Sci Fi dinner scary?

[nannye]

I have a rather timid 5 year old. would she be scared at the sci fi diner?

 

[Momto2PrncChrmgs]

We took our very timid 4 yr old last year and he was fine. He thought the movie clips were silly (and he was scared of everything else in the park). I was a little nervous about taking him but thankfully he was fine.

 

[Pakey]

Same experience here. When we took our 4 year old grandson, he was afraid of everything in the parks. He even had to be removed from Muppets 3D. He enjoyed Sci Fi.

 

[gretchenohar@hotmail]

I agree with the pp's.
M 7 yr old grandson was getting a little nervous while we were waiting to be seated - BUT he & his 5 yr old sister both ended up loving it!
They thought it was the BEST place we ate during our vacay. (And mind you, we had ADR's at HDDR, 50's PT, CRT, LC, Sanaa, and Yachtsman...)
It wasn't scary at all! He just thought it would be (looking at the posters, etc in the waiting rm.).
The food was decent too - not anything to rave about, but good for burgers, fries, & shakes.
HTH

 

[Disnut4925]

Some of the movie clips have big fake-looking monsters in them. Certainly not scary for adults but maybe some kids...also it is dark in there, maybe some children would not like that? Fun place though, for most I would think. And a really good chocolate peanut butter dessert!

 

[MamaToDavis]

Agreed...our 4 year old loved it. It was one of his favorite meals of the trip.

 

[brettcw23]

I have a rather timid 5 year old. would she be scared at the sci fi diner?

You should be okay. We did it last time. The films are ridicuously cheesey and not very scary, even to the most timid of kids. The ambience is enough to distract from anything remotely frightening. Word of warning though...the place is very cool and we'll do it again, BUT....the food is marginal at best. I thought we may have just had a bad experience, but upon further research, that's a common review of SciFi. Stick to the run of the mill sandwiches and you'll be okay. They did have an AWESOME milkshake.

 

[AshleeH]

My 5 year old is scared to go to movies in the theater (particularly hilarious because we own a movie theater and he won't set foot inside the auditoriums and hasn't for two years) so when we walked in to Sci-Fi and I saw the screen, I was terrified he would start panicking. Just the opposite - he loved watching it and was so into what was on the screen, he didn't want to get up for any reason.

I don't think you have anything to worry about - she would see scarier things on commercials on her favorite channels.

 

[Micca]

I agree with the others here. What may have been scary to children in the 50s barely registeres with kids of 2012.

 

[vicb]

The lone dissenter here... when my DS was 5 we ate there and he was very uncomfortable. He didn't like "dark rides" much and he found the clips to be scary. I think it was a phase he went through because now it seems silly and our DD who was 8 thought it was a hoot. But at the time it was not the best thing for him and I clearly remember him asking "will someone rescue the lady mom?" after the swamp monster carried her off screaming.

It is a cute restaurant and a fun theme. Thankfully he out grew all that and had many happy "dark" adventures at WDW.

 

[sarmat1]

All kids are different, so there's no way to really know. My DS3 loved Sci-Fi even though he otherwise had problems with lots of dark rides and shows. Sci-Fi is a uniqure atmosphere - there's really nothing scary there. However it is dark. I needed a flashlight to read the menu and pay the bill.

 

[Darkside]

It's hard to say. What is your kid scared of?

 

[nannye]

Thanks for the advice everyone, i think she would be fine, but we decided to do 50's prime time instead.
thanks
erin