The line begins in the same general area as where the line for IASW now begins.  The entrance to the queue is marked on either side by graduated, brightly colored (Alice's blue, white and yellow) pots containing live, well-manicured hedges/topiaries trimmed into funky, Wonderlandesque shapes (to include an occasional rabbit shape.)  The first pots are small and the foliage low to the ground, each one gradually getting taller.  As you turn the first corner, they become uniform, straight-trimmed hedges and quite tall (at least 6'5") losing the pots, and you realize you are in a mini-maze-like atmosphere (although still in an orderly line.)  This second row of hedge (visible behind the shorter first row) will have red hearts hanging on them in an even pattern (think the way netted Christmas lights work) making this queue very attractive and also funky-looking to passersby.  The line will meander rather than follow the typical pattern (hello, it's Wonderland) without sacrificing efficiency of space.

The mouth and eyes of the Cheshire cat will occasionally light up in spots along the way.  Hidden speakers will play the Alice In Wonderland Theme, punctuated by statements taken from both the animated and live-action films.  "You're as mad as a hatter," "Off with your head!" etc.

This foreshadows the ride to come (with the foliage in the front row going from small to large as did Alice) as well as foreshadowing the full-sized labyrinth afterwards.  The tall hedge will provide some shade for guests while waiting in line (except at high noon.)

Eventually you come to what is made to look like the base of a giant tree, with a rabbit hole in the bottom, large enough for an adult to walk through.  A cast member dressed as a resident of Wonderland ushers the allotted number of guests into the room as you hear an instrumental intro loop of the Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit" classic (now featured in the trailers for the new film.)  The cast member directs the guests to wait in the center of the room a la the Haunted Mansion stretching room but elliptical rather than round, and the music gets distorted.

[The room, as seen from the front entrance, has a large, floor to almost ceiling, curved movie screen on either side, for the length of each wall.  The one on the left is fairly close to the doorway.]

Simultaneously, the music stops and the lights dim.

The grin of the Cheshire Cat appears on the screen and then disappears, only to reappear in another spot, quickly joined by the eyes, and then the entire cat.  Cheshire cat welcomes our guests, and while still disappearing and reappearing in different spots, warns about flash photography, and about chasing rabbits.  He vanishes.

Flash of a realistic darting rabbit on one screen - then the other, with the sound of a rabbit's feet running.  Then an upright rabbit in a waistcoat appears at the opposite end of the entrance, shouts, "I'm late I'm late I'm late" and runs out an animated doorway projected onto the wall.  That doorway then goes dark.

Enter a life-sized Alice from the left side of the left screen (as if she just walked in the entrance behind you.

"Did you see him?  Did you see the white rabbit?" she asks, when she gets about a third of the way in.  She faces the audience, walks a little further, and addresses the guests again, "Did you see where he went?  The white rabbit in the waistcoat?  He was so curious!"

Alice continues walking towards the exit door.  As she gets closer to it, we all realize she is too big to go through it.  As she reaches for the doorknob, it speaks to her.  "You'll never fit through that doorway.  You have to get smaller!"  "How can I do that?" she asks.  "You see that bottle?"  Alice picks up the bottle marked "DRINK ME" and holds it up so everyone in the room can read it.  She asks the guests what do they think?  Should she drink it?

Then she does.

As she shrinks, the panoramic background makes the guests feel like they are shrinking, too.  The ceiling goes up, revealing even more of the screens that were previously obscured, and enhancing the effect, much like the haunted mansion.  Building on that concept, the floor also goes down about a foot.  The door now appears to be much taller than we are.  Alice jumps but can't reach the doorknob.  She turns to us: "Oh, no!  What shall I do?"

A familiar grin lights up just behind Alice, and we notice a cake with the words "EAT ME" on it.  As the grin disappears, Alice turns around abruptly as if thinking, "What was that?" and sees the cake.  She reads it, she looks at us, she ponders...she eats it.

And bam!  She grows larger.  As she does, the floor comes back up to the starting position.  The ceiling comes down lower than it was at the starting position.  The panoramic animation shows all the background items appearing to get much smaller, making us feel like we are getting bigger along with Alice.

Alice starts to cry giant tears, which quickly flood the room.  She floats near the table and sees the "DRINK ME" bottle on top of it and drinks it, making her start to shrink again.  The doorknob, underwater, relents and the door opens - with a real splash of water and mist from the ceiling - and as the water begins to rush out the door, the bottle falls off the table, into the water.  Alice lands in the bottle, and floats with the rushing water through the doorway, yelling, "Help!"

Cast member ushers guests through the real doorway, now well-lit and obvious, and guests board their own bottle-shaped vehicles and begin their own water ride.