Frozen Ever After

[Tobias]

Frozen Ever After Audio-Animatronics to Ditch Rear Projected Faces at EPCOT, Update Coming Soon

Walt Disney World has announced that it will be updating the Frozen Ever After Audio-Animatronics to remove the rear projected faces at EPCOT

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I'm shocked.

I wonder if Tokyo funding the R&D for the sculpted heads might have aided in them doing this, either way the fact they're replacing the rear projected heads is a pretty good sign they're moving on from that. (Especially with the Clawhauser AA in the upcoming Zootopia show being a fully sculpted figure and not having the projected eyes that the AA's in the Shanghai ride have.)

And honestly? Good. The rear projected faces never really worked for me for both 7DMT and FEA*, they don't look good in photos or videos, and in person they weren't that impressive to me either. Nothing that would justify having over a regular fully sculpted face. The only time they're noteworthy is when they glitch, and that's not the best sign if something has to be busted in order to look neat.

* = There are some applications where I'm fine with them, notably MMRR.

 

[Freak]

Pleasantly surprised they’re doing this. Good on them.

Doesn’t change the fact that this ride is still mid and by far the most overrated at Epcot.

 

[Cup_Of_Coffee]

I got lucky one night with a 35 min wait time that was really only 20-25, and I loved the ride. It’s not perfect, the faces are weird but they’re now gonna be changed, idk if I love it in Epcot, but with a short wait it’s a really fun ride honestly and the score is obviously a highlight.

That said the line is just never that short so, yeah. I’m still glad they’re plussing one of their most popular attractions less than a decade into its existence though. Shockingly loving a lot of the WDW stuff going on right now.

 

[Mad Dog]

I got lucky one night with a 35 min wait time that was really only 20-25, and I loved the ride. It’s not perfect, the faces are weird but they’re now gonna be changed, idk if I love it in Epcot, but with a short wait it’s a really fun ride honestly and the score is obviously a highlight.

That said the line is just never that short so, yeah. I’m still glad they’re plussing one of their most popular attractions less than a decade into its existence though. Shockingly loving a lot of the WDW stuff going on right now.

If you catch it during the opening half hour for onsite hotel guests, it's mostly a walk on except for Holiday weeks....But, yes, during the day,
it's almost always at apx. 35 to 45 minutes non Holidays. If we want to ride it, we go there first early morning 1/2 hour and can usually get back to back rides if we want. With Guardians, Rat and now the new Test Track, it's no longer the Prime opening half hour attraction. The early crowd splits
into four ways now.

 

[tielo]

I got lucky one night with a 35 min wait time that was really only 20-25, and I loved the ride. It’s not perfect, the faces are weird but they’re now gonna be changed, idk if I love it in Epcot, but with a short wait it’s a really fun ride honestly and the score is obviously a highlight.

That said the line is just never that short so, yeah. I’m still glad they’re plussing one of their most popular attractions less than a decade into its existence though. Shockingly loving a lot of the WDW stuff going on right now.

I also got lucky one night but I leave it at that.

I think Disney saw a change to do a 2 for 1 with the Paris version and decided to replace the problematic projections faces and that is a good thing.