Little Mermaid Ride Details - contains SPOILERS!

The Little Mermaid is one of my all time favourite Disney films, having grown up with this classic I am obviously anxious to see the new dark ride that is coming to Walt Disney World as part of the Fantasyland Expansion Project. Here are details that have been released about this exciting addition which is due to open 2013 at Walt Disney World and 2011 in Disney's Califorian Adventure (hope to see it on our 1 year anniversary in 2012!)

 

SPOILER

Loading Area: Panaoramic mural featuring all the main characters from the film.
1) Sebastian (Crab) & Scuttle (Seagull) set up the ride's back story
2) Submertion scene - environmental (cold air blasts) and visual effect to give the feeling of travelling under the sea
3) Part of Your World - guests travel through Ariel's treasure grotto
4) Under The Sea - Sebastian friends entertain guests with the famous song.
5) Poor Unfortunate Souls - Guests enter the lair of the Sea Witch and her 2 pet eels performing the magic to turn Ariel human
6) The next area guest ascend and come out of the sea.
7) Kiss The Girl - Eric and Ariel are in the rowing where they share love's first kiss
8) A storm brews as Ursuala gets angry that the contract is broken and Ariel can remain human
9) The finale scene is a closely guarded secret but will obviously be the happily ever after.
Unload Area: Ariel are in their Castle waving, King Triton is in the Sea Waving with Sebastian.

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After finding these details I am still very excited about how these scenes are going to come to life, though only thing that saddens me a little is the way they have changed the story at the Kiss the Girl scene, but these details are not set in stone so it could work out fine, I'll just have to see when I visit it in 2012...

If you have the 2006 Special Edition Release of the DVD amongst all the extras you can see some of the early ride concept sketches!