Tokyo Disneyland’s $200 Million Dollar Beauty & The Beast Dark Ride 

As French. Really jealous. Tokyo Disney keeps getting better. Better future upcoming rides. Speaking of which, Beauty and Beast is a French Fairytale. Supposed to be set in our DLP

true that

Yeah, it makes me really jealous how good theme park enthusiasts have it over in Tokyo. Hopefully someday the top brass at Disney will let the other parks (especially California and Orlando's parks) actually have meaty budgets for these kinds of experiments. Those parks just feel like gift shops nowadays.

@@WaddleDee105 if they take the quinjet e ticket ride for avengers campus off of indefinite hold and actually build it in the next 10 years I hope it lives up to the hype. Because I heard they cut the budget for it, and that will probably make the entire ride suck. But if they actually make it on the same level as rise of the resistance that would be awesome

On top of building these amazing rides their maintenance is top notch (unlike America's parks where every ride seems to be falling apart and have at least one broken animatronic these days). I hope you get to go someday, it really blows away any other disney park, and this is coming from a diehard fan of Anaheim's OG castle park.

The strict budget is indeed there. OLC doesn't just hand over a blank check anymore.

IKR?

Yeah in America no because of strict codes and dumb regulations in building bigger and lawsuits and what not.

Bro have you never been to Orlando DisneyWorld?! I've been there 6x.

Tokyo Disneyland is managed by Disney and all the attractions are designed and built by Disney Imagineers. It's just owned and funded by the Oriental Land Company.

This is closer to explaining what actually happens in that scene. I've been on this attraction at least 20 times and have carefully studied this particular effect during the ride.

There's a malfunction video of this ride which the prince stuck during rising

Yep, even in the first glimpse of the effect you can see the prince rise up through the floor during the sequence.

Came here to say this.

Really? I want to ride it.

I kinda wish they'd add somekind of snowfall or throwing snows "aimlessly" mimicking what belle and the beast did in the movies tho.. that would be fun

@@vanada116 It may cause cleaning problems. Imagine you ride this at night and Belle's face is covered with fake snow 😂😂😂

@@alishanightshade3270 there're many kind of ways to make it happen without having such problems.. that's why i said "somekind of".. but i get your joke😂

@@alishanightshade3270 and of course there would be puddles of water on the floor if they used real snow (by using a water pipe that goes into a cold tank that creates snowballs), causing animatronic malfunctions (unless the skin and clothes don't soak up water) and maybe slipping of the ride vehicles' wheels, and also possible slipping hazards if an evacuation was ordered

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Definitely agree but one small correction-ReviewTyme also covers other theme parks,not just disney

couldn't agree more

my last disney land tour was year 2000, when i was working in Japan 🇯🇵 really amazing!

We love it so much that we get on it 4 or 5 times in a row lol

Japanese people love that though :')

Belle looks so on model it isn’t even funny. I love it

I'm curious about the new huge expansion coming to Disney Sea with Tangled, Frozen and....Peter Pan?

It’s because they care about their guest. Disney does not. They stopped caring when they got rid of Eisner.

I heard the new Galaxy and Star Wars rides are good. I hate when rides use screens! Liberals are destroying everything we love

Dont You americans have enough?? Here in other countries we dont have as many rides bruh

@@watermelonlover745 Buddy this is anything but the Political left's work. Its just pure unfiltered corporate greed that is so common amindst the 21st century with every major corporation that side of the atlantic trying to squirm as many pennies out of everyone's pockets as effectively as possible, while doing the least amount of effort. They have mastered the game of capitalism to the point of unfiltered greed and zero consideration for anyone or anything, and it is unacceptable.

I think there's more than one way to use trackless vehicles. I see this ride as a close cousin of shows like Carousel of Progress and America Sings. However, instead of the audience rotating around the show scenes, the audience moves through the show scenes, giving it a modern twist. But fundamentally, this is an animatronic show with multiple scenes.

Have you let the Imagineers know, I'm sure they would appreciate your comments, maybe take you on board as you know so much?

@@electronics-girl There absolutely is more than one way to use trackless vehicles, the problem is you need to work around their issues in order for them to work. Rise is a pretty good example of this. Trackless vehicles need space and a lot of flat ground in order to operate. So instead of building a large floor with sets around the vehicle like what other trackless rides do, Disney created sets that were smaller, closer to the ride vehicle and sets with props in the middle of the room (AT-AT room). It doesn't work perfectly, but it solves a major issue with trackless vehicles and negative space. I can see what you're saying with Carousel of Progress and America Sings, but it doesn't solve the core issue with trackless vehicles, negative space. Every ride vehicle has its positives as well as its negatives, the key is to identify a ride vehicle that brings the most positives to a ride while introducing the least amount of negatives. CoP and AS direct your attention to the center stage and, unless the guest looks around, always face the guest in one direction regardless of whether the stage is turning or not. Beauty and the Beast on the other hand spins around but does so without paying attention to the surrounding area. Look at the "something there" scene for example. They spin guests around and run them around the room which is cool, but it detracts from the storytelling since there are only two points of interest in the scene - Belle and the Beast. In the movie, there is large a focus on body movement, eyes, and gestures (on top of the music) to tell a story, but in the ride, you are either too far away from the scene or too busy spinning that it becomes extremely hard to tell the same story unless you're familiar with the movie. Thats one of the many key difference between a rotating show building and spinning around a room in a trackless vehicle. There are a few more issues this ride creates with trackless vehicles, but negative space and poor show are the two main ones.

@@zarajenkins6948 I am 100% sure that the Imagineers know this is an issue lol, the people working on the ride are much smarter than me easily. There are creative and business decisions that happen higher up in the grapevine that most of us probably know nothing about. If anything, I'm just a guy that visits theme parks and that complains too much

I totally agree, as much as I liked the ride it’s actually a bit boring, especially compared to Pooh’s honey hunt. Especially the snow scene and even the ballroom scene, you literally just circle around the room the whole time. I was also surprised that the attack scene was so rushed. It was a good ride and all, but I really didn’t get the hype.

What did you do there?

I hope you make it back some time. The level their parks are at is really an incredible, and they continue to make improvements. I’m looking forward to seeing what it’ll be like there after Fantasy Springs and the Tomorrowland remodel are complete

@@honeyfromthebee Wow, I haven't heard about those updates!!

@@donaco Peter Pan, it was an amazing experience.

@@troytrotter1569 I'm positive it was.

Fingers crossed you can get over there soon 💙

My birthday is the same!

I almost wish that all of the Disney parks were independently owned, with The Walt Disney Company just providing licensing and Imagineering. It's a model which has worked well in Japan, although I don't know if it would work as well elsewhere, or if there's something unique about the Oriental Land Company. I also don't know if there are differences in American and Japanese business culture that make American companies more focused on short-term profits, and Japanese companies more focused on long-term growth.

Just playing devil's advocate here but why should Disney invest any more money into their US parks? The rubes keep coming anyway, no matter how bad they get and how much they cost!

Whatever

Or the Princess Fairy Tale Hall or Seven Dwarfs Mine Train… just a suggestion ofc

@@NinthShinigami I do like Seven dwarfs mine train attraction so it should stay

They'll replace whatever doesn't make money so I don't see it replacing the restaurant. Restaurants and space for merchandising is great when you think about it: guests don't have to queue or ride rides to be entertained. Disney just gets to milk them for more cash. Tomorrow Land should make a ride for the fat-future-scooters from Wall-E where people can buy food bags. I would think they'd put it in World Showcase France but that already has Ratatouille. Hollywood Studios maybe? Anyway it would have to replace something that doesn't make money or distract people.

@@otomicans6580 Not a lot of people like the Enchanted tale with Belle attraction

We haven’t experienced it yet, but we really want to!

I've been a few times (annual pass) The land is amazing but honestly the mario kart attraction is a bit lackluster

Tokyo in general is worth the trip. Disneyland is just a nice day trip.

That's not so bad. It costs less than HALF of Galactic Rewind and I'd certainly rather have this in a Magic Kingdom park than that.

I agree on that, especially the outdoor snow area, it’s really bland.

Good to hear well rounded perspective. Maybe it will evolve in the following years.

it would be better with bigger ceilings and the lighting fixtures hidden with scenery ; the reason haunted mansion rides can get away with small rooms is because it's dark so people don't notice it

Yeah that's my issue with trackless rides. Always feels too open. With tracked rides all the scenery surrounds a much smaller footprint. I'd rather be able to see where the ride is going to go than see a mass expanse of grey concrete.

I was gonna say - it just looks… stark.