It's Tough to Be a Bug!
"It's Tough to Be a Bug!" | |
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Status | Operating |
Opening date | April 22, 1998 |
Disney California Adventure | |
Area | A Bug's Land |
Status | Removed |
Opening date | February 8, 2001 |
Closing date | March 19, 2018[1] |
Replaced by | Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure (Avengers Campus) |
Ride statistics | |
Attraction type | Flik |
Disney Genie+ Lightning Lane Available | |
Assistive listening available | |
Closed captioning available |
It's Tough to Be a Bug! | |
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Directed by | Chris Bailey Andrew Schmidt |
Written by | Kevin Rafferty |
Produced by | Pixar Animation Studios |
Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Release dates | Florida: April 22, 1998 California: February 8, 2001 |
Running time | 9 minutes |
It's Tough to Be a Bug! is a 9-minute-long 3D film based on the 1998 Disney·Pixar film A Bug's Life, using theater lighting, 3-D filming techniques, audio-animatronics and various special effects. Flik, a character from the movie, hosts the show and educates the audience on why bugs should be considered friends. It was the first Pixar attraction to open in a Disney park.
The attraction opened in
At Disney California Adventure, the Bug's Life Theater was in A Bug's Land. There, the queue passed through a replica of Ant Island before heading underground, where the column appeared the same as the one at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It was initially part of the Bountiful Valley Farm area of the park until A Bug's Land was built around it.
Production
About a year before the opening of Animal Kingdom, Disney Imagineers had decided to place a show inside the park's centrepiece Tree of Life but struggled to find an acceptable concept. Disney CEO Michael Eisner suggested a tie-in with the upcoming Pixar film "A Bug's Life", and the creative team developed a story based on the characters from the film. Visual effects studio Rhythm and Hues was brought in to produce the 3-D animated portion of the show. In contrast, Disney special effects teams created the rest of the experience, including animatronic characters, wind, water, and foul smells.[5][6]
Summary
Queue
At
The lobby music overture consists of insect renditions of Broadway musical numbers.Attraction
After the theatre doors close, an announcer advises the audience not to buzz, sting, pollinate or chirp during the show. Flik the
An explosion is heard in audio-animatronic form as Hopper the
Flik reappears and says that he forgot to mention the
Cast
The cast includes:[2]
- Dave Foley as Flik, an ant.
- Andrew Stanton as Hopper, a grasshopper.(Stanton reprises the voice doubling for Kevin Spacey, who originally voiced the character in A Bug's Life)
- Cheech Marin as Chili, a Mexican redknee tarantula.
- French Stewart as The Termite-ator, a termite.
- Tom Kenny as The Dung Beetle Brothers, two dung beetles.
- Jason Alexander as Weevil Kneevil, an acorn weevil.
Music
The attraction's titular theme song was written by George Wilkins and Kevin Rafferty and is included in the disc "Theme Park Classics" of the Disney Classics compilation box set. The show's score was composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton, while much of the queue music was arranged by Wilkins. The queue features parodies or renditions of songs from famous Broadway shows using bug sounds.
- "One" (A Cockroach Line), a parody of "One" (A Chorus Line)
- "Beauty and the Bees" (Beauty and the Bees), a parody of "Beauty and the Beast" (Beauty and the Beast)
- "Tomorrow" (Antie), a parody of "Tomorrow" (Annie)
- "I Feel Pretty" (Web Side Story) a parody of "I Feel Pretty" (West Side Story)
- "Hello Dung Lovers" (The Dung and I), a parody of "Hello Young Lovers" (The King and I)
- "Tonight" (Web Side Story), a parody of "Tonight" (West Side Story) mixed with Flight of the Bumblebee
See also
- The Tree of Life
- Muppet*Vision 3D – A similar attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios
- Mickey's PhilharMagic
- List of Disney's Animal Kingdom attractions
- List of Disney California Adventure attractions
- 2018 in amusement parks
References
- ^ a b Glover, Erin (March 20, 2018). "Avengers and Other Super Heroes to Assemble in New Themed Areas at Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland". Disney Parks Blog.
- ^ a b "It's Tough to Be a Bug". IMDb. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ISBN 9781605502410. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
- ^ Writtenberry, Lauren (September 9, 2023). "NEWS: 'Zootopia' Is Coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom". AllEars.net.
- ISBN 9781423184522. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
- ^ Joseph Kleiman (March 27, 2013). "It's Tough to be a Bust: The Rhythm and Hues Bankruptcy". Retrieved July 5, 2016.
- ^ "It's Tough to be a Bug". Magically Digital. Retrieved May 6, 2017.