Hunny Pot Spin
| Hunny Pot Spin | |
|---|---|
| Park | Shanghai Disneyland |
| Land / area | Fantasyland |
| Type | Spinning teacup ride |
| Opened | June 16, 2016 |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Height req. | None |
| Status | Operating |
Hunny Pot Spin is a spinning ride in Fantasyland at Shanghai Disneyland, themed to Winnie the Pooh. It is Shanghai Disneyland's equivalent of the Mad Tea Party teacup ride found at the other Disney castle parks, restyled so that guests spin in oversized honey pots instead of teacups. It opened with the park on June 16, 2016, as part of a Winnie the Pooh cluster in Fantasyland alongside The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh dark ride.[1][2]
History
A spinning teacup ride had been an opening-day fixture of every previous Disney castle park, always themed to the Mad Tea Party scene of Alice in Wonderland. Shanghai Disneyland already had an Alice in Wonderland presence in Fantasyland in the form of the Alice in Wonderland Maze, and for its teacups it chose a different story. The park's Fantasyland was built with an unusually strong Winnie the Pooh presence, centred on The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and the spinning ride was themed to match its neighbour: the pots Pooh uses for honey, labelled "hunny" in Pooh's own spelling, as the honey jars are labelled in the stories and films.[3]
The result was the first teacup ride in a Disney castle park not themed to Alice in Wonderland. The attraction's styling draws in particular on Pooh's honey obsession as celebrated in the 2011 animated film Winnie the Pooh, and it opened with the rest of Fantasyland on the park's opening day, June 16, 2016.[4][5]
Experience
Guests board large honey pots arranged on a rotating platform beneath a canopy strung with beehives that appear to drip honey. Each pot is painted as if honey were oozing down its sides and is labelled in English and Chinese. As on the teacup rides it derives from, the platform's rotation carries every pot around the ride's centre while each pot can also spin on its own axis: a wheel in the middle of the pot lets its riders choose how fast, or how slowly, they spin, so the same ride can be a gentle turn for small children or a much faster whirl for guests who keep turning the wheel.[6][7]
Bees woven into the canopy hum the Winnie the Pooh theme as accompaniment to the ride. Hunny Pot Spin has no height requirement, and Rider Switch is available, which together with its position next to the Pooh dark ride makes it a staple of Fantasyland itineraries for families with preschool children. Because the spin rate is in the riders' own hands, it is also one of the few Fantasyland rides whose intensity varies entirely by party.[8]
See also
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Alice in Wonderland Maze
- Shanghai Disneyland
- List of Shanghai Disneyland attractions
References
- ↑ Lijst van attracties in Shanghai Disneyland. Wikipedia (Dutch). Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Hunny Pot Spin. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Winnie the Pooh at Shanghai Disneyland: Rides & Characters. Disney Park Nerds. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Shanghai Disneyland Attractions and Entertainment Guide. The Disney Specialist. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Hunny Pot Spin. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Hunny Pot Spin. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Shanghai Disneyland Rides & Attractions. Shanghai Park Guide. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Winnie the Pooh at Shanghai Disneyland: Rides & Characters. Disney Park Nerds. Retrieved 2026-11-14.