Ratatouille L’Aventure
Combining Disney storytelling The Disney dark ride with a uniquely French flavour savoir-faire with original 3D
media content, real-life props and a ride system used only once before anywhere else in the world, Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy shrinks passengers to the size of a rat and whisks them off on a crazy, culinary- themed adventure. This unique attraction celebrates one of the biggest stars of the Disney-Pixar animated movie Ratatouille – Paris. So where better to find it than at Walt Disney Studios Park, Disneyland Paris? And what a perfect attraction to kick off Park World’s annual dark ride review. Here Disney Imagineer and show design/production manager Björn Heerwagen tells us more about this elaborate, action-packed attraction which – unless you've ridden it 72 times – is never quite the same
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atatouille L’Aventure is an e-ticket attraction but it’s not a thrill attraction; it’s a family e-ticket. However the quality of the show is up there with
Walt Disney Studios Park favourites like Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster or Tower of Terror. Its opening last month is in line with the ongoing development of the second park in Paris over the past few years and the tie-in with Pixar we already have there with Toy Story Playland. As the Ratatouille movie is such a love letter to Paris it seemed only natural that we would wish to create this attraction here. We have got the real Paris just 40 minutes down the road, however we are not trying to
reproduce that; we are recreating the vitality of the film which, after all, is an animated movie. The building facades and the whole of Place de Rémy are therefore a wink to Paris. For the guests, one third of whom the city while they are at Disneyland Paris, it’s very authentic in relation to the film. We never really thought about making the attraction interactive. Interactive attractions are more participatory, but not necessarily more immersive. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish for your guests. If you look at Toy Story Mania, for example, the game play is part of the attraction but
RIGHT: La Place de Rémy, with Bistro Chez Rémy to the left
36 AUGUST 2014
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