How a 25-foot charcuterie board got inside Remy's Ratatouille Adventure at EPCOT

By entgrove · November 7, 2026

A Walt Disney Imagineering video walks through the show sets recently added to Remy's Ratatouille Adventure at EPCOT, led by an Imagineer named Sarah. The tour covers a new queue vent, a linguini spill, a rat trap built from Pixar's animation model and a 25-foot charcuterie board with a speaker hidden in its cheese. Every install happened overnight, and the video itself gives no dates.

A Walt Disney Imagineering video takes viewers through the show sets recently added to Remy's Ratatouille Adventure at EPCOT. The guide is Sarah, an Imagineer who designs show sets. Her tour starts at a new vent in the queue and ends at a charcuterie board so large that it reached its scene along the ride vehicles' own path.

A new vent, and vehicles with names

The tour opens before the ride, with a queue vent modeled on the ones already in the load station.

• Measured by hand. Sarah took a measuring tape to the load station's vents, then rebuilt one in 3D to set the proportions of the new vent.
• Rats included. The new vent comes with rats, she notes.
• Vehicle names. Every ride vehicle has its own name on a panel in the back right corner. The one in the video is Kiwi Jr.
• Squishy parts. The vehicles are hard to the touch, except for their noses and tails.

The linguini spill borrows from Paris

The spill nearly copies the one in the Paris version of the attraction, whose team gave direction when the project started.

• Box Easter egg. The linguini box carries the brand Glendale, and its side reads linguini number one, 401 g, which together spell out 1401 Glendale.
• The address. Walt Disney Imagineering's headquarters is at 1401 Flower Street in Glendale, California.
• Hidden ramp. A ramp under the noodles makes the spill look fuller, dropping from about 8 inches off the ground to 2 inches at the end.
• Photo reference. Designers spilled an actual box of spaghetti, then used the photo to work out how to stack the noodle pieces.
• Order tickets. Many tickets in the scene read Sweetbread Special, taken from an order ticket that appears in the film Ratatouille.

The rat trap comes from Pixar's own model

Pixar gave the team the model used to animate the trap, so the new prop matches the one on screen later in the ride.

• Same trap. It is the trap that Skinner, the chef from the film, snaps his hand in during the chase a couple of scenes further on.
• From model to prop. The team scaled up the Pixar model, fabricated it and painted it.

A bumper bar hides the screen edge

A very large bar beneath the dining cart finishes the illusion of riding under the cart and into the restaurant.

• The framing. Guests now have wheels to the left and right and a curtain above, and the bar completes the picture.
• Main job. It blocks the view of where the screen meets the floor, so that line disappears for anyone seated in a vehicle.
• Speakers moved. The speakers that were in the scene's screen now sit in the bar, behind three perforated panels spaced across it.
• Angled sound. The panels are set at an angle so the scene's audio points at guests.

Getting the board into the building

Only one door could take the board, and it was on the opposite side of the building from the finale.

• The route. The board followed the same path as the ride vehicles, through the winding turns, to reach its scene.
• Night one. Crews removed the props already in the scene: a teacup, a cork and a ramekin.
• Night two. Crews brought in the board, put those props back on top and locked them in place.
• Overnight only. Every install happened overnight, planned with Walt Disney World operations so the attraction lost no running time.

The cheese on the board is hollow

A large piece of Gruyere on top of the board is a tribute to Sarah's father, and it also hides a speaker.

• The tribute. Her father visited every other weekend while she studied industrial design, and at a small mac and cheese shop he always ordered ham and Gruyere.
• The speaker. The cheese is hollow, with a large speaker inside facing guests during the finale.
• Whose idea. An audio and video partner suggested moving one of the scene's original speakers up onto the board during early design.

"So, this is my little Easter egg for my dad," Sarah said.

She called the cheese a good example of her daily work, which pairs designing large set pieces with hiding or incorporating what other disciplines need in a scene.

"This project was so much fun for me. It was full of so many firsts and I learned a ton," she said.

Which new sets have a date, and which do not

The video says only that the sets were recently added, but earlier reporting places several of them on the ride by Labor Day.

• Already reported. GenieGrove's September report, drawn from an outside account, had the noodles, rat trap and finale board in place ahead of Labor Day weekend 2026.
• Still undated. That report did not list the bumper bar and said queue additions had not appeared, so the vent's arrival date remains unconfirmed.
• In place now. Sarah films each piece in the attraction and describes what guests see from the vehicle. She mentions no closure or debut date.
• The earlier promise. A bulletin on the attraction's page in October 2025 said props and lighting enhancements would reach the queue and attraction "over the next few months."
• Lighting unaddressed. The tour does not cover the lighting work from that bulletin.

Our take. The vehicle name is the easiest of these details to check on a ride, since it sits on that back right panel. In the finale, the sound aimed at guests comes from the cheese.