YMMV / Transformers: The Ride

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Megatron's meet-and-greet outside of the ride has proven to be so much of a hit with guests for how he is almost guaranteed to roast someone, usually about their clothes or another object they have on their person. It's even better if he outright talks about what someone is wearing^note Better yet, here, Megatron is being played by Chris Tergliafera, making a subtle clue that it's him by referring to a certain role of his since the guest mentioned the series he's worked in. This has led to people going to his meet and greet wearing certain things to see how Megatron would react.
• Funny Moments:
  • A video that went viral on the internet shows Megatron at a meet-and-greet going on a hilariously massive rant when a girl tries to take a selfie with him.
  • Midway through Ironhide's speech in the queue where he's talking to the riders/new NEST recruits::
    Ironhide: (beat) (sigh) Is that a churro? Where do you think you are, some kind of theme park?!
  • Megatron cheering a kid who brings him a mock up of Optimus's head.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Optimus genuinely congratulates and thanks us for our bravery at the end of the ride. Just seeing and hearing him say that with Peter Cullen’s iconic voice is just uplifting to every single Transformer fan.
  • In a rare Pet the Dog moment for the Decepticon leader, Megatron gives his respect to 9-year old girl who is a cancer survivor.
• Spiritual Successor: To The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man. Both use the same ride vehicles (with very slight modifications), and the two rides contain very similar situations. (For example, both rides have a portion where a villain attaches a rope to the vehicle and yanks it through the city, and both end with the vehicle falling off a building only to be rescued at the last second.) The messy legal issues with Marvel prevented Universal from building a Spider-Man ride in Hollywood & Singapore, so this ride was created to compensate.
• Tear Jerker: Obviously, things get better, but Optimus looking like he’s going to get killed by Megatron, Starscream destroying the helicopter sent to transport us from the battle zone, even Evac laments on this seemingly hopeless moment:
  Evac: We’re on our own. What do we do?
  Megatron: (suddenly appears in front of us) Beg for mercy!

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