Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure

A Recipe for Excitement

In this 4D ride experience, join Chef Remy on a daring culinary caper that will captivate all your senses as you zip, dash and scurry through the bustling kitchen, dining room and walls of Gusteau’s famous Paris restaurant. C’est magnifique!

“You guys, the food is for them, not you!”

Nestled in a new area of the France pavilion behind the Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along theater is one of EPCOT’s newest attractions: Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure. Imagineers kept the quaint theming of the streets and their welcoming shops and facades that lead guests back to this extremely popular ride. 

Guests enter the show building and wander the halls filled with quaint mementos and short visual projections inside of picture frames before donning 3-D glasses for what Disney refers to as a 4-D experience. The load zone itself is so steeped in theming, it’s hard to believe that the attraction gets even more immersive once guests board their trackless “rat mobiles” on the rooftops of Gusteau’s restaurant and head off on their adventure. 

As this is a Disney ride, of course things go haywire, and before guests even have time to relax and enjoy the view, they take a plunge into a chaotic kitchen where Remy attempts to escape under an oven, which gives off actual heat and the smell of baked goods to riders as they follow Remy through a mixture of 3-D projections, simple background silhouettes, and what appears to be free-form movement throughout each room that contains no standard track for vehicles to follow. All ends up well with an escape through a vent and witness a healthy helping of ratatouille being prepared to serve Gusteau’s diners.

Behind the Schemes:

Before opening, rumors persisted that Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure would be a carbon copy of the attraction found in Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris, Remy’s Totally Zany Adventure, and though quite similar, the Local Positioning System (LPS) trackless ride technology allowed Imagineers to change things up a bit even if the set designs and film footage is roughly the same.

Construction on Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure moved surprisingly fast after it began in 2020. While Tron Light/Cycle Run seemed to take forever to assemble, Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure was completed in just under a year (according to Disney sources). An amazing feat for an entirely new section to be built as an addition to the France pavilion.

EPCOT’s Universe of Energy attraction was the first on property to use the trackless system that at the time used a wire buried under the floor to guide it to its next destination in the show building. The Hollywood Tower of Terror was the next to use the technology to move elevators to-and-from their shafts and into the unload zone.

Reality Check:

While Ratatouille is Patton Oswalt’s only full-length Disney film (providing the voice for Remy the Rat), Brad Garrett (Gusteau) has a long list of Disney films he has worked on: A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo, and Tangled to name but a few. 

The French dish of ratatouille is a stew made up of differing ingredients but is commonly found with an assortment of vegetables (tomatoes, onions, eggplant, etc.) and is believed to originated in 1877 the geographical region of Provence. The dish was largely ignored worldwide but gained a new-found popularity with the release of the 2007 film.

Food critic Anton Ego is not seen in the attraction as the character’s voice was provided by Peter O’Toole who died of stomach cancer in 2013.

As rats are common carriers of Salmonella and the sometimes-fatal Orthohantavirus, it would be a good idea to not allow one–no matter how cute–into the kitchen, let alone have it preparing meals in an open area.