Imagineering Reveals How a 25-Foot Charcuterie Board Followed the Ride Path to the Finale of Remy's Ratatouille Adventure

The only door big enough for the new charcuterie board at Remy's Ratatouille Adventure was on the opposite side of the building. So the board, about 25 feet long, made the trip the same way you do: along the ride path, through the turns, all the way to the finale.

That is one of the stories in a new behind-the-scenes video from Walt Disney Imagineering, "Inside Remy's Ratatouille Adventure: New Show Sets," which Blog Mickey reports was posted on Thursday, November 5. It is an episode of Imagineering's WED Walks series, and it covers the new set dressing added to the EPCOT ride since it switched from 3D to 2D.

Imagineer Sarah hosts the new WED Walks episode. Image: Walt Disney Imagineering/YouTube

The guide is Sarah, a show set designer (WDW News Today gives her title as Associate Show Set Designer), who walks the ride after hours.

Why the props are there

When Disney moved the ride from 3D to 2D in fall 2025, it said new props and lighting enhancements would follow. Blog Mickey found the screens less immersive without the glasses, and several of the new pieces, including the linguini spill and a new bumper bar, are there to hide the seams where those screens meet the floor. We covered the first two props, the linguini spill and the finale's board, in September, and the rat-shadow window where the 3D glasses used to be in October. The video fills in the details behind those, and shows several pieces our earlier coverage did not mention. WDW News Today says that former glasses spot is now a vent in the queue. Blog Mickey reports Sarah designed it by measuring the existing vents in the load station with a tape measure and rebuilding them in 3D so the proportions match.

A linguini box with Imagineering's address on it

The spilled linguini in the kitchen is nearly identical to the one in the Disneyland Paris version of the ride, because the Paris team shared direction with the EPCOT team. It also hides an Easter egg. The box's brand is Glendali, and the side reads Linguini No. 1, 401g. Put them together and you get 1401 Glendale, a nod to the Imagineering home base, which sits at 1401 Flower Street in Glendale, California.

The Glendali brand on the giant linguini box. Image: Walt Disney Imagineering, screenshot via WDW News Today

The pile is also a trick. Underneath the noodles is a ramp, roughly 8 inches tall at one end and tapering to 2 inches at the other, so the spill looks fuller from your seat. For reference, the designers dumped out an actual box of spaghetti and photographed the result.

Nearby, many of the kitchen's order tickets are for the Sweetbreads Special (that is how the props in Imagineering's footage spell it), a callback to an order ticket in the film.

Pixar sent over the rat trap's animation model

The rat trap next to the linguini is the same trap that snaps Skinner's hand later in the ride. Pixar handed over the same model its animators worked from, and Imagineering enlarged it, built it as a physical prop and painted it. Blog Mickey notes the trap was already in place during its September ride-through, but it had not called it out.

The supersized trap, built from the model Pixar animators used. Image: Walt Disney Imagineering, screenshot via WDW News Today

A bumper bar that also took the speakers

In the dining cart scene, where your vehicle rolls beneath the cart between its giant wheels, a large new bumper bar now runs along the bottom of the scene. WDW News Today says it is designed to look like an extension of the cart. Its main job is covering the seam between screen and floor.

It also took over the audio. The scene's speakers were moved from behind the screen into the bar, where they sit behind three perforated panels angled toward guests.

Two nights, zero downtime

Imagineering coordinated with Walt Disney World operations and did all of the work overnight, so the attraction never had to close for these installs. The charcuterie board took two nights. The first night, crews cleared out the teacup, cork and ramekin that already sat in the finale. The second night, the board went in and those same props were placed back on it.

The finale board, with the cork and teacup back on top. Image: Walt Disney Imagineering via Blog Mickey

The Gruyere is personal (and hollow)

A large wedge of Gruyere on the board is Sarah's tribute to her dad. When she was an industrial design student, her dad came to see her every other weekend, and their regular stop was a mac and cheese place where his order was always ham and Gruyere.

It is hollow, too. The audio team proposed relocating one of the scene's original speakers inside the wedge, and it now points out at riders.

One more thing to look for

Before you board, check the back right corner of your rat car. Every rat car is labeled with a name on a small panel there, and the one shown in the video is Kiwi Jr. Sarah also notes the cars are firm everywhere except the nose and tail, which are squishy.

Blog Mickey rode the attraction on Friday morning and photographed the trap, the order tickets and the bumper bar. It could not see the new queue vent from the Single Rider line and plans to look for it from the standby queue on a later visit.

Which new prop are you looking for first?

Sources

• Walt Disney Imagineering, "Inside Remy's Ratatouille Adventure: New Show Sets" (YouTube)
• Blog Mickey, "Go Behind the Scenes of New Show Sets at Remy Ratatouille Adventure in EPCOT" (November 5, 2026)
• Blog Mickey, "Order Up! Even More New Screen-Hiding Props Served at Remy's Ratatouille Adventure" (November 6, 2026)
• WDW News Today, "VIDEO: Imagineers Reveal Easter Eggs & Secrets Behind New Remy's Ratatouille Adventure Set Pieces" (November 6, 2026)
• WDWMAGIC, "Remy's Ratatouille Adventure New Props Explained in Behind-the-Scenes Imagineering Video" (November 6, 2026)

Image credits: Walt Disney Imagineering (video thumbnail and stills); screenshots via WDW News Today and Blog Mickey.