In Japan "Frozen" was a huge success by different reasons from the US, beginning by the title: "Anna and The Snow Queen". They consider Anna as main character, not Elsa, and the devotion of an imouto (baby sister) to her oneesan (older sister) in the movie is highly valued in Japanese society. The other reason is unfortunatelly a tragedy. Anna's Japanese voice actress Kanda Sayaka was a very talented musicals' actress and she passed away while on national tour with "Frozen the Musical", when she was playing Anna on stage with all shows sold out in advance. This amazing ride will surely get locals emotional.
Sayaka Kanda was on a national tour as Eliza in My Fair Lady. The case remains a mystery and puzzling to this day. She was a wonderful actress who also played Cosette in Les Miserables and Elle in Cutie Blonde and is greatly regretted.
@@aotake-zx9rl thank you for correcting my info. I hope the park keeps the songs in their Japanese dubbing voices, they are perfectly matched and it's a lovely homage to the musical star Sayaka was.
the plot twist really surprised me! it was an act of true love indeed but not between lovers but sisters! i think the managed to capture the highlights of this wonderful movie brilliantly!
First a fall it's not ice queen its elsa and anna and second I love them did you saw them did you take a picture did you stay with them did you touch Elsa's ice power's????
i have seen brief snippets of when a ride is malfunctioning but this really captured the immense beauty and complexity of the ride! i am completely blown away by what's possible these days...
Lots of people wanting to know how the cape works, but I'm more interested at the fountains at 2:10 work. The transition from flowing to frozen is so smooth~
i think i know how. so its like the ice spikes are facing the opposing side and the front side is projection mapped. so with the spike side litteraly rotates to your view while the projection water goes away...
This and the Peter Pan ride was the best overall for Fantasy Springs. Rapunzel Lantern was good but a little to short, but still worth it especially the last scene which for me is the best of all in terms of experience.
Japan always amazes me I find it impressive that Disney Theme Parks were an American thing, and yet Japan had no problem taking it a step further on their own and putting 101% effort in to everything, even for something simplistic like this
It’s sad how there’s really no point in even going to the American parks anymore. It’s a waste of money. The international ones are so far ahead and you get way more for the price.
@@Sam-fb5xe agreed. Nothing like Epcot's except for the Ice Palace seen. This Tokyo version is a complete retelling of the story, while the Epcot one is so chopped up due to having to fit into an existing ride format... RIP Maelstrom.
Overrated as I feel the first film was, this attraction absolutely blows me away with its storytelling and visual beauty. These sets and animatronics are top-notch, and even if I can't understand the language the voices are clear, the words articulate, and a joy to hear. I think the parks here could learn a thing or two from Fantasy Springs... no fan should be denied an experience this amazing just because of where they live.
No Japão, "Frozen" foi um grande sucesso por diferentes razões dos EUA, começando pelo título: "Anna and The Snow Queen". Eles consideram Anna como personagem principal, não Elsa, e a devoção de uma imouto (irmãzinha) à sua oneesan (irmã mais velha) no filme é altamente valorizada na sociedade japonesa. A outra razão é, infelizmente, uma tragédia. A dubladora japonesa de Anna, Kanda Sayaka, era uma atriz de musicais muito talentosa e faleceu durante uma turnê nacional com "Frozen the Musical", quando ela estava interpretando Anna no palco com todos os shows esgotados antecipadamente. Este passeio incrível certamente deixará os moradores locais emocionados.
I thought it was going to be another frozen ride or take from frozen ride, but really it didn't. I think the only thing it took from Epcot's frozen was the trolls start, an Olaf animatronic or two being in similar poses, the let it go section and that was it. Majority was all original.
This is a phenomenal video. I just wish closed caption Japanese to English translation was available. My heart is simultaneously leaping in joy and broken. The joy is for my children and their children who will experience this ride for decades to come. My heart is also broken for the realization that Disney by the Sea was a project that was originally proposed by the same advocates, investors, and team for the Port of Long Beach in California. Had the narrow political and misguided interests not failed this measure, these rides would be in English and have American enjoying them. However, there is something tremendously poetic and inspiring to hear "the past in the past.... let it go" sung in Japanese. The land of the Rising Sun brings animatronic excellence, artistic metaphor, and hope to the 21st Century. Sugoi!
Not necessarily. The reason that Tokyo gets these attractions is because the park is operated by the Oriental Land Company and they just pay Disney licensing fees. Because Disney doesn't have to foot the bill of attraction construction, and essentially forces OLC to adhere strictly to what Imagineering designs without cutting corners in order to build the attractions, they wind up with way better experiences than anything stateside. Disney is notorious for building things on the cheap in the states and most attractions that eventually open pale in comparison to how they were originally designed.
@@acabblm64but aren’t the animatronics all developed by Disney in the us? So practically everything is American designed/engineered , but paid for by the OLC? Wish they could run the European Disney aswel 🥹 but it’s in Disney’s hands.
Projects are developed by imagineers in the US but built in Japan by Japanese engineers and artists. They are shokunin in essence, Tokyo Disney is magic with omotenashi.
@@crisjapopcris1564 but aren’t the components all designed by and owned by disney? One video stated that Disney has an exclusive right to use animatronics from this company they have been working with for years. So its also build in the us and shipped to Tokyo to install?
So when Japan created new rides, they retail the movie story. Great choice! In America we get princess and the frog boring story about going to a party. No bad guy. No story.
These on a technical level are very impressive meanwhile for the one in America they have those projection faces which just looks off and quite jarring and low quality to be frank as the Japanese ones are more high quality.
Our park in California will never look like this because Disney uses the excuse of “nostalgia” to not have to invest money into the park and update it.
There is a very emocional attachment in Japan to the Frozen features due to premature passing of musical actress Kanda Sayaka, who played Anna's voice. In Japan the animation was titled "Anna and The Snow Queen", they consider Anna as main character, not Elsa. Young Sayaka passed away while on tour with "Frozen the Musical", when she was playing Anna on stage with all shows sold out in advance. If you see locals leaving the ride with teary eyes, that's the reason.
Sad to see that nobody is writing that you have to pay extra for those rides. Went today with my friends, we bought our park tickets months in advance only to get told today that one needs to buy online either stand-by passes or priority passes in advance, which is nowhere written down either on the official disney tokyo site or any other trip advisor pages as well. And if you're looking to maybe get them now, be prepared to see them sold out until the official opening on the 6th of June.
The effects and animatronics are absolutely INCREDIBLE but something about this ride feels off. All the sets are super empty and the staging/timing of most scenes is awkward. It’s like this was meant to be a trackless ride but then they changed it to be a boat ride for some reason.
This did a great job, I think. It's basically Pirate's ride system and it's a bit faster but those big boats and big channels need a lot of room that is hard to fill. If you consider, it's telling the movie in order, and some of those pauses were just for mechanical timing. It's a bit like Pirates with it's big scenes but a bit more kinetic. I think they did a good job interpolating projections and animations, and actually figured out how to make Maelstrom's pivoting direction-changes work well, putting a scene in front of the boat while it's paused. Using the slow lift - which would normally be a dead-space in the ride - as an opportunity to fit in the entire intro to "Let it Go" was actually kind of genius. And I found it kind of hilarious that Epcot's version is basically only the _middle third_ of this.
@@hanonondricek411 The main difference between this Frozen ride and Pirates is that on Pirates each scene is full of details and everything is on a loop. None of the scenes feel empty, there is always something to look at, and it doesn't feel like they're trying to squeeze in dialogue because the dialogue never ends. With this ride you're mostly drifting by as the scene takes place and you leave the room while the characters are finishing their dialogue. You feel less like you're apart of the story and instead like you're accidentally stumbling from scene to scene. If they wanted a constantly moving ride vehicle like the boats but also wanted to tell a story they should have set up the ride like Journey of the Little Mermaid. That ride tells the story of the movie but each scene is constantly looping, works with the ride system, and is full of movement. The new Tangled ride also at Fantasy Springs actually did this and it feels WAY less awkward compared to the Frozen ride. Like I said, this attraction's effects are groundbreaking and gorgeous, but if they wanted timed scenes they should have used a different ride system like trackless ride vehicles.
