Great Movie Ride for 4 and 2 yr old?

[tlbwriter]

I took my 5.5 yr old on the advice of my sister and her 12-yr-old, who insisted it wasn't scary at all. WRONG! Wrong for my DD, that is. She was frightened by pretty much everything. But some kids love it. It just depends on what your child is afraid of. If you're in doubt, I'd skip it - it's not that interesting anyway!

 

[Took]

Knowing how kids might react to "gunfire", an alien, and small skeletons does certainly help. My suggestions, talk through it things like the gunfire focus on gangster talking to your tour guide. For the skeletons at the end of the Indiana Jones bit, talk about something else, it is really brief and you basically drive right though it.

However, please be very considerate of others with the talking thing. The last two or three times we've been on the ride, parents of scared or excited children talked (in normal to loud tones) all the way through the "scary" (and funny) scenes, loud enough that we were forced to listen to them instead of the ride's soundtrack or the CM. That's just not fair to others who want to enjoy the whole experience. Talk things out ahead of time--that helped our DD (and cuddling through the scarier parts).

took

 

[WDWprincessloyola]

Can someone confirm where the alien comes out in that scene? I don't want to be giving out wrong information by saying that it comes out of the right hand wall. I know at one time it came out of the ceiling, but I was there two years ago and it came out of the wall.

I completely agree about the talking too loud. Yet I still believe that talking (quietly) might help, I know I still do it.

 

[waltdisneyworlddreamer]

If you're in doubt, I'd skip it. It's better to skip one ride than ruin the rest of the trip. At other parks, if my DS got on something and got scared, he would not ride anything else. There are many more appropriate attractions that they would enjoy!

 

[jnrrt]

I want to know about the alien location too - when we were there he was still in the ceiling, but he didn't pop out like he had before (that used to totally freak me out, LOL - that's why I was sure my daughter would not handle that scene and made her close her eyes), just sort of hung there up in the ceiling and looked drooly. I though he wasn't working properly at the time, but maybe they were changing something? I don't remember anything on the right wall, and Sigourney was there terrified as always on the left. But it's been a bit over a year. Anyone have updated info on this scene?

 

[Took]

The alien comes out of the ceiling and the wall most of the time. I think the ride operators have tried a few combinations on this matter--sometimes the alien doesn't come far out the of ceiling, sometimes it does. Same for the wall alien (on the right hand, BTW). I don't know that this is deliberate (since it could be just that the alien is broken that day) but I think so.

Took

 

[Disney_1derland]

The alien comes out of the ceiling and the wall most of the time. I think the ride operators have tried a few combinations on this matter--sometimes the alien doesn't come far out the of ceiling, sometimes it does. Same for the wall alien (on the right hand, BTW). I don't know that this is deliberate (since it could be just that the alien is broken that day) but I think so.

Took

Interesting I've NEVER seen the one in the wall and the one in the ceiling just barely moves down at all. I've been on the ride dozens of times! I feel cheated! well, I will keep that in mind before taking dd on it again because that would definitely ruin it for her!

 

[jnrrt]

Interesting I've NEVER seen the one in the wall and the one in the ceiling just barely moves down at all. I've been on the ride dozens of times! I feel cheated! well, I will keep that in mind before taking dd on it again because that would definitely ruin it for her!

Yeah, a few times that I've been on, the alien just jumped out of the ceiling right at us - seemed like it was usually toward the second ride vehicle. I could have been so startled that I didn't see the second one. But it definitely lost some punch when it didn't jump out like that. Of course, I thought it would, so the anticipation may have been just as bad, . It doesn't really make a specific noise, though, so with her eyes closed, I thought my daughter would be fine (and she was).

 

[Bama mom to 3]

It came out of the ceiling for us too, and it really came out, not just a little. So maybe it all does depend on where on the ride you are.