Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy ("Ratatouille: Rémy's Totally Crazy Adventure"), also known as Ratatouille: L'Attraction and Remy's Ratatouille Adventure in Epcot, is a motion-based trackless 3D dark ride based on the 2007Disney/Pixar animated film, Ratatouille, at Walt Disney Studios Park and Epcot.[1] Epcot's version of the attraction was released to celebrate Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary.
Disneyland Paris officially announced the attraction in March 2013.[2]
The attraction was revealed as part of internet rumors of an expansion of Walt Disney Studios Park's Toon Studio area. Other rumors about the expansion included a reincarnation of the popular Toy Story Midway Mania! attraction to be put in the operating Toy Story Playland. Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy is one of the biggest additions to Disneyland Paris; its show building is similar in height to that of the expansive Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at the neighboring Disneyland Park, and cost an estimated $270 million to complete.[3] Following the initial rumors, articles on the Internet surfaced concept paintings, ride blueprints, and images of the first phases of construction, confirming that there would be such an attraction.[1] The attraction was partially conceived by the Imagineering team as a modern equivalent to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride with significantly more physical sets in early modelling stages before projection media was deemed more practical.[4]
The attraction was formally announced in March 2013 at the Euro Disney S.C.A. annual shareholders meeting, with construction completed in June 2014. On June 21, 2014, the attraction was officially inaugurated by the president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger. The attraction fully opened to the public on July 10, 2014.
On October 12, 2020, the opening of the Epcot version was delayed to October 1, 2021, since the opening had already been postponed indefinitely following the closure of the park due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[5]
In August 27, 2021, following Disneyland Paris' reopening, Walt Disney Studios Park announced that their version of the attraction was set to become part of Worlds of Pixar.
Ride[]
In Walt Disney Studios Paris, the attraction's exterior is that of Gusteau's restaurant, and the surrounding buildings of the Parisian plaza. In Epcot, the exterior resembles a theater with posters of the different characters lining the walls. the sign for Gusteau's can be seen above the plaza.
Entering the building, guests soon find themselves on a Parisian rooftop at night, with the Gusteau's sign looming above them. There, the Gusteau sprite greets guests both in English and French, telling them that Chef Rémy is preparing something special for them. Heading further into the queue, guests then ride through an artist's studio and through the walls, the environment seemingly getting bigger as they are shrunk down to the size of a rat.
At the load area, guests board their "ratmobiles" and set off across the rooftops to Gusteau's restaurant, arriving right as Rémy and his imaginative Chef Gusteau trying to decide what meal they shall serve the riders. After deciding on their famous Ratatouille dish, Rémy and the riders fall through a swinging roof glass-pane, winding up on the restaurant kitchen floor. Panicking, Rémy leads the guests and other rats through the kitchen, dodging falling produce as Linguini tries to keep the other cooks from seeing them. Hiding under a cart, Rémy and the guests duck into the food vault, where Emile and the other rats are eating the food inside.
Heading back onto the kitchen floor, Rémy and the guests find Linguini trying to keep Chef Skinner distracted, even sweeping the rat and the guestsunder the hot oven.
Escaping the heat, guests pass under a service cart and end up in the dining area, attracting unwanted attention from customers when Skinner notices them. As the customers panic, Linguini, now dressed as a waiter, pushes the guests' cart towards the wall while blocking Skinner, giving them a chance to escape. Running through the walls, the rats and guests are pursued Chef Skinner as he attempts to grab them, even pushing his hand through the wall. However, Skinner's pursuit is halted when his hand gets stuck on some rattraps, and the rats and guests finally escape. In the end, the group makes it safely to Rémy's kitchen, where the rats are hard at work alongside Chef Colette. An opened wine bottle then sends the guests sliding backwards into the dining area, where Rémy thanks them all for coming.
The ride ends at the Bistrot Chez Rémy restaurant, where guests are bid farewell by the rat colony (and the imaginary Gusteau) and invited to join in the meal as their ratmobiles move to the unload. At Epcot, however, guests proceed directly to the unload, returning to their normal size as they exit.
Technology[]
The attraction uses LPS trackless ride technology, similar to Pooh's Hunny Hunt (in Tokyo Disneyland) and Mystic Manor (in Hong Kong Disneyland), which uses rat-shaped vehicles to automatically slide across the ground with no track. It also contains 3D dome segments of the ride that the vehicles ride into.
