It's Tough to Be a Bug!

It's Tough to Be a Bug!
Entrance marker at Disney's Animal Kingdom
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Area	Discovery Island
Status	Operating
Opening date	April 22, 1998
Disney California Adventure
Area	Golden State (2001–2002) A Bug's Land (2002–Present)
Status	Operating
Opening date	February 8, 2001
General statistics
Attraction type	4D film
Theme	A Bug's Life
Duration	9 minutes
Fastpass+ available

It's Tough to Be a Bug! is a 9-minute-long 3D film based on the 1998 Disney·Pixar film A Bug's Life. Using theater lighting, 3-D filming techniques, audio-animatronics and various special effects. Flik, from A Bug's Life, hosts the show and educates the audience on why bugs should be considered friends.

The attraction opened in Disney's Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort on April 22, 1998, a full seven months before the actual feature debuted in theaters. A second version of the attraction debuted at the opening of Disney California Adventure on February 8, 2001.

At Disney's Animal Kingdom, the Bug's Life theater is located inside The Tree of Life. As the queue winds around the tree, visitors can glimpse animal carvings on the tree that aren't visible from other vantage points. The "underground" pre-show area features posters of various bug acts from the show, as well as those for all-insect parodies of Broadway musicals, such as Beauty and the Bees, Web Side Story, Little Shop of Hoppers and My Fair Ladybug.

At Disney California Adventure, the Bug's Life theater is located in A Bug's Land. There, the queue passes through a replica of Ant Island before heading underground, where the queue appears the same as the one at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It was originally part of the Bountiful Valley Farms pavilion of the park until A Bug's Land was built around it.