Epcot is, with out query, my favourite Disney World park. I like that it was impressed by Walt Disney’s unique plans to construct a metropolis of the long run. I like the way in which World Showcase helps you to go to quite a few international locations all over the world with a Disney aptitude. I like that it has the very best meals in all of Walt Disney World.
Whereas not everyone is in love with Epcot’s most up-to-date overhaul, and there are some issues at Epcot I discover lackluster too, it’s nonetheless my favourite place to be once I go to essentially the most magical place on earth. However now I’m barely involved about the way forward for one in every of Epcot’s newer rides, and it is all due to an enormous change taking place at Disneyland Paris.
The Ratatouille Experience At Disneyland Paris Is Shedding Its 3D
This morning, Disneyland Paris introduced that Remy’s Completely Zany Journey, a darkish experience based mostly on the Pixar movie Ratatouille discovered at Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris, will shut in October to bear a serious multi-month overhaul. Each the queue and the experience itself are set to get upgrades, with a brand new scene that depicts a French artist set to be added to the queue. The experience itself getting new props and enhanced projections.
Nevertheless, there may also be one vital downgrade when the experience reopens, because the video sequences that have been beforehand proven in 3D will as a substitute be transformed into normal 2D photographs. In line with the press launch, the choice to make the change got here after months of testing and visitor surveys, which suggests that is one thing company need. Nevertheless, I’m one visitor who hopes this modification stays in France.
Might Epcot Be Subsequent?
Remy’s Ratatouille Journey, a model of the Disneyland Paris attraction, opened at Epcot in 2021 within the France pavilion, and it is functionally similar to its cousin in Paris. As such, it’s a minimum of attainable, if not going, that any updates slated for one attraction may finally come to the opposite.
Whereas it’s exhausting to consider {that a} theme park would simply take away a serious function like 3D, there may be precedent for it at different theme parks. In 2024, Common Orlando shifted the Cranium Island: Reign of Kong attraction from 3D to 2D. That was listed as a short lived change, nevertheless it has but to regain its 3D movie. There have additionally been common rumors that Harry Potter and the Escape From Gringotts curler coaster may also make the swap from 3D to 2D, although that has but to materialize.
The implication is that since 3D requires a number of projection techniques, it is tougher to keep up. A 2D system is simpler to maintain working and simpler to repair, and thus it is much less more likely to trigger issues that will end in a closed attraction.
Contemplating all the things new coming to Disney World within the subsequent a number of years has resulted in main development initiatives at each park besides Epcot, and that the park’s flagship attraction, Spaceship Earth, simply closed for its personal refurb, it is extremely unlikely we’ll see Remy’s Ratatouille Journey go underneath the knife anytime quickly. When it’s time for the attraction’s refurbishment, nevertheless, we’ll should see what occurs.