Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
| Honey, I Shrunk the Audience | |
|---|---|
| Epcot | |
| Area | Future World |
| Coordinates | 28°22′21″N 81°33′05″W / 28.3725°N 81.5515°W |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | November 21, 1994 |
| Closing date | May 9, 2010 |
| Replaced | Captain EO |
| Replaced by | Captain EO Tribute |
| Disneyland | |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 33°48′41″N 117°55′02″W / 33.81145°N 117.91725°W |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | May 22, 1998 |
| Closing date | January 4, 2010 |
| Replaced by | Captain EO Tribute |
| Tokyo Disneyland | |
| Name | MicroAdventure! |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 35°37′57″N 139°52′45″E / 35.6324°N 139.8791°E |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | April 15, 1997 |
| Closing date | May 10, 2010 |
| Replaced | Captain EO |
| Replaced by | Captain EO Tribute |
| Disneyland Park (Paris) | |
| Area | Discoveryland |
| Coordinates | 48°52′29″N 2°46′48″E / 48.8748°N 2.7799°E |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | March 28, 1999 |
| Closing date | May 3, 2010 |
| Replaced | Captain EO |
| Replaced by | Captain EO Tribute |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | 3D film with special effects |
| Music | True Colors |
| Duration | 23:00 |
| Sponsor | Kodak |
| Sponsor Alternate | Japan Credit Bureau (Tokyo Disneyland only) |
 Disney's Fastpass was available |
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 Wheelchair accessible |
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Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (known as MicroAdventure! in Tokyo Disneyland) is a 4D film spin off of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids film series that was shown at several Disney theme parks.
Viewers enter the Imagination Institute's theater for the Inventor of the Year Award Ceremony, in which professor Wayne Szalinski is receiving the award. Attendees are asked to don their "safety goggles" (3d glasses) in preparation for the scientific demonstrations. The show opens with the crew of the show searching for Wayne, when he suddenly flies on stage miniaturized and in a transportation device called a Hoverpod.
He accidentally drops the control box and sends the machine flying off behind the stage out of control. Then the show starts with Christie Smithers introducing Dr. Nigel Channing. Dr. Channing welcomes the audience and introduces Wayne. The Hoverpod comes back and shorts out the neon Imagination Institute "Inventor of the Year Award" sign over the audience (at first only some letters are knocked out, leaving "NERD" spelled diagonally). Dr. Channing attempts to introduce Diane, Wayne's wife, but she says that she has to go help find Wayne. She takes Quark, the family's dog with her. Dr. Channing then introduces Wayne's sons, Nick and Adam. Nick, Wayne's oldest son, has a pet snake named Gigabyte around his neck, because he didn't want to leave him in their van.
Nick then demonstrates his father's Dimensional Duplicator, a copy machine, to kill time while the crew searches for him. Wayne's youngest son, Adam, puts his pet mouse, Photon, in the copy machine and quickly multiplies (in an animation designed by Curious Pictures). This does not go smoothly, and the audience ends up screaming with the loose mice running under their seats (which is really leg ticklers underneath the seats). To scare the mice away, Nick decides to use Wayne's Holo Pet Generator, which first takes the form of a cat, which then transforms into a lion, by accidentally giving the machine too much power, in the audience's faces (designed by Kleiser-Walczak). While the demonstrations go awry, Wayne manages to use his shrinking machine to return himself back to normal size. He brings out the machine to demonstrate its uses by shrinking a family's luggage, saving space and money when traveling, hoping they will fit comfortably in the palm of his hand.
Unfortunately, the machine goes out of control and shrinks the audience (plus Nick, who pushes Dr. Channing out of the way of the machine's electrobeam). Wayne inspects Nick and the audience and, after making sure they're okay, says the machine blew a fuse. He says that he's got some spare parts in his office to fix the machine (or so he hopes). Diane enters the room asking Wayne if everything is ok. Wayne responds with, "Honey, I shrunk the audience!" The viewers are then antagonized by obstacles such as Diane fainting upon seeing the tiny people and Nick, and Adam taking a picture of them with a blinding flash and picking up the theater so he can "show the little people to Mommy." The whole room is lifted right off its construction for a minute or two before Diane (who regained consciousness) and Channing persuade Adam to put the theater back where he found it. Then Gigabyte, much larger than the miniature audience, nearly eats them (as he had not yet been fed that day). Quark then chases him away with a few barks. Luckily, Wayne fixes the machine just in the nick of time and returns the audience and Nick back to normal size, but Quark is momentarily affected by the beam and then runs backstage out of sight.
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