if you haven't ridden jurassic park at universal on a hot

>>87078531
Shreks wet fart ride was far superior

>half the ride doesn't work anymore
>you can see the robotic bits on the animals now, most just spray a stream of water in your face
>they can't update it because the guy who designed it died and they have no blueprints.

It's one of my favorites at USH, but get real. The REAL KINO is Waterworld. It's an incredible stunt show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdsFdoUGIGc

It sucks now and I have video evidence to prove it

Compare https://youtu.be/8s7gxJkhvTo

with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhz14VKo_VY

I remember riding it as a kid and being genuinely fucked up by the raptors and spitting dinosaurs. I rode it again like 5 years ago and left thinking that maybe the kid version of me had shit taste and was easily impressed. Turns out, the ride has truly gone to shit over the past 20 years

i mean, the only good thing about it for me was the 80 ft drop, and that still works, so i'm good.

>>87078724
The t-rex doesnt even come close to the boat now

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>>87078531
>mfw watching T2 3-D: Battle Across Time for the first time

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>>87078594
>go to waterworld show because hey, i love waterworld
>70 year old asian woman and her family sit right in the front in the soaker section
>performers deluge them
>she starts crying
>show is stopped
>family is led away with her sobs echoing throughout the arena

>wanting to be around sweaty loud niggers and rude unfriendly Asians and spending 8 grand in the process

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as of my visit to universal 2 weeks ago, the jeep doesn't even drop into the water anymore.
also a front of the line pass (which is necessary unless you want to stand in line with normies for an hour each ride) costs 300 fucking dollars.
i think you might be right, another part of our childhoods is gone.

ONLY MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN

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>>87078958
>USH replaced it for minions shit

>>87078724
I road it like 5 times just before it shut down for the night back in 1999. I don't remember it being interesting other than that drop.

>>87078531
I just did back in May, shit's fun.
I love the little dilophosaurus squirt guns at the end.

I can't believe they shut down the Jaws and King Kong rides

You know john williams isn't as enjoyable when the same track is played on repeat for 2 hours while you're stuck in line in 100°+ heat

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>>87079020
>mfw my friends technically worked for NBC Universal for a while so we got free tickets and front line passes for the park

>>87079173
What the fuck? I went to both of those and they were kino as fuck. It was the 90s and I was in grade school though, but shit they were cool.

>>87078692
second one is Hollywood, Ca you mong

>>87079238
they both are, you mong

>>87079255
sorry im retarded

>>87079268
It's ok me too

>>87078692
Holy shit that looks way better than when I went on it this year, why the fuck don't they keep up maintenance on these rides?

>>87079283
Because you paid them to ride the shit version

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>>87079173
You wont see big animatronic rides with giant set pieces like that ever again. They are way too costly to maintain over time and were prone to breaking and shutting down. Modern rides may feature 1 animatronic as the centerpiece like the new Kong ride or the Avatar boat ride but the vast majority of theme park rides will be motion simulations with screens like this piece of shit.

It's a damn shame too. Thankfully disney fans would fucking riot with pitchforks if they ever tried to take down Pirates or Mansion so at least those are safe.

>>87079541
Theyll just slowly take out the "problematic" animatroincs in those rides

What did you lads think of Jaws, Back to the Future, and The Mummy?

>>87079759
They've been doing that since the ride was first built.

https://youtu.be/I50z6c4FSjs

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>>87079807
>Jaws
Old and stupid.

>>87079541
I poopooed the 3D motion rides for a long time, until I actually went to Universal Florida a couple of years ago. The Transformers and Escape from Gringotts rides were fucking awesome. Hell, just standing in line for the Harry Potter one was awesome, with the 7 dollar pumkin juice, and the animatronic goblins.

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>>87079807
The original jaws ride was one of the most ambitious attractions ever created. I would give just about anything to ride it as it was originally conceived. This was back then Universal studios and Steven Spielberg were in a partnership and Stephen really wanted people to "ride the movies".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBsYVDlYkhs

The Mummy is probably my favorite ride at universal. It's everything a ride should be.

Am I gay if I really like to go to Disneyland

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>>87079998
>The Transformers and Escape from Gringotts rides were fucking awesome

I've been on the other Harry Potter ride and thought it sucked ass. I will have to check those out because I remember walking out of there wondering why the hell I stood in line for 2 hours

>>87079964
>>87080039
I thought it was pretty comfy. The Mummy was fucking awesome.

Back to the Future was cool. Is Twister still up?

>>87080086
no, of course not. why would enjoying a theme park mean you're sexually attracted to men?

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>>87080137
I have some bad news

>>87080086
No Disneyland is awesome

>>87080111
Did you ride the outdoors rollercoaster one, or the indoors one with Voldemort breathing a fire snake at you?

>>87080191
The one where a dragon shoots smoke in your face and cotton balls pretending to be dementors blow smoke in your face

>>87080168
Jesus

>>87080213
Ok, that's the one I didn't do when I was there. The other one's way better, based on your description.

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JUST

>>87078531
I did the summer it opened. Feels good man.

universal studios hollywood? or universal studios orlando?

>>87080500
The real one, not the tourist attraction.

>>87080535
Fuck off hollycuck. Go jump off the Tower of Terror...oh wait

I currently work there and can tell you that there are so many sluts that work there. Like holy shit. You take your lunch in the break room with the TV and there are always dumb sluts flirting with other dudes. The place is just notorious for being a ghetto sink hole.

>>87080500
Florida is 2 separate parks and larger, each one has its faults and dumb shit. I prefer florida... because more variety, despite them trying to make you pay more with both parks and the hopper pass. if you want to see the complete harry potter experience.

>>87080656
>The place is just notorious for being a ghetto sink hole.
That's florida in a nutshell

>>87078531
I lost a camera full of disneyland and universal photographs, plus a bunch of souvenirs in that ride. Still loved it.

>>87080656
There isn't a break room with a TV, roleplayer. We have a private cafeteria.

Came here to also confirm that the mummy ride in orlando is the best ride. I hope they never get rid of it, or worse
replace the Brendon Fraser video clips

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>>87080917
Don't give them any ideas

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>>87080413
Btw they're actually removing both coasters after they permanently close it on September 4th... JUST and RIP

>>87081149
It no longer duels and hasnt since like 2011

It's been a corpse of itself for years

>>87078531
>in pouring rain
FTFY

>>87078692
>we'll never go back to the happier times of the pre-9/11 era, where there was no trannies, no SJW culture, no white guilt shit.
the USA is fucked, isn't it?

>>87081250
Blame the internet and cellphones before you blame 9/11

>>87081412
9/11 did nothing wrong

>going to themeparks after 13 years old or without your own kids

>>87081527
t. hikki who comes up with excuses to never leave his house even if awesome things exist in the outside world

>>87078594
Water World was fucking dope.

If anything good came from the movie it was this stunt show.

>>87078594
Shit, that's the problem with it now?
I went on it two or three years ago and I thought the problem was that they were catering to people who like to take pictures or film the ride, since the person right in front of me was filming it.
For fuck's sake, they actually stopped the ride right before the big buildup to the T-Rex and make an announcement to put that stuff away for the drop. Completely ruined the experience.

>>87079074
>Orlando replaced the Jimmy Neutron Ride for Minions shit
I'm pretty fucking sure that decrepit old Shrek "attraction" is still sitting right next to it, too. The last time I was there, nobody would touch it with a ten-foot pole.

>>87078594
>they can't update it because the guy who designed it died and they have no blueprints.
That isnt true. They dont care to fix them because they act as overflow attractions for the more recent rides and they have a low operating cost due to not giving a shit about how bad it looks.

Universal Studios is no longer about the "experience". It's now about showing people things they recognize at the expense of creative standards and aspirations. Same issue plaguing movies

Same issue plaguing society in general.

>>87080086
Drake, is that you?

>>87079173
theyre on the studio tour. the best part of universal studios is the harry potter town

>>87080656
I have a theory that the chicks they get to play the princesses at Disney Land/World are grown in a lab. They're too hot to be natural.

Growing up I fucking loved the rides with stories and quality animatronics. Rides that took you somewhere. As a kid there was nothing like it (still isn't).

It pains me to see what has become of modern theme-parks. The magic is gone. That comparison of the old Jurassic Park ride vs today really made me sad.

The depressing thing is it's happening everywhere; quality rides are falling out of style. Why would theme-parks waste money on animatronics or quality rides when they can just throw you on some shitty roller coaster or 3d "experience" and the retard internet generation will just eat it up.

We deserve the nuke. I'm just glad I got to experience it when it was all good.

>>87078531
>Go to high school grad night at Universal few years ago
>30 minutes before park closes
>Want to do Jurassic Park before we go
>Friends don't want to get wet so I go alone
>No line
>Get put in boat alone with random qt
>Chat during ride and hit it off
>Experience pure ride Kino at night
>Leave with QT and grab some milkshakes for ride home
>Summer fling before before uni

True ride kino. Brings back some great memories, lads. Still my favorite.

>>87084711
I enjoyed your story, reminded of me of my own experiences. I wish I had a time machine...

>>87084711
I'm happy for you, anon. Brings back some memories myself. There's nothing quite like a summer fling. The epitome of romance and young love. Thanks for sharing your story.

>>87079998
The escape from Gringotts ride is completely inferior to the other Harry Potter ride which used relied less on 3D bullshit.

>>87081179
It's still a pretty sick roller coaster, even with all the charm and gimmicks removed.

>>87078531
but can you do it on a cold rainy night in stoke?

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>>87078531
The best thing to come from Jurassic Park is Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. Fuck this game was good wish they would release it on GOG.

>>87078692
jesus christ. the hadrosaur and the car don't even move any more

>>87081149
>>87080413
im surprised the marvel stuff has survived considering who the owners are the last decade. Was expecting huge refurbs on those rides

I live in Hawaii, I can just go hike where they filmed all the scenes

>>87085428
they are making another one of these for Jurassic World

>>87086296
yeah by Frontier who also made other unfinished games with rip off DLC like Elite Dangerous and Planet Coaster.

>>87078692
I thought it was a roller coaster ride?

>>87078692
You should see it now. Shit's in even worse condition and so their answer was to just shove fog machines around the more broken animatronics to try and mask it. It's pretty disgusting how bad they let the ride get.

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>>87086542
Maybe you're thinking of the Dinosaur ride at Disney

>>87080168
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Through_New_York_Starring_Jimmy_Fallon
Dude....just what the fuck were they thinking listing to this fucking alcoholic? I guess I'm glad I got to ride Twister once even though that was a decade ago.

Went to the big spot in Florida back in like '04. As a 12 yr old, I thought Universal was way better. The Hulk ride was the fucking best (It was the heaviest coaster in the world at the time i think). Anyone else ride the dual dragon thing?

>>87079807
>The Mummy

>the part where the asshole tour pours water down your back and said BEETLES

cheeky fuckers

>>87078531
i've never been outside my own city

>>87087654
>making a movie only relevant to Americans
who thought this was a good idea? Barely anyone knows who he is in UK

>>87088166
>movie?
What movie that link was about the new jimmy fallon ride that replaced the twister ride in orlando. But that can all be said about jimmy fallon tbqh, I barley know anyone in the states that likes him

>>87086296
I hope they have the option to make parks in both the early 90s (91-93) and modern.

>>87088275
I meant ride, sorry.
Late Night Shows aren't common in UK and Jimmy Fallon was in Jurassic World and most thought it was some random actor

>>87088294
Its all buneo
But fuck I didn't even know he was in Jurassic world. And when you think of it, universal orlando receives more international tourist than the califonia park. So I really don't know how many of them will be interested in even waiting line for that "3D experience" ride
I'm pretty sure more brits know who conan is than fall on my face drunk fallon

Once they took down BTTF and T2 that park was dead to me. Fuck them. I will never return to that shithole mark my words. Never return.

>>87080413
>one of the best rollar coasters is being destroyed for HP shit
kill me

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>>87084711
>ywn experience a true innocent teenage romance ever

>>87084711
Did you fuck

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>>87079541
>the new Kong ride
That ride was kinda lackluster.
You can tell it was heavily based on the Kong 360 part of the studio tram tour.