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Kongfrontation
Kongfrontation was a ride located at Universal Studios Florida theme park in Orlando, Florida. As one of the original attractions featured during the park's grand opening on June 7, 1990, it quickly became one of the most popular. It was closed in 2002 to make way for Revenge of the Mummy, which opened in its place in 2004. Kongfrontation was based on the 1976 ''King Kong'' film and King Kong Encounter, a defunct attraction once located at Universal Studios Hollywood. It was themed to the evacuation of civilians from Kong's rampage on Roosevelt Island. History Construction and design For the grand opening of Universal Studios Florida, the Kongfrontation attraction would be themed to the 1976 film ''King Kong'', which was a remake of the 1933 original. Totally Fun Company and MCA Planning and Development led development and design of the ride. Two King Kong animatronic figures were built for the attraction and were scaled to be tall with an arm span of . The one used for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida (also known as Universal Studios or USF) is a theme park located in Orlando, Florida. Primarily themed to movies, television and other aspects of the entertainment industry, the park opened to the public on June 7, 1990. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal and features numerous rides, attractions and live shows. Universal Studios Florida was the first component of the larger Universal Orlando Resort to open, ranking eleventh in the world and sixth in North America for attendance among amusement parks in 2019 while hosting approximately 10.9 million visitors. In addition to the theme park aspect, early design focused on providing guests with a behind-the-scenes look at film and television. A significant portion of the park operated as an active production studio. As producers and filmmakers showed a lack of interest in filming onsite in Orlando, Universal's approach evolved, transitioning to a first-person perspective for its heavily themed rides, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamite Nights Stunt Spectacular
This is a list of former Universal Studios Florida attractions. History Since Universal Studios Florida's opening on June 7, 1990, over 40 attractions have been retired, and usually replaced or re-themed into new attractions, 17 of them being original attractions. The first major attraction to be retired from the park was ''An American Tail Theatre'' in 1992, due to low attendance capacity. The show was replaced in the same year by Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue, and the Fievel's Playland attraction, also based on the film ''An American Tail'', opened in the park's Expo Center area simultaneously, and was part of Woody Woodpecker's KidZone. In 1996, the interactive show attraction ''Murder, She Wrote Mystery Theatre'' was closed due to the cancellation of the '' Murder, She Wrote'' television show on which it was based; also retired around the same time was the next door ''MCA Recording Studio'', also an interactive show. The two attractions were replaced the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American Tail Theatre
This is a list of former Universal Studios Florida attractions. History Since Universal Studios Florida's opening on June 7, 1990, over 40 attractions have been retired, and usually replaced or re-themed into new attractions, 17 of them being original attractions. The first major attraction to be retired from the park was ''An American Tail Theatre'' in 1992, due to low attendance capacity. The show was replaced in the same year by Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue, and the Fievel's Playland attraction, also based on the film ''An American Tail'', opened in the park's Expo Center area simultaneously, and was part of Woody Woodpecker's KidZone. In 1996, the interactive show attraction ''Murder, She Wrote Mystery Theatre'' was closed due to the cancellation of the '' Murder, She Wrote'' television show on which it was based; also retired around the same time was the next door ''MCA Recording Studio'', also an interactive show. The two attractions were replaced the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghostbusters Spooktacular
This is a list of former Universal Studios Florida attractions. History Since Universal Studios Florida's opening on June 7, 1990, over 40 attractions have been retired, and usually replaced or re-themed into new attractions, 17 of them being original attractions. The first major attraction to be retired from the park was ''An American Tail Theatre'' in 1992, due to low attendance capacity. The show was replaced in the same year by Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue, and the Fievel's Playland attraction, also based on the film ''An American Tail'', opened in the park's Expo Center area simultaneously, and was part of Woody Woodpecker's KidZone. In 1996, the interactive show attraction ''Murder, She Wrote Mystery Theatre'' was closed due to the cancellation of the '' Murder, She Wrote'' television show on which it was based; also retired around the same time was the next door ''MCA Recording Studio'', also an interactive show. The two attractions were replaced the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Kong Encounter
King Kong (better known as ''King Kong Encounter'' and also known as ''Kongfrontation'' during opening and ''King Kong: The Ride'') was an attraction formerly part of the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles. The attraction was based on the 1976 King Kong film and served as a basis for a stand-alone Kongfrontation, a former attraction at Universal Studios Florida. The scene, located amongst the New York Street backlot sets in the heart of the studios, was destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire and was replaced by King Kong: 360 3-D, which was opened on July 1, 2010. Summary 1986 version The show began as the tour tram entered the soundstage into a world of New York City where they stopped in front of an apartment building facade. Guests watched a breaking news report about Kong's rampage on television monitors located inside of the building's windows showing live coverage of the destruction and it showed footage from ABC News, anchored by Sander Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenge Of The Mummy
Revenge of the Mummy, officially named Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride, is an enclosed roller coaster located at Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Universal Studios Singapore. Its theme is based on ''The Mummy'' film franchise, and the ride features linear induction motors (LIMs) that launch riders from standstill to a maximum speed of in a matter of seconds. The Florida and Singapore locations have the same track layout, and each location offers a slightly different virtual experience. The three attractions were manufactured by Premier Rides and feature track switches installed by Dynamic Structures. Universal Creative and ITEC Entertainment Corporation created the theme at each location, with Adirondack Studios responsible for several of unique elements implemented at the Singapore location. History In 2002, Universal Parks & Resorts set about designing a dark ride based on the popular Mummy movie franchise. As part of this process, Universal Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islands Of Adventure
Universal's Islands of Adventure (also known as Islands of Adventure or IOA), originally called Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, is a theme park located in Orlando, Florida. It opened on May 28, 1999, along with CityWalk, as part of an expansion that converted Universal Studios Florida into the Universal Orlando Resort. The resort's slogan ''Vacation Like You Mean It'' was introduced in 2013. Islands of Adventure is modeled after a journey of exploration, where guests embark on an adventure to visit a variety of themed islands. Initially, the park featured six islands. A seventh, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, was added in 2010, themed to the highly successful ''Harry Potter'' franchise. It was Universal's largest investment since the resort's founding in 1990. The expansion led to a significant increase in attendance, and in 2013, Islands of Adventure ranked seventh domestically and eleventh internationally after hosting approximately 8.1 million guests. The eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area as the flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox flagship WNYW (channel 5). Both stations share studios at the Fox Television Center on East 67th Street in Manhattan's Lenox Hill neighborhood, while WWOR-TV's transmitter is located at One World Trade Center. History WOR-TV (1949–1987) Early history Channel 9 signed on the air on October 11, 1949, as WOR-TV. It was owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service (a division of R.H. Macy and Company and named after the Bamberger's department store chain), which also operated WOR (710 AM) and WOR-FM (98.7 FM, now WEPN-FM). Exactly ten months earlier, Bamberger launched Washington, D.C.'s fourth television station, WOIC (now WUSA), also on channel 9. WOR-TV entered the New York market as the last of the city's VHF stations to sign on, and one of thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerial Tramway
An aerial tramway, sky tram, cable car, ropeway, aerial tram, telepherique, or seilbahn is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion. With this form of lift, the grip of an aerial tramway cabin is fixed onto the propulsion rope and cannot be decoupled from it during operations. In comparison to gondola lifts, aerial tramways generally provide lower line capacities and higher wait times. Terminology Because of the proliferation of such systems in the Alpine regions of Europe, the French and German names, ''téléphérique'' and ''Seilbahn'', respectively, are often also used in an English language context. ''Cable car'' is the usual term in British English, as in British English the word ''tramway'' generally refers to a railed street tramway while in American English, ''cable car'' may additionally refer to a cable-pulled street tramway with detachable vehicles; e.g., San Francisco's cable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totally Fun Company
Totally Fun Company is a theme park design company started by Peter Alexander, former Disney Imagineer, Universal Studios creative executive and Six Flags executive producer, based in Tampa, Florida. While at Walt Disney Imagineering (then WED Enterprises) Alexander served as Director of Project Management for EPCOT and Tokyo Disneyland. In 1982 he moved to Universal Studios where he became Executive Producer of Universal Studios Florida from the initial creation of the park through its opening in 1990. Working with Bob Ward, he created Kongfrontation, and E.T. Adventure and Back to the Future: The Ride with Steven Spielberg. Other rides included The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera with Mario Kamberg and Earthquake: The Big One. After the opening of Universal Studios, Alexander started the Totally Fun Company. After leaving Universal in 1991, Alexander first created two TV pilots for Nickelodeon. The first, ''Go For It'' was a pilot only, but lead to his writing the treat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaws (ride)
Jaws is an amusement ride attraction based on the ''Jaws'' film series and is located at Universal Studios Japan. It originally opened at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando in 1990, and another installation later opened at Universal Studios Japan in 2001. The ride uses tour boats to take guests through a harbor of the fictional Amity Island, which begins as a leisurely tour that is abruptly interrupted by an attack of the famous great white shark. The concept is an expanded version of the ''Jaws'' miniature attraction featured in the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood in California. In 2012, the attraction was removed from the Florida theme park to make room for the second phase of expansion for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. History The original attraction at Universal Studios Florida was inspired by a small attraction on the long-running Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood, in which the Studio Tour tram passed through several sets from the film and was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Tour
The Studio Tour (also known as The Backlot Tour) is a ride attraction at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Universal City, California near Los Angeles. Studio Tour is the theme park's signature attraction. It travels through a working film studio, with various film sets on the Universal Studios Lot. Guests sit on multi-car trams for the duration of the ride. The tour lasts about 45–60 minutes and the tour is led by a prerecorded video guide by Jimmy Fallon. It travels through the Front Lot, Backlot and various attractions, passing sets and properties from movies along the way. The tour inspired a smaller but similar version at Universal Studios Florida, which was removed in 1995. History From 1915, when visitors sat on bleachers for 25 cents, to the 1964 introduction of pink and white Glamor Trams, to its current technological sophistication, the behind-the-scenes view of a working movie studio has been a large attraction of the park. During the early years of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
