The boats and riders then accelerate backwards down a small dip, passing images of Elsa creating the ice palace. Two gates open and guests see Elsa, who is singing " Let It Go" while conjuring ice. Guests soon pass a singing Anna and Kristoff, while Sven sits on the side with his tongue stuck to a pole. When they reach the top, they find Olaf ice skating and singing " For the First Time in Forever", failing comically with the lyrics. Riders next ascend a lift towards Elsa's ice palace. Guests then pass Grand Pabbie as he recounts the story of the film to a group of young trolls. Riders next board a boat and sail off into a winter wonderland, where they encounter Olaf and Sven greeting guests with a rendition of " Do You Want to Build a Snowman?". Guests travel through Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna, where they find Oaken in the sauna waving to them. To celebrate the event, Elsa bestowed an "Official Summer Snow Day" upon the Arendelle citizenry, inspiring the amusement ride.Īdvertisements promoting the winter festival are visible to guests as they queue for the ride. The Frozen Ever After ride commemorates the anniversary of the day Princess Anna saved her sister, Queen Elsa, from an attempted aassasination with an unselfish act of true love, thus thawing a frozen heart and ending the eternal winter.
Epcot employees gave out ice cream and water bottles to guests in order to cool off in the hot sun. On opening day, the wait times were over five hours long, as the lines started in the China Pavilion. On May 20, 2016, Disney Parks revealed that the attraction would open June 21 that year. While there are no new songs in the attraction, some of the original songs from Frozen have revised lyrics written by the original composers. The Audio-Animatronics are also the first ever all-electric Audio-Animatronics, with previous Audio-Animatronics using either pneumatics or hydraulics. The Audio-Animatronic figures for the attraction feature improvements in facial animation that were first used on the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, which opened in 2014 at the Magic Kingdom. To me it doesn’t seem out-of-character at all." ĭisney also released the first details on the new attraction and revealed its final name, "Frozen Ever After." The attraction uses the same ride vehicles and course that was used for Maelstrom. On responding to whether converting a portion of the Norway pavilion into an attraction based on a fictional place was appropriate for World Showcase, Staggs stated: "If the goal is to give people a taste of something like Scandinavia with the Norway pavilion, then Frozen would only increase the extent to which people would be drawn to it. In June 2015, then-Disney Chief Operating Officer Tom Staggs revealed that plans for a Frozen attraction were discussed prior to the film's release, but were accelerated after the film's worldwide success. Maelstrom's final day of operation was October 5, 2014. On September 12, 2014, Walt Disney World officials announced that the Maelstrom attraction would be replaced by an attraction based on Frozen.