Welcome to our show!

They've been doing this show for 300 years, and since they allowed us, "honorary bugs", to see their show, lots of people got out of the Tree of Life Theater either laughing - or running away.

It's Tough to Be a Bug is a great 3D show that has been presented on WDW's Animal Kingdom and Disneyland's California Adventure. And it has been considered by some "one of the best 3D shows that Disney ever made, because it uses something that we humans always had - the fear of bugs".

What do they mean by "the fear of bugs"? You gotta admit, the first time you got stinged by those hornets, the first thing you must have thought would be "I WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE WHERE'S MY MOMMY?!" That's the scarefactor of the show. Since the dawn of time, humanity was feared the unknown thing. Bugs were (and still are) one of these unknown things, because we didn't knew how they lived, how they thought, how they acted - that's why there was a mass of horror movies about giant bugs destroying our planet.

Then the Disney Imagineers had a great idea - why don't we use this fear and create a show around it? It's tough to be a bug was born. The aim of the bugs during the show is not to present their survival techniques. Is to show that they are as... normal... as us! And when Hopper attacks us, that scarefactor comes to action, as he tries to get revenge against the humans for "humilliating" the bugs so much. He then orders his bugs minions to attack, and suddenly, hornets are stinging you, spiders are flying over you and screams can be heard. Cause everyone was afraid that the bugs would attack you, and suddenly, they did!

Now that's the good thing about the show: instead of being just a normal 3D movie with fancy music (Philharmagic), good characters (MuppetVision3D) or just an outdated 3D movie (Honey, I Shrunk the Audience), It's Tough to Be a Bug dared to bring us, humans, to the world of the animals that we so much fear - bugs, by making us small as a bug! Instead of just having nice 3D or 4D effects, it dared to use our fears against us. And that's why in my next visit I'm going to that theater, and I'm going to be stinged, and I'm going to be squashed. After all -It's really tough to be a bug.