Ratatouille: The Adventure
| Ratatouille: The Adventure | |
|---|---|
| Park | Walt Disney Studios Park |
| Land / area | La Place de Rémy (Worlds of Pixar) |
| Type | Trackless dark ride |
| Opened | July 10, 2014 |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Height req. | None |
| Status | Operating |
Ratatouille: The Adventure (French: Ratatouille : L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy) is a trackless dark ride at Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris, based on the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille. Guests are shrunk to the size of a rat and join Remy, the film's rat chef, on a chase through the kitchen and dining room of Gusteau's restaurant in Paris. It opened to the public on July 10, 2014, following a dedication and soft openings in late June, as the centrepiece of a new Parisian mini-land, La Place de Rémy.[1]
History
The attraction was formally announced in March 2013, after several years of rumours about a major addition to the Studios park's Toon Studio area. It was the park's largest investment since opening, and deliberately French in subject: a Pixar film set in Paris, built in Paris, in a park that had long been criticised for feeling generic. The whole Place de Rémy area was designed as a love letter to the city, with Haussmann-style facades modelled on Parisian boulevards and a fountain plaza, alongside the attraction, the shop Chez Marianne and Bistrot Chez Rémy, a table-service restaurant themed as the rats' own bistro, where guests dine at rat scale among oversized plates, cutlery and bottle-cap chairs.
The ride proved successful enough to be copied. A second version opened at EPCOT in Florida on October 1, 2021, as Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, in an expanded France pavilion, for the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World; its opening had been delayed from 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] The Paris original, initially part of Toon Studio, was grouped into the Worlds of Pixar area in 2021.
Experience
The queue crosses the rooftops of Paris at night, passing the window of chef Auguste Gusteau, whose ghostly image — as in the film — encourages Remy. At the boarding area the floor tiles and the scenery grow larger as guests shrink, and they board six-person, rat-shaped trackless vehicles, nicknamed Ratmobiles.
Using a local positioning system, the vehicles move without a track, travelling in groups, spinning and sliding between oversized physical sets and large 3D screens. Remy and the riders drop through a skylight into Gusteau's kitchen, are chased across the kitchen floor by Chef Skinner and his staff, dodge a mop, pass through the dining room and a pantry, and escape through the walls before arriving at Remy's own restaurant, where the rat colony is dining. Effects include heat from ovens, splashes, and the scent of food. The Paris ride exits beside Bistrot Chez Rémy, so the story continues directly into the restaurant — an element the EPCOT version does not have.
The attraction has no height requirement and offers single-rider and paid Premier Access queues alongside its standby line.