13. “How brave…  but ultimately hopeless.”

“There’s nowhere to run!” Ask those lucky enough to have secured a Boarding Group for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and you’ll hear that this new trackless attraction may very well be the best modern dark ride on Earth. Among its most astounding moments are two face-to-face encounters with Kylo Ren, the conflicted villain of Disney’s sequel trilogy, and would-be protege to Darth Vader himself. 

If you didn’t know, the events of Rise of the Resistance that guests get wrapped up in are indeed “canon” (and in fact, have tremendous effect on the events of Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker). That particularly includes riders’ first run-in with Ren, when the masked Supreme Leader of the First Order seems to Force-sense an ambush by the Resistance, then recognizes the presence of the Resistance captures (that’s us) on the Star Destroyer’s bridge.

A First Order trooper cries out, “Sir, the prisoners have escaped,” causing Ren to speak the line above, turning to knowingly face riders halfway through. It’s a chills-inducing moment as the hyper-realistic Audio-Animatronics figure threatens guests before taking off after them deeper in the Star Destroyer. 

14. “Lightspeed to Endor!”

Yet a third Star Wars attraction to make this list, the original version of the Lost Legend: STAR TOURS positioned riders as tourists hopping into the coach seating of an interstellar flight service to the forest moon, Endor. As “luck” would have it, guests were paired with a would-be StarSpeeder pilot (and beloved character created just for Disney Parks), Captain Rex, voiced by Paul Reubens of Pee-Wee Herman fame. Just to set the tone for what’s about to come, the in-cab Audio-Animatronic would announce to riders: “I know this is probably your first flight and it's mine too! Ha ha!” Oh boy...

And of course, anything that could go wrong did go wrong on the “direct” flight to Endor, eventually leading to guests being caught in a firefight between the Rebels and the Empire, culminating in a recreation of the fabled “trench run” on the surface of the Death Star (“Okay, I've always wanted to do this! We're goin' in!”)

Of course, by the end of the adventure, guests were safe and sound (albeit, not on Endor), with Captain Rex closing out the flight with perhaps his most famous line yet: “Sorry, folks! I'm sure I'll do better next time. And I'm still getting used to my programming!” Though STAR TOURS has been upgraded across the globe kicking Rex out of the cockpit, he still makes two well-known “Easter egg” appearances in Disney Parks… if you know where to look!

15. “Connecting to… OnStar.”

When the Lost Legend: Test Track initially opened in 1999, the ride was a major diversion from what Epcot’s Future World had meant. Unlike its pavilion peers (and its predecessor, the Lost Legend: World of Motion) the ride did away with grand messaging about humanity’s relationship with innovation and science. Instead, it placed guests in the roles of “crash test dummies” aboard vehicles put through the paces in an industrial warehouse. 

For better or worse, the ride was redesigned in 2012 to shift its focus to the engineering design process, reimagining its look and feel as a digital, TRON-style landscape and guests as riders aboard their own custom cars being put through a simulation. Now testing capability, efficiency, responsiveness, and power, the interactive experience is beautifully presented… and comes with at least one iconic line. Oddly, it’s… well… an embedded advertisement.

Yes, as guests begin their journey into the digital world, a screen shows a satellite view of earth, zooming closer and closer until it centers on the Test Track ride building, “locking in” coordinates as a pleasant computerized voice states: “Connecting to… OnStar.” OnStar is a subsidiary of General Motors (the ride’s sponsor) selling subscription-based in-vehicle security and emergency services, as well as turn-by-turn navigation and remote diagnostics. In other words, having OnStar equipped as our road-ready guardian means we’re all set to go… and oddly, acts as one of the ride’s most imitable lines… and a fairly straightforward ad very much in the spirit of the original EPCOT Center!

16. “Ladies and gentlemen, the eighth wonder of the world… the backside of water!”

Jungle Cruise is as classic as a Disney Parks attraction can be. Originating alongside Disneyland in 1955, Jungle Cruise was truly the world’s first E-Ticket (though it didn’t earn that official designation until the E-Ticket came along four years later)! It was also one of the first attractions to benefit from Walt’s concept of “plussing” - encouraging his designers to return to already-operating rides to refine, expand, or reimagine them to keep them fresh.

That’s why, soon after opening, animator and designer Marc Davis was famously brought in to expand the ride with new scenes and classic gags we know today, like the Elephant Bathing Pool, the Trapped Safari, and more. That’s also when the ride’s mood began to shift from its once-serious beginnings into the laugh-out-loud, self-referential journey we know today. And voila, the “backside of water” was born. 

Of course, any Disney Parks fan will tell you there are innumerable jungle jokes tossed around between generations and generations of Jungle Cruise skippers, and pretty much any Imagineering aficionado will have their favorites… I mean, who can forget the wonder of Schweitzer Falls and its namesake, Doctor Albert Falls? Once in a while, Jungle Cruise jokes come so quickly, you can barely keep up.

Quotable quotes

And that’s the beauty of all of these memorable Disney Parks lines… you have to pay attention… and you just never know what lines may be making an impression on you… If you haven't, this is your chance to make the jump to our initial listing of 16 Quotes We Bet You Know by Heart. Together, these two lists still don't cover even a fraction of the lines fans love...