NEW! Rainforest Cafe the Ride | ONLY Rainforest Cafe with a Ride | New Animation Projection! 2024 

For it to be at a restaurant and not a part of a major theme park is pretty impressive!!

It would have been more interesting if there was a section where you go into the actual restaurant and passed by a couple of tables.

The ride could really use a surprise (gentle) thunderstorm along the way - like what happens while you're dining in the restaurant. It needs just a bit more excitement, and that would help. Perhaps the storm could even happen at random times, so you don't really know where you'll be on the ride when it happens.

This is pretty cool! They just need to increase the frame rate on the projection animations and turn down the volume of the elephant sound effect.

They finally showed it some love?!?!? I guess I can go back now. Like its not perfect and nothing too fancy but they hadn't given it any care in a long time so it makes me happy none the less.

This is everything I'd hoped/expected a Rainforest Café ride would be. I must ride it now.

I think this is great! Every rainforest cafe should have this!🎉

Interesting. Maybe they should add dining to the ride too, just put a table in the middle of the ride vehicle lol.

this was actually so much better than what i was expecting

"This palace stood on its own not connected to a Wetzels Pretzels or a Lids store where in 2011 they sold so many baseball caps with superhero logos" -Eddy Burback

That looks so fun! I would love to ride that. I like the trick waterfall towards the end. Ha ha. I'm really missing The Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney Anaheim. Celebrated so many birthdays and holidays there. It shutdown during Disney's attempt to put another hotel in. Construction was halted indefinitely after the city of Anaheim said the hotel was ineligible for tax incentive rebates. It reopened as a Star Wars Trading Post.

In my day the waitress just gave you some crayons and a paper place mat 😂

Seems like a nice gentle ride with lots to see, a bit of escapism. Just right for someone a bit older than the average kid, like me.

they did a great job but the projectors are on the celing making the seats in front of a screen as well.

Legends of the Hidden Temple the ride 😂😂😂😂😂😂 if you know what I’m talking about 🙌🏼😂

I love how the projection shines on the seats of the raft as it goes by! 😂🤣

Seems like a ride to get away from the heat for a while.

Someone at a meeting really said: “You know what our restaurant is missing? A theme park ride”

Projections just shine right in your face.

We've got all these animatronics from our shuttered Mall locations, let's use them to make a ride!

This gives off OG Disney vibes, I love it.

It's like they got a discount on orange light bulbs. I remember when rainforests were green.

It's wild this exists but they call it projection mapping when it's not. These are just regular projections. No scaling at all so everything just warps on surfaces. And the elephant constantly trumpeting my goodness... Flawed but I'd ride it nonetheless.

I rode this over the summer in 2024, and my kids, who were both nine and six, loved it.

the projection mapping at the beginning needs some help with alignment, especially shouldn't be shining on people in the boat. otherwise this ride looks like a blast, not too bad at $7

いつも世界のアトラクションを見せてくれて、ありがとう。 私は貴方のおかげで海の向こうにいつか行ってみたいと思える。

Was really hoping for a spookier burial chamber scene towards the end, but I guess it’s for families.

Well, clearly, this ride has been upgraded since the last time I was there

So 1 million dollars for projection mapping and 0 pennies for animatronics Yes

I know my next family vacation destination.. lol so campy.

Ride looks cool and fun

Man why did they use the river rapids design if they’re not any rapids could’ve made it into a boat ride shape

I didn't realize that they updated it. Now I need to make a trip back to Galveston.

I think they should reduce the ambient lighting by like 25% and ditch some of the silly animations, BUT the ride does look great with a lot of care put into it.

There used to be more Rainforest Cafe restaurants but they are overpriced and have mediocre food. And I don't know about other locations, but the Rainforest Cafe that was in the mall near me, The animatronics were never fixed and looked after, so everything just stopped working eventually which sucked because it was cool to see them all move. I especially loved when the storm would come and the lights would dim and it would rain, lighting flashing and creatures making noises.

Finally, i can not only hear the elephant, but also see it clearly. 😂

I do like the “Eye of Mara” moment

6:04 If that motion detection turning off the waterfall ever fails, riders are gonna be /livid/ 😂😂😂

Why is this so good?

I've never seen animatronics scream 'please help me get out of here' before like that.

Looks like fun!! Also, I just remembered watching a RU-vid video of someone visiting every single Restaurant Cafe in America.

The vulture sounds at 5:02 stayed thats all matters!!! If you know you know!!!😂😂😂😂😂

I think little ones would love this, they don't care.

Creative use of the resources they had. The projection effects give a lot more motion for a lot less cost and maintenance than trying to physically create even half of that. Good job, guys! I'd love to ride this.

Love it! Rainforest Cafe always reminds me of my childhood!

This Rainforest Cafe Ride looks very impressive

At 0:54 a parrot flies in on the screen then 1:04 it just randomly disappears 🤣

That’s a very nice touch - enhances the whole experience.

I’m surprised they didn’t do something like this for the Rainforest cafe in Disneyland Paris, it looks almost like this inside with all the animals coming to life every so often

As disney quits maintaining their crap and letting all the animatronics and effects stay broken. This ride might actually surpass a disney ride in a few years.

Gotta love the weird rides on this site!

Nice 👌

Definitely an improvement over any of their food.

That’s so cool ride

Even to why I love rainforest cafe, chuckiecheezes and reasons to keep ‘em running even at the malls they are at even from Boston to Las Vegas to Chicago,etc

That’s so cool

This is 🔥🔥🔥😮‍💨

I want my money back and I wasn't even there. Like everything Rainforest Cafe, it was subpar for the price. I get that RC is supposed to cater to kids, but even I wasn't impressed with the restaurant when I was kid.

Reminds me of the old Piraten in Batavia

The set looks very good for a restaurant ride, only the animatronics look weird but that’s okay

That first area kinda feels like someone found out about projection mapping like a week ago, and just threw a ton of projections into the mix to spice things up, but without really understanding how to use them in an organic and integrated way. Cool ride, otherwise!

Next time we head out there we’re gonna have to do this again

This is so cool! Love the Rainforest Cafe 😁

The animatronics look cool

oh yes ive worked here. Galveston Texas in 2013!

I think it would have been extra cool if this took you to the actual restaurant part and there was a waitress dressed like they would be in the jungle to take you to your seat!

In the netherlands we have fata morgana (park: efteling) it opened in 1986. The animations of fata morgana are still better than this 2024 created ride. They could have done way more!

Looks peaceful

Hear me out...you have to ride this to get to your table loll

Great upgrade! How many times can you spot Cha-Cha, Ozzie, Rio, Nile, Tuki, Bamba, Iggy and Maya hidden throughout the ride?

About what I would expect from a RFC. That ceiling tho. 😬

did they refurb this or did they just add projections

Tourist Trap, the ride. Run parents, run!

Its actually.....not bad. I like it. Darn shame its only in Galveston.

amazing theming

I agree with whoever said "no seatbelt?" 😅

a slow rapids ride with no drops. just like small world a slow boat ride at Disneyland with no drops.

They should serve food on the ride 🤙

This would've been better if it was a flume ride instead

Please Build A NEW Rainforest the Ride at Universal Studio in Los Angela and Universal Studio Orlando 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

Nice theming, wished it was a lot more of a soaker ride.

Sounds Like A Woolly Mammoth

Hmmm... Kept waiting for it to transition to the ride normally associated with that mode of transport. No white water rapids... they should have kept that waterfall turned on at least. LOL

It's funny how the projections just cut off at the square edges of the projector and they don't try to blend it in in any way

Well they spent a lot of money on it. Like reader below noted the ambience would have been better served with some silence punctuated by localized animal sounds instead of the audio overload with the perpetual elephant braying. Better to have fewer, better articulated figures than limited-motion animals stacked side-by-side like cordwood; IRL they would have eaten each other. And enough with the overused tacky projectors, just use orange lights for dusk and maybe project some slowly-moving clouds. Old school Disney imagineers could have made this E-ticket with that budget.

Request: Le Pays des Contes de Fees at Disneyland Paris

Why would they use those seats it's like an avatar log ride lol

And why didn't you want to look at the waterfall???

It is a JUNGLE in there!

Nice

I wish it was a boat ride and not a raft ride. It’d be so much easier to see everything in a boat vs having your POV dependent on where the raft is positioned.

I wonder what would happen if,since Halloween is happening,the Rainforest Cafe did a walkthrough haunted attraction thingamajig,i think the old Jekyll and Hyde Club over at New York did that,and in Denver,Colorado,Casa Bonita did something like that with Black Bart's Cave(which was made famous by that episode of South Park),so why can't Rainforest Cafe do a haunted house like around Halloween or anytime probably for the adolescent or teen audience who want cheap thrills and are obsessed with all that horror crap,so it would draw more customers and compete with the haunted house market,anyone agree or have any ideas or what?

The plsce to eat dinner is way better

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Where is this located? I'm curious.

confused as to why it's a rotating rapid-style ride system and not just a normal boat when a boat could fit more people and would fit this slow-moving ride with no thrill aspect way better.

So do the wait staff swim to you?

Hopefully I didn’t miss but where is this ride located at

Who else on here agrees also thinks this ride set looks like Nickelodeon legend of hidden game show set cause it looks too simular

The forest isnt that green. And at one point the whole wall is a projection