Sivako! Deep in the jungle of Pandora at Animal Kingdom, you’ll find Avatar Flight of Passage.
Since its opening in 2017, this attraction has been the most popular in Animal Kingdom and is the focus of most people during Rope Drop, as they try to get in before the long lines. While this ride is great, here’s what Disney should really do to change Flight of Passage.
1. Supply Better 3D Glasses
These style 3D glasses are every glasses wearer’s worst nightmare! When you get them in your hands, they look cool and modern, but keeping them on your face is a different story. They barely fit over glasses, and because they’re so narrow, if you’re wearing glasses, you can’t push them back enough on your face to stay.
Rides like Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure and Star Tours use the same style, and they just don’t work.
Older-style glasses, like those used in Muppet Vision 3D or Toy Story Mania, are perfect to use! The frames are big enough to fit over glasses and work just as great for the 3D style.
2. Make More Comfortable Seats
We know the idea of getting on the back of a banchee sounds amazing, but once you’re strapped into it and your back is pressed against the bike, with your calves squeezed, you might want to hop off.
TRON Lightcycle / Run has similar chairs where you climb on, like a bike. Besides these just being uncomfortable to straddle, they also aren’t accommodating of all body types and disabilities.
An amazing feature that Tron has, that Flight of Passage doesn’t, is a few trains with normal seats in the back. You can sit in a more traditional roller coaster chair and have a lap bar pulled down in the front.
Flight of Passage desperately needs an option like this to help more people enjoy the ride.
3. The Lightning Lane Queue Should See the Same Things as the Standby Queue
An iconic part of Flight of Passage is passing by a full-sized Avatar floating in a tank. We don’t know if his name is Hank or Jake, but he gives you a pretty good idea of what cool things you’ll be seeing on the ride.
Unfortunately, if you use the Lightning Lane queue, you don’t get to see him — or really anything!
It’s great to skip so many parts of the queue, but it’s so disappointing not to see him. It’s a very impressive animatronic that everyone should get a chance to enjoy.
While we love Flight of Passage, these changes would make the ride even better! Keep following AllEars for all of your Disney news and content.
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What changes do you think Flight of Passage should make? Tell us your ideas in the comments!
The glasses use a different tech to the old style and as a glasses wearer never had an issue with them
Never had an issue with the seating either.
Agree re the lightning lane but the rest is just blah…meh.
I like accommodation for other people. I don’t currently need these but I’ve been many many times with others that do. It’s uncomfortable for them because I will get off a ride if they can’t be comfortable. Then they feel stressed that I’m not riding certain rides. I always tell them that I’m an annual pass holder and go often but it doesn’t make them feel any less embarrassed.
But the seeing the entire queue when you are whizzing past a line is sort of ridiculous. Ride it in LL to enjoy the fast pace. Then ride it later to see the queue. The queue is there to entertain guests that could be waiting up to 2 hours to ride. There is always times where a ride freakishly suddenly has a 25 minute wait when it was 2 hours earlier. Just my 2 cents. For the most part, I agree with thinhs like
wearing 3d glasses over your glasses. I don’t have that problem myself but half the population does. Just things for imagineers to consider that wouldn’t be hard to fix so all people can enjoy any ride or show.
I had just recently experienced that same embarrassment, my calves were too big to get strapped in and it held up the process, and my husband didn’t get to ride because I wasn’t able to ride. It was so humiliating.
I agree about the lightning lane and the single rider lanes. There are parts of the experience that are missed. The 3-D glasses are a bit off. But the style of the “seat” is part of the experience, it’s the position you’d be in if you were REALLY there
I disagree with the exception of seat size. I wear glasses and have probably ridden 50 times since open with no issues. While the que is great also have no issues not seeing it if doing lightning lane. The seats, I’ll give you that while fine for me at 5’9 175lbs I can understand it could be an issue for some.
I’ve never been able to ride it, over several visits. Every time I try to ride with my family, my swolen lymphodema legs prevent the bar locking into place, so I end up waiting for them in the room they send you to when you don’t fit. They always give me a few free LLs for my trouble. 🙁
Flight of passage needs a full seat rework. If your tall your knees will not allow you to get on the ride. I’m 6ft tall but with long legs. My knees hit the inside far sooner so I could not get far enough forward for the back brace to get up apparently. So I was forced off the ride even after paying for a LL.
Seriously? This is the best new set of “rules” that can be suggested for this massively overrated ride? The average wait time for this ride on any given day is almost two hours–for a ride that’s over in a minute or two. The queue is absolutely abysmal. It’s boring, dark, cramped, non-interactive. No one should be hyping this ride any more. If the queue is over 50 minutes, just don’t bother and spread the word. The reason the queue continues to be as long as it is is because visitors stubbornly insist on telling everyone they know how great this rider is without earning them it’s absolutely NOT WORTH WAITING TWO HOURS IN LINE FOR. There’s actually nothing wrong with the ride itself, it’s just worth waiting more than 65 minutes for. And the seats? If you can’t fit into those seats than so eating so much ice cream.