Note: This ride is a storytelling with animatronic puppets of how Shrek & Fiona met. Hence why the animatronics throughout the ride looks like puppets.

This is like the cliff notes version of Shrek

This ride has layers

This whole ride reminds me of the classic writing “happy birthday” on a poster, you start each word off huge and can barley fit the ending of the word in.

This was actually kind of creative and better than I expected. The wooden puppet effect was pretty cool honestly.

So weird how empty most of these Motiongate rides are

Wow, those Puppet style story telling is just a way for them to cut cost on realistic animatronics....

Still better than Shrek 4D, but my god... that must be one huge show building. The scenes were huge... with not much going on

How do you think Dubai has so much money? It isnt the oil and gas, it is the lack of spending on animatronics.

Shrek: hey kids wanna hear how your mom and I became a couple The ride: *skips the entire section of movie where they actually fall in love*

What I didn't like, as well as everything already mentioned, was the second car almost always missed out on the movement of the 'puppets'. By the time their car arrived the animation had finished and they were just looking at static figures.

There's something ironic about the "Duloc" sequence being re-created in a dark ride

Okay, I've watched a lot of dark ride ride-throughs of these Dubai parks and I have to say -- this is one of the BETTER ones. Yes, a lot of wasted real estate, but I like that there was a narrative idea that made the ride unique (Shrek and Fiona putting on a puppet show, and then the majority of the ride is us going through a large version of that puppet show). For a Dubai ride, there was a lot of character movement. It's like they took someone who was an assistant to a Disney Imagineer and made that person their rides director. On the surface, it looks like something that would be at a Disney Park.... just not quite as good.

This ride is really cool. It's like actually being in the movie. I would love to be able to go on this.

There's so much wasted real estate in this ride! It looks like they only put in the bare minimum to get across the story.

That's really weird. They seems like they really tried to tell most of the story and then had to cut out a lot of important parts because they were running out of room. Why did the castle rescue scene take so long but there was no tournament? Why did we all of a sudden just end up almost right in the wedding? Why did the swamp scene seem to take so long? Why was there no All Star? This sounds like a great concept. Who doesn't want a Shrek dark ride? However, really poor execution... and why was it a puppet show instead of just a story?

This is something you order on wish without reading the reviews first.

Why it is called a "trackless ride? A true trackless ride doesn´t have any lines on the floor, like ratatouille in Paris or Winnie the Pooh in Japan.

I agree with everyone that say the ride is lacking but it’s super cool how it’s ~8 minutes long compared to disneyland’s 2 minute rides

the best thing about this ride is definitely how perfect the information booth is

This is the best creative ride I have seen from this park.

Shrek is love, Shrek is life!

Sooo much empty space and those are some weirdly slow and motionless puppets...

Shrek is love, Shrek is life

Should be called Shrek's Boring Journey.

The only bit my eyes widened was the church scene due to the scale of the set, not the detail.

Is this a "Dark Ride" with the lights on? It seems so bright... you can see all of the things you aren't supposed to on a dark ride.

That ride was way too creepy. Not a fan of the creepy wood carved puppets. The animatronics barely moved. Also an 8min ride? That dark ride theater seems way large. They would never waste that much space at a US them park just for one ride.

5:40 SHREKS FACE!! 😂😂😂😂😂

The perfect dark ride doesn’t exi-

These rides feel so weird lots of space the Animatronics look different scene to scene some just static just standing. This one seems little bit better than a few over in Dubai lol

I think this ride was actually really nicely done. I mean it’s no Disneyland but it all has a plot and is easily followed. The animatronics were also well done.

Dear Motiongate, If you're going to make a ride of a beloved franchise, go all in or not at all. Not half way, like this ride apparently is. I know you may not have a lot of money to invest right now, but it's worth it. Sincerely, A theme park attendee

They needed to put this in the end Puss n boots: “When do i come in the story?”

Surprising they got Dean Edwards to reprise Donkey from Scared Shrekless. Michael Gough reprising his role as Shrek from other media was an obvious surprise.

I think it’s a nice ride, little long and a lot of space but it’s pretty cool

Motion gate is just the king of boring empty rides. This ride is a 4.7/10

Nowhere near the quality of Disney Imagineering.

Idk what everyone is complaining about I think it’s a great ride

If you think of this as a modern version on a Fantasyland ride, it's pretty good. Also like five time the length.

Thanks SoCal Attractions 360 aka John it was so great to collaborate with you!!!

Why is it called a trackless dark ride when there an obvious track. Lol

I wonder what changes and updates would be made if it was built at Universal. It’s a long dark ride, which was neat, but I feel like they could have done more with each scene and the animatronics.

Regardless of the comments, I thought this was quite well done. Granted it was a bit empty and it could do with more BUT it told a story had an interesting split track system at certain points and you wasn't rushed through (while some of disney rides may look better, they are also much shorter and you are rushed through the story).

Wow that's amazeing. Wish they had something like this closer to me.

interesting they went with the puppet look so they can use simple looking and moving animatronics and they will not have to replace latex over time (except the ones in the first and last scene)

That’s a long dark ride!

why did I not know this existed!? I've always wanted to see the Duloc song and puppets on a ride lol.

Those are some lazy animatronics. Trying to cover poor animatronics by making them look like marionettes so the strings could make sense.

Out of all the motion gate rides, this one is the best

I didn't know that existed. I think that was pretty good.

Wow! I never rode this before! Back when I was 5 years old, my mom can’t let me go to Dubai

Yes I want this at universal

I can think of no better thing to base a ride off of than Shrek

Very intelligent of you placing those "right-on-time" mute spots ;) That's it: let's avoid strikes ;)

that's a really clever ride idea!

why did i watch this whole video

The mechanical clacking with the song is really good 1:38

Imagine that Disneyland will made a wonderful ride about Star Wars where Ahsoka Tano, Ezra Bridger, Luke Skywalker, Sabine Wren, Leia Organa and Qi'ra told at Little Ben Solo about Anakin Skywalker, from Phantom Menace(including star wars the clone Wars, Bad Batch, Solo a star wars Story, the sequel of Solo a star wars Story, Obi-Wan miniseries, Darth Vader miniseries and Star Wars Rebels) to Return of Jedi as Universal Studios did It with Shrek ride where Shrek and Fiona told at their children How they Met in Shrek 1. What a wonderful and important idea

When motiongate’s main success is by making attractions with as little motion as possible

It should be All Star at the begginig

Now this, this is epic

1:35 The Duloc machine has great audio-animatronic design! Universal has great audio-animatronic design as well as Disney.

Really neat ride, love the duloc puppets

Pretty bright for Dark Ride.

Man, so much unused potential, imagine a dragon animatronic great enough to compete with Bruce or Rexy.

This looks awesome!!

i loved it! i think they should build one here inn carthage tn!! we have nothing here, and for the ones like me who cant travel, that would be a nice treat!!!

I think this is the best one. This one is really cute.

This is my shreksual awakening.

I feel like they plan the show but don’t plan the amount of space it will actually take. They build these huge buildings with huge spaces but the scenes are so simple with barely anything going on so it looks so empty. Same with all of the other rides they have done.

Trackless except for the track?

Ogres are like onions What are you doing in my swamp?

Idk why it looks like your in a vR for a min but then I read the title and it was a ride!!!!

The ride looks pretty well done. Really want to see this come to universal

Very cute. I like the puppet concept.

Can’t wait to see what vids are next.

I will say i was happy the dragon was in it more than i thought

this ride is cool as hell

So iconic

this is amazing

This only proves that without question Disney is the Ruling Monarch of dark rides. Especially trackless. In all Disney trackless rides you never see the tracks in the floor which adds to the magic of a mysteriously moving ride. You don't know where your ride is taking you. That's part of the fun.This is just pathetic. Put together by people who had a vague concept of what these dark rides are all about. Also put together by people who simply don't have a lot of money. As someone else pointed out there is just way too much wasted space. Loooooong rooms filled with the bare minimum. And just cheap looking. I'd be embarrassed! Also, too much dialogue going on. People don't have the attention span to listen to that story. I didn't even catch the whole thing because you don't care about what they're saying as much as seeing what's going on around you. If you go there, I suggest skipping this mess.

WAT! THIS IS REAL!!!!!!!!!! I THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER SHREK MEME!!!!!!!

i mean i get the critique of it seeming empty but I think it actually for what it is looks pretty good, and i appreciate animatronics over just a bunch of screens across rooms.

Anyone else notice that this ride DOES have clear tracks?! 😬 But, as rides go, it’s pretty nice

to be quite honest with you i never knew that they would turn Shrek into a ride lol 😂

Looks fun.

So cool

This is so far the best one I’ve seen and they actually utilize the space unlike the other rides where there is too much open space

They definitely went for length over quality

This one and the "How to train your Dragon" ride looks the best. The worst one's looks like the "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs," and "Hotel Transylvania" one.

The ride looks like they rushed it

Thank you guys

Maybe I'm weird but I kinda like the puppet style. To me, made sense because its suppose to be a puppet show for the Shrek children.

Great video

Say what you want but i'll much rather take a dark ride rather than some 4-D ride

Muito bom,um salve aqui do Brasil

Wow, glad I didn't have to wait in line for this

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