The woman who kicked off the DIY Ratatouille musical on TikTok has gotten a sneak peek at the new Ratatouille ride at Walt Disney World.
Disney has given New York teacher Emily Jacobsen, who musically declared her love for Pixar's aspiring chef in a TikTok post last summer, a walk through tour of part of the new Remy's Ratatouille Adventure dark ride, now under construction in the expanded France pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase.
Jacobsen's original post went viral on the social media platform, inspiring others to create their own Ratatouille-themed songs. Eventually, a group of those creators came together to produce Ratatouille, the TikTok Musical, which will stream on January 1, 2021 at 7pm Eastern. Tickets will benefit The Actors Fund, a 138-year-old charity that benefits actors and backstage workers in theater and other performing arts.
As for the preview of the Ratatouille attraction, Disney's video does not reveal anything that I and other reporters did not get to see when we took our own walk through tour of Epcot's Ratatouille ride one year ago. So I would not take this latest publicity event as proof that a soft opening is imminent.
Disney has said that it will open Remy's Ratatouille Adventure in 2021, but has not provided a more specific date. The attraction's basically been ready to go for some time, but with park capacity limited due to the pandemic, Walt Disney World doesn't exactly have much incentive to drop an expensive new attraction on the public until it can accommodate more visitors to the resort.
By the way, we have a Theme Park Insider TikTok account now. If we can get 100 subscribers, we'll start dropping some videos, so please follow us over there, too, if you're on that platform.
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Did you need a hard hat when you were inside the show building a year ago? It makes me think there’s no active construction still happening.
When I first read the headline “TikTok star”, I thought great! Another ‘celebrity’ who really doesn’t deserve the title. I’ll honestly never understand why these TikTok/Instagram people and ‘social media influencers’ are admired and looked up to. It appears that narcissism is good thing, now!
However, when I read about this particular person, I got a different sense about her. She won’t be making any ‘how to eat a KitKat” videos, anytime soon!
Note to self: Open TikTok account and work on song based on Guardians of the Galaxy and or Tron.
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Judging from the overwhelming amount of replies on this article I'd say there are not that many tik tok tpi readers.