Ariel's Undersea Adventure

[Cadaverous Pallor]

You're telling me there's NO THREAD for this ride? I don't care where everyone else's posts are buried, this ride deserves its own thread.

There be spoilers here so if you don't want to be spoiled, do not continue.






FANTASTIC. Amazing mix of AA and projection technologies. Brought the movie to life in surprising and fun ways. The motion on some of the AAs was easily the best I've seen, especially Ariel's moving "underwater" hair in the first AA. This ride is going to be the benchmark for many years to come.

We've been telling the muggles for years that Winnie-the-Pooh is a cheapo craptastrophe and they always say things like "it's cute, it's just a ride, etc." Ariel seems to be very similar in layout and ideas but you can see the massive difference a budget makes. It's such a shame that Pooh didn't have any money to make it a ride for the ages.

I really hope they have learned their lesson from this.



The line was 2 hours when we showed up a half hour after opening, with the queue snaking down to the Corn Dog Castle, all the way through the World of Color viewing area, more switchbacks in front the building, then around the side past Grizzly and practically to the beginning of Condor Flats. We wandered off disappointed, as there was no way Theo would put up with the wait (or that we would, either). We messed around in the Challenge Trail for a while, and when we came out, a lady asked us if we'd ridden the Mermaid ride yet. When we said no, she offered us her hotel fastpasses, as she was leaving. Just like that, we were able to skip the brutal line and be on in 5 minutes. One hell of a lucky day!