Remy's Ratatouille Adventure
| Remy's Ratatouille Adventure | |
|---|---|
| Park | Epcot |
| Land / area | France pavilion, World Showcase |
| Type | Trackless dark ride |
| Opened | October 1, 2021 |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Height req. | None |
| Status | Operating |
Remy's Ratatouille Adventure is a trackless dark ride in the France pavilion of World Showcase at Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort, Florida. Opened on October 1, 2021, it is based on the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007) and presents riders as rats of Remy's size, joining him on a chase through the kitchen and dining room of a Paris restaurant. It is a version of the attraction that first opened at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris in 2014 under the name Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy.
History
The original French attraction opened in 2014 as the centrepiece of a small Ratatouille-themed area at Walt Disney Studios Park — a park then widely regarded as short of family rides — and proved one of its most popular additions. An Epcot version was announced at the D23 Expo in 2017, as the first entirely new ride to be added to World Showcase in decades; until then, every World Showcase ride dated from the pavilion's opening era or, in the case of Frozen Ever After, from a conversion of an earlier ride.
At Epcot the ride was built as part of an expansion of the France pavilion onto land behind its original facades. The expansion added a courtyard and street in the same Parisian style, a new entrance plaza for the attraction, and La Crêperie de Paris, a restaurant that opened alongside the ride.
The attraction was planned for a summer 2020 opening. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed completion and park operations, and Disney held the finished ride for a symbolic date: October 1, 2021, the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World and the 39th anniversary of Epcot itself. Preview rides were held for annual passholders and other groups in the weeks beforehand. Like other recent major openings, it initially used a virtual queue before moving to a conventional standby line.
In November 2025 the ride closed briefly, from November 10 to 13, to convert its screen sequences from 3D to 2D projection. Riders no longer wear 3D glasses, and some figures and props were refreshed during the same closure.
Experience
The queue crosses the rooftops of Paris at night, passing the window of Chef Auguste Gusteau, whose image appears to encourage Remy as he decides what to cook. Riders then board vehicles shaped as rats, seating six in two rows of three, and are made to feel that they have shrunk to rodent scale — a conceit carried through the ride by oversized props, from corks and jars to brooms and mop heads.
The vehicles use a local positioning trackless system: there is no rail or slot in the floor, and vehicles move, turn and regroup in choreographed patterns guided by sensors, similar in principle to the systems used in Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway. The ride combines these movements with dome screens, physical sets and in-vehicle effects including heat, mist and food scents.
The story follows Remy's attempt to cook under Gusteau's roof while avoiding Chef Skinner and the health inspector. Vehicles dart across the kitchen floor beneath the ovens, are swept along in the chaos of the dining room, escape through the walls following the film's rat colony, and arrive finally in Remy's own small restaurant for rats, where the meal is served and the chase ends peacefully.