Top 10 Worst Rides at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando

I've only ridden this ride once and that was more than enough for me. Aside from the Glass Pyramids this thing is housed in, this ride is a complete failure in pretty much every aspect. I know it's supposed to be for kids, but literally every single other children's ride at the resort is better than this, and adults won't get anything out of it except an embarrassed look on their face at the end. In fact, "embarrassing" is probably the perfect way to describe this sorry excuse for an attraction. The character of Figment is annoying, the effects are lackluster, the whole ride is completely childish, it's half the length of the original Journey into Imagination ride that closed in 1998, and there's just little to no substance with this ride at all. Like I said, kids might enjoy it, but that can be said for most other attractions as well and it most definitely shouldn't be used as an excuse. The fact that this thing is usually a walk-on even during peak times of the year should be a tell-tale sign to stay away. Rumor has it that it's going to be replaced by an Inside Out ride which I'm all for since literally anything would be a better use of space than this.

I know this technically isn't a "ride" but I just had to include it on here because of how notoriously bad of an attraction it is. It's probably the most hated attraction at the entire resort and for good reason. I'll admit that the pre-show is pretty cool and the Stitch animatronic is excellent, but those are the only real positives here. It was originally a replacement for Alien Encounter, which was considered "too scary for kids," but it's not this like this thing is any better in that aspect. In fact, that the only reason they have those uncomfortable restraints is to prevent kids from running away (or anyone else wanting to escape this dreck). The whole thing is basically just sitting in the dark while Stitch wrecks havoc in the room, doing things like jumping on people's shoulder restraints, spitting, and burping chili dog right in your face. How magical. Outside of the pre-show and animatronic, this attraction is a failure in every respect, and it's not enjoyable for kids or adults. There's rumors that it's going to be closing in the near future and replaced with something else, which I really hope is true. It's already scheduled to transition from a daily-operated attraction to a seasonal one this year.

Perhaps the biggest waste of real estate at the entire WDW resort. There's not a single good thing I can say about this attraction other than the fact that it helps decrease wait times for other rides in the park, because there's always lots of people who want to waste their precious park hours on this glorified Go-Kart. I get the ride is supposed to be for kids, but the carts move so slowly and the layout is incredibly boring. Autopia in California is a much better version of this ride with a much more interesting track layout with much more to see, and despite not being that great a ride, it's much more worthy of having the "You can't get rid of it, it's a classic" excuse on it. The Tomorrowland Speedway on the other hand, I don't think would be missed by very many people. It's loud, smelly, and doesn't fit in with either Fantasyland or Tomorrowland, making that entire transition between the two lands awkward. I hope in the near future it gets scrapped for something better.

Motion sickness usually isn't a problem for me when it comes to rides, I generally have a pretty tough stomach, but this ride... Those with weak stomachs should avoid this at all costs, and even those that don't could utilize their park-time much better than by spending it on this ride. In my opinion, Despicable Me is a highly overrated franchise and I'm sick to death of seeing the minions everywhere, but I actually find the theming pretty well-executed for what it's worth. Gru's house is pretty neat and the preshow is decent, but that's where my list of positives end. The ride itself is literally nausea-inducing and seeing as Universal has so many other simulators to compare it to, it not only doesn't stand out as far as attraction-type goes, but it flat-out pales in comparison to all the other 3-D/4-D simulators. Definitely isn't worth waiting hours in lines for if you ask me, though it is consistently a big draw for some reason. It's by far my least favorite simulator-type attraction and I feel like the space could be used for something better, perhaps something that's not another simulator Universal?

At first glance, it might seem strange to consider this ride as one of the most, because hey, it's just a harmless spinner ride for kids, right? However, the Magic Kingdom already has two spinner attractions, Dumbo and Astro Orbiter, and both of those are arguably more popular. But the real problem with this ride is that not only is it unneeded for the park, (I suppose it was originally included to help with the wait times for Dumbo but I could be wrong) but it's plopped right in the middle of Adventureland taking up a huge amount of space. It feels tacky and out of place in an otherwise realistically themed area of the park and the space it takes up could be used for something much better and more fitting for the land. The ride itself isn't necessarily bad, although I guess could be taken aback by the water-spitting camels, but it's an unnecessary clone of a more popular ride in the park and it completely wrecks the atmosphere of Adventureland, thus it deserves a place on this list.

This is supposed to be Universal's answer to the Peoplemover at the Magic Kingdom, but it comes nowhere close for a multitude of reasons. For one thing, Seuss Landing is just nowhere near as captivating a land as Tomorrowland (though it is a well-executed land for what it is, it's a kids area after all). The ride is only a few minutes long compared to the Peoplemover which pushes around 10 minutes and there's nothing all that interesting to see. You get a nice view of the park I guess, but that can be said for the Peoplemover as well, and it's not enough to make up for the ride's faults. The worst thing about this ride though? That god-awful audio track! While making this list, I went to look at a video of this to refresh my mind on this attraction and I couldn't even finish the video without putting it on mute. That's how embarrassingly-bad the audio is and I remember cringing hard when I rode this. Doesn't help that we waited 45 minutes in line for that, I wouldn't want to ride it again even if it was a walk-on. I guess little kids might enjoy this ride as well as hardcore Dr. Seuss fans, but for everyone else, this ride really has nothing much to offer and you're better off avoiding it.

Gonna say right now that I've never actually been on this thing before. Why you ask? Because you have to have a young kid in your party to ride it. That's right, there's an age limit on this thing, except unlike in most cases where you have to be old or tall enough, you have to have someone young enough with you to ride. But from what I've seen, it doesn't look like anything all that great, it's basically just this swinging kid's "coaster" above the Jurassic Park area, and the views from it aren't even that great anyway. It's also a very short ride on top of that. It's probably much more fun from a kid's point of view, after all, this ride was meant for them, and it's admittedly pretty cool seeing the vehicles zip over the land, but other than that, there's not really any other good things I can say about it. It's exclusively for parents with kids, which isn't a bad thing, but even then, there are better kids rides in the park anyway. Overall, if you have a young kid with you (and you have to have one), they might enjoy this, but for everyone else, don't even bother with it.

Since someone was bound to put this on the list eventually, I thought I might as well just put it on here myself. Now, I don't actually think this is that horrible of a ride, it's certainly not in the same vein as something like Figment, but I still think this has pretty good reason to be here. As you could probably expect, I don't care at all for Frozen and think that it garnered far too much popularity for what it's worth, but I'm not opposed to a Frozen attraction in general. And this ride does have good things going for it such as a great queue and top-notch animatronics. However, it's pretty lackluster in just about every other aspect. Now let's get to the elephant in the room, the controversy over it's location in the Norway pavilion and the removal of Maelstrom. Now Maelstrom was never that great of a ride and I wasn't too sad about it's closing, but replacing it with Frozen was just a complete mistake. Not only does it serve as an example of Epcot being dumbed down, but they did a complete disservice to the popularity of the property by trying to squeeze it into a small ride space with low capacity instead of building it from scratch in either MK or DHS. DHS could have really used it considering the lack of rides there and it fits better thematically there too. Thanks to this ride, it's more the Frozen pavilion than the Norway pavilion now.

I have to admit, this ride looks really cool from a distance and it's usually the first thing I see upon entering the Universal Orlando Resort. Aside from looks however, this is just your average drop tower that you can find at any regular amusement park. It's for sure got nothing on the abandoned Hollywood Hotel just down the road, but then again, the ToT is completely in a class of its own. What makes it even more lackluster is that it's sitting right next to one of the most innovative theme park rides of all time, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man. On top of that, the ride is very short and you hardly get anything out of it outside of the first drop. At the very least, I'd like them to make the drop sequence longer, even though that probably won't change the consensus very much on it. All in all, this isn't a bad ride necessarily, it's just nothing special and it could be so much better.

This ride is terrible, but I feel like everybody should go on it at least once to understand the pain and misery of the ride.

I think this one is perfectly OK. And somehow I seem to be the only one who didn't get annoyed by the song...

Just a bunch of grossly ugly and annoying toys who all need to be put on a diet.

I loved this ride so much! It's one of my absolute favorites and Universal. It does jerk you around a lot though. It can cause chest pain, not too severe where it's not worth it to go on the ride but painful enough that it hurts. However it is 100% worth it to ride this attraction. If you're having your doubts about it don't, just go on it it's so much fun. I have motion sickness in boats, and cars sometimes and this didn't make me sick. I also get dizzy a lot and this ride didn't make me dizzy at all.

3D is not calibrated and the motion feels off. You will vomit after this ride. Be Warned!

Thoughtless, churned out, cash grab.

This ride replaced what I think were two of the worst attractions on property- Disaster and Beetlejuice Graveyard Revue (and they were both pretty bad)- so this ride had an exceptionally low bar to meet. That being said, this ride fails to meet that bar. It's exceptional to me that Universal pumped out an attraction that's this blatantly bad with the budget and space they had to work with

I do not understand how Dr. Doom is higher on this list than this sad excuse of a ride. The plane ride to Orlando was more entertaining than this. Not even the hyper 6-year-olds were entertained.

Another pointless 3D screen ride from Universal.

From June 2005 to June 2006, paramedics treated 194 Mission: Space riders. The most common complaints were dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Of those 194 guests: 25 people passed out, 26 suffered difficulty breathing and 16 reported chest pains or irregular heartbeats. -railfan99

If you can handle this ride, you can handle anything.
So violent.

Definitely do green team next time!

It's a jerky roller coaster, and it has NO neck or head support, so you're banging all around during each drop and turn, which will cause headaches and backaches.
There was an issue with the anti-rollback device on the 90 degree lift hill that failed, causing MONTHS of a delay.

Why is this on here? This is considered one of the best rides at Disney World.

Oh wow, this ride is here. You have to be joking!

That one was awesome!

The Simpsons ride is absolutely amazing. I went to Universal for the first time ever 4 weeks ago and I rode this. Ever since I keep telling my mom I want to go back and ride this ride specifically. It was put together so well and it was so funny. The motion on it is amazing as well. It also has many unexpected things while waiting in the queue and when you get into the seat I'm planning on going back in a couple years. See you soon Simpsons ride.

I miss when this was Back To the Future. That by the time this ride opened the show it's based on had already gone way downhill didn't help.

Made me nauseous and bad technology. The pre-show is better.

I put this here because people wouldn't stop raving about it, it's a little coaster.

Not a ride but went to see the show once. It was awful. Thank god it closed.