"65 Million years in the making, Jurassic Park the Ride brings
the biggest blockbuster ever, thundering to life on the most spectacular spine-tingling water adventure of all
time. You'll travel deep into the Jurassic Jungle and come face to face with Raptors, Spitters, and a towering
T-rex."
Jurassic Park The Ride - Ride Facts!
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD BRINGS MOST SUCCESSFUL MOTION
PICTURE OF ALL-TIME ROARING TO LIFE WITH STUNNING
JURASSIC PARK – THE RIDE
You’ll wish it was just a movie.
Universal Studios Hollywood has brought famed director Steven Spielberg’s epic movie – which created a worldwide phenomena and became the top grossing motion picture of all-time – roaring to life with the unleashing of the greatest and most technically sophisticated attraction ever created, “Jurassic Park – The Ride”.
For the first time in history, man finally comes face-to-face with dinosaurs.
Studio guests explore a real-life Jurassic Park where they encounter the most awesome, terrifying and lifelike dinosaurs ever created. These magnificent creatures roam the Earth again in a sprawling topical habitat in the heart of the famed studio lot.
This phenomenal interactive ride adventure thrusts guests into the living, breathing, three-dimensional world of Jurassic Park, a land where stormy skies are pierced by colossal five-story dinosaurs that move within inches of awe-struck faces and a world where riders discover that they have become prey for the terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex, as they are unrelentingly hunted by the most fearsome creature ever to prowl the Earth.
In Jurassic Park, guests do not only get a frighteningly close-up look at “living” dinosaurs, they also experience a treacherous 84-foot plunge, straight down the longest, fastest, steepest water descent ever built.
After exploring the steaming, lush, tropical waterways which ebb and flow through the dense primordial forest, “Jurassic Park – The Ride” transports visitors into an ominous, futuristic 13-story, labyrinth spanning six acres and serving as home for scientists seeking to clone the giants of the past.
“Jurassic Park – The Ride” had been in development by Universal Studios Hollywood for more than three years before the debut of the Jurassic Park motion picture. Steven Spielberg served as a creative consultant since the ride’s inception and watched his menacing on-screen stars evolve into full-scale performers.
“Jurassic Park – The Ride” combines the most state-of-the-art computer and robotic technology to create animatronic figures more advanced than any ever designed.
For the first time, a ride is truly interactive, with the dinosaur inhabitants of Jurassic Park actually noticing and responding to the visitors as they journey through the prehistoric past.
That transformation from the film’s remarkable special effects to seemingly living, breathing giants was no simple task. The Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Dilophosaurus, Velociraptors and the other Jurassic Park dinosaurs move faster, more fluidly and more realistically than any animated creatures ever built. Some of these dinosaurs attack guests at speeds up to 25-feet per second – nearly the quickness of a striking venomous rattlesnake.
Indeed, the five-story Ultrasaurus stands as tall as a high-rise building as the Stegosaurus measures nearly 40-feet from nose to tail. These animatronic figures and their companions are the first such creations ever crafted incorporating newly- discovered principals of hydraulic physics, mechanics and space-age robotics. A distinguished team of scientists, paleontologists and aerospace engineers worked closely with Universal ride designers to achieve this triumph of technological wizardry.
Behind the celebrated towering monolithic wooden gates emblazoned with the Jurassic Pak crest, awaits a world as it was before the birth of man. An informative multimedia introduction by host John Hammond, owner and creator or Jurassic Park (as in the film, portrayed by renowned actor-director Sir Richard Attenborough) explains the concept of the Park, the world’s largest living laboratory devoted to the study of dinosaurs.
It is here in Jurassic Park that scientist and geneticists clone the huge, prehistoric animals in a miracle of modern bio-engineering.
Studio guests then board one-of-a-kind, free-floating river rafts, the largest water ride crafts ever designed, thus enabling “Jurassic Park – The Ride” to handle more guests than any other ride in the world. Seating 25 “explorers,” the rafts navigate through the misty fog banks, brilliantly colored foliage and exotic vegetation of “Herbivore Country,” home of the vegetarians of the dinosaur world.
Nearby, the feared predators, the swift Velociraptors and the ferocious T-Rex are securely contained in Carnivore Canyon behind a crackling, spark-laden 10,000 volt electrified fence.
Underscored by Academy Award-winning composer John Williams’ soaring Jurassic Park music and punctuated by narrator Richard Kiley’s words of welcome, the boats gently cruise through radiant Ultrasaur Lagoon, picturesque with gentle waterfalls and clear tide pools. A fingertip away sits a gigantic 50-foot Ultrasaurus cooling off at water’s edge. The craft is nudged by what seams to be a rock below the surface but is really a surprised baby Ultrasaurus who spies the riders with wide-eyed curiosity.
As the waterborne visitors glide out of the river, two rambunctious Psittacosauruses frolic nearby, splashing water across the boat’s bow.
Erupting geysers spewing billowing plumes of white steam greet the boat’s arrival into Stegosaur Pond. Both mother and baby Stegosauruses seem glad to have company. Small dinosaurs called “Compys” shriek their greetings. Riding an increasingly swift current, the boat next moves into Hadrosaur Cove.
Suddenly, the waters begin racing at speeds nearly 50 miles per hour, and the raft is driven dangerously off-course into Carnivore Canyon where guests encounter the Velociraptor pen – revealing a jagged, gaping hole in the pen’s electrified fence. The vicious Velociraptors are nowhere to be seen…signs of danger surround studio guests as their raft veers of control and deeper into unknown territory. A wrecked land cruiser dangles perilously from a nearby guard rail. An empty raft drifts by – seemingly abandoned until a “Spitter” rears his multi-colored crown and bares his teeth in a sinister smile.
Jurassic Park’s water pump station is bedlam. Blaring alarms sound as nearby catwalks begin to collapse and the station’s pipes crack and give away, shooting scalding water in the path of the raft. A pack of clever and voracious “Raptors” spring forward to startle and pursue the runaway raft.
What began as literary legend, and then produced cinematic history has now become…the ride of a lifetime.
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