Hello Kitty: Dance in the Dinner Theater

Hello Kitty: Dance in the Dinner Theater is a trackless dark ride at Universal Studios Arizona. The attraction—the first Hello Kitty-themed ride-through attraction at a Universal theme park is based on the stylized world from Sanrio.

Premise
At the beginning of the ride, guests are invited to watch the premiere of a new Mickey Mouse cartoon, Perfect Picnic, in which Mickey and Minnie Mouse prepare for a picnic outing and encounter Goofy conducting a train.[7] According to Imagineer Kevin Rafferty, guests then pass through a simulated movie screen where they will experience a “zippy zany out-of-control adventure”.[8] Guests will then be transported into the cartoon and aboard Goofy's train, which takes them on a wild adventure.[7]

The ride features a new technology known as "2 and ​1⁄2 D" (3D without glasses) to give depth to the 2D environments.[5][11] It also includes more hidden Mickeys than any existing ride.

Queue
For the Disney's Hollywood Studios version, guests enter through a recreation of the Chinese Theatre and wind through the lobby a series of posters of Mickey Mouse shorts that might have previously premiered here before entering the auditorium.[13] Beside the poster artwork for Perfect Picnic, nine of the other posters were from existing Mickey Mouse shorts, which are Croissant de Triomphe, Mumbai Madness, Potatoland, Split Decision, Three-Legged Race, Tokyo Go, Wish Upon a Coin, Wonders of the Deep, & Yodelberg. Each of the posters were created specifically for the attraction by Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Television Animation.[14]

In the upcoming Disneyland version, a new building will be constructed for the ride in Mickey's Toontown called the El CapiTOON Theater, which is a riff of the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. The queue for this version will featured a special exhibit put together by the Toontown Historical Society, showcasing costumes and props from the toon world.[15]

Pre-show
The guests then enter the auditorium where the short, Perfect Picnic will be premiering. Once the doors close, the cartoon begins on the movie screen. The short begins with Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto set out for a picnic at the Runnamuck Park, singing Nothing Can Stop Us Now while packing the Mickey's car for a picnic. Minnie accidentally packs Pluto and the picnic basket in the trunk. The duo make their way to the park. Along the way, Mickey and Minnie drive by Goofy, who is conducting the Runnamuck Railroad train that surrounds the park. Mickey and Minnie pull forward and hit a bump on the railroad crossing. The trunk pops open, releasing Pluto and the picnic basket into the air, which Pluto quickly manages to save the picnic basket. However, a pie from the picnic basket falls out and lands on top of the train’s smokestack. With the pie clogging the smokestack, the train picks up speed. Goofy panics at the train pulls into a railroad barn, where an explosion occurs, causing a big hole through the movie screen. When the smoke clears, Goofy lands on a nail on the outside of the barn. Seeing the guests, Goofy offers them to take a ride on the train. He then asks a nearby cast member help the guests step inside the cartoon while goes back to the barn to fix the train. Upon walking through the movie screen, the guests find themselves inside the cartoon railroad station, and they make their way to the loading station where the train arrives.

Ride experience
Once the train stops at the loading station, guests board one of four cars behind the locomotive. The train then departs the station and makes a left turn, passing the park before entering a tunnel. Once inside the tunnel, Goofy opens the back window and asks the guests if they are ready for a tour around the park. Mickey and Minnie in their car pull up next to Goofy and exchange greetings. Mickey parks next to a railroad switch and asks Goofy to take care of the guests. Goofy proudly exclaims, "Gosh, they're with me, what can possibly go wrong?" Right when Goofy closes his window, the switch falls, breaking the train up with Goofy and the locomotive making a left and the cars with guests making a right. Mickey and Minnie declare to catch the "runaway" train.

The cars exit the tunnel into the desert with Mickey and Minnie on horses trying to round up the cars. They get their ropes caught on themselves and vultures target them. The cars then make their way to a carnival where Mickey and Minnie find them while on a sign. Before they could get down, a tornado occurs, sending the carnival into a frenzy. The cars get a close up to the tornado which has Mickey, Minnie and Pluto sucked up. In the next room, Mickey and Minnie land in a tropical island where a volcanic eruption occurs. Each of the four cars enter their own separate rooms to find Mickey and Minnie going downstream towards a waterfall. They go underwater and the cars pull back to the tropical isle room, which is now an underwater scene. This is achieved through a special effect in which the entirely the room background is a screen that changes.

The cars go down a drain pipe into the city, where Pete is doing construction work and Donald is stuck in traffic. The cars detour into a dance studio where Daisy has the cars "dance". The cars "waltz" before Daisy announces a conga. The cars "conga" out the studio through an alley and enter a dangerous factory Mickey and Minnie try to stop the cars from being smashed by the Smasher on a conveyor belt. Mickey and Minnie pull the switch, which shuts the factory down and it magically transforms into a moonlit night at the park. The cars reverse and turn around to find Goofy and the locomotive at the front of the "train". As the guests enter a tunnel, Goofy concludes the tour and hopes that the guests had a good time. The train pull around the corner to find Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto having a picnic and singing one final rendition of "Nothing Can Stop Us Now" while fireworks go off in the sky above and the guests. Goofy waves goodbye to the guests and closes the back window. Just before the train enter the station, Goofy finds a lever and pulls it to find a small explosion in the cab as the train arrives back to the railroad barn. As guests leave the station, they pass through the movie screen to return to the real world, the title card saying “The End” is displayed as guests leave the theater.

Voice cast

 * Juliet Simmons as Hello Kitty
 * Rei Sakuma as My Melody
 * Sean Roberge as Tuxedo Sam