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Ellen's Energy AdventureDark rideAbout Ellen's Energy AdventureJoin Ellen DeGeneres as she travels through time to explore the past, present, and future of energy in a nearly 40 minute seat-down dark ride. Join Ellen with her neighbor Bill Nye the Science Guy as you travel back to the time of the dinosaurs, where you will visit some of Disney's biggest audio-animatronics ever created. Along the way you will also run into Alex Trebek and Jamie Lee Curtis. A great attraction for the afternoon when the family is looking to take a break and need a rest. Though never a really long wait. And should be fun for the whole family, with the dinosaur scene possibly a bit too scary for some toddlers. This is a hilarious,educational attraction that is enjoyable for everyone. -- Last edited by Christopher Combs [Update this description | Read previous versions] Photos from Ellen's Energy Adventure
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This is both entertaining and instructional. Ellen is excellent as always and makes this a fun thing to do........particularly when those legs get tired after walking around EPCOT. Wait times are non-existent and, once loaded, the carriages trundle off through various areas. Nice. - Rob P This is both entertaining and instructional. Ellen is excellent as always and makes this a fun thing to do........particularly when those legs get tired after walking around EPCOT. Wait times are non-existent and, once loaded, the carriages trundle off through various areas. Nice. - Rob P Another Epcot ride that should be put out of our misery. Dull and slow loading. - Mark Moore A nice attraction to take a break and learn a bit about energy. The ride starts in a large room with Ellen DeGeneres playing jeopardy. After that its on to the ride vehicles where you see a large screen and then go to visit some scenes that feature animatronic dinosaurs. After that there is more of Ellen and Bill Nye the science guy on those big screens. This attraction is fine but I think it's a bit too long. It's about a 45 minute attraction so make sure you have enough time to experience this. Anyway this will never have more than a 15 minute wait so get on this when all the other rides have long waits or when you feel like getting out of the sun for a while. - Manny Barron Great concept with the vehicles and seems like its going to be a great ride once you start moving. After that it kind of slows down and gets boring. - roger murdock I love everything about the Disney parks except for this ride and Stitch's Great Escape. This ride is 45 minutes of pure, unadulterated torture. The "educational ride" aspect may be a good concept, but Ellen's Energy Adventure does not portray it as such. Instead, it takes "education" to absurd extremes. When I went on this ride, ten minutes into it, I was already begging and pleading to get off, but I couldn't. I was trapped - trapped in a horrible dimension I couldn't get out of. The person sitting next to me soon fell asleep, most likely out of sheer self-defense, and proceeded to snore loudly throughout the remainder of the ride. The little boy behind me kept informing us all about his urgent bathroom needs, which he had no hope of taking care of any time in the near future. And who could blame either of them? After waiting in line for what seems like ages, you're unsuspectingly thrust into an atmosphere more frustrating and difficult to cope with than the line itself. This ride forces you into a mentally exhausted state, thus preventing any sort of learning experience whatsoever. The most boring of school days can't even compare to the incomprehensible boredom Ellen's Energy Adventure brings to the table. Families come to theme parks for fun and excitement, not for mental pain and suffering. How could an epic ride like Horizons be closed down, yet this poor excuse for an attraction be allowed to remain? It is one of life's mysteries that may never be explained. - Miranda Hopkins The first time is kind of fun. After that, the video portion seems way too long to justify the dinosaur animatronics. - ed snopse I like this attraction for what it is, but they could have left the "people" out of the dinosaur land. That just upped the cheese factor. But, the update to the pre-/post-show (adding Ellen, etc.) makes it more bearable then when it first opened. - Amy Tupper
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