Ariel's Undersea Adventure

[innerSpaceman]

I'm so glad someone else noticed the similarity between Pooh and Little Mermaid. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about the layout and sensibility struck me as the same - even though Mermaid succeeds while Pooh fails miserably. Perhaps it was the "get it" room, which in this case was the Under the Sea number. A great room, but the trajectory of the ride path was so similar and though the set was fantastic, they made little effort to disguise that it was a "room." (For a room where everyone was singing Under the Sea, I thought bare and obvious office ceiling was a little bit of a cheap-out.)


Don't get me wrong. I love the ride. It's adorable and fun. Ursula is great. The Prince Eric AA's are strangely hot for robots. And I like the departure in dark ride storytelling, in that this seems to be revue of the movie's musical numbers - which tells the story in an awesome way - but very different from, say, Peter Pan or Snow White.

The queue and ride building details are beautiful, too. Can't wait to see the place at night.


Oh, and while it might be advisable to pass this by while the mania lasts, I found it to be the fastest moving line in the entire resort - being the only solely omnimover ride currently in operation. This bodes well for everyone's long-term enjoyment. This will be a fast wait on a regular basis.