride in Future World will need to last a while. That's partly why the old version's demise is so hard to understand: what was wrong with it? Why did Disney feel the need for the upgrade; were people really that bored of it? 2.0 already seems dated for Christ's sake, with Tron already a timeworn enterprise. MK's Tomorrowland, for example, Imagineers knew the whole area was looking dated, but they reimagined it as 'a view of the future from the 40s and 50s'. Old TT didn't show a sign of ageing yet, as car-testing is very much prominent today. SimCars and neon lights? Sigh. VERDICT: 4/10, Fail 4 - Disneyesque. Future World already has little in way of Disney-like ambiance; so making a ride so beyond anything like the magic of MK and traditional rides does little to help that. Okay that probably isn't a priority, but the old version did at least have some occasional Disneyesque humour like in the briefing room and testing scenes in the queue. However, one can argue that Walt himself was a visionary of the future, and so maybe he himself would have approved this upgrade, seeing it as progress. VERDICT: 5/10, Pass. Just. 5 - Believable. It isn't. Sorry but it just isn't. The design studio is neat and fun for kids but the reality is that none of us will ever see those kind of vehicles on the road in our lifetimes. Moreover the whole concept is so underwhelming, so unexplained, that you just come out of it thinking "was that supposed to be what car-testing is like?" I sure as heck hope car testing hasn't been reduced to computerised simulations, or I'm never getting in a car anytime soon. Not a Chevy anyway. VERDICT: 1/10, Fail. So, sorry 2.0, but you just don't cut it. Maybe some of us are just being harsh on you because you used to be such an awesome and unique ride, maybe your design was so rushed due to popular demand for your return, or maybe it's because you're actually the worst piece of rubbish I've seen Disney produce in a long time. What a shame, big loss for Epcot.
I spent Sunday, April 19th through Tuesday, April 21st in the Downtown Disney area for business (at the Hilton across the street), and was amazed by the great new changes that have occurred there! I've been an Orlando resident most of my life, and frequented Downtown Disney as a great place to spend a day off. Everything that was wrong with the 'old' Downtown Disney: HORRIBLE parking; not many good food options; and occasional severe crowding... is all being addressed with the new Disney Springs. The parking garage alone was a marvel to use! It made parking - something that was once an actual headache! - into something fun and unique!! I loved it! We ate at the VERY newly opened Boathouse, and enjoyed every bite of it. If you go, please try the mac-and-cheese, it was heaven in a bowl. After walking around a bit, we enjoyed the outdoor entertainment at House of Blues, and then settled in for some drinks at the waterside bar behind the new Boathouse. It was a great visit, and I can't WAIT to see the rest of the updates and additions! WELL DONE DISNEY!! And THANK YOU!!
This was one of the most bizarre things that I have ever seen in my life!! I cannot believe that something like this is at Disney World, and cannot believe that they consider this an attraction!! Horrible acting, creepy characters, and not sure what the plot was, if there was one. Very disappointing and the absolute worst thing at Disney World by far!!!
The show was good but my 3 yr old loves Sully and was beyond sad when he was nowhere in the show......bad choice on leaving him out.......and Boo for that matter.......
By noon, fast passes were gone. All day the wait time was 100 to 135 minutes. We finally got in line at 6:48 pm. You would not believe how slow the line was. Our wait was close to 120 minutes. Lots of fast passers kept merging in, slowing down the line. The fast pass line should be shut down at 8pm, given the huge wait we had. It was a good show but not worth the wait.
We arrived when the park opened, loved the fast passes and got on everything we wanted to but at 6:00. The bar closed, all shows were over and we had ridden everything. We then roamed around I until the 8:00 Fantasmic Show. It was like the park closed at 6 and was just waiting for dark for the show, very disapointed.
Best thrill in the park! If you have the guts to push yourself down!!!
This ride is probably about half as long as the one at universal with lines that double universal. There is no noticeable drops or anything. You basically just slowly spin in a circle for about a minute and if your lucky get wet. I was dry at the end. At universal, no one is ever dry. I hope you read these comments disney. Your fans and customers deserve world class attractions for the money we spend. I know you. An afford it.
My driver was Ginny (white short hair). I'm a fellow cast member and enjoyed my Safari ride greatly. It was my first time on the Safari and I don't think I could have gotten a better driver.
Hoo boy... What can I say about this ride? How about the tiny little fact that it looks like the Imagineers blew all of their money on the audio-animatronics and had to make due with what little they had left for the rest of the ride. How else would you explain the finale sequence being represented by a cardboard cutout and a screen?
Wait time 110 mins, entry music was on loop made the wait time feel twice as long, not what i would call inovative... ride was ok, it was fun to see your competition scores at the end of each test. The fast part was exhilarating but felt too short. Overall i would never wait more than 30 mins to ride it, and i have no desire to ride it again.
Its definitely a blast to the past and very cheese but I love it. Go Michael!!
This Band is outstanding with the awesome current trumpet players. Very entertaining and incredibly talented musicians!
My family and I made the mistake of getting on this ride as soon as we got to the park. We don't normally get sick from things like this, but oh my gosh we were barely able to enjoy the rest of our time there. We felt so sick. So if you still wanna try it out, I recommend saving it for the end of your visit.