As more guests fill in and try to push their way closer to the front, I let them go past us. What I found myself doing our second time through was to keep floating to the back-left of the room. This whole portion of the Shrek experience probably only lasts for twenty minutes at the most, but for anyone with the slightest hint of claustrophobia, it feels like “forever after.” When the pre-show routine ends, the entire room herds through the bottleneck of the (only!) three doors to take their seats. People are tripping over each other, and if you’re not careful, you can easily get separated from your kids in the shuffle of the darkness. By the time the Magic Mirror and the animatronics start explaining the backstory, some of the crowd is sitting on the ground, and others are angling for a spot closest to the entrance to the theater to be first in. There aren’t any dividers - it’s the wild, wild West. You’re now in the dungeon of Castle Duloc.Īs the room fills up, the Team Members encourage everyone to squish towards the front of the room.
Eventually, you cross the threshold of the room - and you feel the cool relief of the air conditioning blasting you as you grab your OgreVision 3D goggles. You’re looking ahead to the people closest to the doors to the pre-show room, and you’re quietly calculating how much you’d pay to switch places with them. You’ve staggered your way through the outdoor line queue, and while it’s covered and has strategically placed fans, it still feels like a sauna. You’ve been out in the Florida sun all day, and you’re dripping with sweat.
It’s fitting that the pre-show room of the Shrek 4-D attraction is staged like a dungeon because it’s torture.
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