“Everything RUNAWAY RAILWAY Isn’t” – Tom’s Honest Review of Tokyo’s INSANE Beauty & The Beast Ride
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Tokyo DisneySea discussion
2:14 Tokyo Disneyland’s Fantasyland expansion
4:33 Happy Ride with Baymax
7:47 The Big Pop
8:47 Minnie’s Style Studio
10:13 Mickey’s Magical Music World
13:45 Maurice’s Cottage and surrounding area
17:04 Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast
41:20 Exit
42:20 Closing thoughts
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31 Comments
Are you planning to visit Japan?
Great breakdown of the trackless deficiencies of the US parks, love your channel.
Tom, thank you so much for this great video. I have not ridden The Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast yet but I had seen videos of it when it first opened. I cannot comment on your opinions about the attraction specifically since I have not experienced it in person but when you spoke about the quality of The Tokyo Disneyland Resort you took the words right out of my mouth Tom.
I have visited the Tokyo Disneyland Resort on three separate vacations so far. I was planning to visit it a fourth time but the blasted covid-19 pandemic delayed my vacation plans unfortunately. I loved Tokyo Disneyland but DisneySea completely blew me away every time that I visited it. Just like you said, the Tokyo Disneyland Resort shows what Imagineering can do if the suits and ties in Burbank would let them. It is disheartening and frustrating (as an American Disney park fan) to see the projects that US Disney theme park fans have to settle for when the parks in Japan always constantly get the best – time and time again.
It is nice to finally hear from a Walt Disney World fan and loyal guest about how much better some things are at Tokyo Disneyland. I have said that ever since my first trip to Japan several years ago and then I usually get lambasted online from Disneyland and Walt Disney World fans because they just cannot accept that the Japanese parks might possibly do things better than the US parks. (Note that in almost every one of these discussions that I've had, the Disneyland and/or Walt Disney World fans have never been to Tokyo Disneyland.) It's like they cannot come to grips with the possibility that the "little" Tokyo Disneyland Resort could do things better than "The Original" or "The Biggest."
My personal suggestion, as a fellow Disney theme park fan, is that you must, must, absolutely MUST visit the Tokyo Disneyland Resort. There is no other Disney theme park like the ones over there, particularly DisneySea. If you do like I have done and put the money that you would have spent on Disneyland or Walt Disney World vacations and put it towards a Tokyo Disneyland vacation instead, you'd be amazed at how going to Japan is actually possible. As an added bonus, since The Tokyo Disneyland Resort is completely owned by Oriental Land Company, none of your hard earned money will line the pockets of the suits and ties in Burbank. Well…OLC does pay licensing fees to The Walt Disney Company but you get my point – most of your money goes directly to OLC and not to Disney. (Take that Bob Chapek!)
In a perfect world, US Disney park fans would demand better and do like I have done and refuse to spend any of their hard earned money at the US parks until the suits and ties in Burbank open their wallets and pay for high quality like what Oriental Land Company has done and is doing in Japan. Sadly though, as shown by my conversations with fellow fans about what is "the best" Disney theme park resort, US Disney theme park fans keep their minds closed and continue to pay for lower quality in record numbers. I keep hoping that one day more US fans will get to visit the Japanese parks, open their eyes, wake up to the fact that they have been paying more for lower quality for a long time, and demand better. So far, hope is all that I have in that regard.
Thank you Tom for doing your best to show US Disney park fans what they are missing out on. Hopefully people will open their minds and demand better from the suits and ties in Burbank. Since you have a very public forum Tom, your words and opinions carry way more weight than mine and hopefully will make a difference. I'm just a lowly Disney fan in California.
the beast transformation is peppers ghost i wouldnt call it a projection
Thank you to the Oriental Land Company for showing us all what is possible without Iger/Chapek screwing things up.
It’s not projection mapping it’s a peppers ghost
Ironically I've heard plenty of other vlogs and reviews give this ride the exact same complaints Tom gives to MMRR – and specifically lots of poorly utilized empty spaces, etc… But I think this ride looks great – and I also absolutely LOVE MMRR, I got emotional the first time I rode it and the song still gets me. I also think it will be fantastic fit in Disneyland's Toontown.
This ride is my favorite and I was able to go on for 7 times in a row when it first opened! yall have all the reasons to go to tokyo for your next vacation: ticket is only about $60, everything is SO cheap (1 JPY = 0.0069 USD which is INSANE), and Japan just opened it's borders to anyone!
Literally seeing Tom practically on the verge of tears talking about how not only the animatronics are just plain awesome, but also getting excited about human versions of the servants AS animatronics for literally the first time makes me sooo happy and excited!!! Thank you sir! It really does need to be said that yeah Disney CAN make greatness, but choose not too, makes me so angry. "Paycheck" can just go hide up a tree.
Why does Disney hate America so much that they have no interest to go old school Imagineering.
Thank you Tom for an frank and honest discussion. Sure you and I could have hours long conversations regarding what Disney can and should be doing. Perhaps one day I’ll get to visit Tokyo.
Sounds like Tokyo Disneyland is where peak Disney World was back in the 90s. I really want to visit someday. How was the language barrier with cast members? Were you able to make your way around and get help if needed?
It’s a cultural thing… Japan has a culture of fine-tuning details. Little things matter to them that are overlooked in the USA.
I'm jealous of Tokyo. They have better theme parks.
Great review. I agree with Tom. Hard to get quality attractions at WDW when you have a head honcho like Cheapek.
I love they started the ride with the show stopping number. what a banger of an opening to a ride!
I am totally blown away. So amazing.
I'm visiting Tokyo Disney in March and we'll see. But I really don't agree with your assessment of MMRR at WDW. I really like it.
That's cool, I've never noticed the projection mapping on the floor! I'm looking forward to seeing it the next time I fly down to Tokyo Disneyland
I disagree. The Beast Ride would be very successful and understood in America.
Japan has announced they are fully opening up to tourism on October 11. If true Me my wife and pops are planning to go middle of May after golden week for a 4 day trip to TDR (have not been since the opening of soarin). This ride has me so excited to see and with the yen at 144 we have been buying up a bunch for this trip. Also going to finally go to Fuji-Q highlands which has been a bucket list park for a long time.
why cant be have rides like this in the USA?😥
I agree Remys is not imersive to me. they don't event have the projections go on the floor. and there is only two physical sets.
Tom I’m super motion sensitive. Looks like these beautiful bowls rock and spin quite a bit. I can’t ride the tea cups. Did anyone seem to be having trouble with motion sickness. Thanks for taking us along! 😊
Great review. And I also wonder what your opinion is about Hong Kong Disneyland’s Mystic Manor trackless ride which I thought was quite good as well in a smaller scale compared to Enchanted Tales of B&B.
Didn't Tokyo Disney stop all vloggers? I want to go in 2023 but if I can't video vlog I won't go any ideas what the rules are?
I don't understand why you think it wouldn't work for an American audience. I would love the Beauty & the Beast ride with all those details and animatronics. I am scared they are going to ruin Splash mountain and take out the animatronics and replace them with screens. Screens are such a cheap cope out and I'm sick of Disney giving us screens instead of advanced animatronics.
We keep paying more and more money to go, and they keep giving us things on the cheap.
I live here in Japan and went to TDL earlier this month and I can say, as a person who doesn't care about Beauty and the Beast this ride was the best Disney ride hands down. The Castle was amazing to look at and the pre show room really does a good job in getting you into the world that you are about to enter.
Wow. A great review of what appears to be a great ride. What do you mean that it wouldn't ever work in the US? Or do you mean that the main company would never build it? Don't they understand that other companies will dissect the ride and build better? Oh wait, that's what OLC did. Sigh.
Absolutely the most beauful I've ever seen in all the attractions. 😮😍💗 My mouth dropped when I saw the crisp and clear visual of the beast transforing into the prince. I was blown! 😯
I was very disappointed with Runaway Railway but even more disappointed by Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure. That Beauty & the Beast ride looks amazing 😮